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Last Pan!!
Pan 9 is in, yeah!!! Not a moment too soon. I still have to go back and do some venting for the exhaust, and the wheel wells are pretty rough but I think it’s time to make a test run or two and see how it does. Improving the looks doesn’t do any good for mileage necessarily, but we sure covered up a bunch of butt ugly.
When time and energy permits I’m going to fabricate an articulated cover for the drive shaft opening that is spring loaded and rests on the pan surface. If the rear suspension goes up, nothing will happen, the cover will remain at rest on the main cover. If the rear suspension drops, the differential center will contact a rubber bumper on the cover, and the cover will drop with the differential. When the diff goes back into place the springs will pull the cover back to the main pan surface. I’m going to do that because I think the driveshaft opening is going to let a ton of air into the space between the body and the pans at the back and I’m guessing that’s not good.
I still have to move the pan and tilt camera to the new back wall, and install some running lights up high so it’s DOT legal. The wind hardly ever dies down completely here this time of year so it may be a week or so before I can do some testing.
I think I’m going to wait to install a front air dam until after the first test. I started this July 31st and it’s Aug 20th so it took three weeks of my spare time and about $250 worth of materials. Was it worth it? Hopefully it will be fun to find out the answer to that question.
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