AAR strobe stripe install

[Aar1064]

Ok I have stripe kit in hand and plan on installing soon. I've looked and studied the engineer drawing posted here and wanted to post my interpretation to see if I'm missing anything.

Upper left box has the dimensions of where to place the tops of the stripes vertically and I'm guessing that the factory vinyl carrier paper had the reference marks (-35, -25, -15, and so on) printed on them and stripe kits we get today don't. With that theory I laid out the stripes and used a tape measure to check this assumption and it's pretty close. Though I really don't understand why they used a negative number. Why not start at zero and go from there.

I really just need six starting points. Two for each stripe. For example, Front/Back for fender stripe, Front/Back for Door stripe, and Front/Back for quarter stripe.

I'm also assuming I should start with door stripe. Because nothing is mentioned about where to start horizontally. Does anyone agree?

Hope all of this makes sense.

[anlauto]

I would not stress about all those numbers, I'm sure the factory never did. I would get the door stripe level to the midline at the correct distance from the belt line and just go from there.
On an AAR the most often ones people screw up are the fenders...you need to keep a nice equal distance from the top of the stripe to the top of the fender all along, same with the quarter stripe....

[6bblgt]

the dimension numbers on the drawings are not something that you can measure, use them for reference ONLY - the cutout for the door handle will force the vertical placement

it's been discussed, but don't know if a solid consensus was reached, but I believe the 0 point is the parting line for engine transmission: + numbers to the front & - to the rear

start with the door, make sure the same width segments line up over the gap going to the front and rear, you don't want an overly wide/skinny segment because it's two pieces

[Aar1064]

I would not stress about all those numbers, I'm sure the factory never did. I would get the door stripe level to the midline at the correct distance from the belt line and just go from there.
On an AAR the most often ones people screw up are the fenders...you need to keep a nice equal distance from the top of the stripe to the top of the fender all along, same with the quarter stripe....

Thanks. So center the door handle cutouts on vinyl to door handle then work forward and backwards from there.

So you're saying that the distance between vinyl and top of fender should be the same at rear of fender to front of fender. well at least until it starts to fall down on the utmost front point.

[anlauto]

YES

[Aar1064]

the dimension numbers on the drawings are not something that you can measure, use them for reference ONLY - the cutout for the door handle will force the vertical placement

it's been discussed, but don't know if a solid consensus was reached, but I believe the 0 point is the parting line for engine transmission: + numbers to the front & - to the rear

start with the door, make sure the same width segments line up over the gap going to the front and rear, you don't want an overly wide/skinny segment because it's two pieces

Sounds like a plan..........Thanks!