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Originally Posted by Grant-53
Air dams and side skirts may be used to reduce drag or increase down force. Trailers use skirts to divert air flow away from rear axles and tires. You may not get 4 inches of snow on the road in Virginia but make sure you have an easy way to use a jack to raise the car.
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If I end up bolting side skirts to the seam running the length of the side body (a perfect place to attach the side skirts) I would have to make the last few inches in the area immediately behind the front wheels and in front of the rear wheels unboltable so I could flex the skirt out of the way since that same seam is used by the factory jack to lock onto to raise the car in the event of a flat.
I think ideally the side skirts would have to be at an angle and go under the car to where the belly pan is at its lowest and then angle outward diagonally until just ahead of the rear tires...i.e. if one were looking from the roof of the car downward the would in theory "see" a "v" just behind the engine belly pan extending diagonally to just ahead of the rear tires.
However, for ease of doing I wonder if simply bolting to the underbody seam would help much....I can't help but think that at least it should help at least
some although maybe not as optimally as the "v" idea above.