First, the undertray:
After a few sessions examining OEM holes in the undersections of the car and measuring and visiting the hardware store, here is the stuff:
That's 20 screws with locking nuts to hold the undertray panels to the aluminum rails and then several bolts and plumber's tape for creating mounts for the aluminum frame to the underside in three removable sections (engine compartment, passenger compartment, and rear diffuser). The butterfly type bolts will slip into larger holes in the undercarriage and the plumbers tape will allow me to use a couple awkwardly placed holes as mounting points.
Decided on and purchased these plastic rolls (
Colored Plastic Rolls, 25 Ft. - Speedway Motors, America's Oldest Speed Shop) instead of aluminum because of cost and ease of acquisition. It's slow progress but it is progress.
Also considering ways to use parts of this roadkill diffuser in my own rear diffuser build. I'll need to cut the tall top piece and maybe reattach it in a flatter profile. I like the rectangular holes for muffler heat venting:
And here is my last remaining large section of coroplast, which I will use under the engine bay, now that I seem to have identified all the fluid leaks and have just the one last to solve:
Second, a nose job:
I found this on the side of the road the other day:
And I think I can cut it to create a new nose with a lowered stagnation point.
I figure I cut off the plastic seen here sticking up from the top of the cover and use the holes to mount it inside my car's current bumper cover's lower grill opening. I'd cut away at the ends too and fill spaces with bondo or something and sand it down smooth and paint oem black.
Third, I found another oil leak:
After cleaning the engine with cleaners, rags, and toothbrushes, no oil leaking anywhere anymore except from the area where the oilpan gasket meets the crank pulley at the lower timing cover:
Front of car to the left. See the wet area on the oil pan's side?
Front of the car to the bottom, see the oil dripping from area between oilpan gasket and crank pulley?
