Installing the chin-spoiler protection plates from 928 Motorsports-

[Normy]

DAMN!

Anyway, I just spent two hours removing TWO bolts! Carl Faucette sells these chin spoiler protection plates on his 928 motorsports website. Since my alternator has a gigantic scrape on the front, I decided to buy Carl's plates.

-These are impressive! They are about 1 cm thick, made of some grade of aircraft aluminum, and they look like they can be rammed into a parking block at 30 mph/50 km/hr! These are very tough.

What makes me post this is that the plates require the removal of two bolts. These two bolts were the reason that I emitted several hundred words of profanity tonight. I used the whole repertoir, and even got creative at one point: My new word is "turd-fondler", something that comes from author Carl Hiassen. While trying to get the stuck bolts loose, I smacked my hand, despite the leather gloves. Damn that hurt, and I had to use another Hiassen metaphor: "disgusting fu*k-weasel".

-Usually, I just use the inane "butteater" when I smoke my finger or something like that, but that damn chin spoiler involved bolts that just would NOT cooperate.

I wound up installing the passenger side of my new chin spoiler protectors. I'll put the other end in tomorrow. I need some new colorful metaphors.......

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[m21sniper]

Link to product?

I just put a brand spanking new $300 chin spoiler on mine...i don't want this one getting torn up like the last one did.

[MPDano]

Normy, you know the protocol!

[ammonman]

+1 for Carl's protection plates. I put a set on my '90 soon after purchase and I have been thankful I did. I have scraped a couple of parking blocks as well as bumped a few road dips. The plates have taken the impact quite nicely. I usually take a file and clean off any sharp burrs any time I have the car up in the air just to prevent cuts to my hands when working underneath. I am always using some part of the car as a handle to move the creeper around.

Mike

[Normy]

Originally Posted by MPDano

Normy, you know the protocol!

The pix will come when I get the OTHER one installed! I spent 3 hours getting those bolts loose! I guess if I had air tools [drool....] and a lift [double drool!] I could have done that job in 25 minutes. More to come...

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PS: Carl's pictures don't do these things justice. I've had them next to my computer for the past few days, and I can't keep from running my hands over them. They are WAY beefy!

[Normy]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

Link to product?

I just put a brand spanking new $300 chin spoiler on mine...i don't want this one getting torn up like the last one did.

They aren't going to save your chin spoiler. Only YOU can do that! What these do is prevent you from knocking your alternator off or damaging your block. I drive my car carefully, but there is the occasional junk on the highway that could hit the lowers of the car and do serious damage. The mark on my alternator is FUGLY! Some people have had their alternators and AC compressors ripped right off the block, creating a big problem: Now the block needs to be welded~

As to where to find these? Bright-boy, you can just do the research. If this product isn't something that immediately comes to mind, then you aren't paying enough attention to this hobby. I've known about these for three years, and just now was able to afford them.

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[philro1]

My installation was the same as yours. LHS bolts came out and went back in with only a little squirming and profanity. RHS was another story. Given the relative ease of LHS, I took both bolts out, offered up the metal, fitted the front bolt with a bit of elbow grease but could not align the rear bolt through the metal layers. With hindsight, I should have removed 1 bolt at a time to keep the holes aligned. In practice, I spent an hour using prybars and partially reinstalling the rear bolt before I got it lined and snugged up.
Much more confident now approaching driveways and potholes. The bang prior to fitting these alsways sounded very costly.

[Linderpat]

I had a problem too, but I found putting a small jack under the frame parts and GENTLY and SLIGHTLY lifting just under where the bolt goes (be careful not to lift the car off the jack stands and on to your head), the bolts slide right in real quick and easy.

[Danglerb]

Normy you need to learn curse in German, I don't think the car understands otherwise.

how do I swear in german from insults.net

[m21sniper]

If anyone has some pix of this product installed, i'd like to see them.

[lizard928s]

Has he fixed these yet?

I know that his original version was a straight piece of plate where as the part on the car is bent.
There have been a few people who have almost ripped the mounts off the body by attempting to tighten the bolts.
They really do need a bend to be put in the middle of them....

[Normy]

Originally Posted by Danglerb

Normy you need to learn curse in German, I don't think the car understands otherwise.

how do I swear in german from insults.net

That's awesome!



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