Skid plates on your front lip or bumper

axmea? · 04-13-2013, 09:47 PM

Made a 16 ga skid plate. Pain in the *** to mount it back because of the modded fender. Stock would definitely straight forward. Also cleaned my CAI filter. Now I feel good. The sound of scraping metal is better than FG.

scottIN · 04-14-2013, 05:10 AM

Something to think about...

If you catch that on something, it could fold under and rip your whole bumper off. It may seem stiff, but when you've got the weight of the car above it, it creates a lot of force. You want it so the leading edge could never hit anything.

On karts we run an aluminum floor pan. They're supposed to be mounted above the tabs on the frame. People get lazy and mount them under the tabs. First curb they catch, it grabs the front edge of the floor pan and rips it off.

axmea? · 04-14-2013, 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottIN

Something to think about...

If you catch that on something, it could fold under and rip your whole bumper off. It may seem stiff, but when you've got the weight of the car above it, it creates a lot of force. You want it so the leading edge could never hit anything.

On karts we run an aluminum floor pan. They're supposed to be mounted above the tabs on the frame. People get lazy and mount them under the tabs. First curb they catch, it grabs the front edge of the floor pan and rips it off.

It is a good point but it's just the same without it if you catch something. I just hate scraping it to the point where there's nothing left. FG/FRP simply thins quicker than poly-u.

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04-14-2013, 05:10 AM	#2 (permalink)
scottIN Track Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: New Castle, Indiana Posts: 764 Drives: '12 370Z Rep Power: 55	Something to think about... If you catch that on something, it could fold under and rip your whole bumper off. It may seem stiff, but when you've got the weight of the car above it, it creates a lot of force. You want it so the leading edge could never hit anything. On karts we run an aluminum floor pan. They're supposed to be mounted above the tabs on the frame. People get lazy and mount them under the tabs. First curb they catch, it grabs the front edge of the floor pan and rips it off.