Battle scars

Bent one of my future mounting points for the side skirts yesterday, actually this is the second time I've bent it (much worse the first time but no pics). I had a tire and wheel and a passenger in the car otherwise it wouldn't have been a problem but I'm going to shorten them to prevent future problems when I get a chance.

Rear fascia / bumper cover

After some research it turns out the optimum angle for airflow coming out from under the rear of a car is around 3 degrees so I decided to put the section I cut off back on. Here you can see the frankenstein like results.

Temporary cardboard partial Kammback

I have been planning the permanent version for a while but I decided to do this temporary extension to see how it effects rear visibility. It only took about 30 minutes to make and it didn't look too bad when I first did it, next day there came a torrential downpour and I had to do some repairs to it so it's not quite as pretty now. I'm hoping to keep it on at least one full tank to see how much it improves FE. Since I've had it on a few days I think I will make the permanent version longer and incorporate a clear section in the center for visability, haven't decided on how to attach at the edges yet but I'm thinking either sheet metal or fiberglass to form the curved part while the center flat section will be lexan os something like that.

5 minutes later- RED wheel skirts

Rear wheel skirts mostly done

They still need a few finishing touches but they are at least functional. Wheel spats will be made and attached to the piece you see hanging down in front of the tire. I really wanted the skirts to extend all the way to the bottom of the part where the spats will be but it just turned out to be to complicated for now.

Curvature intersection method

A couple of pictures showing one method of to help determine how to cut a panel to match up with the complex curves on the side of a car. This is basically the intersection of a plane and the side of the car so as to minimize the bending of the applied panel. I used a cheap Black and Decker laser gimmick that projects a laser line as shown in the pictures.




I had already done the front by the time I thought about this and it won't work there now so I projected behind the front wheel well (same curvature) to see if it looked like what I already did, looks pretty close to me.

Kammback angle?

I'm in the planning stages for a kammback extension and this is to help visualize the angle and length. It will block much of the rear view so I plan on making at least the center portion from lexan or polycarbonate.