To all Lowered Bodykitted people.. (56k warning)

[TBuTcher]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Follow my lead and get your self made some of these little beauties....


All I did was get a piece of cardboard and trace the foor print of the lowest part of the front bar.
I then took it to a Sheet metal place that sells BULK stainless Steel..
they have a Laser cutting machine to cut stuff....
I then gave him the template and said "Can you please cut me two of these out of your off cuts.. "
He said "No problem I have some 1.1mm scrap... give me a couple of days."
I went back the next day after he called me and I collected them.
$50!!!!!
I SWEAR IT WILL BE THE BEST $50 YOU SPEND EVER!!!!

I was origionally going to get the scrape bits and make them my self... But have you EVER tried to cut Stainless? NO well DONT! it will stuff your tin snips and will take you donky years and it wont be very neat.
The edge on the laser cut was smooth and rounded.

Once I got them home I bought a set of three double ended bits INSERT INTO post VALUES (they go blunt fairly quick on stainless) and a bunch of Aluminium rivits INSERT INTO post VALUES (cheaper then stainless and wont rust either.) Remember to get long enough heads to fit through the fibreglass and the plate.

I ask the guy If I could have some small off cuts from the bin and he just gave me them... I then cut these into squares and used them as washers on the inside of the bar to stop the riverts from pulling back through.

then it was a matter of drilling holes in the washers, a bunch of holes all over the plate and then placeing the plate in positiuon and drilling the holes into the bar..

Please REMEMBER to TURN UP the front lip of the plate to stop if from digging into the road when you leave steep driveways.

I used some sikaflex to stick the plate onto the bottom as well as the rivits.

At the end of the day it has saved me $1000s of $$$$ in repairs and repainting to the bar. it takes about 2 hours all up to drill cut and fit.

So please do it NOW.... not later .. NOW
Once youget the kit on the car you WILL SCRAPE it...
Now I can scrape it all the time INSERT INTO post VALUES (and I do everytime I leave home and return :INSERT INTO post VALUES ( ) but the car just skids along and wears the tops off the rivits and scrapes the stainless..

here are a few more pics to conclude.

Happy scrapping

Haydn

[banjo]

Look really good TbuTcher but we couldn't use aluminium rivets on stainless in the UK with all our rain and salt in the winter due to the bi-metallic corrosion factor between stainless and aluminium being so high. One winter in the UK and the rivet heads will start dropping off! I know because I used ally rivets on some stainless wheel arch trims on a Ford Granada some years ago and they stayed put for one year. You might find even in Oz when they get dirty and wet the rivets will start corroding. There are some alloy rivets available which do not have this high corrosion factor which are used by the auto industry.

[enigma]

Or you could just use stainless rivets!!!

[TBuTcher]

I was going to use Stainless rivets... but they were too expensive at the time..... and I was unsure if it would work well etc...
I used the sikaflex to glue them on as well... so even if all the rivets do corrode off the plates will stay there for a while longer....
I guess you will need stainless.

Haydn

[zedy1]

looks cool m8 i think ill need that on mine

[Mante]

damn now thats one of the best ideas I have seen in years! Good job! ** clapping**