I built a custom front lip for my 86.5 N/A. The covering is made from vinyl baseboard moulding. It has a semi-rigid support structure behind it, that I can bend back into place if I ever knock it out of shape. The lip looks great, but I also lowered my car 2 inches, and now the new lip, which lowers the nose 3 more inches, scrapes on darn near the lines painted on crosswalks.
What I am looking for is anyone with any ideas on what, where, how I can protect this. I am thinking if I can find hard plastic moulding, in a "U" or even a "J" shape, I can cover the bottom of the lip and protect it from rashing. I think perhaps a .5-1 inch deep U groove piece with about a 1/4" wide channel would do the trick. It would need to be flexible to follow the curve of the lip, but hard so that it can take at least an occasional driveway. It would also need to be black or paintable.
One thought I had was some kind of hard plastic hose that I could cut open to create the channel. PVC is too hard and not flexible enough. Garden hose is not hard enough to stand up to the road...irrigation hose?
Any ideas?
What I am looking for is anyone with any ideas on what, where, how I can protect this. I am thinking if I can find hard plastic moulding, in a "U" or even a "J" shape, I can cover the bottom of the lip and protect it from rashing. I think perhaps a .5-1 inch deep U groove piece with about a 1/4" wide channel would do the trick. It would need to be flexible to follow the curve of the lip, but hard so that it can take at least an occasional driveway. It would also need to be black or paintable.
One thought I had was some kind of hard plastic hose that I could cut open to create the channel. PVC is too hard and not flexible enough. Garden hose is not hard enough to stand up to the road...irrigation hose?
Any ideas?
