Finally someone got it right!!!!

Those are called front strakes and are designed to divert air around the tires at high speeds. Without them you will feel less stable at high speeds, i.e. freeway speeds and above.

You'll need to replace part fender liners (as mentioned) since the mounting locations are damaged.

-Hockey

 

[QUOTE=Hockey,Jan 17 2006, 08:17 AM] Finally someone got it right!!!!

 

MUD FLAPS!

I wouldn't let that "service" guy so much as top up my windshield washer fluid.


If you are a handy kinda guy, you can repair the parts that you bolt those strakes to. I ripped mine off years ago and very little was left to anchor the strake. I got some plastic and cut them to shape and used small nuts and bolts to attach the plastic to build up that section. Then used more nuts and bolts to attach the strakes.

 

 

Why does the press release info on the new Civic Si state they were added to the Si for brake cooling. I have been trying to find my source, but can not find it so I have no valid backup of my words. But, this is what I thought it was for. It also makes sense they are for stability.

I am planning to buy the parts, just have not gotten around to it.

 

Found my source about brake cooling.

"The Civic Si manages the airflow even further and features a rear wing spoiler that creates downforce at high speeds, along with a brake cooling strake (a small fin ahead of the front wheel) that directs air across the brake rotor like a dedicated brake duct. "


Under the Aerodynamics section:
http://www.vtec.net/articles/view-article?...4&page_number=3

 

I just had to replace my left front strake (as the part was called on the paperwork) due to a cat and I meeting on a motorway at night.

It certainly did a fine job of high speed stablisation as the steering didn't twitch as the strake took the hit plus ripped part of the fender assembly that goes back from the bumper and forms the wheel arch and to which the strake was attached. I appreciate protecting the front wheel is probably secondary to its aerodynamic stability role but it is a plus.

 

that settles it... "Honda Cat Deflector Strakes"

 

You mean like the old "Cattle Catcher" at the front of the steam locomotive engines?

 

Maybe on a Civic Si, that's what they do. Unless you can correlate the exact placement, shape and angle, you can't relate the function of it on one car to the function of it on another car.

Also, what kinds of rims are on a Civic Si? Perhaps those rims don't generate enough "wind" to take air past the brakes. Most rims, when spinning, will propel air either from the outside in or from the inside out, making a need for auxillary cooling for normal street use not a necessity.