well i am finally going to lighten my car up . it has become mostly a track car that i drive on the street once in a while.
i have the nose off the car and the front bumper bar and honeycomb off. should i put a lightweight brace accross where the bumper mounted ?

 

I never did but mine is a track only car.

 

i plan on just hitting the factory support with a plasma cutter to lighten it up as much as possible. The nose can fold flat at high speed, so it needs some sort of reinforcement

 

Just how fast do you plan on going? My nose stays in place at 140 mph. The bottom spoiler may fold under slightly but I don't have any top end pictures to confirm it.

 

at 140 i've seen pics of the nose looking like a brick wall, can't be good for aerodynamics

 

Depends how much you remove. I still have the brackets on the inside of the headlights attached to the rad support.

 

mine hung down low enough to drag the track before i put some aluminum braces at the bottom, I have seen half track vids only but it looks ok now.

 

thats what i was lookin at doing . a aluminum brace accross the bottom of the bumper bolts holes and some braces going out to the bottom of the nose piece. and i was leaving in the brace between the headlights.

 

well, if you went with a sportcoupe bumper cover you wouldn't need it. they are stiff enough to not require any support underneath. i love having a sportcoupe!

 

What is the average weight of the front bumper support. I took mine off and it cant be more than 20 lbs, and its steel.

 

mine weighed in at 30lbs., steel bumper as well.

 

mines completely out and doesn't fold

 

front bumper and attaching hardware was 24 lbs on a scale when I removed mine, I had to put aluminum brace from the bottom of the core support to just behind where the front plate would go, nice and straight at 143mph so far

 

mine weighed 35lbs. on my digital scales with all the honeycomb stuff on it. so far i have droped 100 lbs. !! plus i am moving the battery to the back.
oh ya , how did you guys reattach your turnsignals? mine mounted to the bumper piece that i have removed. i was thinking just a couple of little angle brackets to hold them to the nose piece.

 

Just locate an aluminum support from the 82-84 and swap out the steel one. Minor trimming will be needed to the honeycomb part to fit it to the 85 and up years.

 

I have yet to see an aluminum one. I know a guy who has parted out probably 300 thirdgens of all different years and he's never had one either. Looking in junkyards for probably 8 or 9 years locally for the ever elusive aluminum support from 82-84

 

Check on Ebay. Myself and most of us in Stcok and Super Stock have these pieces. Most common in the Z28's but can be found in non-Z's too. Not as uncommon as you might think, these may also have been painted black so you may not have recognized it visually. When I picked up mine, that same boneyard had three of them in cars in the yard.

 

i too have never seen the aluminum bumper support. i thought about getting one, but i really just don't see the need on a car that barely gets driven.

 

Now I know why mine did not weight much when I removed it..I have a 84 sport coupe with the aluminum bumber. I just thought they all were aluminum.