Are you REALLY on some sort of campaign to get me pinked??? Good luck with that. You were warned because you ranted and carried on with a full page post full of bullshit. Get over it, it's no big deal, I am no more of a villan in it than you.
Back on the "topic" of the thread...
I refuse to build my car using the materials that my storage shed is made from. Sorry, that's ghetto. There are plenty of other ways to protect a bumper that do not involve plywood or a non-functional "splitter". I'm not saying that you've gotta make it from autoclaved carbon fiber. But I wouldn't settle for anything less than something that I can be proud of.
It's funny to me how I described a $200 splitter and everyone seems to think that's expensive or something. If you go off-track and damage your car and it ONLY costs you $200 to fix it, THAT'S CHEAP!!! I've seen people go off-track and do $20,000 of damage, of course on an ACTUAL racecar.
I have no respect for the drifter attitude. "Good enough" is NEVER good enough for me. I have more passion, dedication, appreciation, and pride than that. I have too much passion and pride for my car to think of it as "just a drift car". I wouldn't own a modified or race car that I did not have that kind of passion for. If I WAS to make a dedicated "drift" car I wouldn't bother with ANY aero. It makes no difference in performance in that arena and all you're going to do is tear it up. It makes no sense to me...
Looking cool is far over rated IMO...