Bah. Cats are gay. I'd go for the electrical messings


You could always just leave that much open... or if you really wanted a full pan, use some of that steel grating stuff.. dunno what it's called but it's a heavy mesh made of steel wire in a diamond pattern. That would allow ventalation and still give decent protection.

The cat sits high enough that I would just go around it.  

I think I'm going to mock a pan up with cardboard and see if my idea will work.

Cwkick

Take some pics if you can.  

It's a 1997 with OBD II.  I don't think the puter would like that very much.  Otherwise I would.  

Cwkick

i still think you can gut the cat, andrew did on his 16V tracker.

stu

The belly pan can be shorter than where
the cat is, and if the cat is sheilded with
metal heat shielding it should be fine, just
be sure the heat shield is still on the bottom
of the body so it won't cook your feet

And the metal mesh you are talking about is
expanded sheet metal, it's like a cheese grater,
and I've got the scars to prove it, I used some
on a motorcycle muffler/expansion chamber
and went down wearing shorts    Ouch

Wild

I would like to go from the front cross member between the a-arm all the way back to the tubular rear cross member and from frame rail to frame rail.  Maybe cut a spot for the cat to breathe.

Wild,  I bet you didn't burn yourself though!  

Cwkick

No, didn't get burned, getting burned sucks
it hurts for so long after.

I thought of "slabing" the bottom of the trucklet
for 10 Years now, but I don't hit much stuff, so
I just never did it, I had a slightly bent cross member
and some drag marks on the T-case but that's it,
I have more damage to the frame than that, most
of the undercoating of rubbed off and there is a
serious hit mark on the bottom of the frame rail
where I came out of a concrete drainage ditch
with 45* sides and didn't have enough speed
to jump the front over the edge, came down
with a bang and a ding in the frame

Wild

I scraped the frame up a little also.  So I was thinking of maybe some wings on both sides of the frame, up under the rockers.

Cwkick

  I need to do that too, sliders
for the rocks

Wild

i have about 10 big dents in the frame and  the rear end under the 3rd is all dented in, dose this mean i wheel too hard???

stu

Sounds like you wheel in the rocks

Not rock sliders per say,  just a little extra sticking past the frame and bent up.  

Cwkick

Sounds like you wheel in the rocks

well their is always one nice round rock where ever we wheel and i always find it!  

stu

Ya, I know, but what are you going
to slide off of  Rock and stumps
you know, fun stuff  

Wild

I've ran the Calimini skids from the begining and have not had any problems with the cross member.

Yes it's a little heavy but you can hit then hard and keep going.

There great for sliding over stuff.  I never worry about it.