I smashed up a front corner a while back and that bracket that holds the front of the fender got all smashed up. tried to hammer it as close to stock as I could but its still off.

I want to see what you guys are doing to replace that part with tubing and full front bash bars if you have them. thinking of re-doing my whole front end.

 

c'mon, I know some of you have done it

 

DK at Garage Life does them.

http://instagr.am/p/JidygZs0Zz/

http://instagr.am/p/Ji8C1Bs0Xt/

 

well, that's simple he didn't replace his fender brackets though. guess I'll have to make something simple myself. thanks

 

My bash bar but again nothing to help with your fender issue.

 

Heres mine. I ran out of long tubing to wrap under the fenders so I just made this to protect the V-mount.

 

thanks guys, just wanted to get an idea of how complicated people were making their bash bars too. seems not very, so thats good. as for my front fender supports, I'm pretty sure once I get a new fender I can just weld up a flat piece of semi thick sheet metal, cut some of the middle out, and then have another piece perpendicular to that for where the fender bolts to and cut the bolt locations into that. seems like it would serve its purpose. I think the OEM fender support is unnecessarily, geometrically complicated and my idea should be just fine, especially with a bash bar incorporated.

 

Tested it against alot of different things! Since it follows the bumpers shape it saves the bumper from getting crushed

 

^ holy **** thats nice! that's what I'm talking about. Is your intercooler bolted to the bash bar? thats an interesting idea, but in the event of a full front collision would it protect the intercooler/radiator? I'm going v mount with my rotary so I think I'll just stick around the origional bottom mount for my radiator and just slant it back. I think when I get my front bumper (car service hiro) I'm going to do something like this.

more pics/angles would be great too, love that thing.

another note: what headlights are you using? same to leftcoastdrifter, what headlights. I'm looking for something sleek and thin vertically like that but still functional for daily driving. I was thinking of using 4 rectangular hella driving lights, 2 for each bucket (although I am eliminating the pop up system). much appreciated, you all have some nice rides and good ideas/fab skills.

 

@ Sindregutt: do you have the s5 blinkers as head lights?

 

Just tacked in so there's scraps on too

 

What size piping are you using?

 

1.5 diameter .095 wall thickness DOM. Standard roll cage ****

 

thats a bad idea...

bash bars are there to soften the blow for the rest of the car. they are meant to be disposable. building a roll cage to hang off the front of your car defeats the purpose. all that collision energy is now going to make its way to the chassis crumple zones and wreck your frame/chassis.

 

Steven has a point here. U need something like what DK makes or what tevan showed us. Very simple, minimal triangulation, but solid welds so pipes don't start flying off and impale your radiator.

 

My headlights are s5 blinkers Gives you the yellow jdm style light and it fits perfectly! You can always change the color of the light if yellow/orange is to much ...

As for the bash bar.
Bash bar should be disposable in a perfect world but since i tend to crash into things every now and then i dont want to use small size tubing / thin wall thickness.

My bar is designed to perfectly follow the lines of the front bumper. It helps alot when bumping into cones, cars, tires, people ^^ etc..
it is standard rollcage tubing so it doesnt bend at all. Therefor ive made bolts that holds the lower part of the bash bar to a bar from the left frame to the right frame. In a event of serious crash my entire front will cut the bolts and bend under the car.
This might seem to be a bad ide but i`ll rather have a solid bashbar that can handle as much as the rest of the car than one i have to fix often.
I also want a bar to bend away (use energy) than crush the original energy absorbent zones of the front.

every setup is different but fab it so it follows the bumper and covers your coolers is pri #1

 

i can also use it as a jacking point =) The skid plate is just waterproof plywood! Perfect for grinding curbs..

 

^ that sounds like a decent design. I think I'll do a similar thing with the bolts and bending under in the event of a big collision (I drift) but use some slightly smaller and thinner tubing so it crumples a little too.

I'm assuming that you can't actually see with your "headlights" at night since they are s5 blinkers? as in daily driving. I'm an idiot that daily drives his drift FC lol. I like the look though.

 

I dont crash... Might bump someone but not head on collision at 100 mph


Do what u do... Idgaf

 

Zenki- not hatin'. just looking out. I don't know how much you know or what you use the car for. just seemed that you would want more give then roll bar ****. I thought the point was so it bends bfore the chassis does, absorbs collision rather then be hard and transmit it to body. I drift so using roll bar **** probably isn't for me since we get bangd up more often then say a road race car. most hits are of lower g''s too I'd gather as most are in tandem and with another vehicle going similar speed. my thoughts, if your design works for you it works. thanks for the contribution.

 

So u ask for pics of bash bar and fender bracket fabrication and now youre telling me about my setup....

Im not asking for opinions so dont give me yours... In plain words go f#*¡ yourself

 

lol'd

 

Im not being a Dick either...

 

fine. sorry I or we offended you zenki. now gtfo of my thread if you want to act like a child. I didn't understand this **** but thought you DO NOT use roll cage stuff. I guess I'll go kill myself for not understanding something and trying to straighton this out. god forbid you set me straight and explain why you used what you used after we made the comments on it. nope, lets just all keep the knowledge to ourselves. hell, lets just burn the forum down because I see this same **** way too often.

/rant, tired of the club

 

Zenki reminds me of why i dont read/post at this forum as often as before. He waste bandwith imho