If you have lowered your street car or have a car that you drive to the track for track day events it is likely that you’ve experienced the down side of getting your car closer to the ground. All of the sudden driveway ramps become a challenge to go up or down without removing paint and the bottom edge of your front lip. We all know that it helps to keep fast moving air from underneath your car and we see how the professional race series have altered their cars so that they barely miss touching the race track surface, but that does not translate well to the unforgiving aspects of the road surface we find on the street.
Even with a modest lowering of your car you can still discover that it results in damage. My 2006 Evo IX MR has gone from stock springs from Mitsubishi, to Swift Spec R springs which provide better performance and a lower stance without going crazy. But with public roads it is crazy enough that it has seen how quickly an even carefully navigated driveway ramp can leave scars.
While I don’t want to drive around looking like a jacked up SUV, I knew I could not continue to damage my body work. I had seen a product called SlipLo advertised, but frankly, it was an expensive solution. When I saw that they had a Black Friday sale that just about cut the price by 50% I was in.
I ordered a kit and then went through the directions (now how many of you do that?).
It came with the protective pieces and a chemical primer to ensure even more effective adhesion.
The next step was to get the car up in the air so I could work on the bottom of the front lip.
As directed I fitted each section ahead of time and made certain that it would be mounted so as to not block any mounting holes, screw, etc.
Then I marked the strip’s placement as directed and cut the strips shorter so that I only had as much no mount as I needed.
On one section There was a place where I needed to cut some of the tips off because the actual bumper cover’s lip was narrow and I had to accommodate where the under-tray connected to the bumper cover.
Once I knew placement and had trimmed the pieces that I was going to use I cleaned every surface that would be getting the strips with isopropyl alcohol, dried the area with a paper tower, and then used the adhesive promoter that came with the kit. I had to use nitrile gloves to protect my skin doing the last part.
Then I put the pieces in place.
I let everything cure and went out for a drive knowing that if I came to a situation that I was likely to scrape the lip, I would not be cringing because I now had to fix things.
I liked how this installation went and I expect I will feel much better the next time I have an unavoidable scrape.
