Ok this post is a bit pic heavy, i decided to hit this awkward rear arch area to come up with a spat/bumper solution, the car just looked very unbalanced from the side view, so i downed tools on customers stuff at 4pm and got stuck into it to see what i could come up with.
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Rather than make something fit under the stock bumper
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"super OEM" as Geoff put it) i decided to use one of my Styleauto reps.
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I took my old bumper off and chopped out the centre of the styleauto to expose the exhaust silencer, i much prefer the rear like this.
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The SA bumper now
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"frames" the exhaust, much better than the stock bumper, but what to do about those awkward areas where the bumper meets the arch.
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As Tiggs guessed on another thread the solution is to make spats that wrap around the arches and then flow down into the bumper, the trick here is to make the spat bits look as OEM as possible, this was done by removing the lip from the opposite side triangle that usually goes infront of the arch.
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I then made an aluminium bridging piece, this area is too wide to just use Fibral on without some support, so the ally plate is temporarily screwed into both arch lip and bumper.
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This is then bridged across, further strengthening and bridging work will take place on the rear of this area once the whole bumper is removed.
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This totally works as a solution to this area and getting the whole rear to the same height as the sideskirts.
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I repeated the whole process on the NS.
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There is at least another week in the sanding and prep of this before it can be painted, the spat to arch area will then get a rubber seal trim like the front part of the sideskirt does to really make it look like a factory job.
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Here is the binnacle top i have been working on.
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This needs a ton of work before i know if it is going to work or not, my main concern is it looks like Sids head from Ice Age.
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