Thread: Escort Air Dam
View Single Post
Old 02-24-2010, 05:38 PM   #15 (permalink)
gascort
Master EcoModder
 
gascort's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Saint Louis, MO
Posts: 548

Gascort RIP - '93 Ford Escort Wagon
90 day: 43.01 mpg (US)

WifesCruze - '11 Chevrolet Cruze LT
90 day: 31.1 mpg (US)
Thanks: 14
Thanked 25 Times in 16 Posts
One other thing I discovered during this project - If you want to make a sheet of coroplast but just have normal size signs, like I do, you can connect them top to bottom at least by putting wire through the holes in the corrugation. I connected 4 signs together to make the belly pan on this rigid. I had a scrap piece of 12 gauge, solid core electric wire (like for your house) and split up the 3 wires and slid them (spread out to 3 different "slots") through the signs before taping the junctions with duct tape. My old belly pan fell apart because it was just taped; this one will not have any trouble. You could probably use a wire clothes hanger if you straightened it out first too.
Oh, and if you are attempting any work with Coroplast, you need to get two things to go with:
Gorilla Tape (the black stuff) It's awesome and has held up for over 2 years on my side skirts
Krylon Fusion spray paint (hardware stores sell it) - it sticks to plastic!!
__________________
Gasoline, Wind, Solar, Gravity Hybrid-to-be! http://www.scientificmethodfueleconomy.blogspot.com/
  Reply With Quote