[sclouzon]

Personally not a fan of the Zunsport look; has anyone installed the Stradale Design oil and/or radiator gaurds? Any thoughts?

https://www.stradaledesign.com/g87-m2

[M3PGH]

Does just doing the under oil cooler provide enough protection? Not a fan of the front protection look. Also is just an under one sold seperate?

[akumachu]

Originally Posted by M2siast

Each protector protects a different thing. The one in this thread is discussing protection for the oil cooler from underside impact.

I’m like you and only ordered the bottom skid plate. All are sold separately, whichever brand you choose.

Mind you, some folks go for the front protection because we had a member who had his radiator punctured, so he was losing coolant. That requires front grilles.

I got the Zunsport front grill and only putting on the center piece just simply because I hate seeing full size leaves getting in and just sitting there. I don't think it provide much "protection" to the front radiator. Just don't like leaves getting in lol

[DSTR]

Originally Posted by akumachu

I got the Zunsport front grill and only putting on the center piece just simply because I hate seeing full size leaves getting in and just sitting there. I don't think it provide much "protection" to the front radiator. Just don't like leaves getting in lol

Ok take it off and observe the opening. Reinstall and observe the opening. Im not at all sure what you are seeing. Not much protection is the status of it being uncovered. Maybe check your prescription or you failed basic physics lol. It will be deflecting far more than it not being covered. A member posted here he has seen a Zunsport screen survive and protect a deer impact. What more do you want.

[akumachu]

Originally Posted by DSTR

Ok take it off and observe the opening. Reinstall and observe the opening. Im not at all sure what you are seeing. Not much protection is the status of it being uncovered. Maybe check your prescription or you failed basic physics lol. It will be deflecting far more than it not being covered. A member posted here he has seen a Zunsport screen survive and protect a deer impact. What more do you want.

"protect a deer impact"? what does that mean?

All I know it kept almost 99% leaves out so mission accomplished for me. I don't think I want any of this deer impact thing. I rather drive around that.

[Carefree]

Here’s a radical suggestion. Add extra protection if you choose. Otherwise, don’t. Apologize ahead for the extreme idea.

[akumachu]

Originally Posted by Carefree

Here’s a radical suggestion. Add extra protection if you choose. Otherwise, don’t. Apologize ahead for the extreme idea.

Now you are just trying to radicalize me with extremes

[sclouzon]

Originally Posted by sclouzon

Personally not a fan of the Zunsport look; has anyone installed the Stradale Design oil and/or radiator gaurds? Any thoughts?

https://www.stradaledesign.com/g87-m2

Found a video on the install for the center radiator; it looks pretty straight-forward, but haven’t found anything on the sides or the oil cooler.

However he mentioned manuals have some protection, curious how much and if I will even need this then? Maybe just the oil cooler guard.

[Apue]

Originally Posted by akumachu

I made some post on this thread before and I just have another scenario that I didn't think of before.

To recap, I didn't think it was mathematically or physically possible for the car to go fast enough and the vacuum effect to hit the bottom. I confirmed that with several Physics phDs from MIT on that. (I worked with a lot of them).

Bouncing rock from car in front, I have a hard time believing that would happen until I figured out a scenario that is possible this past week.

A rock that kick up high from the car in front has less chance to get under the car but I realized this week the real likely scenario is more of a rock that got shot out almost horizontally while carrying high velocity but rolling on the road.

Since no rock is an actual ball shape, when the rolling rock hit a certain edge and convert the kinetic energy upward, that I think would have the potential force to hit the cooler with enough force to puncture.

How likely is that? I have absolutely no idea but I think that is possible. I think that is why this kind of incident is coverage by car insurance make sense.

With so many people driving while looking at their phones, I believe it is more likely to get rear ended than that scenario. So both are insurance claim so personally I am not going to worry about that scenario.

I do think curb the car to damage that is most common case.
And that certainly has to do with ride height.

So the next statistic would be interesting is how many lowered cars have this problem as compare to stock?

