echo wheel skirt how to with pics.
 

This method requires you not being afraid to take a hacksaw to your inner fender lip. But it is really easy to do, and can be reversed if your careful. first pick 3 or 4 places on your fender that look like good support points for your skirt.Attachment 5566 a hack saw or i used an air cutoff tool,Attachment 5567 go slow and cut close to but not the visible fender lip.Attachment 5568 then grab it with vicegrips and bend it down,gently!part of my fenderlip is plastic so i had to mount a bracket (homedepot truss strap)using self tapping metal screwsAttachment 5576 then take your metal/aluminum/plasticAttachment 5569 and hold it up to the fender or tape it and reach around back with a marker, follow the fender opening. then depending on your materal cut it into the round shape, leaving room outside the line to curve/bend the material to close to the shape of your car body. and to clear your tire.Attachment 5571 fit it into the opening and trim it as needed,drill holes into the tabs you bent down,hold the sheet up against the opening and mark your sheet and drill holes in it. then mount it with small srews,washers,and nuts.some photos of the finished product,not perfect,but im impatient and did it in around 2 1/2 hours, you can make yours look perfect if you take your time!Attachment 5572,Attachment 5573,Attachment 5574, more mods and some aba when time and wind converage.

you;re working hard, moonmonkey.
what's next?
looks great, ya know.

thanks luvit, next is some refinements of my grill blocks, and a cable operated vent to regulate airflow in lower grill, then some molded boat tails for my tires, also lowering the car,maybe active? low rolling resistance tires soon (i have 2 maypops),, im going to get bored when im thru with all this.im still learning how to post this stuff,this is the first forum i,ve been on.but i will post diy's for all my remaining mods, maybe it will inspire thought on how to do some of this stuff. ill also create a echo mods thread when i figure it out.

come to ohio and mod my car in my snowy driveway. lol.

Hi,

Looks very good! Did you consider extending them down further?

if you were down here i would probably do it, florida native all my life i dont do cold, much less snow, only saw the stuff twice in my life.

i did consider bringing them down more Neil, but they would stick out a bit into the air flow but after looking at it,i might put an extra peice below them ,my tires/rims stick out past the body a little down lower.

moonmonkey -

I'm glad you used the truss strap. I always stare at them but I can't figure out where they could "fit" into my mods. In a way, you could argue that you are doing the "EV1" compromise that also didn't extend the skirt all the way down. Here is their explanation :

Short Skirts?
CarloSW2

Neat looking skirts. Looking forward to the result

Nice mod, moonmonkey.

That's the only thing I'd be afraid of. Rust from salt on the roads here would be a problem for the cuts, unless they were sealed properly with good 2-part paint, epoxy or something similar.

no salt down here, but like you said if you seal it with good paint it probably will not be the first thing to rust out. The fender lips make great hangers ,you can make the cuts different depths to accomidate different thickness materials, and they bend back into place if you want to remove the skirts, as long as you dont go past the horizontal edge,im keeping this car until it falls apart so no concern for making my mods reversable. cfg where do you get all your info? your like a ecomodder encyclopidia!

moonmonkey -

You're the moonmonkey, I'm a searchmonkey. Whenever I can, I like to cross-post stuff I remember from other threads because it makes old/new threads all the richer. Synergy and all that.

CarloSW2

Cross linking of threads helps out alot at times, because it keeps information current in the newer threads, and creates enough of an adundance of the same piece of information that noone should have trouble finding it in a search.

I would love to see a thread of ECHO ecomods. I love my Echo, and the weather in OK is now making a turn for the better. This is good stuff, it would be great to assemble it all in one place. Thanks for all the good work guys, and thanks for sharing your hard learned lessons with all of us.

John

Hey I can see you guys know quite a bit about echo's. I have been reading this forum for a while but never posted anything. I was wondering if any of you have done a muffler delete? If so, better MPG? Had mine unbolted the other day and could actually hear the engine runnning for once. Without a tach. sometimes I can't tell if the engine is still running or not.
Also, have any of you done any intake mods?
I have a scan gauge and I am a mechanical engineer at Arizona State University. Currently averaging 50.2 mpg over the last year with my 2002 toyota echo (manual).

nice that helped with the cars look too.

That is great keep up the good work. What about the front wheels?