civicseth

Ok, today I decided to fit my EK side skirts to my 1994 Civic Sedan/ferio. I still need to finish sanding them and get them painted, so I figured it would be best to get them fitted before paint.

Start out by removing your factory side skirts. There are screw snaps in the bottom of the skirts, about 8 of them. There is also a screw in the front fender well holding the inner fender lining to the skirt. After those are all removed, you slide the side skirt toward the front of the car to slide the skirt from it's clips.

Start by removing all of the clips from the side of the car by twisting them 45degrees from their current position and pull out.

Now grab your EK side skirt. On the sedan, the front clip lines up, so put that clip into the side skirt first:



With it snapped into it's proper hole you can begin lining out the rest of the clips you want to add.

Place the next clip you want in the side skirt and with the front clip snapped in place, put the clip against the car where it should snap in, and rub it up and down a little to get a mark where it would be:



Here is the mark:



Mark it with a sharpie so the mark won't rub off:



Now you need the proper size of the square hole you need to make. I simply measured one of the existing holes. Turns out it is 12mm x 12mm in size.



Then begin lining up the top of the hole you are going to drill with the existing holes to make sure the skirt is at it's proper height. Mark the boundaries of the square with a sharpie again.



Rough out a square to get an idea of what you will be making.



After that, take a smaller drill bit, and drill out a pilot hole for the larger drill bit to grab to. This makes it easier to line up. You can see that I didn't get it perfect, but it still works.




You are then going to want a square or triangular file to get the hole as it should be.



Take the file and file down the hole to the boundaries you previously marked:



Put the clip in 45 degrees from being lined up and test the fitment of the clip to make sure it goes in easily. If not, file down a little more on each side until it goes in easy.



Now twist the clip in this position, as it's the position you want it. If it won't twist, you may need to remove the little paper gasket, or take your file and file down the edges of the hole because there might be some metal keeping it from twisting.




Continue on until you get to the end, or as many clips you think is enough. To put the side skirt on, remove all of the clips from the side of the car, and slide them in place on the side skirt. Then take the skirt and line each clip up with the new holes you drilled and snap them all in.



You can then drill out some holes on the bottom of the side skirt to get the plastic screw clips to go in, but I didn't bother with that just yet.

As you can see in the pics below, the front sticks out some, so I am going to take some washers and place them under the front fender lower bolt to get it to come out and match the contours of the side skirt. Also, you can see that the coupes and sedans do not require any cutting of the side skirts, but the hatches do.


Here is how they look on the car:







If you get them from a coupe or hatchback, then you are left with this in your rear door jamb. Nothing too major, but some people might be picky. I'm not sure what I am going to do to remedy this yet. I am thinking about getting some plastic painted to match and insert there.




Modified by civicseth at 3:09 AM 5/28/2006

BlueIntegraBoy

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Good writeup. Looks good.

civicseth

Hopefully this will help some people out.

jdm_bones

iTrader: (5)

Will this work on an EG hatchie...or will the EK sideskirts be to long?

ch4nq

will this fit on a dc2 also?? they have the same skirts as eg's too.

AfricanBush

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by civicseth &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Hopefully this will help some people out.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yep i just bookmarked this so i can check it out when i get my new side skirts.

si0385.

you got any pics from a lil farther away... looks good from what i can see

93civic_sedan

Nice work Seth!

EvilPinkEye

stick this bitch in the sticky
good ****

Jay.D.Em!

civicseth

All I know is what I did. I don't know about any other car, but I do know it will work on the hatches, but you have to cut some off the length.

MARDC5R

looking to do this on my hatch....just assuming that the cut will be made in the front of the side skirt huh?? nice write up...horray pictures!!!!

Paxil4x4

I might add touching up the area with some paint before the honda rot sets in.

leave the old clip in the left over hole to seal out water

civicseth

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by packthis &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I might add touching up the area with some paint before the honda rot sets in.

leave the old clip in the left over hole to seal out water</TD></TR></TABLE>Yeah, I guess that's a good point. I will probably try to silicone the old holes, and spray some paint over the new ones to keep things lasting as long as possible.

phresh_5

All I did to fix how the front of the skirt sticks out a bit was use some force. Just push the side skirt into the fender and screw in a couple long screws into the stock holes. There won't be any holes that line up on the ek sides but just force it in there and it stays put

Targa250R

That's going to rust.

90civichb

bleh.. nice job.. i hate the gap, i would have to figure that part out too...

Edit: I have a coupe, I might not be able to see that gap.... whatever..

Nice job

civicseth

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Targa250R &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">That's going to rust.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Thanks for the input. I wouldn't know what to do without it.

Coldth1

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Targa250R &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">That's going to rust.</TD></TR></TABLE> So Paint around it and anywhere metal is and u shouldn't have a problem

civicseth

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Coldth1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> So Paint around it and anywhere metal is and u shouldn't have a problem</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah, before I put them on I am going to make sure all of the bare metal is covered.

tianporn

Did you use EK sedan or hatch skirts?

Any side on pics from a distance?

Coldth1

civicseth

I will get some pics once I get them painted.

These were off of a coupe; hence this gap:

kraven9

Nice write up seth . How come you didn't try the sedan skirts first? Maybe it would have lined up better, perhaps... I'll probably try that one and post it up.

si0385.

i wanna see pics of the whole car... i cant see the side skirts that good