[Z06] How Do Corvettes Look With Spash Guards???
06-11-2008, 05:43 PM
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Mine had splash guards when I bought it. But since lowering the car, the front ones used to scrape alot, so I removed them and only have the back ones now.
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06-11-2008, 10:39 PM
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06-11-2008, 11:11 PM
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St. Jude Donor '09-'10-'11
But! I'm really thinking about putting them on my vette. Unfortunately, I live on a dirt road. 
The shortest route to pavement is 1.4 miles. I travel this a about 15 mph just to keep the dust/dirt down as much as possible. So, it is a case of least evil. The worst is being someplace and have it rain before I can get back to the house. I have left my vette at friends homes when things have really gotten bad.
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06-12-2008, 02:26 AM
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I'm shaving down the C6 Z06 rear guards so they are a small lip and adding them to my C5 Z06 and painting them to match as well before I install. When they are on you barely notice them but have a huge improvement on stone chips. When I get it done in a few weeks I'll post some pics.
06-13-2008, 03:43 AM
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No mud flaps , but.........
Mud flaps? No my dad had mud flaps. Corvettes have Splash guards. And some say that sports cars should not have splash guards? But they can have ever other add on that Mid America or Eckler's have in their catalog? Who writes theses rules , cause I been around pushing 60 years and I never got that memo yet.
You can put on mud flaps , to me it's ok if they don't attact attention. Like my brother -in-law's '67 Chevelle that was jacked up in the *** end ( Gabriel air shocks) to get the 15x10 rims under the car back in 1975. He had what looked like mud flaps off a Kenworth stuck behind those tires, now that was classy my friend!! Let's not go back , ok.
You can put on mud flaps , to me it's ok if they don't attact attention. Like my brother -in-law's '67 Chevelle that was jacked up in the *** end ( Gabriel air shocks) to get the 15x10 rims under the car back in 1975. He had what looked like mud flaps off a Kenworth stuck behind those tires, now that was classy my friend!! Let's not go back , ok.
06-13-2008, 06:16 AM
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Great Post!
Diesel Dave,
I enjoyed your post! I missed that memo too... I guess the violation of a Corvette with “Splash Guards” is far less then some of the hideous “ground effect” after market packages I've seen.
By the way, I had a 1965 Dodge Cornet 500 that the back end was jacked to fit the street slicks on back in 1970. I was 17 years old with a car that would do 11.23 sec in a quarter mile.
My need for speed started pretty young back then, and very few rules as to what had to be on the car to be legal.
Eric D
I enjoyed your post! I missed that memo too... I guess the violation of a Corvette with “Splash Guards” is far less then some of the hideous “ground effect” after market packages I've seen.
By the way, I had a 1965 Dodge Cornet 500 that the back end was jacked to fit the street slicks on back in 1970. I was 17 years old with a car that would do 11.23 sec in a quarter mile.
My need for speed started pretty young back then, and very few rules as to what had to be on the car to be legal. Eric D
06-13-2008, 03:58 PM
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Eric:
I too live on a gravel/dirt road - .5 miles to pavement plus a couple hundred yards of clean lime stone driveway. I travel at 8 mph, pull over on the pavement and cal dust bust. I ride my bikes in the sun and Vette when it rains (but we all know it never rains in CA) - I've been thinking about splash guards for my situation.
I too live on a gravel/dirt road - .5 miles to pavement plus a couple hundred yards of clean lime stone driveway. I travel at 8 mph, pull over on the pavement and cal dust bust. I ride my bikes in the sun and Vette when it rains (but we all know it never rains in CA) - I've been thinking about splash guards for my situation.
sexy at all. I vote for no splash guards.
06-14-2008, 03:10 AM
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Drifting
Different stylesssss...............
Guys there are what , three (3) different styles of , I'm just gonna call them mud flaps ( splash guards too prissy for me to say. I feel like I have to keep the little finger up and extended).
Ok mud flaps ,(1) ya got your basic flat flap ( black plastic, neoprene, card board, milk jug material).(#2) You have the Altec Spalsh Guard molded types . They are paintable, hard injected molded plastic . But they protrude out and look like they are tacked on. (3) Then you have your C6Z06 style. Now here you can go with DeeGee and modify OEM C6 Z06 rears or go with the CHA CHING Apsis C6 style that fits the C5.http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...=splash+guards
Now personally I don't know if I want to put any on my Z06 so I;m going to modify the #2 choice Altec Splash guards. I bet I can shape them so that lip that sticks out at the top is much more obtrusive. They don't have to jut out like they do . The Apsis flow in to wheel well.
So for $60 ( I bought a new full front ,rear set on the forum ) I don't mind trying something before laying out for dollars for the Apsis mud flaps.
In a perfect world I would not have mud flaps, but I also traverse .25 mile of a gravel road before asphalt (I have 9,000 sq ft of asphalt on my property, but its that darn in between section that is the problem).
Ok mud flaps ,(1) ya got your basic flat flap ( black plastic, neoprene, card board, milk jug material).(#2) You have the Altec Spalsh Guard molded types . They are paintable, hard injected molded plastic . But they protrude out and look like they are tacked on. (3) Then you have your C6Z06 style. Now here you can go with DeeGee and modify OEM C6 Z06 rears or go with the CHA CHING Apsis C6 style that fits the C5.http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...=splash+guards
Now personally I don't know if I want to put any on my Z06 so I;m going to modify the #2 choice Altec Splash guards. I bet I can shape them so that lip that sticks out at the top is much more obtrusive. They don't have to jut out like they do . The Apsis flow in to wheel well.
So for $60 ( I bought a new full front ,rear set on the forum ) I don't mind trying something before laying out for dollars for the Apsis mud flaps.
In a perfect world I would not have mud flaps, but I also traverse .25 mile of a gravel road before asphalt (I have 9,000 sq ft of asphalt on my property, but its that darn in between section that is the problem).
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