View Single Post
Old 03-09-2011, 09:25 PM   #41 (permalink)
Joenavy85
Making Ecomods a G thing
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Illinois
Posts: 655

Angie - '08 Infiniti G35 X
90 day: 22.03 mpg (US)
Thanks: 35
Thanked 75 Times in 58 Posts
* On close inspection of the car I would remark that an add-on nose would allow you to seal the entire grille leaving only a shark-mouth slit at the bottom.
- Got plans for that, my girlfriends dad has a friends that does fiberglass work that can help me with this.

* A deeper,wrap-around airdam would prevent air colliding with the suspension members.
- I have a few ideas for this but nothing set in stone yet, going to do a fiberglass bellypan first.

* minimizing the front wheel opening gaps would help.
- easy enough to do with some coroplast and a couple angle brackets.

* dropping the rocker panels down another 5-inches ( 125mm ) would be good.
- already planned on this but was originally only going to do 4 inches, but i'll take your advice.

* blending the rocker panels into full rear wheel skirts would guarantee better lower onset flow to the back.
- i still have to figure out how to attach the wheel skirts since the rear door makes up the forward portion of the fender edge.

* flush wheel covers.
- easily done, i'm going to use BamZipPow's idea of using coroplast attached with gorrila glue with a hole for access to the valve stem.

* bellypan later with diffuser.
- already planned, in 3 sections, from the front bumper all the way back to the rear bumper, under everything.

* slip-on tail of any length. the Liberty has only a 2.425 L/H ratio and without additional length it's going to be a rough go getting the drag down appreciably.
- might wait until later on down the road (haha, pun intended) for this one, probably after my roadtrip this summer. i'll be making a cargo box for the trip and will shape it so that i can add fiberglass later to finish the "boat-tail"

__________________

  Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to Joenavy85 For This Useful Post:
aerohead (02-14-2015)