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Originally Posted by debit.servus
Moon discs? Looks great, what is the best way to install them? Like the idea of an air dam on the front and belly pans.
I've seen people use shade cloth to aero mod the undercarriage, is this a good material to use?
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The white stuff is called coroplast, it's a corrugated plastic material used primarily for temporary signs -- political signs usually, but also sale signs and stuff. It's smooth and more rigid than shade cloth so it probably has better aerodynamic perfomance. A big election is coming up in November, there should be plenty of free coroplast signs all over the place once the election is over. But in the mean time maybe call a local sign store and ask if you can come get any scraps, or you can buy a whole sheet (4' x 8') at home depot or probably lowe's has it too.
Moonies can be made out of whatever, you could probably affix them with zip ties if you want to go super cheap, just leave some kind of opening for the valve stem, or like use a box cutter and cut a H shape into the coroplast or aluminum moon disks above where the valve stem is located so you can bend it open if you have to.
I bet if you had some good cardboard and lots of duct tape you could make moonies out of the cardboard and just seal them from the weather with the duct tape, then zip tie them to the rims. It would be super crispy and look like garbage, but you wouldn't spend anything to make them.
Also, use cardboard to prototype designs for coroplast panels. Like when you do the wheel wells, make one out of cardboard first just to make sure you get the design right, then use it as a template for the coroplast.
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People mentioned lose the roof rack and running boards, have you removed any of that yet? Running boards def. need to go, almost as badly as the roof rack, you'll save lots of weight too. Are your tires at max PSI?