Fabricating bumpers.... making exhaust cutouts. (read this!!. thanks)

[95CobraStang]

This is hard to explain

I want to take a bumper without exhaust cut-outs, and put them in. However, I do not want to just cut it out and leave it at that. I want to have it angle in and have a finished and clean look to it.

How hard is it to work with the bumper material and add on to it? This is a little project that I want to take on, and if it is doable, then ill do it. I think the finished project will look really nice!!!! I guess at the very least, I could take really thin metal, bend and cut it into the shape im looking for and slide the bumper in to it....i'd rather not, though.

I circled the angled finished look that i was talking about right here:

By the way, I'm not talking about turning a v-6 bumper into a v-8 bumper...it's a little different than that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!! This will be fun if it works

 

[tarch]

This is hard to explain

I want to take a bumper without exhaust cut-outs, and put them in. However, I do not want to just cut it out and leave it at that. I want to have it angle in and have a finished and clean look to it.

How hard is it to work with the bumper material and add on to it? This is a little project that I want to take on, and if it is doable, then ill do it. I think the finished project will look really nice!!!! I guess at the very least, I could take really thin metal, bend and cut it into the shape im looking for and slide the bumper in to it....i'd rather not, though.

I circled the angled finished look that i was talking about right here:

By the way, I'm not talking about turning a v-6 bumper into a v-8 bumper...it's a little different than that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!! This will be fun if it works

this would be tite for a center exhaust and a V6 bumper

other than that i can't imagine what would need something like that... aside from the earlier Sn95's

 

[caballo]

My guess is you would need to have at least two bumpers or one bumper and a lot of body filler....

I would say to take the "donor" bumper and cut out those cut outs and leave a good amount of the rest of the bumper around the cutout for cutting/trimming/blending and then cut a small area where you'll want the cutout to go and then decide on placement, trim to fit, and then blend/fill it in... prime and paint.

 

[95CobraStang]

So it's possible, anyway? With body filler and what-not...

 

[tarch at school]

So it's possible, anyway? With body filler and what-not...

everything is possible

 

[mustang70]

It's possible. You might want to try making a mold for the shape you want. Then use fiberglass to make the piece that you want.

 

[Hoppy]

You can do it no problem.

When my car was getting flamed at Santini's, some import car was in for a magazine (tech) shoot doing essentialy what you desire.

They took a Corvette bumper cover as a donor and patched a couple of pieces on to the import car's bumper using a binary polyurethane epoxy material. It was dispensed from what looked like a caulk gun that had the two tubes of material (urethane filler / catalyst) that was manually pressured and then mixed in the tip. The bumper material was "roughed" up a grinding disk and applied with a tape that looked like drywall tape for better bonding of the material. The quickly drying material was applied and spread about. 5-10-minutes later it was ready to be grinded and sanded down, then prepped for paint.

I was impressed enough to order a Cobra bumper on the spot so that the letters could be filled, painted and installed along with all the other paint work I was having done.

You can see my filled bumper by using the link in my signature to my SoundDomain sight.

Hop