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I have a 2013 standard Boss, and I just gave up and ordered a new splitter. I scrape going in and out of my driveway and going in and out of parking lots. Anyone else?
I am going to leave the new splitter in the box and live with the scraped one. If I ever do a car show or go to sell, I'll pull out the new one. Seems like a good insurance policy, since the price of things like this *never* goes down, and eventually they may be impossible to get.
I can't imagine how people drive around with the LS splitter.
In a similar vein, I am thinking about buying a 2013 steering wheel. The Alcantara cover *will* wear down and get shiny eventually. I went to the Boss Track Attack, and the cars there are perfect examples of what ours will look like after 30,000 miles - dirty and shiny with obvious wear at 10 and 2. It seems like the splitter and the steering wheel are the two most-likely-to-look-like-crap items after 30,000 miles or so. I already bought a spare set of mats. I also swapped out the stock wheels within a couple hundred miles.
While we are at it, I should start a poll: what will be the first Boss 302 factory part that becomes unavailable from Ford? With so many unique parts and a hard limit on the number made, it won't be long before something goes missing. My bet is a 2012 or 2013 specific part will disappear first, like the splitter, the grill, or the the stripes, or possibly the steering wheel. A lot of GT owners jumped on the Boss steering wheel when it first came out, and Ford ended up jacking up the price to keep from running out of them.
On the other hand, you would think Ford has a warehouse full of standard Boss 302 seats, since almost everyone got the Recaros instead.
On a similar note, if you replace anything on the Boss with an aftermarket part, save the original part. The shift linkage may be junk, but someday someone will be looking for one for a restoration. Same applies to the sound tube, even though a lot more of those will be floating around since the GT has the same thing. Take a look at the unbelievable prices some people have paid for stuff like the original Boss 302 rev limiter or emission equipment that was tossed in the trash in 1970.
I am going to leave the new splitter in the box and live with the scraped one. If I ever do a car show or go to sell, I'll pull out the new one. Seems like a good insurance policy, since the price of things like this *never* goes down, and eventually they may be impossible to get.
I can't imagine how people drive around with the LS splitter.
In a similar vein, I am thinking about buying a 2013 steering wheel. The Alcantara cover *will* wear down and get shiny eventually. I went to the Boss Track Attack, and the cars there are perfect examples of what ours will look like after 30,000 miles - dirty and shiny with obvious wear at 10 and 2. It seems like the splitter and the steering wheel are the two most-likely-to-look-like-crap items after 30,000 miles or so. I already bought a spare set of mats. I also swapped out the stock wheels within a couple hundred miles.
While we are at it, I should start a poll: what will be the first Boss 302 factory part that becomes unavailable from Ford? With so many unique parts and a hard limit on the number made, it won't be long before something goes missing. My bet is a 2012 or 2013 specific part will disappear first, like the splitter, the grill, or the the stripes, or possibly the steering wheel. A lot of GT owners jumped on the Boss steering wheel when it first came out, and Ford ended up jacking up the price to keep from running out of them.
On the other hand, you would think Ford has a warehouse full of standard Boss 302 seats, since almost everyone got the Recaros instead.
On a similar note, if you replace anything on the Boss with an aftermarket part, save the original part. The shift linkage may be junk, but someday someone will be looking for one for a restoration. Same applies to the sound tube, even though a lot more of those will be floating around since the GT has the same thing. Take a look at the unbelievable prices some people have paid for stuff like the original Boss 302 rev limiter or emission equipment that was tossed in the trash in 1970.