Waynegs3

if you are like me... the 928 oil change is a time consuming job, considering the time it takes to change the oil in my tundra .
So....
I cut up the belly pan, and made a little window that bolts on and off, which make the oil changing much much easier and way faster!!! Took a few hours of cave time, but future changes will save up the time .
I ended up cutting about a foot square under the correct location and made little tabs that allow me to bolt and unbolt my little access window. See pictures. Pretty cool eh?

jthwan22

Belly pan is like unicorn. Mystical creature that I have never seen and only heard.

Waynegs3

LOL, its the unicorn, or possibly a big Snuffaluffagus because people took them off to change the oil, then because its such a pain to bolt back up... most people probably say...
"Ah yeah, ill just set this over here in the corner, because I'm gonna be replacing that widget here in a week or two and ill put it back on then". Then one week turns to a month, then two, them they sell the car, only to find out 4 months later, that the belly pan was sitting in the corner under the lawn fertilizer. But hey,, they didn't want to deal with the hassle on putting it back on anyways!

Randy V

Very clever!

Why not install a hinge on one end so that the piece just swings down?

Waynegs3

Thought about that, but the cooling scoop did not have enough clearance to swing up... only way to get it to fit and drop was directly up and down.

Leon Speed

Nice idea, I guess you change your oil often ?

Whitesands

Good job, thanks for posting, I wiil do that just as soon as I get a belly pan.

928Myles

BTDT when I made my own aluminium belly pan a few years ago. Does speed up the process but most valuable to those who hate haveing to undo lots of things to get to what they are after (like most things on our cars).

Myles

smyth1

lol.yes i just took my pan off and set it to the side.was going to fabricate a new one from metal when i get everything done under there being that the plastic one is beat up and was held on with tiewraps.possible either may not make it back on there,lol

Rob Edwards

Cool! Any chance you could post the dimensions of the cutout panel and the distance of the cut lines from the front and rear of the pan? I would love to replicate this. (4 years and counting with never a belly pan on either car, but I have two aluminum ones to install..... )

the flyin' scotsman

what Rob said pls

blitz928

Same here, never had the opportunity to have one still attached to any 928 I have purchased.

Waynegs3

The measurements are...
Measuring from the front of the pan, 11" on the front most cut, 20 1/2" on the rear most cut. then I cut 10 1/2"' into the pan.
I used 1/2" aluminum angle to reinforce the edge.
I used 4 steel tabs to bolt underneath and used 4 clips to bolt into.
To affix the tabs, I used 3/8 rivets.

9x8

Sooo lazy.

AO

Super idea. Belly pan has been sitting in the basement for 3+ years. I will do this mod.