What about the Civic hybrid's spoiler? If it had no effect why would they have added it, and to the hybrid version only?
And yes, I've used the streamlining templace. I'm just trying to find excuses to procrastinate on that kammback..
On another note, got my air dam installed today! Took longer than expected - about 3-4 hours of work, but it's done!
Materials:
- 4"x20' roll of lawn edging I picked up for $4.97 from the local hardware store
- Box of 30 self tapping screws, $6.49 (used about 22)
- Drill with an appropriate bit (a LOT faster than trying to screw it all in by hand..)
- Flathead screwdriver (for removing factory air dam)
- A LOT of patience
Step 1: Removing the factory air dam.
The Civic came with a pathetic factory air dam that was about half an inch in length and didn't really cover anything. It was held on with several plastic push plugs that we removed using a flathead screwdriver.
Step 2: Prepare the lawn edging.
We unrolled the lawn edging after having it sit in the sun for some time for the heat to make the material more flexible for installation.We then measured it up against the car, and cut it to length.
The edge of the lawn edging looked something like this:
To install it, we split the upper circle in half to create two mounting points, as follows:
Step 3: Installing the air dam
Use the push plugs from the stock air dam to mount the lawn edging. Use self tapping screws elsewhere for added security:
Those Paint drawings are rather crude, but hopefully they make sense.
And here's the final product:
It comes all the way around in front of each front wheel to act sort of as hopeful wheel spats too. No testing yet until tomorrow; hopefully it doesn't scrape anything too bad so that I have to trim it. Scraping won't bother me as long as scraping doesn't stop me from coasting. I might have to reinforce the ends due to them being too flexible, not sure how to do it yet though.