Mudflaps for a Griff ?

[Mickygee]

I'm not talking the big rally type affairs but some small discrete ones which will stop the base of my doors from being chipped.

My car is being resprayed (Red Bull Blue and looks gorgeous) and want the door bottoms to stay looking that good....

Has anybody tried to make any for a Griff ?

Cheers

[Barreti]

I noticed somebody with some fairly discreet flaps at the growl - mudflaps you dirty minded buggers

Looked like they were there to protect the chassis outrigger ends, and were made out of some sort of clear plasticy stuff. Like the sort of thing that commercial fridge door curtains are made of.

AntonyJ was it you?

[AntonyJ]

Well spotted Ian, in fact I got the idea off Ben(Grifter).
And yes mine are more to protect the chassis, and stop st going to the side rails of the riggers.
And yes they are made of industrial door curtain(clear,about 6mm thick).

They protect the riggers well and they are fitted behind the front wheels and in front of the rears.

You can buy strips of 3M film and make your own protection for the lower arches and door leading edges.
This company sell it by the metre.
http://www.premierpaintguard.co.uk/

[BJWoods]

How did you fit them?

B

[Pasco]

Nice Idea so who will make them

[AntonyJ]

BJWoods said:

How did you fit them?

B

They are cable tied to the tubes where they touch and then I used sealent(or sikaflex) to attach them to the inner arch.

Edited by AntonyJ on Thursday 14th August 22:52

[Pasco]

AntonyJ said:

BJWoods said:

How did you fit them?

B

They are cable tied to the tubes where they touch and then I used sealent(or sikiflex) to attach them to the inner arch.

Ant any pic's mate

[AntonyJ]

Pasco said:

AntonyJ said:

BJWoods said:

How did you fit them?

B

They are cable tied to the tubes where they touch and then I used sealent(or sikiflex) to attach them to the inner arch.

Ant any pic's mate

I'll get some done mate.

[Pasco]

AntonyJ said:

Pasco said:

AntonyJ said:

BJWoods said:

How did you fit them?

B

They are cable tied to the tubes where they touch and then I used sealent(or sikiflex) to attach them to the inner arch.

Ant any pic's mate

I'll get some done mate.

Cheers Buddy sounds like a Bloody Good Idea

Have you put them front and back mate ?

[Barreti]

Yes he has, well sort of.
In the front wheel arch they are at the back, protecting the outrigger, and in the rear wheel arch they are at the front protecting the outrigger again. If that all makes sense

[griffter]

It's not the greatest photo (it wasn't meant to be of the mudflap!) but you can get the idea here:

http://s355.photobucket.com/albums/r451/Griffter/?...

Basically a suitably cut sheet of Kaylan (rally mudflap material from Rally Design) cable tied to the outrigger diagonal. You need to keep them clear of grit of mud as this can collect betweeen the flap and the tube, but Ant's sealed his with silicon to obviate this.
They do a good job of keeping stones off the outriggers behind the wheel, so helping the surface coating stay in tact.

[pjac67]

'Scorcher' had some discreet (?!) stainless steel (?) ones on hbis old Griff - looked rather nice IMHO.

[Hoover.]

I think TVR Monster sell something along this line to.....

can't remember where I picked this info up from though

[LordGrover]

Chassis guard plates? clicky

Edited by LordGrover on Friday 15th August 09:07

[AntonyJ]

Here we go gents, as you can see they don't really do what the OP was asking, as in protect the lower arches or lower doors......
But you kind of get the idea..

They also offer far more protection than the chassis plates(sorry Grover) and as Baretti pointed out I am tight !!!!

Edited by AntonyJ on Friday 15th August 14:29

[Mickygee]

Cheers guys helps my outriggers, but I am also trying to stop my door bottoms getting blasted. Anyone bonded any mini mudflaps to the front arches ?

[scorcher]

As pjac67 pointed out I fabricated some flaps out of some 0.8mm polished stainless steel sheet for the front and rear as the paint chips behind both.I just made the shape I wanted from some plastic sheet and transferred it over to the stainless.I then drilled some pilot holes (on the flat part of the arch )filled with silicone,and used 3 or 4short self tappers ( about 10mm long )to screw into the fibreglass.I also used silicone between the flap and the fibrelass arch to seal that.When I sold the car it all came off,holes filled and a dab of paint over it and no-one was any wiser.Haven't got any piccies but there probably some on the Bristol TVRCC galleries .

[B.N.D.]

I've heard Carnoisseur's sell the stainless steel mud flaps. 08451301077.