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Old 06-09-2013, 11:18 AM   #50 (permalink)
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Thanks! I had seen a few of the individual build threads, but this is an excellent source of information, all in one place!

I think that it is the academic in me that feels that I need to reference everything. Please tell me if I need to stop!

In http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post374773, I asked

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Had you not done the belly pan first, how well would it work to use your side skirts as the base for an undertray?
My belly pan doesn't go back as far as where the side skirts start. I think that is a definite posibility.
Also, I pointed out in http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post373599

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I was looking at Car MPG Efficiency Modifications Main - EcoModder and it says:

Belly pan / under tray 3.48%
3 user average

Front air dam 4.73%
3 user average

Three users is a very small sample size, but I expected a belly pan to be better than an air dam!
One idea that I had, although I imagine that this would be too much work, was to attach the head of a bolt to the underside of my car with JB Weld and then I just need to tighten a nut to attach the undertray, without drilling!

Would a nut be more likely to come loose than a screw?

What about cotter pins?
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