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Post by tomdooley62 on Oct 28, 2005 9:29:39 GMT -5
I have seen that you can purchase a stainless steel lower air dam lip for the PT. I was in Home Depot and saw some very thin metal that is used for flashing on roofs and around door openings. Very shiny and very inexpensive. A 10" wide by 50` roll was only 18.00 or so. I bought me a roll and am gonna take the original air dam off and just use the metal to form around the original. I am gonna use stainless steel screws to attach it to original. Trim it off nice and neat around lower edge. I think it should work. Plus if you happen to hit a curb or scrub something it would be easy to replace. Even if it doesn't retain the shiny look i am sure it would just turn to the brushed aluminum look.
Could this also be used to make hatch strut covers by cutting to correct size and applying some thin 3 m tape to it?
Whats everyone thoughts on this?
Thanks Dave
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Post by electricbluegt on Oct 28, 2005 9:38:19 GMT -5
As far as the strut covers go, It should work fine. One thing I thought of is to take the sheet metal and wrap it around a piece of pipe that is smaller that the hatch struts so that when you put them on the hatch struts, they will wrap around them with some spring tension. You'd still need some double sided tape to hold them in place.
Brian
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Post by tomdooley62 on Oct 28, 2005 9:46:26 GMT -5
Yeah i could get a wooden dowel that is smaller and let tension do most of the holding! Great idea!
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Post by scpt1 on Oct 28, 2005 11:34:42 GMT -5
Gotta love the way this is going, please let me know how this turns out, being poor, and owning
The Poor Man's Hotrod this is right up my alley
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Post by JamesP on Oct 28, 2005 12:43:42 GMT -5
I put one of those SS air dam pcs on my car. Held on with 3M tape and SS Screws just like your talking about. $ 50.00 from a vendor. Anyway it is suppose to hang off your orginal air dam depending what year model(If you have the blk strip or not) about 1 to 1.5 inches.
Now that I lowered mine I can't really see it anyway.But it sure did look sharp.
James
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Post by tomdooley62 on Oct 28, 2005 12:50:00 GMT -5
I think were on to something here. I mean the metal I am talking about has an excellent finish and I might let it hang a little lower than stock now that you mention it.
Heck as easy as this stuff is to shape and work with someone may even be able to build a battery shroud with it.
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C`mon guys! You're doing a great job! Lets get the going!
We keep it up and may ask Rick to create a forum just for Poorman's Modifications Group!
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Post by ROCKYMAN24 on Oct 28, 2005 23:58:27 GMT -5
you can use the metal tape for you struts in rear hatch ez to do dont even have to remove them
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Post by PT4U2C on Oct 30, 2005 7:14:15 GMT -5
Dave:
Love your idea! Should work fine provided you use some 3M tape. On some model years, the front air dam is molded into the lower valance and is not removable. You would have to install from underneath the car. I have the air dam from Moss, and I used stainless bolts w/nuts rather than the stainless sheet metal screws(which can loosen in the soft plastic air dam). Good luck and let us know when you finnish.
PT4U2C
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Post by tomdooley62 on Oct 31, 2005 9:25:06 GMT -5
I have looked at mine and think it is removable. Its a 2003 and thanks for the the tip about the screws in the plastic..really hadn't thought about them turning loose like that.
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