On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote: > must be *tuff*, eh? > > :) > > vanagon content - the front spoiler subject always reminds me to work on > more skid plates for the van. The lower portion of my license plate is bent > under the bumper from hitting the ground going over depressions etc on > logging roads. Spoiler would have been long gone. But I'm wondering about > HDPE (suitably thick, and backed up) "plates" under the van rather than > alumin(i)um (sticky and not very resilent) or steel (heavier and less easy > to work with) > > > alistair > > Actually, that garden edging is very resiliant and simply bends under if you touch it down or hit something (I never have, and I drive some pretty rough places) I got this idea while racing my Porsche 928....many of the racecars at the tracks have this stuff under the splitters...dragging almost, on the track. When going onto the grid or the starting lines, theses often drag across track drainage dips, or they smack broken parts off other cars while racing, etc etc. The less well funded racers use this because they can just pop-rivet on a new spoiler whenever needed at reasonable cost, rather than the fancy smancy factory ones made of Carbon fiber and Kevlar, which break just as quickly but cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Don Hanson |
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