Taurus side skirts - modification and installation

[gearheadE30]

I just got some skirts for my Alpine. These things take forever! Are you guys sanding off all of the paint, or just primering and then sanding?

[Janissarie]

^^^ thanks bro, going to get some on Monday, and sand them down and install

was supposed to take car in for paint today, but instead I will do on Monday after sideskirts are on

Jani

[TopOfTheLine89]

also is it the sho taurus or the regular on

thx

Ugly taurus, 92-95ish, i don't think the SHO sideskirts would work.

[Janissarie]

also is it the sho taurus or the regular on

thx

[Janissarie]

what year taurus guys

I am going to the local junkyard today than, what year taurus or sable

I would think the newer ones are out of the question

[Farbin Kaiber]

i wouldn't exactly think of the word "cut" in a barbaric sense
instead consider it professionally sculpting .

Maybe we should take a page from our hot-rodding forefathers, they coined terms that are very useful today, chop, channel, deck, french, sectioned, and many more. I presonally would love to see a full blown, lakes pipes, steelies with moon discs, keg tank on the passenger side floorboard, 3in chop on the roof, rake the windshield an additional 8-10 deg, some wide whites. Now im not saying lets put a flathead in there, I think it would convey the hot rod theme with an s52, think an old 49-50 "shoebox" with the Caddy-LaSalle swaps of yore.

[delphini]

i wouldn't exactly think of the word "cut" in a barbaric sense
instead consider it professionally sculpting .

[StereoInstaller1]

i still dont get the dam cut off and glue back on..
fuck me!

Dude...it ain't that tough. They are too fucking long, you MUST cut it and glue it back together.

Go fucking buy some and try it! THAT is what car modding is all about.

Shit, man, have some fun.

Luke

[Tree18is]

i still dont get the dam cut off and glue back on..
fuck me!

[dj2xrated]

Coming from someone who hasn't devoted their life to E30's for the last some odd years, I think the "is" skirts are not all that attractive, and the ix skirts remind me to much of those ugly tack on plastic running boards and fender flares I'm used to seeing on conversion vans and pickup trucks driving around the Barrio on my way to work in the morning. IMPO, The Mtech II's looked even more out of place without the pods and using the pods makes the side of the car look like a mid 90's Pontiac.

Which is why I didn't pick any of them when I had the chance to get them.

The only things I saw that I actually liked where the Breyton skirts and the taurus skirts. One would cost me over $900 to import from Europe and the other cost $12 and a gallon of gas, it wasn't that hard of a decision.

In the past I never liked any of the side skirts that where available for my old car (civic) so I just left the stockers on and color matched them.

I personally think the taurus skirts balance out well now that I have the Mtech II rear apron and will be getting a Mtech II front soon (both replica) They are less obtrusive than 90% of the kits out there and I don't have to slap plastic pods on to my doors and make my car look like some other mid 90's domestic of ill refute.

I'm driving something I love, I don't need validation from people who obviously have no intrest in accepting anything other than what they deem acceptible in their own little world. I would expect no less in return as I think I have demonstrated above. We are all very particular about what we drive, thats why we're here, if we weren't we'd all be driving yugos.

This guy needs to write a book. if it wasent for the half naked lady on my screen saver, i think i woulda cried.... "she was looking at me"

[mikey]

To my knowledge, Alpina doesn't make side skirts.

i believe they used m-tech 1 skirts. that, or many of the "stock" alpinas i've seen have all had the tech 1 skirts.

[golde30]

Ummm yeah Cary, that isn't what I said.

I also don't have steel buckles connected to my splitter to contain all the mad downforce. :up:

LOL. mAd d0wNf0rCes y0!

[Jand3rson]

To my knowledge, Alpina doesn't make side skirts.

[gregmacdonald77]

I reserving judgement on the Cabrio until they are painted and done. But I do have to agree that they would probably look better if the car had at least some kind of front valance.

BTW, does someone have any pics of a Cabrio with Alpina side skirts?

[Jand3rson]

Ummm yeah Cary, that isn't what I said.

I also don't have steel buckles connected to my splitter to contain all the mad downforce. :up: