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Originally Posted by k.civic.f4i
man..pstrbrc: you are a scatter brain(not a bad thing). the splitter/ belly pan is what i had in mind from the beginning. the only problem though is that functional splitters are usually made from plywood and usually require additional support.
you might want to make sure that you heat protect the abs plastics because they are known to melt(motorcycle fairings not protected from heat)
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Ummm... I prefer to think of myself as suffering from Minimal Brain Dysfunction. (That was how we with ADD were referred to back in my childhood.)
The second gen Escorts had several small overlapping splash shields, with mounting points pretty evenly distributed around the front of the car. So there's plenty of places already there to attach the bellypan. And, yes, I'm planning on making the part of the belly pan under the engine and around the exhaust out of aluminum flashing. And the biggest reason a "functional splitter" is made out of something structural is that at high speeds it's being sucked downward, which is where the downforce generated by a splitter comes from. But that takes a splitter closer to the ground than I'm going, and higher speeds than I'm travelling. At 70 mph a splitter 5" off the ground isn't going to experience much downward force. The most downforce will be right around the front edge, and if the rubber baeboard molding isn't strong enough, I'm planning on running short cables from the bumper cover to through the splitter to a washer-and-pin setup, but put this behind the rubber baseboard to minimize the visual impact.