I made this tonight to replace my factory bumper. Since I am putting my intercooler on the front of the car, I wanted to offset the weight of it being there. I made this using 3/4" 16 ga. steel tubing. TIG welded it myself. Not bad for a beginner. The bumper cover fits just fine over it too.

Dude your car is absolutely ridiculous and I sincerely mean that in the best way possible. Are you still going to drive that on the street, because all will be forced to bow down. :hail:

That is a sweet set-up. A couple ?? for ya. Who makes that radiator? Is it a direct bolt in or are there some mods to be done? Also are you using the stock cooling fan arrangement. Thanks, and keep on fabricating

C & R does a large percentage of NASCAR radiators and they are almost local to me. I got the radiator for $250.

I DID send it back as it was too tall and wouldnt fit in the area for it. I dont have the AC compressor obviously so I dont know how it would fit with that in there.

Other than that, I have a thin 16" fan. When I had a vortech supercharger on the car, the crank pulley was deep and hit the fan so I changed. Dont know how stock pulley arrangement would fit with it but I bet it would clear fine.

Scratch that, try dropping 60 pounds off the front, with an aftermarket K-member!

Guido has already done that. Besides that, every little bit helps. I am having one built for my car also. Bad thing about it is, when you rely on someone else, it takes for ever and a day. The guy has had my sample I made out of brake tubing for 3 months and still hasn't gotten around to bending the tubing. A job that won't take 30 mins. and he has had it forever. That really sucks. Guido, car is looking good. What size radiator is that? I need to do the same thing. My engine compartment is running out of room.

Guido, that piece you removed is usually referred to as the "re-bar" (short for "reinforcement-bar").
A lot of people that have removed it (myself included) have noticed additional flex in the chassis. Without the cap on the end of the front sub-frame, often too much flex is allowed.
I understand that you've done a bunch of things to stiffen up the chassis, but you may want to look towards the lack of re-bar if you start to notice dimpled quarter panels, or wrinkled floor pans.

Good point. I will look out for that.

The radiator is 28" x 16" x 3"

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Guido

How much did your stock rebar weigh.

Thanks for the help.

Jerry

Guido

The stock aluminum Z28 re-bar is 11.9 lbs.
The steel re-bar must be very heavy to drop 22 lbs.

Jerry

Hmm wouldent a fiberglass bumber lose the weight to:lala: :lala:

Think you can make a glass bumper support that weighs less than 5 pounds? If so Ill put it on.

hey Guido does anyone make a turbo kit for thirdgens?? just kidding
I will start building a turbo 355(talk to Jimmy) what comapny would be good to use?
-Mark

Whered that aluminum inner come from ? Can those be purchased ?

i think the 82-84 cars had them. Just heresay though. Dont have any facts to back that up.