how low is your oilpan?

[GThomas]

roughly a finger and a half......

[ak-]

Do you bounce of your skid plate when your suspension is under load?

[bzboardz]

Yaaa the skid plate hangs down pretty far from the pan! It saved my car though, I went up a curb in l.a. The other day and the skid plate did the trick.

i didn't know some of us use our e30 for off road

[EN318isPDX]

i didn't know some of us use our e30 for off road

Depends on where you live and what roads you drive.

you loose a lot of clearance with that skid. ^ your pan is about as low as mine, only i dont have a skid plate :x

I'd rather have a little less clearance and scrap up the skid than bust another oil pan. Happens alot to M42 but as i said above you it depends where you live and how shitty the roads are. Downtown here, some of the parking lots have 6-10 inch sudden drops. If you do as much wheeling in your car as i do in mine you need a skid. It even grinds on some of my friends driveways.

I consider it piece of mind. Not having to look behind me for an oil slick is well worth the $

[e30fish]

wow, any other damage? did your motor survive this?

get a skidplate people..... it will pay off.

[PFCRayB]

I'd rather have a little less clearance and scrap up the skid than bust another oil pan. $

truth iv come to enjoy the noise it makes when it hits something lol

[PFCRayB]

ok so today it happened, i broke my skidpalte last week, and tonight i broke the rest of it and my oilpan, where it broke was where the 90 deg angles are.......................looks like the turbo motor is going in sooner that expected......and the bulid up of the holy grail of all m42 motors is going to be built out of this one the muthu fing s42

[M42Power]

I made a skid plate

[PFCRayB]

so i started on my new build up of the old m42 into the s42, it is not going to be fast or cheap but wtf its going to be in my wifes e21

[Massimo]

^What?

and why did you bring a dead thread back from the grave?

[PFCRayB]

well its i started it so i thought id tell eveyone what the plans are for the old motor

[Massimo]

Right probably better off starting a new thread got bit confused with what you wrote. LOL

Cheers

[E30_(1st Musk)_]

isnt there like an inch and a half between the plate and your oilpan. fail you cheated

[PFCRayB]

Sorry I should have started a new thread.

[goml23]