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Is it safe to drive your car with out the mud guards underneath the engine bay?

Amadeo

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ecl Mentor

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Well i lost the entire piece whilst driving so i have nothing protecting the engine bay from mud or water.

Should i find a replacement or would it be fine?

i dunno

i took off the bottom piece for the oil change

took off the ones in the guard due to scrubbing

might put them back on later after i bang in the grooves with a hammer

Slide Grand Master

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most people that install aftermarket fron bars do not have them on

i dont havnt for a month or so also drove through flooded road in order to get home and it went fine.

silver gts-t Grand Master

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If you mean the intercooler guard... Mine fell apart and started scraping on the road... So i took it off and no problem so far. (2 months though)

LOL

Same as mine i fut the GTR bar on and they were to short so they would scrap the road, they got reduced further in size after the road gave them a sand job but a couple cable ties fixed that!!! :)

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Amadeo

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LOL, love the stories. Mine fell off because i drove around with no front bar for 2 days as it was getting a respray. Whilst driving on the freeway i begain to hear some scraping noise but i ignored it for a while and then i heard some thing clatter near my guards and before i knew it i heard a loud bang and i looked in my rear view and saw the whole thing fly off. I wanted to go back and retrieve it but there was a highway patrol coming in the opposite direction and so to avoid any confrontations' i decided to let it go (code red). Not happy but since you guys seem to be going fine i guess I'll join the club! : )

krzysiu Grand Master

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I need one of them for my r33, the only problem of not having one is that your engine bay gets really really really really dirty.

EDIT: which flaps are we torking about, the one that behind the bumper? or the one that is under the engine?

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I fiited an aftermarket frontbar and soon after I lost all three trays (under engine and both wheel arch ones) at a circuit with a Porsche Carrera 4 inches behind me. Huge bang (thought he'd hit me) followed by lots of light flashing :D

Ronin 09 Grand Master

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Ronin you're going alittle overboard however I did swap my std nissan tray for a nismo 1 and picked up around 6rwkw... true story

ok ok, it didn't fall out.

it's lucky i had the intake plenum zip tied to the nismo strut brace; it held the motor nicely :(

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w00t, I have cableties holding the corners of my front bar off the road. Best. Invention. Ever.

Hey thats what ive done until i go and get them replaced. It looks funny though, bits of string holding the tray from scraping on the road.

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