Euro bumper

[Andy_K]

Was bored today, and had a spare VT* rear bumper laying round so decided to smooth off the exhaust recess and towing eye to smooth it a little. There were also holes along the bottom where a splitter was attached, so I filled them as well.

Heres pics of it so far.

In the beginning:
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/010308010.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/010308011.jpg

Lip cut off exhaust recess. Mesh was then bonded to the back of the cut out to make the shape and give some strength. Fibreglass was then laid over the mesh:
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/010308013.jpg

Towing eye glassed up:
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/010308014.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/010308015.jpg

Fibreglass built up in layers until flush with surrounding bumper:
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/010308016.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/010308017.jpg

Need to sand it and filler it tommorrow. Hope you like :y:

[DJsaxo]

Doesn't look to bad .

[saxowebby]

should fill in the line between the bump strip and the bumper make it 1005 smooth mate.

but looking good so far

[Elliott]

euro FTW!!

[craig180]

Nice work mate. Can't wait to see your motor finished

[james__vts]

look forward to see how it turns out.

keep us updated.

[Adam_Q]

Nice one man! Wanna see how well these comes out :)

Really want to do something like this to my front bumper but never used fibre glass

[Predator_R32]

looks good mate :y:

[Saxy1]

Good stuff mate.

[Andy_K]

Nice work mate. Can't wait to see your motor finished

Cheers craig. This won't be going on my car. Was just a little side project as I had a spare bumper that was no good for anything else lying round.

Will probably be up for sale if it turns out ok, along with a full set of smoothed vt arches and door panels

Going to rub it down today and filler it. Will post more pics up later when its done :y:

[Andy_K]

should fill in the line between the bump strip and the bumper make it 1005 smooth mate.

but looking good so far

Cheers, but don't really like the look when the strip is smoothed in as well. Like to leave a bit of the original shape.

Nice one man! Wanna see how well these comes out :)

Really want to do something like this to my front bumper but never used fibre glass

Its not too difficult really mate. Just takes time and a lot of patience

Everyone else - thanks for the comments

[Andy_K]

Finally got round to finishing this off today.

Rubbed all the fibreglasss back first:

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/010308009.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/010308008.jpg

I got it pretty smooth tbh, so only needed a little filler putting in over the fibreglass:

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/EuroBumper011.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/EuroBumper010.jpg

The I rubbed the filler back until it was completely smooth:

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/230308004.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/230308003.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/230308002.jpg

On the car:

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/Kers_01/230308001.jpg

I think it looks ok. Will be in the for sale section shortly :y:

[craig180]

Good work Andy. Looks the nuts. I reckon you'll have a good chance of selling it if you primer it up first.

[Emma_ZS]

Very nice :)

[Andy_K]

Good work Andy. Looks the nuts. I reckon you'll have a good chance of selling it if you primer it up first.

Will have to have a look if I have any primer left. Might be a job for tommorrow i think lol. Cheers for the comments.

Very nice :)

Thanks

[Jimmy-Boy]

Good job :y:

[P6URO]

thats what ill be doing to the front and rear bumpers on mine,only problem with what youve done is it will crack,you would be better off plastic welding the holes up as you need to make it as one before p40`ing and final stoppering up etc.altho thats imo it comes from nearly ten years worth of experience ;-)

[Andy_K]

I agree plastic welding is probably a better option, but i have ground out the plastic surrounding the hole on both sides and overlapped the glass then overlapped the filler again so it should be pretty solid. I've also used the mesh to stop the glass from flexing. Hopefully it'll be ok. Done a few bits and pieces now and never had any problems, so fingers crossed.