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Originally Posted by freebeard
I'd say the design is pretty good, but not the materials. What you have there is a pattern for something that will take the weather.
I took spacemanspif's word for it that you had used coroplast. Do you have any of that?
The rod looks about right for gauge/weight. With coroplast you could slip the rod through the flutes. If you V-notch the ends of the flutes along the curved edge the rod forming the edge could be let in and the edge wrapped with strapping tape or something. You could hollow out the coroplast enough to slip metal washers in between the skins.
If you left maybe four of the nuts and washers off, would it still stay attached?
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The amount of attachment points are not to keep it on the car but to keep the edges from flexing out into the air stream. It's to keep the edges of the coroplast fixed against the edges of the fender. So, yes it would stay attached to the car, but it would allow much more air to get into the wheelwell.
A few questions:
Are you saying that I should put the metal rods inside the coroplast?
What do you mean by "V-notch"?
Why would I want the metal washers inside the coroplast vs. where they are on the outside?