SciFly

Or do I have to make them myself?


??? help please with advice and pointers.


I run under-stock diameter tires on stock steel wheels. The dreaded wheel gap
affects this RS2 badly. To close the gap I figure It would be best to close off that ugly black well...

but how?

Down to the rocker panel level, I think. lexan? heat formed?




Insight gives a near idea what I am after:

ShortBus843

please dont do it. Lower the car to get rid of the gap

Lonely_Raven

Wow, that's a dude I've not seen in a while...

Yeah, I've not seen skirts, they aren't that popular outside of
the low rider community I think...

TheScionicMan

I've seen them on a Japanese site, but they look really bad, it doesn't flow right with the car. Can't find a pic, maybe someone else has better luck than me...

Fujiz_xb

i have some pics of the kit at home.

its made by DAMD series is Imperial if not mistaken.

I REALLY want one. Somebody here tried to make them but couldnt.

ill try to post some pics

TheScionicMan

^^^ DING DING DING _ We have a winner!

Fujiz_xb

aw mark.. i was doing the search on this site.

thanks for posting dough.

EEk13

err.. for that to work on an xb.. umm..

well, that Damd one is nice looking but i still don't care for the skirts.. maybe you should photoshop some on to your box first, can mess around with different styles that way too..

Max2k

The Damd ones don't follow any of the body lines, so they don't work. If you made them down to the lip kit level it could look... odd.

TheScionicMan

That's the same thought process I went thru, hahaha.

The protruding wheel wells throw the look off. To do it right, I'd add some side cladding from front fender to rear, basically smoothing them so they're flush, then bring the wheel skirts down to the tops of the side skirts, maybe a little more. It would look smoother like the Insight. In fact, if you look at that picture of the DAMD kit, just fill in the white-ish reflected area at the bottoms of the doors

Like if you filled the area between the paint line and the side skirts on this one here: (of course you ain't gonna skirt those cambered beauties...)

JDMJim

^ my xB will be sittin like that by the end of the year!!!!! That looks so cool!

SciFly

#1: thanks to all you guys for the quick helps!

#2: I agree: that thing above is not good or -deep enough-.. it doesn't tie into any body line.

#3: If i try this the -skirt will not have to bulb outwards because the stock wheel appears fully tucked into the well-line.

#4: With the Goodyear F1 tires, size 195/50/15, the wheel gap is so huge that no amount of lowering (I can go 3 inches down in the rear) will really fix the problem.

#5: I black-outed the rear wells the other day and this helps. But dang! The rather small diameter tires look like furniture casters inside those mamoth caves.

#6: The insight has pretty flat skirts. I can't integrate to that degree, but mine would look closer to insight than to that fukadoodle JDM bodykit mishap.

#7: It will make people think I've got a HYBRID

#8: Fender skirts have a long history in Detroit and esp, in Kustom cars of the '50's. You could get skirts from JC Whitney, in 1957, custom designed for many Detroit autos. Cheap and cheesey, too.

Only a Sciontist would know my proposed skirts are home brewed. Just a matter of will I get off my duff to engineer something out of thin acrylic, using heat and cement to fabricate... and paint to match body color, for sure.

hotbox05

time to get 16's with semi low pro tires reid