rear skidplate

[darkgreyNA]

I will be very soon stepping from mod slammed to slammed. I already have a front skid plate and am looking to fab up a rear skidplate. I am very curious to see how others have gone about this.......

[urban]

Has anyone had damage to their diff?

[bokehmon]

I've only seen damage to the PPF/ PPF bolts, and the rear subframe brace.

[darkgreyNA]

I've seen pics of diffs that had one or both of the wings broken off because of hitting large bumps on the highway ..... definitely don't need that to happen .....

[ChrisJuliano]

I think koukis diff got messed up real bad.

[Phatmiata]

The rear diff on my '92 Miata ate itself when I hit a pothole, had to get a used pumpkin from the junkyard. But i dont think any skid plate would have saved my car from that pothole.

[darkgreyNA]

Well at certain times its inevitable but for others id like the peice of mind.....

[hippari]

It's happened to me; the bolts on the third member grabbed a poorly paved manhole cover and broke an arm off the diff housing. The bolts them selves got banana'd and I pretty much sheared the top of them off.

[AngelsAndBombs]

It happens. This is 'K-feds' NA.
http://slamburglars.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=897&st=520

[darkgreyNA]

^^^^^^^ that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid...... so I've got a few ideas in mind for how to build the plate..... can anyone post up some others?

[hippari]

It happens. This is 'K-feds' NA.
http://slamburglars.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=897&st=520
Yeah, that is definitely not a fun thing to have happen. Kfed's damage to the subframe looks gnarlier than mine did though.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/4305/photo0027lr110406.jpg

^^My NB's rearend post manhole cover

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5215/5537785443_569758a411_b.jpg

^^Breezy's Dif plate. Of course all the damage here has been from catching those two bolts left exposed...

[darkgreyNA]

Yeah my design covers those and will be welded and gusseted to the subframe....... hoping for bomb proof reliability .......