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sarguy01 - Yes, I got extremely lucky with that junkyard motor. It was almost like breaking-in a new engine when I started driving it again. The story was the car got rear-ended 10 years ago, got hauled to that junkyard, and just sat there ever since. Another part of the story, if you can believe it - not sure I do - is that they'd finally gotten tired of having that thing sitting there and it was due to be crushed and sold off for scrap in a couple of days. If that should happen to be true, it's truly a miracle find.
When I first bought the car, I think it had something like 78,000 miles on it, and I usually got in the 40's without hypermiling. I remember one trip I got 51 mpg and was amazed. But that never happened again until after I got this new engine in. But I had loaned it out to a lot of people, and I suspect they didn't take the best care of it. - think I've learned my lesson about that now!!!
johnlvs2run - No, the bumper curves back & tucks under. So at one part of the cardboard sheet I used was a tab. I glued another piece of cardboard to this tab & then with that part centered, attached it to the bottom lip of the bumper with a couple of small c-clamps. The size of the tab was designed to hold the bottom of the air dam in that more-or-less vertical position. Over near the sides, I cut a couple shallow triangles out of cardboard as spacers between the bumper and the edges of the air dam. That was to keep the oncoming wind from collapsing it back against the bumper. Then the outer two pieces of the air dam were taped over that & the far ends secured to the front of the wheel openings by tape.
It won't last long, it's already showing signs of deteriorating, but I think I was at least able to prove to myself that it works. - Onward with the construction of the REAL air dam that's NOT cardboard!
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