I have received my M2 g87 about 2 weeks ago. I have already noticed some fins of the oil coolant at the bottom got dented after 1 week of delivery. It occurred after I drove a highway where many trucks and construction workers travel.
I have been very careful to keep good distance from front cars especially for RWD cars or trucks.
I have zero damage on the front radiators but I had several dents on the radiator at the bottom. I feel like you want to convince yourself to underrate the protection and I was thinking the same as long as I keep good distance from front cars.
And I learned I was wrong so I ordered and installed a zunsport guard after I had several dents.
I can figure out the tiny rocks and stones did not reach my front radiator but they bounced at front of my car and then hit the underneath radiator. Remember my car was moving at 100km/h towards the direction where the stones bounced to.
I don't know how the physics professor can calculate the chances as there are many factors which can't be easily modelled in a computer laboratory.
I have driven around 400Kms so far and I think 90% of roads are fine. I would avoid highways where lots of construction trucks travel.

[kosdweeb]

I went with mad oil cooler skid plate

[fluffhead]

Meyer-Fabrication Oil Cooler Guard

[Ronin76]

Originally Posted by kosdweeb

I went with mad oil cooler skid plate

Same....

https://mad-us.com/mad-bmw-m3-m4-m2-...87-skid-plate/

[I Lupi 16]

Originally Posted by fluffhead

Meyer-Fabrication Oil Cooler Guard

Are you happy with the quality of the guard and how well it would protect the oil cooler in the scenario where a rock makes impact? Deciding between them and the MAD guard.

[TallGibbs]

Tag are you able to update th poll to include MAD? That seems to be the most popular one recently now that it is released and far lower cost than Mishimoto.

[RMB]

Meyer Fabrication ordered

[BroDoze]

I’ve got a brand new in box Zunsport oil cooler guard for cheap in the classifieds.

Just sayin’

[ajchoi]

I went with Zunsport but it's still sitting in the box in my office so far lol

[akumachu]

Originally Posted by Apue

I have received my M2 g87 about 2 weeks ago. I have already noticed some fins of the oil coolant at the bottom got dented after 1 week of delivery. It occurred after I drove a highway where many trucks and construction workers travel.
I have been very careful to keep good distance from front cars especially for RWD cars or trucks.
I have zero damage on the front radiators but I had several dents on the radiator at the bottom. I feel like you want to convince yourself to underrate the protection and I was thinking the same as long as I keep good distance from front cars.
And I learned I was wrong so I ordered and installed a zunsport guard after I had several dents.
I can figure out the tiny rocks and stones did not reach my front radiator but they bounced at front of my car and then hit the underneath radiator. Remember my car was moving at 100km/h towards the direction where the stones bounced to.
I don't know how the physics professor can calculate the chances as there are many factors which can't be easily modelled in a computer laboratory.
I have driven around 400Kms so far and I think 90% of roads are fine. I would avoid highways where lots of construction trucks travel.

If you were reading my post, thanks for reading.
I did not rule out the possibility, but rather was providing a scenario where the rock hitting the bottom radiator does happen. (see the rolling odd shape rock part of that post).

I definitely was not trying to "underrate" but rather to understand.
There were talks about the "tire squeezing rock" to hit the radiator and that was one scenario that I did not quite believe the likelihood.

Anyway, really thought this thread was dead!

[OLDFARTRACING]

On my 24 M2:
ABS plastic..."Car grill mesh" on Amazon. $30
tin snips.
Zip ties.
Clever fastening.
Installed in 20 minutes. 2 track days. No issues.

[fluffhead]

Originally Posted by I Lupi 16

Are you happy with the quality of the guard and how well it would protect the oil cooler in the scenario where a rock makes impact? Deciding between them and the MAD guard.

Quality and protection looks good. Nothing is 100% though.

[minn19]

Originally Posted by fluffhead

Meyer-Fabrication Oil Cooler Guard

I did the same/Meyer Fab.

Originally Posted by Ronin76

Same....

https://mad-us.com/mad-bmw-m3-m4-m2-...87-skid-plate/

This looks like a really good option too.

[Smilodon]

Looks like there are a lot of nice pieces for the protection underneath (Meyer Fab one looks really cool).

As far as the lower front openings, I'm surprised that with all the aftermarket replacement pieces for this area, that no one has incorporated a grill of some sort in these pieces. Might make for a cleaner solution.

Or, they have and I just haven't been following the latest aftermarket parts...