Jacking up your Blackwing

[xnifex]

Have had numerous cars with pinch welds to lift by and zero issue for me. I’ve used the universal ZL1 with floor pad adapter with zero issues on various cars over the years. (13 Explorer, 14 Mustang, 16 Z06, 17 Camaro ZL1 vert, 22 5BW)

I finally bought and installed these ZL1 pads on my 22 5BW. Didn’t have to cut anything and no issue with carbon skirts or even the original black plastic skirts. I use them to jack up the car and place the wheels on Race Ramp 10” cradles when I want a level car for rear end oil change. For normal oil changes, I drive up on Race Ramps.
As previously mentioned, take your time when jacking. I use two floor jacks, one in each side, lift the front first, then the rear and jack up a little at a time as evenly as possible until I can slide my cradles under the tire.

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Were the lift pads all the way up against the bottom of the car? Or just enough to hold in place?

 

[xnifex]

I tried to install the lift pads on my 5bw & it seems they do hit that plastic part from the rocker on both sides & makes it flex.

 

[KatyTxCT5V]

We're the lift pads all the way up against the bottom of the car? Or just enough to hold in place?

They were pushed up until they made contact with the pinch weld seam hanging down vertical. I’m not by my car, but memory is that a couple touched slightly until the pinch weld seam made contact.
The black inner plastic of the side skirt will flex inward slightly until it touches the metal underneath. The skirts are made up of 3 pieces and the black plastic is the far inner piece that the other two (painted rocker & either carbon fiber or black painted skirt attach to.

I’ve attached a couple of pictures (rearward one first pic and forward on second pic areas) and used a red triangle to highlight the black plastic area the pad would touch. It’s a flexible area and I’ve had zero issues thus far and have lifted by the pad 6 different times.

The entire skirt/rocker assembly is held on tight by many different clips and that small black plastic area can flex with no issues. I believe people tend to over think it, IMO. I’ve removed the original entire assembly to replace the black painted skirts with carbon fiber ones. I posted a complete write up on adding OEM carbon fiber CF1 & CF2 factory option to my non-optioned 5BW. That’s why I have these pictures to share.

Good luck with whatever you choose. They work for me and I’m happy.

 

[xnifex]

They were pushed up until they made contact with the pinch weld seam hanging down vertical. I’m not by my car, but memory is that a couple touched slightly until the pinch weld seam made contact.
The black inner plastic of the side skirt will flex inward slightly until it touches the metal underneath. The skirts are made up of 3 pieces and the black plastic is the far inner piece that the other two (painted rocker & either carbon fiber or black painted skirt attach to.

I’ve attached a couple of pictures (rearward one first pic and forward on second pic areas) and used a red triangle to highlight the black plastic area the pad would touch. It’s a flexible area and I’ve had zero issues thus far and have lifted by the pad 6 different times.

The entire skirt/rocker assembly is held on tight by many different clips and that small black plastic area can flex with no issues. I believe people tend to over think it, IMO. I’ve removed the original entire assembly to replace the black painted skirts with carbon fiber ones. I posted a complete write up on adding OEM carbon fiber CF1 & CF2 factory option to my non-optioned 5BW. That’s why I have these pictures to share.

Good luck with whatever you choose. They work for me and I’m happy.

You are awesome! I'm going to try again tomorrow when it's light out. I was hoping for a spot to jack up the car that's in the middle so i can see better & get them on.

 

[huemangos]

They were pushed up until they made contact with the pinch weld seam hanging down vertical. I’m not by my car, but memory is that a couple touched slightly until the pinch weld seam made contact.
The black inner plastic of the side skirt will flex inward slightly until it touches the metal underneath. The skirts are made up of 3 pieces and the black plastic is the far inner piece that the other two (painted rocker & either carbon fiber or black painted skirt attach to.

I’ve attached a couple of pictures (rearward one first pic and forward on second pic areas) and used a red triangle to highlight the black plastic area the pad would touch. It’s a flexible area and I’ve had zero issues thus far and have lifted by the pad 6 different times.

The entire skirt/rocker assembly is held on tight by many different clips and that small black plastic area can flex with no issues. I believe people tend to over think it, IMO. I’ve removed the original entire assembly to replace the black painted skirts with carbon fiber ones. I posted a complete write up on adding OEM carbon fiber CF1 & CF2 factory option to my non-optioned 5BW. That’s why I have these pictures to share.

Good luck with whatever you choose. They work for me and I’m happy.

Completely semi unrelated but good to know because I've got the CF side skirts to install this weekend and i already mounted the jack pads. I bet I'd forget those were on there while trying to pry the rockers off.