HAHHAAHAHAHAHAAAAA That may also happen to me.


Bob, I can't believe you were so out of line! :D:p:D

Naw, too much work and I like the punishment! This is a 75% track car with the rest of its life spent driving to the track or on its once a week maintenance drive to work.

Hey Bill! Yeah its all in the placement. I have already sketched out a test curb from scrap wood I have in the garage. I'll use it to test placement.

As for specs, they are pretty light. Built for 12V, with a display distance of .3-1.8m. Freq. used is 40kHz... that is it so not a whole lot to go on.

I have considered your camera idea and its pretty cool when you add in the track cam recording feature ;)

No way I am going back to Rally Look!!! N O eFn Way! :D No front plate required in FL ;)

I'll try the parking sensors and see where I get. I am already a very careful parker and have various reflection techniques to see where I am. For the most part FL is flat with few places you could kill a bumper like this on ramped pavements, etc... Except for the closest entrance to my HOA! *sigh*

My trick is to park next to a shiny car and look at the reflection off of its fender.

Anytime I go anywhere of consequence in my car, I have to take a ferry ie. taking ramps of various pitches. I often need to traverse the on ramp and/or the off ramp. My car is Euro height without even a modest splitter. Despite being a fairly high 911, there have been times where upon careful exiting of a parking lot I've dragged a little bit in the front.....what a pis* of*! One time in LA, was a particularly bad time....on a long tour...fully loaded. I kind of wonder what what low cars do? I consider myself careful...berms can be avoided but some parking lots are far more threatening to those low splitters... I'm with JW on this one....Cheers

Adjustable air shocks, that's the ticket.

Pssshhhttt and your car goes up 3' like some monster truck on steroids. But at the flick of a switch and whooooossh, you're down on the tarmac. That's my suggestion. Sound affects provided free of charge. Let me know how it works out for you.

I have the same bumper / air dam as you and so far have had no trouble. I am careful and aware of where I am and pay attention. Racing a kart with 1.5" ground clearance trains you to drive a certain way on four wheels! I avoid routs that contain speed bumps and pot holes.

Lindyhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1295539543.jpg

Nice Car Lindy! But, it looks like you have at least 1-2" more height. I may have to raise mine up a little... We'll see. I certainly wont be driving it into the infield of Daytona! Kinda a bummer as I usually park in the Porsche Coral! No BMW coral... :(

-Michael

So... its been a year! Wow I work fast! I finally installed the park sensors in the front bumper. The inspiration was a hard look at getting the whole car re-painted. We'll see. Anyway, here are some pics or the results:

Taped Sensor in about the place it would be and used a low fold up chair as a test berm. Chair in its case was about ~4" tall:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1332089223.jpg

Tapped and marked:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1332089308.jpg

Cut and installed. The kit comes with its very own hole saw! I have placed the sensors such that 2 face forward and each side has one sensor that points out at a 30-45 degree angle. I believe it will look a lot better when it is all painted up:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1332089406.jpg

Wiring was run through existing holes in the trunk so no drilling of the actual metal was required!!:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1332089455.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1332089477.jpg

I have temporarily mounted the control box. After the car is painted I'll tuck it in somewhere. For now it works well and I can debug easily:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1332089557.jpg

The display is a problem. It is not well suited to mounting under the dash or in some nicely hidden spot. I may just discard it, though it does give a nice distance readout. The buzzer is tucked up behind the tach and is easily heard over my M&K growl.

Performance, over the last week, is great. I mounted them lower than was spec'd in the instructions, but have no false signals. Coming up to a berm I get beeps at a great distance and can come right up to it with no worries as I watch the distance decrease on the display. It even worked well on grass and scrub when I parked at a friends house.

Overall I am happy with the short term results. We will see how it holds up over the next few years.

Enjoy!

Michael

Just my opinion, but I think it's way too much "bumper/valance" for a 911, unless it's just for the track. What is really wrong with a more "stock" look? Our cars ain't ugly without these snowplow attachments. ;)

just my opinion - glad you are doing to your car what makes you happy

:p

I alway back into the parking bumps as the rear usually sits higher than the front especially if the car is lowered and has a spoiler.

I am surprised for no one has mentioned this yet ?

Well executed Michael!

Can you hear it over the radio??? I would just put a set of wheels with higher profile tires on for street driving..

third times the charm...
 

after about the third time you break it on a curb or parking strip and have had to remove it to repair it... you'll stop hitting the curbs....

Hmmm...How about just backing in? It is just habit now and all the club guys up here back in...like a motorcycle gang =) I learned the hard way a long time ago.

But it's not just the obvious threats, I don't even have a front spoiler and I remember coming out of a hotel parking lot in LA (very carefully) and dragging....D'OH...any fibreglass aero additions would've been peeled off immediately. Entering the lot was no problem and there was no other exit. Those things just don't seem to be practical in the real world, unless you never go into unfamiliar situations. Cheers

This car is built for 75% track 25% weekly maint. drive to work. Backing in is fine, except the fixed back seats and 5pt harnesses make it tough to rotate around and see everything. Even so I think the rear of the car is so low that I would have problems there too. It is easy now to just pull into the spot and not be concerned as I have a meter to tell me. *shrug* I had considered using 1/2 of the sensors in the rear bumper.

One of the main drivers for this project was the fact that the bumper I am using is NLA. There are no others out there like it (the difference is the built up sections on the top surface that are designed to fit the OEM 911 smile and not a 964 seal) that I have found either so if I smack it up on a curb I'll be repairing it or have to fit an entirely new one. Not interested in doing that right now.

I suppose it will be useful for bumper drafting as well ;)