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| roundtwo |
 Sep 12 2025, 10:08 AM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 326 Joined: 9-February 20 From: Petaluma, CA Member No.: 23,905 Region Association: Central California 
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Anyone have experience with this bumber as far as fit and quality ?
It’s the Sierra Madre Porsche 914 GT Bumper Working on fitting a GT style lower valance as part of an oil cooler, oil cooler shroud, and air exit and valance project. I have a chrome bumper, but it’s kind of beat up. Will require cutting, restoration and then re-chroming. My rear bumper is chrome in excellent shape and both Bumper toppers are in very good shape. Exploring black fiberglass front and rear bumpers instead. I bought the best GT front lower, fiberglass valance. I could find but it needs considerable fiberglass work. I want to avoid that process with bumpers. Sierra Madre GT Bumper https://sierramadrecollection.com/products/...8BoCgv8QAvD_BwE  |
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| Cairo94507 |
Sep 12 2025, 10:21 AM
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Michael Group: Members Posts: 10,432 Joined: 1-November 08 From: Auburn, CA Member No.: 9,712 Region Association: Northern California
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Hi Todd - Hope all is well. Glad to see progress on your car.
For my bumper GT modification I took a slightly different approach. My front GT valance is steel, made by the shop that did my metal work. I mounted that to the car and created a template of the valance opening and sent that with my stock front metal bumper to Ben McFarland to have the bumper modified to match the valance. I think it came out very nice. The wrinkle was I sent it out to chrome and they did not do the best job. On my list of stuff to do is to pull the front bumper, maybe this winter, and send it out to a local (hopefully) chrome shop and have it re-chromed. It is always something, right? Good luck with your project. Knowing the level of detail on your car, I am sure it will look outstanding. Michael (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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| 914Wes |
Sep 12 2025, 10:27 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 42 Joined: 9-March 22 From: SO CAL Member No.: 26,388 Region Association: Southern California |
+1 for https://914-6werkshop.com/ Ben McFarland @mb911 modified bumper. Just got mine back and its perfect.
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| mepstein |
Sep 12 2025, 11:36 AM
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914-6 GT in waiting Group: Members Posts: 20,066 Joined: 19-September 09 From: Landenberg, PA/Wilmington, DE Member No.: 10,825 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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Ben is absolutely the guy to make a steel bumper. He’s done dozens of them.
Glass is glass. It always needs work. Even when they promise it’s plug and play. And it eventually cracks around the mounting holes. Glass is fine for a track car but will always have compromises for a road car. $500 is a bit pricey but that might just be the going rate today. |
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| racer914 |
Sep 12 2025, 01:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 96 Joined: 1-October 19 From: Keystone Heights, FL Member No.: 23,513 Region Association: South East States
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Ben did my front bumper as well and did an excellent job. I bought the Fiberglass lower valance from AIR and it needed all kinds of tweeking to get it to look right. I have a couple of front fiberglass bumpers to sell if you decide to go that route.
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| mb911 |
Sep 12 2025, 04:03 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 7,639 Joined: 2-January 09 From: Burlington wi Member No.: 9,892 Region Association: Upper MidWest
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I feel my price to do a steal bumper is really a value @$500. If making a GT tribute you paint the bumper black when done and it’s cheap way to have a good fitting bumper
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| mepstein |
Sep 12 2025, 05:24 PM
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914-6 GT in waiting Group: Members Posts: 20,066 Joined: 19-September 09 From: Landenberg, PA/Wilmington, DE Member No.: 10,825 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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QUOTE(mb911 @ Sep 12 2025, 06:03 PM)  I feel my price to do a steal bumper is really a value @$500. If making a GT tribute you paint the bumper black when done and it’s cheap way to have a good fitting bumper It’s a steal to do steel. |
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