mudflaps - DIY'ed

[HeresMyMind]

well as much as I wanted actual rally armor mudflaps, they cost massive amounts of $ and they don't make them for my car. so I made some of my own. here are some teaser pics. I still have a special logo to paint on em

-B

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/05/29b0l0y-1.jpg

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/05/20f99if-1.jpg

[decke48]

nice. what you make them out of?

[HeresMyMind]

ikea choppign boards. flexible polyurethane made my dralla.

[ccampbell2546]

Dude! Those flaps are awesome! I really love the whole color scheme match. You don't really see many DIY flaps in colors, that's so cool.

[sqc151]

thats definitly a nice job... looks like u got them from a vendor.

[8baal]

nice mud flaps howd you cut a chopping board those things dont like to be cut :lol: but you got em from ikea

wrote up a DIY?

[8baal]

DIY? any more pics? :lol: im thinking of doing this to my car

[Plays_with_Toys]

Are the cutting boards more plastic or more of a rubber? Like how flexible are we talking here? It always bugged me that my flaps would scrape loudly in a turn.

[97legacyGT2.5]

Any Idea if IKEA had any other color choping boards?
there is and IKEA by me but it would be nice to know it they have any other colors, before i head out there?

Thanks

[97legacyGT2.5]

never mind, found them on the IKEA website. i will post the specs for anyone who wants them

Product dimensions
Length: 14 ½ " (34 cm)
Width: 11 ½ " (24 cm)


They are avalible in red or blackish green, they had a light like sky blue there as well

$2.50 EACH!!!!! EVEN CHEAPER THEN THE HOME DEPO GARBAGE CAN FLAPS!!!

[MarkSubi]

did your car come with stock ones?

[97legacyGT2.5]

found some properties on the material the cutting board is made of... perfect material for a mud flap I think


HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE
HPDE is more rigid and harder than lower density materials. It also has a higher tensile strength, four times that of low density polyethylene, and it is three times better in compressive strength. meets FDA requirements for direct food contact applications.

Features
Abrasion Resistant
Excellent abrasion resistant product preventing gouging, scuffing and scraping.

Exceptional Impact Strength
one of the highest impact resistant thermoplastics available Properties are maintained even at extremely low temperatures.

Chemical Resistant
has very good chemical resistance of corrosives as well as stress cracking resistance Water Resistant

Moisture and water (including saltwater) have no affect on it. It can be used in fresh and salt water immersion applications

[hallowpoint]

cuting boards from ikea? my mom has 4 and all different colors.....maybe they might go missing and ill have crazy flaps soon!!!

[Airgne]

when i get the ones B made fore me i will post pics of how they look on the BE5 chasis.

[GTDrifter]

im taking plastics in college...ive worked with both high density and low density polythylene
low density is kind of rubbery but high density is pretty sturdy...i have some right next to me and it only bends about 15 degrees

[97legacyGT2.5]

Went to IKEA yesterday and got some chop boards. got some flaps made up already :lol:

here they are..
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/08/0828091957_0001-1.jpg

Its dark out now, so i will get some pics of them on the car tomorrow!!!

[Red Baron]

Dude, I've got to do this...

[97legacyGT2.5]

I found some dimensions i belive they were for the STI RallyArmor flaps. i changed them slightly

Fronts
HL 13" HR 7"
WT 3" WB 9"

Rears
HL 14.5" HR 8.75"
WT 4" WB 10"

HL=height left
HR=height right
WT=width top
WB=width bottom

The curve in the flap was basicly free hand making the top and right side meet
These are just the dimensions for the right (passengers) side once you have one flip it over on another sheet, trace it out, cut it out, and there you go flaps made

(i had extra pices of the chopping board and used them to mess round and make templates. Ex. figure out the bolt holes and that stuff) I still have the templates.

let me know what you think

[97legacyGT2.5]

Got the pics of them on the car, few of em are from earlier this morning before i had the corners cut, i cut the top corners off and took some more pics, here they are!!

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/08/downsized_0829091032-1.jpg
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/08/downsized_0829091032a-1.jpg
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/08/downsized_0829091033-1.jpg
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/08/downsized_0829091437-1.jpg
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/08/downsized_0829091438a-1.jpg

let me know why you think of the flaps!!

[Airgne]

look awsome!!

