How to make a skid plate?

[ejnight]

165 shipped? Shit I paid 220.

$190 shipped

[jaywood]

Are you talking about making an entire oil pan? Or a skid plate?

There's a member on here who actually cuts the bottom of a 24v oil pan about 1.5" off and welds on a new bottom. It is no longer the closest thing to the ground.

Not sure about pricing...

[Regnar75]

I might be able to make another if you are actually interested.

yes how much you think?

[bigredguy]

my real question here is how the hell are you guys hitting pan or having to worry about hitting your pan. My subframe and pan is about 2 fingers off the ground and i was just under my car changing my oil and i have only 1 scratch on my pan. I live in Pennsylvania and the roads are as shitty or worse than the roads in most other places. The only real thing to worry about is your exhaust scraping. I scrape exhaust everywhere and have broken off all of the hangers and had to redo them already. granted a skid plate would work on that one odd occasion that you do smack your pan, but i will agree with many of the comments posted above that it would not be 100 percent necessary to buy an expensive pan rather than make one, but not everyone has access to make themselves a pan.

[Mr. Tasty]

I sell my plates for $165 to Forum members so I think its a good deal.

165 shipped? Shit I paid 220.

[jaywood]

what's the difference between a bash plate and a skid plate?

Skid=sliding over a speed bump

Bash=hitting big things at high speeds

[Vivek]

what's the difference between a bash plate and a skid plate?

[SkiFree]

I actually designed it based off of the factory e30 skid plate

That's a pretty cool bit of work, BMW was doing them that way from long before the E30,

Here's a period E9 shot with skid plate.

http://www.iemotorsport.com/gallery/v/car-of-month/July+2012+-+Arthur+Porter+-+E9+CSL/hillclimb+1975+Reinisch.jpg.html

[jaywood]

I actually designed it based off of the factory e30 skid plate

[jaywood]

Don't know how much it weighs and I couldn't tell you how strong it is. All I know is it has saved my pan numerous time, both skidding and bashing. It is very strong. It also has good air flow so the oil pan stays pretty cool.

I wish I made a template for it so I could reproduce it but I didn't. I might be able to make another if you are actually interested.

[PNWDan]

that actually looks pretty good. you should make another one and just smash it to see what it can take, do some stress tests, or do what i would do and drop some heavy weights from high places on it. then let me know how it holds up i might be interested

Part of the strength comes from being bolted to the chassis. Just dropping something on it wouldnt show you much of anything.

That looks like a fairly rigid design. How much does it weigh?

[Regnar75]

that actually looks pretty good. you should make another one and just smash it to see what it can take, do some stress tests, or do what i would do and drop some heavy weights from high places on it. then let me know how it holds up i might be interested

[jaywood]

Here's the skidplate I made. Not a bashplate, just a skidplate.







It works very well. It actually saved my pan a few times too

[e30BMart]

Thank you tree25

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[Tree25]

This topic got out of hand, it was intended for crafty people. Example why would a fabricator go out and by a skid plate, if he can make one just as functional?
By all means I'm not knockin on ej night, I think what he is doing is brilliant. The way the world works, everyone is not a blue collar worker or crafty enough to make one with minimal effort. This makes the ej night skid plate available to everyone. I support what you he is doing and wouldn't dismiss it to anybody. However I have all the fab tools and supplies I need cause this is what I enjoy as a hobby and for a living.