Per tech inspection on a lot of offroad parks you need 'bolt on tow hooks with 1/2" grade 5 bolts or better'. Those stock plastic, foam and stamped sheet metal bumpers have little to 'bolt' hooks onto Time for custom bumpers!

 

Archemitis did all the fabrication work to my design. Pretty simple really; just some mid-grade steel, 1"x2" C channel, 2" OD pipe, 1/2" grade 5 bolts/nuts/lock washers, a B.A.D and a mean arc welder.

 

Decided to get some pictures of it on my lunch break. What fun are shots of it sitting in a parking lot or my driveway however? We need some shots in action!

 

Approach and departure angles improved:

 

Front Bumper with Clevis's:

 

Closer View of Front Bumpers:

 

This is a funny angle. The front of the car is on the left side. This is looking in through the fender well at the bracket bolted on going upto the tubes. Brackets are bolted on per tech inspection requirments and clevis is bolted on the bracket directly:

 

Rear Bumper with Wheel Stuffed:

 

Stragiht Shot of Rear Bumper:

 

Close up of guset next to bracket on pipes:

 

 

Can't wait to test them out at the offroad event in Iowa this weekend!

those look nice as hell after they are painted.

wow... sweeeet.

how much did that cost in material? im looking to do that on my loy (same body specs as gl i believe) to get rid of those picnic benches they call bumpers in japan.

wow... sweeeet.

how much did that cost in material? im looking to do that on my loy (same body specs as gl i believe) to get rid of those picnic benches they call bumpers in japan.

Picnic benches! I LOL IRL when I read that cuz its so true

 

Welp here's some numbers:

 

$45 in raw steel

$45 in hardware

$8/ea on clevis

$2/ea gloss black farm implement enamle spray paint

$3/ea weld'n stick

$11 for 1/2" drill bit (gotta hog out the original holes for the 1/2" grade 5 bolts)

 

*counts on fingers and tows...*

 

That's about $127 dollars. Now time was about 10 hours total (split over 2 nights) Things that helped A LOT was Archemitis being able to weld and using his dad's bridge port and B.A.D.

 

Some things that could have cut cost: I bought way too much hardware. I only needed 8 of those bolts/washers/nuts but I bought 13 of each. Cheaper Wal-Mart (.97 cent) spray paint. Using someone elses 1/2" drill bit.

 

((ps: still wondering what the B.A.D is? well the first word is Big and the last word is Drill ))

very nice. hope it works well for ya! first test is to get really stuck and see if the clevis's pull out. mine are on there really well. have fun at the park.

thats the one thing we were lookin at beefing up. but its still twice as thick where the clevis bolts, as where the whole bumper bolts to the unibody.

 

and maybe stick some more cross brases in there, between the two bars.

 

 

oh and a integrated skid plate, and headlight hoops, and...

but hes gotta get to iowa in two days =]

That looks pretty close to what I've got on my rig. MudRat (John) built them for me. There were going to be trailer hitch recievers originally, but if memory serves, we forgot to put them in until it was too late. The bumper turn signals were incorperated inbetween the two tubes and look pretty good.

 

I definately like that style and yours looks great. Nice work.

 

There are a couple of pic.s in my signature link. They aren't close-ups of the bumper, but you can see the front bumper enough.

that's ANGLE

 

I borrowed the Big Angle Drill, 1/2" single speed makita right angle drill, reversible with jacobs keyed chuck to drill the 4 holes to mount the carrier bearing, and I had only 1/2" between the ground and the drill, fun

 

I am "slowly" in the process of making my own, mostly all free

I like that A LOT. I've really been thinking about doing something like that on the back of my rig... now you've REALLY got me thinking . Great work.

actually the a is obvious, *****

kinda like a bfh

thats hot. i am thinking of fabing up something like that but a bit more aero dynamic for the rx. i mainly want it incase of any more bambi encounters. just imaging railing a deer at highway speed with a reinforced push bar. . i would hate to clean that up.