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Got around to cutting a coroplast belly pan today. Got it installed and then moved on to cutting the rear wheel well covers. Got the driver side cut and bought all the mounting hardware. Ended up using 59 cent fence brackets that are 90 degree brackets with various holes which will allow me to screw them into the inner well plastic while leaving the other edge sticking out with hole to zip tie the coroplast to. $10 for enough coroplast to do a front belly pan, grille block and wheel well covers. $3.60 for mounting hardware. $7.50 for 200 zip ties. $21 bucks total so far and I was already at 40 MPG for the usual 50 miles of city and highway driving I do occasionally before I had the belly pan and rear wheel well covers. I'd be surprised if I'm not at 43 MPG after testing the covers and belly pan. I also cleaned my air filter(Smacked it on the ground a bunch) and got out a large amount of fine dirt. The previous owner lived on a dirt road I suspect at some point because the car was completely covered in fine dirt especially in the door areas when open. A new filter will probably help with MPG a little as well. Going to get an oil change as it was really low and the oil was dark.
Lots of progress to be had. Happy about the progress so far. Will report back! Almost to 150% EPA!!! Should hit it after maintenance and finishing the wheel wells.
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