Neil, I'm a little late on this one, but I have a bit of experience on the coroplast skirts. Coroplast worked quite well on my Echo when I had it. You can stiffen the bottom edge nicely by driving a steel rod down through the bottom row of the corregation. Take a sample of coroplast to Home Depot or Lowes and find a rod diameter which is just oversize for the corregation tube and drive it into the bottom row of your corroplast skirt. Worked well for me. You can then shape the bottom edge of the skirt a bit.
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Hello,
I made some rear wheel skirts this weekend:
I'm not real happy about the acrylic glass -- the stuff is pretty brittle, and where it curves down and under at the front and back -- the tape keeps pulling off. I bought a heat gun to try and soften it up and let it form to the curve, and this may have helped a little...
At first, I tried to use just the acrylic glass, but the air pushed them in and they touched the rims (no matter how much a carved the edge...), so I added the 1/8" x 3/4" aluminum bar, and this seems to have helped.
I think I will do them again (using these as patterns) and use Coroplast (if I can find some). I was hoping the the transparent material would be less noticable, but I think the Coroplast would be a better look -- because we WANT to draw attention to ourselves, right? 
Tomorrow, I'll see if they survive the commute to work.
Next on the agenda: foil tape on the alloy wheels to see if they can be made a little more aerodynamic! |