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Old 09-08-2013, 08:52 AM   #51 (permalink)
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Didn't top gear try to cook something using the heat from a car engine?

Why cover the wheel skirt with aluminium? Coroplast is pretty dang weather proof. Just seems like a lot of extra work. Are you worried about flexing?
I'm not all that worried about flexing, since it has backing and it is pretty firmly secured and on the side of the car, where I imagine solar heat build up will be less intense. It's all about the fit and finish. I think I can get a cleaner and more "OEM" look out of the aluminum, especially at the edges. Plus, if I buy aluminum sheet for the under tray from a local metals supplier it seems I'll almost certainly have a surplus.

cbaber, I forgot... I have no plans for testing these ABA right now. Past experience suggested the difference might be within the noise, and I don't have cruise control, which makes testing harder. This is a mod others have tested effectively. But when I get a GPS of my own at some point, then I think I might try a downhill coast-down test, measuring top speed, average speed, and distance. Just to see if I can confirm others' results. EDIT: I'll add MetroMPG's graph of the benefit he saw, which does not prove mine will show a benefit, only that there is reason to believe it's a good mod:


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Old 09-10-2013, 10:18 AM   #52 (permalink)
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The exhaust goes out the back of the car. This is just the part that gets hot.
As long as you don't have one of those magic crack-o-matic exhaust headers. I did. It cracked from the O2 sensor going up through the Y.

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Didn't top gear try to cook something using the heat from a car engine?
I saw an episode with Mythbusters and Alton Brown where they successfully cooked a Thanksgiving feast on the engine. They measured all the various temperatures and positioned the different dishes strategically for cooking temp and time.
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Old 09-13-2013, 12:31 PM   #53 (permalink)
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I saw an episode with Mythbusters and Alton Brown where they successfully cooked a Thanksgiving feast on the engine. They measured all the various temperatures and positioned the different dishes strategically for cooking temp and time.
I imagine they were working from ideas promoted in this book:

Manifold Destiny (cookbook) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine!: Chris Maynard, Bill Scheller: 9781416596233: Amazon.com: Books

Oh, and this too, "Diesel Dining" (for truck drivers): http://www.amazon.com/Diesel-Dining-...ref=pd_sim_b_2
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Old 09-23-2013, 07:13 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Plasti-dipped

Painted the side door distinction moldings, the side skirts, and the wheel skirts in plasti-dip. Sorry for the miniscule photo... gonna paint the front plastics after I replace the upper grill block:



Looks cleaner, I think.
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its really hard to judge the "cleanliness" of your car due to the small picture. My opinion will stay neutral for now until you upload a bigger picture. lol

oh btw...is that an SI upper grill? i noticed the "H" emblem is missing.
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its really hard to judge the "cleanliness" of your car due to the small picture. My opinion will stay neutral for now until you upload a bigger picture. lol


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oh btw...is that an SI upper grill? i noticed the "H" emblem is missing.
Just a thin piece of coroplast cut to fit behind the plastic grill frame. I did take the emblem off, however. I want to replace it with a thin sheet of scrap aluminum laying around the garage, but I'm kinda busy, maybe a little lazy, and definitely indecisive. Haha!
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how much ground clearance do you have on your side skirts?
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how much ground clearance do you have on your side skirts?
I just went out to grab a quick measure. It's dark but it seems to be between 3.5" and 3.75". Going over speed bumps at work and elsewhere I generally do not scrape, but occasionally I will if speed or weight change how I clear the obstacle.
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Need to paint the wheels now!
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Need to paint the wheels now!
Pep boys now carries plastidip in all sorts of colors!

Pearlizer
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blaze pink
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