...pain in the *** to refit (at least for me lol!), can I leave it off?

Cheers,
ian

 

Yep, plenty of people do, so long as you don;t mind everything under the engine getting a bit dirty....

 

thanks Ron, I'll be adding it to the pile of stuff I've removed in that case

 

mine fell off somewhere, i didnt even notice till i was changn the oil.

 

Won't removing the under tray seriously effect the underside aero..?

 

IN a way yes, but engines run cooler without it, i remove mine when using the car on track for that reason alone, i know loads of people that run without them to seemingly no ill effect!

 

I spent a bit of time cutting and refitting mine after installing a front mount intercooler, I didn't fancy leaving everything exposed to the salt **** they keep putting down everywhere.

 

mine had to be removed for one of the mods i've done.

if anything will prob help cooling by increasing airflow

 

Some have said it makes the oil temps lower by removing it but it didn't on mine. I thought it made the handling odd at 110mph corner speeds with it off. If you do remove it then make sure you remove the geabox cover too or the wind will do that for you at 130mph+ with a loud bang!

 

pmsl, hope you mean on a private test track

 

No, this was on a public road with buses, cars and taxi's. Yes and it's MPH not KPH.

 

naughty boy, guess thats autobahn's then lol

 

what mods that then?

 

thanks Floyd, lost my gearbox cover during a 4th\5th gear mapping session...drove past it twice before I noticed it had fallen off

could you elaborate on your experiences with the handling change?

 

um can't remember at which stage it came off pmsl, may have been the uprated oil cooler, to ift it had to remove the heat sheild and it would have melted, or it may have been the front mount lol, think the oil cooler though

 

got any pics of your oil cooler install...I would like to have the option of running the under tray.

 

if you remove the undertray, you also have the bonus of finding any tools that you accidently drop into the engine bay , on the driveway

 

The removal of the undertray made my car a little floaty at very high speed.

Lol @ Tony.

 

to fit it i think they have to remove the heatshield from the headers and thats the problem

only got crap pics from my phone at the time im afraid, but here they are

 

thanks floyd...I guess I need to test that

 

They aren't hard to refit....I just get my head centre to the tray, and hold it in position with my head whilst I screw in the two bolts, once in, I slide back and pop on the clips.

The trick is to keep the bolts and clips close at hand and to make sure the two tags are at the front of the car are located in correctly above the wheelarch liners (otherwise they snap off...erm, oops, bit late for me ).

 

lol they are with a bloody great HKS fmic that distorts the plastic and makes the holes difficult to access I should probably just cut it down a bit

 

i left mine off