Areomodding my 6x12 enclosed trailer

[Chris D.]

Originally Posted by aerohead

I realize that a picture is worth a thousand words,however I simply do not have the facility to post images.I come to town,pay for parking,pay for internet,and pay for technical services(such as posting images).I have over 250 images at maxmpg and it cost me hundreds of dollars and hundreds of unpaid hours to get them there.

Photobucket.com (FREE) putfile.com (FREE) several other sites are completly free...

Whos talking about getting paid?
You mentioned something that someone else did or wrote in a book..
If your in it for money and not the brotherly comradery your in the wrong place..

Everything I've contributed to on this site was because I was doing it for myself and documenting it as I go incase anyone was interested in doing the same thing or it envokes a thought of a better way for someone to do something they've thought of for their project..

This site (to me) is an info share with a common goal..

If you can't contribute and just want to whine about something..
Thats on you.. I'm not going to tug at your belt loop to get information.
If you choose to share, thats greatly appreciated..

If not, jump on someone elses thread and waste bandwidth..

Originally Posted by aerohead

I would like to do rapid response help and support for every project mentioned here at ecomodder but I'm just one unpaid volunteer.

waaaaaaaaaaa

I dont get any paychecks either buddy..

What is your purpose here? I'm here to contribute
and help in any way possible as well as learn how to do things..

Have you done half the things to your own vehicle that you've talked about on ecomodder or are you a web/book jocky that throws out other peoples ideas as if their a mover and a shaker in the element of which to speak of?

I could honestly care less if you design airplanes or rockets for NASA, your attitude blows..

I'm not being a jerk or wish you ill will, I'm just saying whats on my mind..

I'm a very happy go lucky person thats laid back..
Keep in mind that emotion and sarcasm don't shine through the internet as well as in person..

Everything typed in here was in fun sarcasm while drinking an ice cold Dr Pepper

If you want to further this discussion, keep it off the thread.. PM me..

Now back to our regularly scheduled modification thread..

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Today I used the Christys Red Hot BLue Glue to set all the PVC piping..

Plenty beefy..

yesterday I came up with foam campershell insulation thats sticky on one
side to install between the trailer and where the fairing is going to mount up..

This comes in a roll and is 1/4" thick x 2" wide..
I got this at home depot.. (as is most of my stuff purchased)

I'm going to get some self tapping bolts and use my pheunmatic impact to install the fairing onto the sides of the trailer..

I spaced out the "legs" of the fairing to line up with excisting panel attachment bolts so I wouldn't have to drill any additional holes in the trailer that would comprimise its resale value..

I'll be mounting the fairing within the next few days..
Then its coroplast time

[Taco Bowl]

You need to figure out some kind of airdam to put on ur camper shell. So that the air flows smoothly from the camper shell over your trailer. We can figure something out next week.

I have my Truck's old plastic bedliner laying in the scrap pile. Maybe we can cut it or make somehing out of it if you want it.

[Chris D.]

Right on Bowl!

I've got alot of Coroplast on hand, and home depots not even a block away..
I have somethign in mind for diverting or deflecting some of the air off he camper shell..

I've been going over areo sites for trucking.. lots of viable information there..

[aerohead]

the whole point is that I can't email them without help.I've got to scan the photos at the copy center or photograph the images digitally and then go into town and hook up to USB port,import them into Photoshop,open every file,find the ones I want to transmit,and then I can send them.But aside from taking the photos,I'm totally reliant on others.I'll get there,but probably won't be speedy enough for most.I appreciate the help offer.

[Chris D.]

Just go from the camera and edit them in Microsoft office/picture manager..

Your honestly looking at about 5 minutes tops..
take the picture in macro mode..
then all you have to do is crop and adjust the color..

heres an example I just did..

picture of my mouse pad.. note: its crooked within picture.


I rotated it straight (3 seconds) cropped it (5 seconds) hit the auto correct color button (1 second)


uploaded both pictures to photobucket (9 seconds)
replied back to your post and clicked the submit button with examples within the message (about 2 minutes total)

it doesn't need to be perfect..
if you need any step by step of my procedure, I'd be happy to walk ya through it..

unless you have a mac, then your SOL

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by Chris D.

