Custom Air Dam by Munssey Speed and Design

[garickman]

I just wanted to give a big thumbs up to Jeff from Munssey Speed and Design. I met him on this forum and he posts under Munssey, he also has a website http://www.munsseyspeedanddesign.com/

Anyway, I built a custom jig to mount the entire front end of my 1971 Firebird as if it was actually on the vehicle. I dropped the front end off with Jeff and he is making a complete one-off front air dam/spoiler. He will also be making a custom front splitter, modifying the VFN fiberglass nose and installing hood pins in the VFN fiberglass hood.

Jeff is a really cool car guy and I was pretty impressed with his organization and attention to detail. If you have any work done by him, he sets you up with an account on his website which allows you to access all of his notes and picture updates on the project he is working on. I have never seen that before and I thought it was pretty cool as you can see the status of your project and never have to wonder if any work is being done.



Here is a couple of rough sketches he did for me. Jeff is working off an original design from Manuel who owns Hydyne Motorsports. He was going to build a sema car a few years back but never got around to it because he is now doing some type of engineering on the next generation Aston Martin.

[Bryce]

Looks great. I have his rear bumper on my falcon.

[garickman]

Looks great. I have his rear bumper on my falcon.

I saw that, he makes really nice stuff.

[NOT A TA]

Cool looking air dam.

[SS PUNISHER]

That's gonna look good...

[Ripper]

nice!

Looks very much like what I'm aiming for with my project;

[garickman]

nice!

Looks very much like what I'm aiming for with my project;

Thanks, I checked out your build thread, very impressive!

[LeighP]

Very nice! I ended up just using a Trans Am centre section spoiler on my 71 Firebird, as very little was available aftermarket.
Some of the stuff out there looks like someone molded it up while high. lol.

From the drawings, it looks like you're using Aerocatches on your project? I used them on mine, very nice lock system.

[Munssey]

I'm sure you're find out once you pop into your private customer page... found some time to start on the plug construction ahead of schedule and I'm already liking what we've got going on. Cant wait to get past stick frame and start shaping for the mold.

You know where to find the rest of the pictures.

[65 Fastback]

nice!

Looks very much like what I'm aiming for with my project;

Nice, are you fabricating this yourself or do you have a shop doing the fabrication? I am looking for a very similar front air dam for my '65 fastback.

Tim

[Munssey]

Nice, are you fabricating this yourself or do you have a shop doing the fabrication? I am looking for a very similar front air dam for my '65 fastback.

Tim

All custom fabricated with my own two bare, dirty, un-manicured grubby hands. Got your submission and we'll be in touch soon.

[overZealous1]

are you going fiberglass or metal?

[Buryingthesun]

looks sick, I cant wait to see the results

[Munssey]

are you going fiberglass or metal?

This one will be fiberglass.

[Bryce]

Jeff,

You will be building the front valance on my next build. You just don't know it yet. HAHA.

[garickman]

Jeff,

That's why you are building this for me. You're the man! I saw the rest of the pics and it looks awesome so far. Very cool that you were able to get this started early, there might just be time for that custom close out panel after all! They said about 7-10 day on the custom driving lights. I will send them to you as soon as I get them.

[Munssey]

Jeff,

You will be building the front valance on my next build. You just don't know it yet. HAHA.

I would be nothing less than honored to contribute to any of your rides, sir!

[Munssey]

Jeff,

That's why you are building this for me. You're the man! I saw the rest of the pics and it looks awesome so far. Very cool that you were able to get this started early, there might just be time for that custom close out panel after all! They said about 7-10 day on the custom driving lights. I will send them to you as soon as I get them.

I was way excited to get tearing into it and VERY glad you're happy with the progress.

Cant wait to see the custom lights in place. Doing the rough math, they should probably be here about the time we get back from Barrett Jackson next week.

Just to give family a little tease, i'll flip one more from the progress this last week. As always, you can see the entire collection of update photos on your customer page ;)

Have a great week, Greg.

[saltfuture]

subcsribed!

[Ripper]

Nice, are you fabricating this yourself or do you have a shop doing the fabrication? I am looking for a very similar front air dam for my '65 fastback.

Tim

I'm not the topic starter, and I don't want to hijack the thread... But yes, I was planning to making it myself. Depends on the design of Munssey's though, but it will probably not fit my (low) budget.

Great progress though!