So I sold off my J's diffuer, wanting something different. I figured, "Why not have something custom fabricated?" Thats where it all began.

I went to the fabricator, who we call "the goat" (simply because he looks like one, which is.. the awesomes:D). I've met The Goat through several friends who are in the local auto-x/track scene, he's famous for building *** kicking race miata's, serious miatas (yes, they do exist). Here's a pic of one of his project cars from last years track day in Pacific Raceways in Kent, WA.




Impressed by what I saw, I want something along the lines of that, but on my AP1. So we sat down, Goat an I, over tea and some fine grass, we plotted on the design that I think would look kickass, and that he thinks would work best aerodynamically.

I wanted to chop my rear bumper in half and go for that short bumpered race kaa look, but the animal said NO, not unless I want to chop my trunk. Why do S2K's have to have such low trunks?! trunk spaces are overrated . So out the window my race kaa look idea goes :banghead:. The diffuser is also going to be made in aluminum, we may possibly make a CF version of it in the future, depends on how this one turns out performance wise.

I also have to ditch my stock exhaust system, I picked up the T1R Power63 V3 headerback exhaust from Gearheads Online at a killer deal. Justin from Gearheads even came over and installed the exhaust for me, free of charge! :heart:

Anyways, we had the basic idea down, so up on the lift the car goes. Which also means.. less talky... more pictures. :hello:

Custom made brackets are welded onto the rear subframe.


Me participating in the building process / doing some heavy lifting


Under tray mounted up to the custom brackets and "Teh Tunnel" held in place


side angle


Whats this?


We call this "the piece that goes beside "Teh Tunnel" :tipwink:


Creating of the mouting bracket that holds the tunnel to the car


Random shot of rivets (very cool)


Me, at this time, already totally impressed by my KuzToM DiFfUzErrrr


Chance to show off my shiny new T1R exhaust.


Here's a picture of what we've achieved so far, without me in the shot onder:


The mountain goat, bending more sheet metal into ultra high performance pieces.


Ta-da!!!


Add on piece to the undertray.


I've once again contributed to the build, by custom painting my vision of the Goat's true form on his newly fabricated piece.


And here, the last pieces of the puzzle.


I've special requested to have the side fins extend out to my Spoon rear fender flares. For the extra wide gangsta effect.


And at last, the "almost finished" product, now all we have to do it paint the damn thing so it doesnt look so "wild"


However, due to my laziness, this is it for pictures. I will have Justin take more pics for me of the actual finished product on the car sometime this week.

I know you guys are now wondering, "does this diffuser actually work?".

Street driving impressions:

I can feel the difference made by the diffuser on the highway, starting at 100km/m (kilometers, since its Canada here. :D), the car felt alot more stable at high speeds while driving straigt on the highway. Also VERY stable at high speed corners, I can now feel the car alot more, and I feel alot more confident in high speed turning, especially through those fast sweepers. This is on an AP1 without any rear wings (most of you with AP1's will know what I'm talking about, a rear spoiler is pretty much a must have), but I do have a J's CF wing going on there soon too (pics to come:D). Overall it feels great, I cannot wait to try it out on the track this summer.

Special thanks to:
Justin @ Gearheads
The Goat @ Chikara Motorsports


All constructive comments are welcome!

- Ed

<FONT COLOR="red"><FONT SIZE="4">UPDATED!!</FONT> MORE PICTURES</FONT>
Installation of the J's CF wing at Gearheads Garage


Unwrapped


Snapped a couple pics of the car with painted diffuser on. Much cleaner looking now than the bare aluminum, more more UFO look. :LOL:


Rear shot. Please excuse the dirty car, the weather was great today so I just decided to park into a parking lot and snap a couple pics on the way home from work today.


Thanks for the comments guys!

 

ballin!

 

i'm sorry but that just looks terrible.

 

eh! on the fence about it.
for innovation for sure though.

 

I like your S2k.

 

nice work guys

 

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Street driving impressions:

I can feel the difference made by the diffuser on the highway, starting at 100km/m (kilometers, since its Canada here. :D), the car felt alot more stable at high speeds while driving straigt on the highway. Also VERY stable at high speed corners, I can now feel the car alot more, and I feel alot more confident in high speed turning, especially through those fast sweepers. This is on an AP1 without any rear wings (most of you with AP1's will know what I'm talking about, a rear spoiler is pretty much a must have), but I do have a J's CF wing going on there soon too (pics to come:D). Overall it feels great, I cannot wait to try it out on the track this summer.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Function &gt; Form!

I still think it turned out great, though.

 

damn that sick, great work

 

Thing is bad ***.

 

If it performs if not

I like it looks pretty sick

 

i like it.. it looks ready for business!!

 

that **** is sick!

 

built not bought thats what i'm talking about.

 

Looks pretty crazy, hardtop should be your next purchase.

 

tell the goat to hook me up too.

 

nice work.

 

dope! im a fan i saw that blue miata at that track event...car is CRAZY!

 

not really feeling it. i think you shouldve stuck w your theme & gotten the Spoon rear bumper & diffuser or at the least just the Spoon diffuser since it mounts directly onto a stock AP1 bumper. Believe me, Spoon diffusers are tested also, not just made having no research done to make sure they provide some of the best downforce an S2K can achieve on the track. Just like the J's Racing full Type-S kit was produced after testing it in the Super Taikyu series. As long as it works, i give it a but i would've went with a tuner that developed a part through tried & true experience & testing

 

 

hahahah. Nice face.

 

btw, shouldnt the back/bottom part of the rear Spoon over-fenders be riveted to the rear bumper? They look like they're just hanging there & flap when you drive, maybe im wrong

 

Lacking a hardtop lol.

 

looks really really bad....

 

that looks badass!!

purpose made i love it!

 

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Function &gt; Form!

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