[shikzachaser]

Are you going to do a composite bumper? If so are you doing the old style (like mine) or the newer EVOII look? I personally like the older one much better, especilly for the street. The molded lip on the newer one is way too low for anything close to normal driving. Karl had the lower lip available for the old one as a seperate piece which was nice. The side light placement on the one I have looked pretty bad as it was unfinished by the tire. The end of the light just kind of hung out. Also when I molded in the upper metal I did it w/ bolts in place that line up w/ the three stock holes in the fender to bolt it in place w/o drilling any holes. It works really well. If you have the ability to make composite molds etc, the instructions that came w/ the bumper are not going to give you much advice. Basicly it's fool around until it fits. You just unbolt all the stock stuff, take off the bumper shocks, use the old bolts to hold the bracket in place, mount everything as good as you can, take it off, paint it, put it back on. I had to use different (longer) mounting bolts and galvanized washers to shim things. It looks really close to a factory fit, way better than the GT Racing parts, but certainly offers nothing as far as crash worthiness. I pity the poor person that hits the car. I have almost $20K in mine, all documented w/ receipts and appraised by my insurance company. That does not include the car or labor. If someone hits it at all it will probably total it to the tune of close to $30K. Hopefully if that occurs I won't be the one at fault. I will also be installing a Supercharger setup late spring / early summer. I love the car, I actually sold both of my 911s and bought an M3 and redid the 944. The 944 with the suspension setup and the motor work to date will run rings around anything anywhere near it's pricepoint. The Fiberwerks stuff really looks good on it too, IMHO. If I knew how much I would actually wind up spending I would have picked up a super low mileage 968. My project started when it was time to change the belts. While doing that I just kept taking the car apart. A year later I added it up and was pretty shocked. It is however the cleanest best running 84 I have ever seen. I have only gone to one Porsche club event and it was as a spectator. I came out to the parking lot and there were 10-12 standing around it taking pictures and discussing what it even was. I popped the hood for them and got a pretty weird reaction.


Steve