belly pan on the Dodge diesel

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by skyking

I was just joshing ya, the only source I can find is 0.44 for my truck. I think it is more like .46 with the bed lower like I have it.

skyking,please go back above to see my correction to the Me-109 comment.I totally blew it.But corrected now.
0.44 is what the T-100 was rated at by Toyota so it should respond similarly to mods.With the original 'aeroshell' the belly pan pushed me to 30 mpg territory.
It will interesting to see how the Mopar responds.

[arcosine]

On my Saturn putting the back half of the belly pan helped more than adding front half.

[skyking]

Originally Posted by arcosine

On my Saturn putting the back half of the belly pan helped more than adding front half.

I know, I can't wait to get the last part on there.

[skyking]

Pulled the front section and took the truck in for alignment, and found out another good feature of the belly pan: Pinpointing oil leaks.
With no breeze under there the oil drops right down on the pan. Look up and there it is.

[ECONORAM]

Originally Posted by aerohead

skyking,please go back above to see my correction to the Me-109 comment.I totally blew it.But corrected now.
0.44 is what the T-100 was rated at by Toyota so it should respond similarly to mods.With the original 'aeroshell' the belly pan pushed me to 30 mpg territory.
It will interesting to see how the Mopar responds.

The 0.44 for a 2nd Gen Dodge RAM is right. At max it'd be 0.46. PickupTruck.com - 2000 Dodge Ram Pickup Specifications My 3rd Gen is a 0.52; I am at a terrible disadvantage. The only 3rd Gen RAMs with a 0.44 were the SRT-10s.

Originally Posted by arcosine

On my Saturn putting the back half of the belly pan helped more than adding front half.

That is interesting. I've covered from the front bumper to the leading edge of the rear wheel wells...guess I need to figure out the remaining 8-10 feet.

Skyking, you and I will have to compare notes sometime. I fabbed a piece in the front to make a little splitter lip, in addition to the belly panels. I finally figured out how to shrink a picture to attach. Not a belly shot, but it shows my wheel covers and side skirt.

[skyking]

Nice wheel covers. If you look at the front detail of my pan, just imagine all the chrome bumper is gone, replaced by a wood one that will extend right down to that level.
I got some more coroplast the other day, I will get that back part knocked out early next week. I had the front pan off to change oil today. I have not made an oil change hole in it yet. I just can't bear to hack on it.

[Diesel_Dave]

I'm drooling...

[skyking]

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Looks excellent SkyKing. I can't see much scope for improvement, but i'm sure the road will find something.

Wanna do a Ford?

are you driving out here or flying me out there ?

[ECONORAM]

Originally Posted by skyking

Nice wheel covers. If you look at the front detail of my pan, just imagine all the chrome bumper is gone, replaced by a wood one that will extend right down to that level.
I got some more coroplast the other day, I will get that back part knocked out early next week. I had the front pan off to change oil today. I have not made an oil change hole in it yet. I just can't bear to hack on it.

Thanks Skyking. Those are the 0.100" LEXAN, cut to 20.5" diameter, tied on with 550/parachute cord. I should have cut them to 20.75 or a little more, as my 20" wheels measure 21" on the face rim lip to rim lip. I also put pieces of foam weather stripping between the wheels and LEXAN, to keep them from scratching the paint. I actually have reinstalled them now, but with 14" nylon zip-ties. I cinched them down good so they don't flop. Next fastener to test is velcro strips...

I've toyed with removing the black plastic under the chrome bumper, and using a piece of 1/8" ABS in a smooth curve to the front suspension framework, then straight back after that. I kind of like the look of the splitter though.
If you look carefully, you can see the 0.040" aluminum sheet metal panel extending from the splitter to the frame by the front wheel... No brackets there; strictly using the splitter and the brackets I fabbed on the back of the frame structure to hold the first panel in place.

[Diesel_Dave]

Originally Posted by ECONORAM

My 3rd Gen is a 0.52.

Where did you get this info? I've been looking for an "official" Cd & frontal area for my truck.