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Hi Guys

Im looking for the protective plate that comes under the engine, no Porsche parts site has them, anyone knows a junk yard \ shop that sell used parts?


THANKS

What year is your car?

Are you talking about a belly pan? '87 and up are the only models that had a true belly pan. The earlier cars just had a splash guard to protect the front of the engine, more or less.

Aftermarket Aluminum Belly pans are available from 928Intl.

Hmm, that might explain why the belly pan on my '82 only had a couple of screws holding it in place (and a cable tie or two if memory serves).

:D

There are several different versions of the earlier thin aluminum underside cover.

But IIRC, they were all just versions of the same thing that extended from the bottom of the radiator to mid-alternator area. They basically protected the fan and belts from road debris from entering that area.

Whereas the true belly pan is a louvered flat plastic (originally) 2 piece (front belly pan and rear belly pan) affair that protected the whole underside of the engine/steering rack/bell housing area and extended back approximately 5 feet combined under the car. The original rear belly pan was aluminum that connected to the plastic front probably due to it's proximity to the exhaust heat. A lot of cars have no belly pans at all since they had to be removed to even change the oil and mechanics would forget (tongue in cheek) to reinstall them. They do provide much more protection than the earlier covers and added additional aerodynamic benefits.

The aftermarket aluminum belly pans that 928Intl sells are the front belly pans designed to fit on the '87 and up cars.

Agreed. 87 up is a whole different deal.

The 85/6 pan has a different bump-out to accomodate the larger diam alternator.
It probably will still fit on earlier car. (reading op other posts, his is 84 car?)
They were a PITA so I took them off all mine.
I'd offer one, but I gave Jim Doerr the better ones for use on #6 and his silver 78, and the rest in this stack on the floor are bent a bit..

sorry guys MY 928 is 1984

anyone ?

928Intl dont have the protective plate :-(

I got mine, new, from 928srus a couple of years ago. Roger commented at that time that it may have been the last new OB belly pan in all of Porschedom....so, finding a new one may not happen...and I have never seen a used one for sale. It was evidently the first thing removed and scrapped from a 928. There has been a lot of discussion regarding overheating might be caused (or not) by the belly pans on later model cars. What I notice on my '84 is the front of the engine stays cleaner, less sand, than when I was running it without....

928 Motorsports offers a replacement engine belly pan. You can get it at: 928 Motorsports LLC® - Performance Parts - Engine Belly Pan for the 1987-95 Porsche® 928 S4, GT, GTS - Porsche® 928 World record Holder 216.63537 mph

I'd call any of the dismantlers. There's plenty around including: Partsheaven New, Used, Rebuilt Porsche Parts

Early pan is very fragile, and much searched for by new buyers, but most give up or fabricate something.

How hard would it be to make one? I might do that one of these years....

The factory part is all curves etc, not easy I would think to duplicate, but a functional pan I don't think would be that hard to do with straight bends.

I have a factory pan I bought somehow for one of my cars and no plans on selling, but I might get a chance in the next couple months to take some pictures.

I'm thinking about making a much heavier plate in like 16G aluminum that would also act as a cross brace between the front chassis "arms", like a Baja plate on a truck.

I used to have access to a full metal fab shop before my recent "fall from grace" and would think it would be quite easy with the right equipment....perhaps diamond plate? That would be neat....

That was my plan the diamond plate I found in sheets in a couple metal surplus places fairly cheap. I'm thinking with a couple bends it will be stiff enough to act as a brace to inward motion as well as outward between the two sides of the front frame.

I posted this before. When I still had my '83 I thought about using the original part from my '84, cutting a piece of hard plastic, trimming to size, and then melting it to my '84 belly pan with some oil between using a blow torch. Then separating the plastic from the original piece and in essence you have a carbon (plastic) copy of the original belly pan. I traded my '83 though and never got it.

Makes perfect sense to me... :/