Hi guys,
Had my big interstate road trip over the weekend, before i left i made up a quick air dam.
Some garden edging from the local hardware store as well as aluminium U section:
Screw it all together:
Add some brackets on the sides to bring it out level with the tires:
and paint it black:
The bottom of it is about level with the lowest point on the front suspension and the butt-dyno says its helping aero quite a bit
First fill before the road trip got me a new PB of 9.48 mpg, most of that tank was done without the air dam. The fill halfway along the road trip i got a massive 10.6mpg! there was a decent tailwind most of the way which obviously helped as well as the air dam and a couple of long EOC's.
For the second leg the wind died down and there wasnt any decent hills for me to do good EOC's down so i mainly used DWL and a little bit of drafting, the average speed was probably around 90-95kmh for the whole trip. The second leg as well as 2 days of pottering around the town at the end netted me 9.63mpg, and the same trip on the way home with similar conditions i got 9.66mpg. Still yet to fill up again for the 4th leg after getting home.
Oh yeah i also forgot to show you guys my new batteries, tray welded up and painted:
Batteries, buss bars and wiring mounted:
2 part terminal cover started:
and finished:
there are tools in holes in the sides of the terminal cover (in the purple section) to change the main fuses under the bonnet as well as remove the terminal cover.
Thanks for looking