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08-30-2010, 06:56 AM	#1 (permalink)
skyl4rk Coasting Down the Peak Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: M I C H I G A N Posts: 514 Toyauto Pickup - '94 Toyota Pickup 2WD 90 day: 36.32 mpg (US) Versa Base - '09 Versa Sedan 1.6 Base Team Nissan 90 day: 41.69 mpg (US) Thanks: 27 Thanked 42 Times in 35 Posts	Looking for a metal fitting to grab the wheelwell edge I am looking for a small metal fitting that will clamp on the wheelwell edge and extend out toward the wheel. It needs to be drillable to allow a bolt through to fasten a wheelwell cover. The idea is to clamp on a half dozen or so around the wheel well and bolt a wheel cover to them. Anyone ever come across such a thing in your sperimentings? __________________ Nissan Versa Aeromods

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08-30-2010, 07:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
Piwoslaw aero guerrilla Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 3,699 Svietlana II - '13 Peugeot 308SW e-HDI 6sp 90 day: 58.1 mpg (US) Thanks: 1,273 Thanked 730 Times in 463 Posts	Something like this? See DIY: plastic rear wheel skirts __________________ e·co·mod·ding: the art of turning vehicles into what they should be What matters is where you're going, not how fast. "... we humans tend to screw up everything that's good enough as it is...or everything that we're attracted to, we love to go and defile it." - Chris Cornell [Old] Piwoslaw's Peugeot 307sw modding thread

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08-30-2010, 08:54 AM	#3 (permalink)
skyl4rk Coasting Down the Peak Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: M I C H I G A N Posts: 514 Toyauto Pickup - '94 Toyota Pickup 2WD 90 day: 36.32 mpg (US) Versa Base - '09 Versa Sedan 1.6 Base Team Nissan 90 day: 41.69 mpg (US) Thanks: 27 Thanked 42 Times in 35 Posts	Exactly what I was looking for. __________________ Nissan Versa Aeromods

08-30-2010, 11:22 AM	#4 (permalink)
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08-30-2010, 11:30 AM	#5 (permalink)
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