[1-3-2-4]

I picked up the boards today very very cheap took awhile to find them.. not in the kitchen section but in the low priced section.. Seems like hot Russian women like to shop at the store too :grin:

[Legacy89]

So now you guys got some Scandinavian parts on your cars:P :lol:

[1-3-2-4]

So now you guys got some Scandinavian parts on your cars:P :lol:


lol the boards say Made in China but I get what you mean :P

lol it was my first time in Ikea.. it's like walking in a friken maze... they did have some interesting house items... It's just so out of the way almost 100 miles RT today

[Huffer]

You drove 100 miles for some cutting boards? You could have gone to a plastic manufacturing company and gotten the same items...

:lol:

[1-3-2-4]

Here is the ones I cut.. I used the sizes that 97legacyGT2.5 gave

I don't think I cut the curve deep enough for the rears.. I'd have to check in the morning.

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7460/pict0054x.jpg

[1-3-2-4]

You drove 100 miles for some cutting boards? You could have gone to a plastic manufacturing company and gotten the same items...

:lol:

lol only one Ikea store in CT besides I had to get gas and I needed to rack up some miles on the car to recalculate my MPG

[97legacyGT2.5]

shit, i guess thats true dedication... lol :lol:
incase you didnt know ikea also has an online store...you can buy stuff on there and they will ship it to you... i guess its a little late for that now...lol
with the money you spent on gas you could have just ordered the actual rallyarmors... lol :smt005

[1-3-2-4]

shit, i guess thats true dedication... lol :lol:
incase you didnt know ikea also has an online store...you can buy stuff on there and they will ship it to you... i guess its a little late for that now...lol
with the money you spent on gas you could have just ordered the actual rallyarmors... lol :smt005

lol they want $129 for some flaps...

anyways I gotta go up to RI anyways on Friday and back up to New Haven on Saturday lol I'd have to pass the store anyways again. I hate when people want you to go someplace and just because it's in CT does not mean it's going to be just a 5 min drive...

[Huffer]

IKEA shipping is a rip off... when I visit IKEA I take a van and I come back with an entire room of stuff. ;)

You guys really should have just bought $10 truck flaps... I'll be installing mine in a couple of weeks.

[1-3-2-4]

IKEA shipping is a rip off... when I visit IKEA I take a van and I come back with an entire room of stuff. ;)

You guys really should have just bought $10 truck flaps... I'll be installing mine in a couple of weeks.


hey I like custom stuff :)

the store did have some pretty decent stuff however like a true guy I just went in to find my stuff and left so I never got to look at the other stuff.

painting the boards now with flat black paint with texture :twisted:

Quick mount up it wont stick out that far

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/1241/pict0005o.jpg

[97legacyGT2.5]

are you taking the old stock flaps off... my car never had any... lol so i didnt have to take anything off...

[1-3-2-4]

yeah I took the old flaps off I was just testing t see if I cut them well enough..

Anyways all flaps are on and like always one bolt snapped lol and about three did not want to come out and one of them I had to cut off with a dremel..

Looks pretty good should hold well at 80 Mph I spray painted all of them flat black with 2 coats.

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/09/DSCF00521-1.jpg

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/09/DSCF00511-1.jpg

[97legacyGT2.5]

so you spray painted over the ikea cutting boards?!?

[1-3-2-4]

so you spray painted over the ikea cutting boards?!?


Yes because I don't like the transparent look that came with the boards

it's not like we are going to take them off the car and chop something up on them...

[MarkSubi]

Just went on the IKEA website :)

lol saw them. the Bendable chopping bored s haha


shit I guess on going to IKEA on Thursday.

I'm in Houston TX btw.

[97legacyGT2.5]

no i was quesioning the spray paint cus i didnt think the paint would adhear to the glossy surface...
i didnt paint mine... but mine are the darker of the two... it actualy almost matches the lower trim around my GT and looks really good...

[MarkSubi]

hey what did you use the cut them?

[1-3-2-4]

hey what did you use the cut them?


I used Cutco scissors

[scubydu]

1324- looks good, but pretty low. Get ready to scraaaaaaaaaape on EVERY corner. mine are a lot higher than that and scrape on hard corners or steep driveway curbs, but I can live with it for the looks/protection I get.

[HeresMyMind]

figured i'd chime in since i posted it, and realized the thread blew up. For mine / Brandon's I borrowed a friends rally armor and traced a template. I then used a heat gun to lightly heat up the mudflap material. used a metal straight edge and a new razor to cut through it nice and smoothly. the rounded corners i cut to the best I could then used sandpaper to make sure they were smooth.

-B

[1-3-2-4]

1324- looks good, but pretty low. Get ready to scraaaaaaaaaape on EVERY corner. mine are a lot higher than that and scrape on hard corners or steep driveway curbs, but I can live with it for the looks/protection I get.

lol the stock flaps would scrap period I'm still on the struts that came with the car 209K later...

