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.

Beginning of rear wheel skirts

This is the start of my rear wheel skirts, this part is permanently attached to the car and does not get in the way when removing the tires. There will be a lower part that attaches to fully smooth the airflow over the rear wheel wells. These are made out of 18 ga. galvanized sheet metal and riveted to the car body.

Front tire deflectors

For some reason on this car the front tires aren't entirely behind the front fascia so I made some extensions. This increases the frontal area slightly but it keeps the airflow cleaner so the net effect should be positive.


Front view-no more tire peaking out into the airflow.


Rear view

Side view


Overall front view.

Rear dress up panels

Panels to beautify the newly exposed spare tire well, might even have some very small aero effect but not enough to amount to anything.