FooDogg
Go Kart Champion
- Location
- Right on the Left Coast
- Car(s)
- 2017 Alltrack S 6MT
Now Dave what we Alltrack guys REALLY need is a way to better protect those vulnerable gas tanks...they hang so low that metal plates added on would decrease ground clearance...and cant see handy bracket mounts points either.Yes I noted that too. Perhaps your observations and a couple others about the metal skid plate haveing potential for bending up into engine spurred the addition of bar.
Having run both the oem skid and the ecs engine skid over a couple rocks they seem to be equally sturdy, with a slight advantage to the metal plate for the mounting point items I mentioned.
Are you referring to the two rectangular cut out holes (see pic below- cooling for DSG?)?
If so I thought about your observations and note they have tabs bent slightly in that a guy could hammer flat and seal with say duct tape- not very elegant but keep water and gravel getting forced up in theirif one were-fording streams...
I decided NOT to as I notice the engine compartment gets pretty hot as is in SoCal desert camping so that bit of airflow makes up for some lost putting on tunnel skid.
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Question: has VW Europe got anything new in plastic aero trays since you put this guide together years ago? I read the whole thing then but that was missing and unlikely to be added, back then as I recall... for now I just take a line that puts the sharpest tallest rock dead center to hit the engine and tunnel skid, vs bounce off lower control arms and gas tanks...
Already running max 27" tires - max fit without rubbing.
next is a 1" lift and thats about all we can do, short of cutting fenders and running even bigger tires...? but if I recall DAP maxed out at 27.5"dia on their RallyTrack just barely clearing the shocks, so no MonsterTruck AllTracks...
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