Who has one which is a good fit?

Any pics and also who has one for sale, new or 2nd hand?

 

buy a proper one

 

I have - but its probably worth more than the car im putting it on

I want a decent rs500 front bumper so I can keep mine safe - or i may just have to bite the bullet and get the std 3dr fibreglass copy front bumper repaired, but would rather have a 500.

 

theres one in my workshop that belongs to a workmate in primmer never been fitted!

 

Andy - pm me how much he wants for it and i will come and pick it up as you aint that far away

 

Ronnie Amis has a fibre glass 500 one on his car Ran


Luciano

 

Jimmy - yes i know he does - but unless he is taking off and selling it i dont see how i will get it. Also his one started out as an original and he had the air intake modified which ended up costing a fair bit i imagine so not far off original 500 price.

 

Didn't know you'd got another 3dr Ran?? sly old fooker you

 

i have 2 one is a bad fit and the other looks ok , got it on ebay a few months ago Ł120,just looked at my history but cant find it .

 

Pete

Righthooker - i would prefer one that fits what have you got on your motor? gen or rep?

I wouldnt have bothered about putting a bumper on it if the one that is on there didnt need repairing

 

we will be working with ronnie amis later this year on developing a GOOD QUALITY grp 500 front bumper and rear spoiler which will give the benifit of the 500 looks but not the price so owners arnt afraid of de-valuing their cars on the track, as you say leave the genuine parts at home for shows etc.

Thanks

Raj

 

Mines an old glass one Ran...Fit and forget

When ronnie needed one i think by a process of elimination we worked out mine was from "smith and deacon " as it had the 500 splitter as part of the bumper..My painter didnt moan too much so it cant have been that bad..The glass ones tend to be over sized so you can push the wings out to help with larger rubber

 

On my black 3 door i have genuine , for the white track car i bough tone of here but it is to flared when it wraps around the wings and sticks out , so i bought one off ebay just before crimbo seems to fit well when offered up. will try to find the link .

 

My first fibreglass bumper was from smith and deakin as broadmoor found out for me,

it was a perfect fit! But it got smashed to pieces on track,

the one I have now I bought second hand and the guy couldn't remember where he got it from. But it was a shocking fit!! Had to do lots to get it to fit nicely,

as raj said he will be making a fibreglass front bumper and will be working on getting it a perfect fit,

 

Pete, he hasn't say no more


Luciano

 

nice one guys

Steve thats the type of pic i was looking for as i have been offered a similar bumper with the spoiler already on and was wondering how it would look all painted up but yours looks perfect to me

 

Really looking forward to this

 

Raj/Ronny any update on these bumpers - interested to see if any progress has been made

 

Morning mate,

I shall give Ronnie a text now and see if he can get the smashed bumper over to us as I know this was a perfect fit before it got damaged. We are moving to new premises before xmas but should be able to get the moulds knocked up very early in the new year

 

nice one - look forward to it.

good luck with the move.

Also - did you get my details via that link you sent me

 

Hello Ran

yes sorry for the delay in sending it, I emailed Quotation QUO-1110212 over to you via your hotmail address this morning,
the exact time it was sent was sent: Fri 05/11/2010 07:29

Check me out lol

 

I'm still after a good one , got one off eBay but its far, far to wide for the car. Wings would need to be pulled out a few ft to fit.

 

They are just so fragile, id be trying to find a genuine normal 3 door one instead if I were you

 

What sort of price will they be ?

 

Varies SO much, anything from about 200-500

At least it can take a few knocks then though.
My genuine 500 bumper took a big whack when my car was written off and there was only a slight crack on the bumper which we repaired, if that was a fibreglass one it would be in a million pieces.

You pay more for the original ones, but at least they stay worth something long term and dont ever need replacing unless you have the sort of accident that rights the car off anyway!

 

Chip - i know what you mean about knocking a genuine 500 bumper and it staying in one peice - been there and got the T shirt

thing is tho i dont want to spend 200 quid on a genuine bumper as i prefer the 500 looks and if it smashes fuck it - nothing a bit of cable ties that the drift boys use cant fix

 

poser

 

cunt

 

well yes obviously

 

on another note, although the genuine bumper may be stronger in the first place, its a lot harder to repair, with grp you can cut pieces out and rebond/gel patches in to look as good as new. Im guessing the ford bumper is made from abs or pp so once moulded it will be very hard to repair with a strong bond, I would of though only plastic welding of 3m plastic adesive would do? but this would leave an obvious repair which would sort of defeat the idea of having nice original parts.

I looking forward to making one of these now

I have text the kid ronnie so waiting for a reply, if anyone else has some damaged front bumers which fitted well then get in touch

 

Raj - I ahve an original bumper if you need to use it - pm me if interested

got the genuine splitter attached - bumper needs a slight repair tho - nothing major

 

is it a 500 bumper? if not what are the exact differences etc

Cheers Ran

 

yes genuine rs500 bumper with a genuine rs500 splitter attached

 

Moulding in the splitter too would be genius, partly because it would be an intergrated part so couldnt be robbed as easily and partly cause each would help to strengthen the other too.

Really good idea IMHO

 

chip another benfit is it would work out cheaper as you wouldnt need to fork out additional monies for it

 

indeed

 

cheers chip thats good food for thought, will do 3 moulds, 500 bumper, splitter and a combination of both

 

 

If you are going to take a mould off a genuine one, make sure you do it with the bumper on the car as they flex like mad and are a bitch to get straight even on a car, otherwise the mould wont be true and the finished rigid copy will end up a crap fit

 

Would it be cheaper to repair the splitter part of the bumper if it was built in , than just getting another splitter and bolting it on the bumper in the event of a knock .
Splitters are very easy to whack and smash off , so wont it be worse if it's part of the bumper?