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Originally Posted by ChrstphrR
Ah, gotcha - if you're going with steel or hybrid steel-AL oilpan, yes, the fancy skidplates won't be needed. I'll carefully stick to plate referring to the flat bits, not the oilpan to reduce confusion.
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No I am using the ALL STEEL pan, as indicated and shown above, not the ALU/Steel one, that one is pretty pointless in my opin.
Well yeah a pan is a pan and a plate is a plate, one you make food in the other you eat it off
But again TOPIC is AERODYNAMICS!
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Originally Posted by ChrstphrR
I'll still advise against trying to hunt down the MkIV plastic cover for your aero-smoothing. It's meant for MkIV mounting points which are a different animal from the MkII.
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I have no clue where you got the idea of a Mk4 cover!? We are talking Mk3 & Seat cover (not to be confused with what you stick your behind on!
). Yes Mk4 & Mk2 are very different, but that is not the case with Mk3, the Mk3 actually even shares the wheelbase and a lot of parts with the Mk2. Again, nowhere have we been talking about Mk4 covers. Nor would I have to "hunt" for those, I have both a plastic OE and a steel OE cover laying around here for the Mk4!
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Originally Posted by ChrstphrR
And, you'll likely have to add wings anyway, like COCyclist did on his, to cover the bits the cover anyway. I did too, for that matter: I made a perf-steel equivalent for my MkIV, with the added wings between bumper and inner-fenders, with the intent of coroplast skinning it later. (I've been remiss on sorting the photos, putting the measurements to CAD as intended... Sorry! And it's a different chassis than you're intending to use).
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Well I do think we are off topic here, and I would suggest you read the above posts and see the pics and links you might be able to see that we are talking about
Mk3 cover on a Mk2.
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Originally Posted by ChrstphrR
You could probably fab your own bellypan cleaner looking to both air and eye, as well as lower cost than adapting stock parts to a different chassis -- even if you're sourcing the part from a salvage yard.
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Sigh, I am not looking for a "bellypan" AKA plate!?
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Originally Posted by ChrstphrR
Save your money for more durable plastic than coroplast, perhaps, but there's no way a basic sheet of plastic is going to cost as much as that OEM part new!
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Well whenever there are OE parts to be had I will go with them, in this case Mk3 PLASTIC cover which has already been proven to work well on Mk2s as the above commenter so graciously informed us.
For the Mk4 we have I have the OE steel plate (not installed at this time yet) but I don't want any "home made plates" when there are OE to be had!