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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

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.

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!!! :)

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! : )

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?

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 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 :(

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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