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Skirt Mounts; fender skirt mounting
Topic Started: Sep 18 2009, 10:35 AM (1,025 Views)
jmarksbery
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I have seen many different ways people are mounting these skirts so I thought I would make a drawing of how the real one's mounted in the old (my) days.
Any questions just ask, they were simple and worked great.

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Edited by jmarksbery, Sep 18 2009, 10:36 AM.
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Potter
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Col. Potter

:rocker my friend who is an older body man is restoring a 55 Ford, and those are the same mounts for the skirts on his car. ^o) :gp

And he still sprays with a high pressure Devillbiss siphon feed.
He cant use the HVLP... says he can lay less egg shell with a HP, and the darn grav. feed cup gets in the way. lol if that gives you his era...
Edited by Potter, Sep 18 2009, 08:21 PM.
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jmarksbery
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You mean they have something other than a siphon feed? :lol :thumb :cheers
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Coche Blanco
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I have the hardest time understanding that picture.
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jmarksbery
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You are looking at the back side of the skirt. To place on the car you place the skirt stud into the round hole in the front brkt, and set the rear stud into the U shaped brkt on the rear.
the upper clamp slides over the wheel well lip, when you push the lever up and place it behind the small blue area it will lock the skirt on.

Perhaps this will help, I didn't tweak the animation too much, the black pivot point does not move on the lock handle.

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Edited by jmarksbery, Sep 19 2009, 07:50 AM.
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Fireball 89
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Thank you jmarksbery-

Thank you for sharing your practical design. If I considered a rear wheel skirt, I also would want it to be easy to remove and not require a huge amount of fabrication, points your design exhibits.

Rear Wheel Skirts. When I was a little guy I used to watch my dad and grandpa wrestle with them when they had to change a tire or were doing a real cleaning of the car (wax and everything). I remember how odd the car looked without them.

Reading about the Ford Probe Project of the mid-70's and the search for practical aerodynamic solutions. I think it was the Probe IV that had a hoop frame, mounted over the front wheels, attached to the upright. A flexible front wheel skirt (membrane) was part of the aerodynamic design. As the front wheel turned right or left, the hoop would push on the skirt and keep it off the rotating wheel. I believe it was the same vehicle that was featured in the movie 2010: Odyssey Two (Scientist Heywood Floyd is jogging and the vehicle passes in the scene?) Or maybe not...

On to my passion, many of the road race/endurance prototypes incorporated rear wheel skirts into their design. The benefits: the same aerodynamic advantages and efficiency.

Edward
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jmarksbery
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That's the same design that was used on all the 1/4 panel skirts from years ago, front skirts are not my thing! :drivin
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jeff


Hey thanxs there jmarksberry....I get some time I will give this a whirl.
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