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

95CobraStang said:

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

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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

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 said:

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

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everything is possible

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.

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