Dave!

I really believe the amount of damage to the rocker arms ends up being a regional issue. Around here there is a lot of sand mixed in with the salt, and in the spring when I'm dying to get the car out, the roads can still have lots of sand on them even though the rains have washed the salt away, so it is almost like sand blasting that part of the car...

I also have to confess, I don't baby this car. If I'm out to drive and I come upon a rough section in the road I don't slow all down, I just blast right over it. And believe me, I know when I have gone through loose material because when one of those stones hit the base plates or the locating bolts on the rollbar, the thing sings like a tuning fork.

 

Here in lies the challenge...

What I actually used was a set of really big pickup truck mud flaps and cut the shape I needed out of them, making sure I was able to use the two outside edges of the original mud flap shape - thus the flat side, bottom and rounded corner was all part of the original mud flap shape.

I was not able to find any smooth, rigid, black plastic flaps in the stores I went into, and then I remembered I had this old set in the basement from when I did the same thing to my CRX-SiR years ago.

I specifically did not want to use a soft floppy rubber material because I figured that might cause other problems. So the key is to find some rigid black plastic and go from there.

And if you do make these, and you don't have a rivet gun - just buy one, you will be amazed at how handy they are once you have one!

 

i need a tissuse

 

I am also interested in some type of "mud flap" (not the "backoff" ones... )
that would work on the s2k. In Pennsylvania, the D.O.T. is fond of improving streets with a method called, "tar and chipping". It is done by coating the street with a layer of hot tar and immediately pouring a layer of gravel over it. Imagine if you will...driving along a twisty mountain road then all of the sudden without warning hitting miles of street covered with fresh tar and loose gravel

Needless to say...this doesn't help the street. Once winter hits, the gravel washes away leaving all the old potholes once again exposed. All summer long we have to drive over miles of road with gravel pinging off our cars.

We Pennsylvanians need MUDFLAPS!!!!

 

shiiiit that's the same 'strategy' that the DOT is using around here (seattle)! there has to be a better way to repave a street... friggin idiots!