Schroeder
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I picked up stinger fiberglass front and rear bumper covers for weight savings on my '77 trans am. The rear cover fits pretty bad. The angle on the outside where the cover merges with the bottom of the quarter panels is wrong. The bumper cover is too wide by almost an inch at various places on the outside edge.
I am hoping I can get away with cutting a little splice on the bottom web where the side " wings" of the cover go out to meet the quarter panels, but I think I'm going to have to cut and splice this thing in 2 places. I'll have to cut somewhere in the middle of the straight section under the tail lights on the right side, and do the same thing on the left side. Cut, take the appropriate amount out to get a good fit on the outside, and re-splice together with fiberglass.
Is it possible to do this and still end up with a strong bumper cover? In a thread on another forum someone mentioned that they used a company called US composites. The website looks pretty basic. I was wondering if I just need to call them, describe my situation, and see what sort of bill of materials they can put together for me.
I probably also need to build up and reshape the radius where the bumper cover comes into meet the quarter panel under its tail extensions where houses the tail lights. Do I just build this up with multiple layers of fiberglass? Is there any way to do this sort of thing with the endura bumper? It fits a little better. The radii on it would still need built up, but I just asked somebody this week and another thread about how they did something similar on a nose piece on a GTO. They use some 3M plastic product. I have it listed in my private messages.
I have looked for YouTube tutorials on this. There are lots of videos every repairing fiberglass bumpers but it is usually on something that still maintains some form of attachment to the rest of the bumper. For example, it's like somebody hits a parking block and a section of the lower bumper is hanging off. They grind a v into the crack interface, and fill it with product to form it back to the large section of the bumper. I'm not sure that's entirely applicable here. I want to cut this thing All the way through in two places. It's probably less than a quarter inch thick.
I am hoping I can get away with cutting a little splice on the bottom web where the side " wings" of the cover go out to meet the quarter panels, but I think I'm going to have to cut and splice this thing in 2 places. I'll have to cut somewhere in the middle of the straight section under the tail lights on the right side, and do the same thing on the left side. Cut, take the appropriate amount out to get a good fit on the outside, and re-splice together with fiberglass.
Is it possible to do this and still end up with a strong bumper cover? In a thread on another forum someone mentioned that they used a company called US composites. The website looks pretty basic. I was wondering if I just need to call them, describe my situation, and see what sort of bill of materials they can put together for me.
I probably also need to build up and reshape the radius where the bumper cover comes into meet the quarter panel under its tail extensions where houses the tail lights. Do I just build this up with multiple layers of fiberglass? Is there any way to do this sort of thing with the endura bumper? It fits a little better. The radii on it would still need built up, but I just asked somebody this week and another thread about how they did something similar on a nose piece on a GTO. They use some 3M plastic product. I have it listed in my private messages.
I have looked for YouTube tutorials on this. There are lots of videos every repairing fiberglass bumpers but it is usually on something that still maintains some form of attachment to the rest of the bumper. For example, it's like somebody hits a parking block and a section of the lower bumper is hanging off. They grind a v into the crack interface, and fill it with product to form it back to the large section of the bumper. I'm not sure that's entirely applicable here. I want to cut this thing All the way through in two places. It's probably less than a quarter inch thick.