Photobucket.com (FREE) putfile.com (FREE) several other sites are completly free...

Whos talking about getting paid?
You mentioned something that someone else did or wrote in a book..
If your in it for money and not the brotherly comradery your in the wrong place..

Everything I've contributed to on this site was because I was doing it for myself and documenting it as I go incase anyone was interested in doing the same thing or it envokes a thought of a better way for someone to do something they've thought of for their project..

This site (to me) is an info share with a common goal..

If you can't contribute and just want to whine about something..
Thats on you.. I'm not going to tug at your belt loop to get information.
If you choose to share, thats greatly appreciated..

If not, jump on someone elses thread and waste bandwidth..



waaaaaaaaaaa

I dont get any paychecks either buddy..

What is your purpose here? I'm here to contribute
and help in any way possible as well as learn how to do things..

Have you done half the things to your own vehicle that you've talked about on ecomodder or are you a web/book jocky that throws out other peoples ideas as if their a mover and a shaker in the element of which to speak of?

I could honestly care less if you design airplanes or rockets for NASA, your attitude blows..

I'm not being a jerk or wish you ill will, I'm just saying whats on my mind..

I'm a very happy go lucky person thats laid back..
Keep in mind that emotion and sarcasm don't shine through the internet as well as in person..

Everything typed in here was in fun sarcasm while drinking an ice cold Dr Pepper

If you want to further this discussion, keep it off the thread.. PM me..

Now back to our regularly scheduled modification thread..

---------------------------------------------

Today I used the Christys Red Hot BLue Glue to set all the PVC piping..

Plenty beefy..

yesterday I came up with foam campershell insulation thats sticky on one
side to install between the trailer and where the fairing is going to mount up..

This comes in a roll and is 1/4" thick x 2" wide..
I got this at home depot.. (as is most of my stuff purchased)

I'm going to get some self tapping bolts and use my pheunmatic impact to install the fairing onto the sides of the trailer..

I spaced out the "legs" of the fairing to line up with excisting panel attachment bolts so I wouldn't have to drill any additional holes in the trailer that would comprimise its resale value..

I'll be mounting the fairing within the next few days..
Then its coroplast time

Chris D,here's my situation.Back in November of 2007,MetroMPG created the Sticky Thread for aero mods which appears at the top of the Aero Forum page.In April this year,Randy-The-Hack made what I thought was a reasonable request,to post data from empirical studies and organize the material by category so that anyone wanting to do aero-mods would know what has been tried,what worked,what didn't.Ive got some data and I thought it might be usefull to the group,so I've been doing installments,breaking the data into digestible bits.Since Randy's request came first,I'm trying to honor that rather than scatter myself in a dozen directions.Whether you want to discount anything I've done is fine by me as I checked my ego at the door back in 1971.The material by others may benefit as it's from the people that "wrote the book".I regret that I was unable to assist you and will endeavor to fill in the gaps over the future.I wish you the best on your project,Sincerely,Phil Knox.

[digitaldissent]

kinda sounds like aero-head doesn't have a PC and a digital camera or a scanner.

I am sure somebody on here has the hucho book and maybe is a little more PC savy. metrompg?

[Chris D.]

Hey Phil.. Sounds like you have a full plate, didn't know the circumstances..

Just as a heads up, your one of the major internet Mentors
of why I'm here modding my truck to get the most out of it..

take er easy!

[Tango Charlie]

So how's the trailer looking?

[Chris D.]

well wouldja lookie here

got it mounted today..


had to heat up the legs in the middle to match up to a bolt line,
somehow my dead on measurment died, so I had to make it happen

I got some longer self tapping bolts and washers, I used camper shell foam between the fairing and the trailer to protect the trailer finish as well as possible





Its plenty strong to support 190lbs, no worries..



got some of the coroplast mounted up..





I still have to fill in the gap on the sides, enclose the bottom
and figure out the top and how thats going to work..

ater this is done im going to start the wheel skirts and the vortex generators..