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Originally Posted by opticalfuel
Did you do the body work personally or have it done? I want to get some tips on mounting the front bumper FG. I have the same body work on my car: duck tail, RSR (74 style, short hood) front and back.
I can't see the rear bumper on yours, but I assume it is like this:
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I got the car with screwed-on fiberglass flares and re-did them with three times as many screws plus a beading strip to highlight rather than conceal that they were added. Also trimmed the rearmost part of the rear flares, to look a little better.
Your guess on the rear bumper was right on. What I did to mount the front was create flanges for the top of the bumper to sit on and add bolts through the flanges in front of the wheelwells -- both on the steel and on the 'glass. In other words, all the fastening was along the top endge of the bumper. Had I finalized the car to track-ready, I'd probably have added lightweight braces from the bottom edge of the front corners back to the tub.
On the rear, I replicated the factory bumper shocks using PVC tubing and galvanized fencepost clamps to attach to the bumper. Also made a long flange to hang the center and did the same flange-to-flange attachment as in front.
Neither bumper was really "race weight," and the car had maybe 160 HP, so I didn't feel I needed a lot of bracing. Had they been lighter, or the car faster, I'd probably have gone to brackets and dzus fasteners.