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Old 03-02-2012, 10:53 AM   #1 (permalink)
300zxrb26dett
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Escort LX - '95 Ford Escort LX
90 day: 25.37 mpg (US)

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95 Escort Aero improvements worklog

Well since I have been thinking about doing this stuff for some time, its time to start planning and dive-in.

First up the goal for this is to improve my aero, but not take away from the cars looks, so most of these mods will be "hidden" to some extent or just try to make them not so obvious.

First up are the pictures of the car so I can cover all the areas I see for improvement and any others spots that others may see for improvement.




The car is as low as I am willing to go and still be streetable, so I have an airdam that I plan on fitting to the front, but it will be further back under the bumper to keep from ripping it off on steep driveways. The airdam is a nice piece from a mercury tracer LTS, and it will need modded to fit.

Since I recently changed to an undamaged bumper, I no longer have my front belly pan, but that is on the list of things to do as well. The grill will be modded in the future and some of that lower bumper opening will be closed off.

The gaps between the bumper, headlights and grill will be closed off as well.

A different rear bumper will be fitted with a wheel well vent in it and flat bottom tray that will extend to the rear suspension crossmember.

A belly pan will be fitted the full length of the car and some some skirts approx where the pinch seam goes.

I had installed my upper spoiler originally for looks but, after browsing this site and looking at the shape, I think this thing is actually helping my roof line, but I need to fix the gap between the top of the hatch and my roof line somehow, because I think most of the air is actually going in the gap and causing major turbulence because water never moves on that spoiler.

I think that covers the extent of my plans thus far.


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