skid plate (little audi content)

[Denise Riley TQO <driley@tqs.com>]

Sweetums wants a skid plate for his truck for Christmas.  What should be a
rather straight forward search isn't quite so straight forward.  The truck
is an early 80's VW Rabbit pickup with a Scirocco mechanicals transplant.
Almost everything within the engine bay has been swapped to a 16V Scirocco
engine, plus a fair bit more.  Where does the skid plate mount, on the
engine or the chassis?  How much of a problem with fitment will we have
since almost nothing is where it was designed to be?  The skid plate is
pretty much a necessity since the power steering pump is below the bumper
clearance and in front of the wheels.  It's the lowest point on the truck
and we already lost it once on a curb while backing out of a parking spot up
hill.   MAC: the truck has new wheels from a FWD 4k.  That makes 3 sets of
14" Ronals for us, 2 at 4x108, 1 at 4x100.  I'm dreading the day we get
matching Hakkas for the truck and my 4kq.

Denise Riley