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Originally Posted by ScottyS
Yeah, make sure you add stable mounts that are permanent, and then weld nuts to that so that you can simply use a pair of nice stout bolts that take 2secs to attach/detach the whole assembly with an air gun. Then put a lock on it, haha.
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How's this?
I think the two 3" wide 1/8" flatbar pieces were probably strong enough, but just to make sure there's no vibration, I reinforced it with 1/4" square tube. The main lateral bar is 1.75" 1/8" square tube... the same stuff I made my gate frame out of.
I welded 3/8" grade 8 nuts inside the lateral tube, and drilled some 1/2" holes so the plastic backs of the license plate holes dovetail into the bar which means the bumper can still hold a license plate, plus it lines everything up super easily as you install the bumper.
The only thing that sucks is that I think I may have made it just a little too short... I wanted the bumper to really pull in tight against the intercooler, but I think I might be about 1/8" too tight. But that's easy to fix by drilling a 1/8" piece of flat bar for a spacer between the frame and the bumper beam.
The bumper is, for the first time since the FMIC was installed, super stable on the car, and it doesn't have a horrible gap under the headlights.
Now all I need to do is fabricate that light bar... which should be even easier than the bumper support was. The only hard part will be waiting on powdercoating, and spending the money on some decent 4" diameter lamps. I think I'd want PIAAs, but the cost of one pair of 510's a bunch more than the cost of 4 Hella 500FFs.
I wish Hella made a 4" lamp.
