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Old 05-25-2016, 03:47 PM   #22 (permalink)
ChopStix
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A guy used gorilla tape on this forum to help attach snap on moon hub caps. I don't know if that would help you or not. Just something that I read. He claimed "its like duct tape on steroids, and the caps are now a bear to remove".


I picked up a roll of urethane lawn edging in black. Some kinds have the L top. This kind has the full rounded loop top on the lawn edging. I'm going to use it to make a small nose spoiler that stops at the same level as my cross member. This will fill the roughly 1 inch difference between my bumper cover height and the cross member. But my plan is to make a nose pan that mounts to the loop of the lawn edging going back to the cross member. Then on the sides, I'll cut additional sections of the edging and bolt/glue them on as spats. I'm copying the 40mpg Ford Ranger shown on this forum, with a couple changes that better apply to my van. Then later on I'll buy a roll of the L type lawn edging to use as side ground effects.

Lastly I emailed the guy from the university of Michigan who wrote the tech article that I briefly mentioned before. I have not yet gotten a reply. But I want to make sure about what exactly that tech article contains before I spend the money to buy it since its suppose to be about aero mods for suv's and vans.
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