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Old 09-29-2006, 03:07 PM
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Scraping!

How often do you scrape your coupe?...

at my work the driveways are horrible so when i leave i scrape my sh**.....how bad is it for the bottom?..is there anything protecting down there?.....how will i know if i have problems or not

i need the feedback..thanks
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 03:10 PM
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i scrape everyday with my nismo front. and im on stock (non sport suspension too..)

and im loweing my car in 2 hours..LOL fvck im so screwed..haha

scraping is just bad for your paint..lol
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 03:10 PM
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^^is it real bad fo rthe car???
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 03:24 PM
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If your just scraping the underneath fo your front bumper then that isn't so bad. There's also an additional lip further back and underneath on the 06 sport bumper that gets scraped a lot.
If your too low you can actually get some scrappage off your resonators on your exhaust or worse off the steel braided flex area of your y-pipe which can tear and cause a hole.
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 04:02 PM
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Try approaching the incline at an angle if possible. You could also try backing over the bump if possible(unlikely). Our cars have a lot more clearance in the back than in the front and I used to have to do this every day for a while when they were working on my street and there was a huge bump going into my driveway.
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by partyman66
Try approaching the incline at an angle if possible. You could also try backing over the bump if possible(unlikely). Our cars have a lot more clearance in the back than in the front and I used to have to do this every day for a while when they were working on my street and there was a huge bump going into my driveway.
Yeah i always reverse into parking spaces at the mart. They always mark them bays out with big kerb stones, no problem at the rear of the car for clearence though.
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 04:28 PM
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I scrape everyday. I can hear the plastic and it kills me. I have to pull up to a parking bumper, its the only way i can get all the way under the carport and be completely out of the road.
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 04:34 PM
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I scrape everyday. I can hear the plastic and it kills me. I have to pull up to a parking bumper, its the only way i can get all the way under the carport and be completely out of the road.
Maybe since you scrape every day, one day the scraping will stop since you've scraped so much off!
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 04:36 PM
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sounds like a plan. I need to look under the front bumper to see what exactly i'm scraping. i've seen the corvettes where the black plastic piece under the front bumper is hangin.
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 04:48 PM
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It's not that bad if you can't really see it. I scrape my Kuruma everyday lol.. fortunately with all the scraping and the "practicing" of my scrapage.. I can avoid 90% of the scraping when I get my bumper redone.
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by aHero4Eternity

and im loweing my car in 2 hours..LOL fvck im so screwed..haha
HERO!!!.. when'd you get your suspension?.. What are you lowering your car with?
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by guidoguy
If your just scraping the underneath fo your front bumper then that isn't so bad. There's also an additional lip further back and underneath on the 06 sport bumper that gets scraped a lot.
If your too low you can actually get some scrappage off your resonators on your exhaust or worse off the steel braided flex area of your y-pipe which can tear and cause a hole.

+1 I have the same issue. Cats and flex pipe on HKS
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 05:24 PM
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aren't you all talking about he scraping of nuderbody not the bumpers. how bad is it if you scrape the black metal pieces underneath
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by dream_G35
aren't you all talking about he scraping of nuderbody not the bumpers. how bad is it if you scrape the black metal pieces underneath
well when i took my bumper off i realized that that little black piece is connected to the bumper with some bumper clips, so im guessing if u scrape hard you could tear a piece outa your bumper.

edit: im talkin bout the black plastic piece under the front bumper
 
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Old 09-29-2006, 05:37 PM
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