Bumper pads, to delete or not?
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Car: 1986 Trans Am WS6/1991 Firebird
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Bumper pads, to delete or not?
With any luck my firebird will soon see fresh paint, but until then I'm trying to decide what front bumper to go with. The gfx are coming off, thats for sure. I have front and rear bumpers off of an 83' Trans Am I'm considering using, but while looking at my 86' Trans Am the other day I started thinking about keeping my 88' front bumper on the car, and just deleting the bumper pads. Without the bumper pads the bumper would like like a Trans Am bumper without the gfx molded in. So I photoshoped myself an example real quick. Heres my car, before photoshop, and after with the pads deleted, let me know what you think.
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Car: 1986 Trans Am WS6/1991 Firebird
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Re: Bumper pads, to delete or not?
Thanks for the feedback guys,
Agreed, I havn't quite decided how to approach it if I decide to go that route, my dad and grandfather were both proffesional autobody guys, so I have lots of help, but I never specialized in autobody myself. I'll get some ideas from them, but when the nice warm weather finally gets here I'll pop out the pads and get a good idea of what exactly I'm looking at doing.
Looking at it now though it seem a bit plain without the bumper pads, but the pads seem too much to me as well, might have to find a way to fill some of the space, maybe a tasteful "Firebird" decal on the driverside lower corner of the bumper?
Looking at it now though it seem a bit plain without the bumper pads, but the pads seem too much to me as well, might have to find a way to fill some of the space, maybe a tasteful "Firebird" decal on the driverside lower corner of the bumper?
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I am kind of thinking I have seen a stock production front bumper like the photoshopped one before but I can't find anything on the internet. Could be wrong, it would be a good question to ask in the history section. Anyways, if you want to try to make the bumper a reality, it might be better just to cut up a 85-90 T/A bumper, maybe not though.
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Re: Bumper pads, to delete or not?
I am kind of thinking I have seen a stock production front bumper like the photoshopped one before but I can't find anything on the internet. Could be wrong, it would be a good question to ask in the history section. Anyways, if you want to try to make the bumper a reality, it might be better just to cut up a 85-90 T/A bumper, maybe not though.
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Car: 1986 Trans Am WS6/1991 Firebird
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Re: Bumper pads, to delete or not?
I had considered the idea of finding a T/A bumper, but to be honest if I did I'd probably just slap the whole T/A aero package on the car, lol, plus if I did go that route it might be harder, considering I would have to cut off the bottom, then glue the air dam mounting lip up higher on the bumper. If I use my current bumper I only have to fill the voids where the pads were, which is still not simple. I can find urethane much like the 3M bumper repair kit but in a larger quantity and use mesh cloth as reenforcement and urethane over it. My only problem with that is the possibility of it cracking or seperating after the paintjob or something.
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Thats exactly what I have if I decide not to modify my 88 bumper cover, the 83' with the panels. I've seen your car on here a lot and love the mods you've done, I plan on doing a lot of the same mods, except I'm probably going to paint my bird yellow with silver decals.
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Re: Bumper pads, to delete or not?
Thats exactly what I have if I decide not to modify my 88 bumper cover, the 83' with the panels. I've seen your car on here a lot and love the mods you've done, I plan on doing a lot of the same mods, except I'm probably going to paint my bird yellow with silver decals.
If you have any questions or are looking for tips on anything I have done, feel free to email ( mnformula350@hotmail.com )or PM me
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Re: Bumper pads, to delete or not?
Dude, I have wanted to paint my car Yellow since I bought it back in March of 98. Someday........
If you have any questions or are looking for tips on anything I have done, feel free to email ( mnformula350@hotmail.com )or PM me
If you have any questions or are looking for tips on anything I have done, feel free to email ( mnformula350@hotmail.com )or PM me
Well I've decided when I have the time and the weather is nice I'm going to attempt the bumper pad delete, so when I get started I'll do a write up with plenty of pics.
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