Custom Made Skid plates for sale.

[ejnight]

[quote=///M42 sport;1917366]Hey if you can made the brace like this that would be spectacular

Supposed to be a bolt on w/o mods to the chassis...I know that would be a step up from the other one that requires welding. made by hartge I think.

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Very interesting.

[sticksdaman]

Ooh ooh I want in on this.

Peerless isn't trash talking. It's like a pepsi commercial where ppl go "mmm pepsi tastes better than coke". Or those ATT commercials where they poke at verizon and vice versa.

The difference is verizon doesnt walk into an ATT store and try and sell their products. If peerless made an ad bashing EJ's plates, then that would be perfectly fine, but to come into a thread that was created solely to advertise and SELL EJ's plates and sling shit is just a shitty thing to do.

You can't really argue that the severe duty skid plate is beefier.
I don't get what you guys have your panties in a bunch for. The "race skid plate" is weaker than the "Severe duty skid plate". If you argue that, you aren't too bright.

I dont think anyone is arguing that point, they're simply stating that EJ's plate is sturdy enough to handle driving under most circumstances. In BOTH major cases the owner admits that the plate was damaged significantly prior to their "accident". That to me in no way is a reflection of the quality and the ability of the plate to protect the pan from becoming damaged.

[der affe]

will you still be able to add your chassis X brace to either skidplate?

[ejnight]

will you still be able to add your chassis x brace to either skidplate?

yes:)

[e30-RTN]

What kind of force are these plates made to take? If i slip off the clutch into a parking block will it hold?

[ejnight]

What kind of force are these plates made to take? If i slip off the clutch into a parking block will it hold?

It will hold. I did that test with my 318is. It was stock with no lip, so I drove right in to it. The plate was scraped, but it was not bent and sitting on the block was still 1/4 of and inch away from the pan.

[shiboujin]

Eh yea peerless kinda shat on the thread. Whatevs. capitalism ftw.

[Fidhle007]

Sure, the peerless plate may be a modicum stronger but it requires bodywork to install. As for comparing a skid plate to a soda can, really? Aluminum v. Steel, dumbass, go learn something about metallurgy before you run your mouth off.

Removing a plate and straightening it if need be should be perfectly acceptable because chances are you fucked up more then your skid plate if you bottomed out hard enough to bend it. It's not like it's made of soda cans... You should be worried about fuel and brake lines, your transmission, your exhaust, and anything else on the bottom of your car. If you don't care enough check your car out after such a hard hit, why bother running the skid plate in the first place? Just buy an SUV like all the other fags that can't drive.

Mucci, seriously, when was the last time you replaced your motor mounts?

[m3clutch]

Mucci, seriously, when was the last time you replaced your motor mounts?

pardon my ignorance, i'm curious, what does the motor mounts have to do specifically with impact and all that jazz with the plate/pan?

[Fidhle007]

Worn/broken motor mounts will make the engine to sit much lower then it's supposed to and will also allow it to bounce on a hard enough hit. Both of these will seriously compromise the integrity of the oil pan and make the skidplate essentially useless.

[stumble_t]

This is an excellent point and should be copy and pasted as a disclaimer to all "skidplates"

[Fidhle007]

As a matter of fact, I'd be willing to bet that the first guy with broken motor mounts to bounce off a peerless plate breaks his shit too...

[ck_taft325is]

As a matter of fact, I'd be willing to bet that the first guy with broken motor mounts to bounce off a peerless plate breaks his shit too...

Stumble_T... get testing.

[stumble_t]

I'd love too but seeing as you don't actually make a plate; your comments are moot.

[shiboujin]

Sure, the peerless plate may be a modicum stronger but it requires bodywork to install. As for comparing a skid plate to a soda can, really? Aluminum v. Steel, dumbass, go learn something about metallurgy before you run your mouth off.

Removing a plate and straightening it if need be should be perfectly acceptable because chances are you fucked up more then your skid plate if you bottomed out hard enough to bend it. It's not like it's made of soda cans... You should be worried about fuel and brake lines, your transmission, your exhaust, and anything else on the bottom of your car. If you don't care enough check your car out after such a hard hit, why bother running the skid plate in the first place? Just buy an SUV like all the other fags that can't drive.

Modicum stronger? Using big words today aren't we? It's a fuck load stronger. Thats why rally cars use tubes to strengthen their skid plates. Not to mention it hooks into your frame (that really strong part of your car).

Oh no! It requires $30 at your local exhaust shop to install and takes 30 minutes! Or you have to buy a friend with a welder some tacos to do it.

Metallurgy! Yay more big words. Steel weakens as it's bent too smart guy. Think of it like this. Ever been in a car accident and straightened a panel? If you hit that same panel again, it will be much more likely to bend in the exact same way but with much less force.

Fuck yes you should bend that shit back out if it's touching the oil pan. Your skid plate will never be the same tho. You have to admit that seeing other people's skid plates fail for their exact intended purpose shakes your confidence in a product (*cough* toyota). IE "your car accelerates when the floor mat gets caught under it? Well make sure that shit isn't near the pedal! If you're not going to check your floor mats, why bother having a floor mat to begin with?!"

Yea you say "I'm willing to bet the broken oil pans are a result of dead mounts". But it's all supposition at this point. Maybe the mounts broke as a result of the oil pan getting hit so hard it ripped the mounts out. You'll never know and you'll argue that "the motor mounts were probably bad". Then you feel all happy and justified.

The only way someone with blown motor mounts would crack their oil pan with a severe duty skid plate is if the oil pan was resting on the skid plate to begin with OR the hit was so hard it bent the frame up that much. That is the inherent design in the plate.



Fidhle, you just have a rod up your ass about peerless. Way to be 12.

EJ needs to update his design to compete or market accordingly. It's simple free market economy. EJ's design was one of the few good plates on the market, something better (in some ways) came along. Yea EJ might get the market of "light duty" and peerless gets "track duty". But if EJ can update his to that package from he was talking about, he can get both markets. The cheap light duty for the street car guy with little cash, AND the track guy. Fuck people love buying shit in small bits so an upgrade path from light duty to track duty would help him corner that market.

Don't get mad about competition. It's the american way. Regardless of peerless' unwarranted post crapping, The facts are simple. Don't bend physics (I made a funny) to make your dull points.