I haven't heard any scraps other then leaving the driveway (who cares) but I have not done any hard cornering yet.

[MarkSubi]

oh yeah another thing I wanted to ask was how did you install them.

[HeresMyMind]

the OLD screws were shot. so I used self tapping sheet metal screws with washers

-B

[MarkSubi]

how long are the bolts or how long are the ones that you used.

[1-3-2-4]

I used M6 bolts I forgot the length I thing I still have an extra bag left over.

mud flaps are working out good.. going up to R.I. and stopping for gas i checked them out a good amount of road crap on them along with a little road kill haha reason had to check them out too :smt023

[1-3-2-4]

1324- looks good, but pretty low. Get ready to scraaaaaaaaaape on EVERY corner. mine are a lot higher than that and scrape on hard corners or steep driveway curbs, but I can live with it for the looks/protection I get.


Thanks and so on my way back home I thought about this post and one of the ramps were pretty tight so I turned as much as I could before the tires started to howl and I did not hear any scraping.. so I might of got them just right.. I will see...

[Malne]

Just to double check, you guys are talking about the DRÄLLA Bendable chopping board $1.99 / 2 pack http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90131935 correct? They apparently don't have Ikea's here in Colorado and it's not available online so I'm going to have to get my mother to ship me some and I want to make sure she grabs the right ones. At least she won't mind, she loves that place.

[1-3-2-4]

Just to double check, you guys are talking about the DRÄLLA Bendable chopping board $1.99 / 2 pack http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90131935 correct? They apparently don't have Ikea's here in Colorado and it's not available online so I'm going to have to get my mother to ship me some and I want to make sure she grabs the right ones. At least she won't mind, she loves that place.


yes that's the one

[1-3-2-4]

working out well..

Front

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/10/IMAGE_00269-1.jpg

Rear

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/10/IMAGE_00270-1.jpg

[JLav211]

I just wish I could get my stock ones off. F*cking a.

[Airgne]

^yours had stock? you might have to take off your wheels.

[JLav211]

Took off the wheels. Wrestled with the car till it started to shake on the jack stands. Went inside and drank heavily.

[Airgne]

Took off the wheels. Wrestled with the car till it started to shake on the jack stands. Went inside and drank heavily.

haha nice.

should have only been 3 screws max. take a pics.

[1-3-2-4]

I had a hard time with mine.. I had to cut some of the screws off because they rusted so bad.

Some just snapped off too

[97legacyGT2.5]

Just wondering if any one has had any problems with the IKEA flaps?
sofar mine have been holding up wonderfuly. i get a lot less spray from the salt on the side of my car.
even with these freezing tempatures i am suprised they have held up as well as they have.

[1-3-2-4]

no.. when cold they get stiff but nothing wrong with them.. I did I think break the bolt or the metal rusted on my car when I hit a snow bank for fun it was only about 4 inches high but I heard the front flaps hit it but I need to get a replacement nut.

[97legacyGT2.5]

awesome. these cheap IKEA flaps are turning out to be pretty good... (for the price anyways) :smt023

anyone else with these let us know how their holding up through the winter months.

[subyfreak619]

freakin sweet. ive seen an old thread somewhere with a pic of the template. gonna have to get to an ikea somtime soon. (mom ya need any thing)

[Reason]

Not a fan of large goofy mudflaps....

[anothernord]

Not a fan of large goofy mudflaps....

I wasn't either, until I saw how clean they keep my car.

[1-3-2-4]

^ Agree too always hated how the stock flaps or no flaps would cake up the road crap or fling it on the car..

I learned the hard way going down a newly paved street tar was a bitch to try and get off.

[MRLancaster]

So how flemsy are they? Im affraid they will shatter. are they like rubber? or what

[1-3-2-4]

chatter or do you mean shatter? it's a flexable board.. I posted a video of it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rthb6HiZGio

[HeresMyMind]

they will bend even easier than that video. the video has a unwrapped pack of 2. singles are more flexible. for 8$ these are by far the best mudflap rally style. they are made of non-stick cutting board material so ice mud and shit rinses right off.

-B

[1-3-2-4]

yes those where unopened.

they won't break trust me.. they are very flexible and I've driven with them when it's 20F out.

[HeresMyMind]

I use mine up in VT in single digits for ski trips. still good

-B

[1-3-2-4]

I've hit plowed snow banks and it's still good.

closest ikea is 250 mi away... im not as motivated as 1-2-3-4 so if anyone wants to pick me up some... lol

[HeresMyMind]

I live 45 minutes from one , I can buy you the 4 for 8$ cut them, and ship them to you if you make it worth my while :-D

-B