[s-cars] Belly Pan Needed

[Robert Myers]

The belly pan also serves as a portion of the ducting leading a ram of 
cooling air to both the stock intercooler and the oil cooler.  Leaving it 
off could very well have an effect on performance by not cooling the charge 
air as well.  Now just how significant this difference might be - I don't know.

At 10:47 PM 10/9/2004 -0700, Theodore Chen wrote:

>good timing.  my car's belly pan blew off a few weeks ago.  today, i
>reinstalled it after patching it up with a lot of duct tape.  i was
>unsure about how well it was going to hold up because a lot of plastic
>had been ground away.  i found out that it won't stand up to 100 mph runs
>on the freeway.
>
>so my car is bare bottomed once again.  i wonder how badly i need the
>belly pan.  the water and oil temperatures didn't change at all, and
>neither did the gas mileage.
>
>$150+ seems like a lot of money to pay for a piece of plastic.  is
>this the same part used on the 100?  i may even just buy some roll plastic
>and make a new belly pan.  i already made an undertray for my mustang, which
>didn't have one from the factory.
>
>-teddy
>
>--- Tom Mullane <tmullane at snet.net> wrote:
>
> > Aren't they cheaper than that at the dealer?  I think I was quoted about
> > $150 a few months ago.

Bob
Random Bushism: "One of the common denominators I have found is that 
expectations rise above that which is expected." George W. Bush
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