Skid Plate
08-14-2012, 09:05 AM
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02-04-2014, 04:02 PM
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keeping your exhaust hotter doesn't necessarily increase performance. Just serves to limit heat buildup in the engine compartment. Which is why I made the holes to cool it. I mean I am only a Nuclear Engineer, and this is kinda my job to transfer heat from point A to B. An exhaust system doesn't need to be wrapped to conserve heat until it reaches the muffler. Unless somehow the heat helped with atomization of fuel in the cylinder chamber( highly unlikely). it is although important to cool the air coming in the intake. So therefore I guess wrapping the header would help keep things cool under the hood. therefore cooler more condensed concentrated air enters the intake. Once again that's why I made some cooling holes for radiation heat transfer which in turn causes convection heat transfer to the rest of the header. I probably blew that out of proportion but idc. Its my oponions, and I dont seem to like the way soviXetday replied to my thread. Good day.
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02-15-2014, 06:50 PM
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Re: Skid Plate
has anyone done a REAL thread on skid plates? I have the super rare S&S header for my 86, and I dont want to scrape it to pieces, even at stock height the full tube headers are pretty low
02-16-2014, 04:40 AM
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Re: Skid Plate
I think Black R's photo pretty much describes how the plate should be made. Needs to be thick steel plate, not thin sheet, and needs to be mounted to the frame rather than the header tubes. I think 1/8" is a little over kill. I would probably use 1/4" but that's just me. I'm used to driving lowered cars and usually do a good job at maneuvering around pot holes and speed bumps. I don't think there is a modern US city that is void of horrible street conditions, so comparing my city to yours is just as idiotic as a **** measuring contest.
But MYDICKISBIGGERTHANYOURS. It was cold that night *****.
But MYDICKISBIGGERTHANYOURS. It was cold that night *****.
02-16-2014, 07:18 PM
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This thread is about as good as it gets - unless you find some rally threads.
I think I had 1/4" because I wanted to lift the car up before damaging the header.
02-16-2014, 07:32 PM
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Re: Skid Plate
Black R pretty much nailed how to make a proper skid plate, the only changes I would make would be to have some serious heavy duty poly/rubber bushings where the plate bolts to the frame to try and reduce the amount of energy that gets transferred into the actual car.
07-03-2014, 06:30 PM
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Fwiw, since people have pm'd me:
I had mine made from chromoly by a fabricator friend.
No pre-bent tubing was used, he bent up everything and welded it himself.
I had mine made from chromoly by a fabricator friend.
No pre-bent tubing was used, he bent up everything and welded it himself.
07-24-2014, 10:45 AM
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