Warning, get yourself a belly pan...
#16
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do you think that motorsports "protection plate" could have saved the day??
http://www.928motorsports.com/parts/chinplate.php
http://www.928motorsports.com/parts/chinplate.php
#18
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I have installed a 50mm by 5mm steel plate that bolts onto the frame by where the tie down eyes are & runs under my oil cooler. My from spoiler & aluminium belly pan bolt onto this plate. A little heavy but provides good protection for those low bits.
Cost me $20- to get made up at the local shop - cheap insurance.
Myles
Cost me $20- to get made up at the local shop - cheap insurance.
Myles
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Never thought about that. I bottomed the 81 out a while back on a bump by accident and my alternator is jacked again. Is that what hits if you bottom out the front of the car? I too have no belly pan.
#22
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A/C compressor is safe. Only hit on the left side. Scraped the oil filter a tiny bit, it was dripping very slow. Oil pan looks alright, no leaking (well, no more than before the accident, anyway). Everything else looks o.k.. But when the alternator broke off, and cracked apart, who knows what shorted out where. I've been under the car while the car is up on a lift, don't see anything else broken. But the electricals are fouled up. I went back there in the daylight; the road runs along side of Rt 21 in Passaic, looks like they've done multiple patch jobs over the years, but a couple of 'repaired' parts of the road are elevated, it looks like Ho Chi Min trail after a bad re-paving. No warning signs to indicate the condition of the road, though. It looks fine as you cross hope street intersection, no warning of what's to come. It's 'Madison Street', between hope and canal street, if any of you ever wind up in Passaic city in New Jersey and are following a GPS directions to get back to the highway after turning off to get food. That's what happened to me.
#23
A couple of years ago, Don Berry hit a pot hole on I-95 in the middle of Orlando. His alternator was toast, not sure what else. I think he ended up getting payment from someone, perhaps the DOT.
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If no one's said it yet might want to check the battery.
Think there's big power cable running from battery to alternator. Unfused power cable.
And people laugh at my Cayenne 195mm ish ride height.
Think there's big power cable running from battery to alternator. Unfused power cable.
And people laugh at my Cayenne 195mm ish ride height.