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John
from Ellensburg, WA -- 2005
Starlight Black Elise with BWR exhaust
and K&N Intake.
7
Element
I
have an 05 Elise, that is N/A with no
front lip or other ground effects, and
has the Sport suspension set up. Got home
this weekend from a trip to Idaho, and
went to work sunday night at around 10:30pm
and had the whole thing installed by 11pm.
The fit was PERFECT, you could tell there
was A LOT of care and detail that went
into making the diffuser. The construction
is VERY solid, I personally feel the factory
diffuser was a little on the weak flimsy
side, but the quality is TOP NOTCH!!!
I
had JUST driven my lotus on a 1000 mile
road trip this weekend. We hit everything
from cross winds, to sunny weather, to
dry heat, etc...and this was before I
put the diffuser on. I mention this because
this will let you know that I had a VERY
good idea of the performance benefits
I have felt from the new diffuser, since
I just drove the OEM set up the day before.
The crosswinds had me ALL over the road
(I say this in comparison to what I experieneced
today), and the cross winds were about
20 to 30 mph...so they were pretty intense.
TODAY,
After the installation of the Difflow
7 element diffuser was a COMPLETELY different
experience. I drove the lotus into work,
and trip that I have done many a times
before, and the experience was COMPLETELY
different. Going to work I had about a
30 to 40 mph wind coming in from the west.
This breaks down to a tail wind for the
first 30 minutes of the drive and then
a nasty crosswind for the last 15 minutes
as I follow a river right through the
valley. They car handled AMAZINGLY well.
I was LITERALLY driving the car with just
3 finger tips and a thumb tip and wasn't
even working at it, and I was doing speeds
from 60 to 90 mph. When the freeway openned
up, and I had the chance, I wanted to
see how it felt at faster speeds, and
lets just say that at "Spirited"
driving speeds the car was ROCK solid.
It didn't flinch, sway, or hiccup in anyway.
My friend who was with me wasn't that
impressed (he had never driven with me
to work before so he had nothing to compare
it to), BUT when I took a 30 mph offramp
at 65 mph and then a 90 degree turn at
about 45mph or better the statement out
of his mouth was DANG!!! The car just
freaking HOOKED UP!!! (He had been with
me on some twisty roads before).
He
was right, on those two corners my car
has twitched a little bit or "hopped"
a little because of the road condition,
however today the car stuck SO WELL that
it was ridiculous at how much more confidence
such a simple addition did to the handling
performance of my car.
So
I must say, that if you have been riding
the fence on a Difflow Diffuser, PLEASE
don't hesistate. The diffuser where it
has great looks is VERY VERY VERY functional,
and it does its job SO WELL, it is RIDICULOUS!!!!
I also realize that the pictures actually
don't do the diffuser justice, because
it is not NEARLY as "Agressive"
looking as I thought it would be (i.e.
HUGE). This is larger than the original
stock, and does stick out further than
the original stock, but everyone who has
seen it, agrees that it looks great. (Even
my WIFE said it looked good...and trust
me that is a VERY hard compliment to come
by).
So
Seriously, Give Glenn a call/Pm/Email
the guy, because you are MISSING OUT if
you have been debating.
THANK
YOU AGAIN GLENN!!!
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