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AndrzejM
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I wanted to seal the gaps in front of Berta, and I've decided to not use duct tape, so I went to local scrapyard and brought back home a seal from a car door. Then it was just a matter of some time to take out the bumper, and putting the seal in between body panel and the bumper.
Here are the results
That's not all I've made today. Since I've found an interesting piece of some plastic cover. So I've decided to use it as an air dam. A temporary one, since I want to change the whole front of Berta, but since material was for free I couldn't miss this opportunity. For now it will do a job, I hope.
Some cutting and few screws:
Another piece of that cover mounted to the bottom of front Bumper.
I know it should stick out a bit more but remember that's a temporary solution for a tire spats.
Mounted spat
Mounting points
With the bumper mounted
And since bumper was out I could take a pic of my air duct for cooling. Described somewhere above.
Sorry for all those photos
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