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- 92 & 16 Meyatas
Those came out great!!!!
NB MX-5 Hey, it's Minnie!
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Had some medical appointments that occupied my time this morning. When I got home I shot the spats with four coats of clear. I think they came out decent. After that, I had one more task to accomplish.
When I cut off the bottom of the spats I lost two of the threaded inserts (per side) that dcbe provides to allow you to use screws to attach them to the bumper along with any double-sided tape you want to use. One of the inserts got cut in half because I didn’t see it was in line with my saw. I was able to salvage the other one and held onto it. These inserts are brass, threaded M3 on the inside with some sort of knurling on the outside to hold it in the material. I picked a spot low on the spat and eyeballed the location for the first one. Measured distances so I could drill the other spat in the same spot. The insert measured 3.75mm OD. I don’t have many metric drill bits, but I do have a number drill index. I just pulled a bit that was close and gave it a shot. I then progressively went up in size until I got to one that let me mount the insert snugly (that ended up being #21). Here’s a picture of how that looks:
My plan is to get these mounted to the car tomorrow. No pictures until then, you’ll just have to hold on to your excitement.
When I cut off the bottom of the spats I lost two of the threaded inserts (per side) that dcbe provides to allow you to use screws to attach them to the bumper along with any double-sided tape you want to use. One of the inserts got cut in half because I didn’t see it was in line with my saw. I was able to salvage the other one and held onto it. These inserts are brass, threaded M3 on the inside with some sort of knurling on the outside to hold it in the material. I picked a spot low on the spat and eyeballed the location for the first one. Measured distances so I could drill the other spat in the same spot. The insert measured 3.75mm OD. I don’t have many metric drill bits, but I do have a number drill index. I just pulled a bit that was close and gave it a shot. I then progressively went up in size until I got to one that let me mount the insert snugly (that ended up being #21). Here’s a picture of how that looks:
My plan is to get these mounted to the car tomorrow. No pictures until then, you’ll just have to hold on to your excitement.
Got started this morning. First job was to transfer the location of inserts for the mounting screws. I decided a while back to try using a form of centering screw for this. I bought some M3 set screws that came to a point for this. Tried 12mm long ones but they were too long, so I went with 3mm long (would have been better to use 5-6mm but couldn’t find those). Sorry for the blurry photo, my phone didn’t want to focus but you should be able to get the gist of what I did:
I tried just pushing those onto the bumper but didn’t get very good marks, so I used some painter’s tape and marked it that way. It was just good enough for me to see:
Once the holes were drilled I temporarily installed the spats with screws to make sure I had the holes where they needed to be (not all were so I had to drill other holes, half of them were off by a little). After I had them located I removed them and put on the double-sided tape like so:
If you haven’t done this before, you peel back the backing a little and fold it over to let you pull it off all the way once you get the item in place.
End result? Here it is:
I’ll get some distance shots from outside which may help seeing how it looks as part of the overall package.
I tried just pushing those onto the bumper but didn’t get very good marks, so I used some painter’s tape and marked it that way. It was just good enough for me to see:
Once the holes were drilled I temporarily installed the spats with screws to make sure I had the holes where they needed to be (not all were so I had to drill other holes, half of them were off by a little). After I had them located I removed them and put on the double-sided tape like so:
If you haven’t done this before, you peel back the backing a little and fold it over to let you pull it off all the way once you get the item in place.
End result? Here it is:
I’ll get some distance shots from outside which may help seeing how it looks as part of the overall package.
