front bumper mod : opinions
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front bumper mod : opinions
its justa photoshop for now,
ive already come up with aluminum brackets to reinforce the lower gfx/bumper if i do go ahead and cut out the center of the opening
the reason for doing this is well theres 2 reasons
#1 i have a large front mount intercooler and doing this would get me alot more air to pass over it.
#2 as above this will also allow more air to get to my radiator as well
i like it thgough once its done u will see my intercooler mounted up behind it so it wont be all black.
the onyl other problem i can thing of would be i need to find another place to mount my front liscence plate
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Re: front bumper mod : opinions
this is NOT my car.. i saved the image 'cause I thought it was badass.. but yeah..
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Re: front bumper mod : opinions
Looks great. I want an intercooler someday because they look sexy in the thirdgens grill like that. I wanted to remove that anyway and put some black mesh behind there to 'mask' things.
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Re: front bumper mod : opinions
with the bowtie in the middle is really cool, the intercooler serves as a "billet grille" kindof
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Re: front bumper mod : opinions
If you are really worried about the GFX vibrating at higher speeds you might need to make some sort of reinforcements. But when I hacked up one of my front bumpers from a parts car for Intercooler Fitment it seemed OK to me. It only got unstable after the crash beam was removed, then it was a little wobbly. But its not a bad idea to cut out that center for a front mount. Thats what I'm doing for one of my projects, except going a little more extreme than those pictures. I wanted my intercooler to be flush and its sized to take up the entire area with the center section cut out. Because I wanted my setup flush I had to cut more than most people would, maybe even a little too much. Its pretty extreme looking, I like it. I ended up deciding to use the Intercooler Pipes themselves for bumper support (since they will be welded piping).
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Nice to see my car gets some rep. I'll post pics of it with the SS hood and the black Z06s.
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