Most excellent. I have rethought the fender idea and am seriously considering getting a steel fender and mounting it to the trunk deck from the bottom. That gets it as high as it needs to be and when removing the deck to get to the rear wheel, brake, belt, whatever, it is automatically removed for access, which is the reason the rear deck came off in the first place!
As for covering the seat belt alleyway, I have since found that it has greatly reduced the bevel box whine since it was a straight shot to the ears from there. An added bonus. The interior is much cleaner already after a nice morning run.
