Rubber bumper top 914-503-023-10 70-74, Same texture as the new rears in other thread Options

[Mikey914]

I've been asked by a few of of you to look into making these. The tooling is not inexpensive, but there apears to be a need to produce these. We're making some improvements, all the metal in the bumper will be stainless. We will also provide the nuts with nylon lock nuts. The rubber will be slighly harder. I will have the first samples in about 4-5 weeks. Production will be about 2 weeks after.

These sell at $335.

Pictures of the parts will be posted as soon as they're ready. More pictures added on page 3 also.

[Mikey914]

Mike,

Your other rubber products are top notch from what we have seen so far...no doubt this will be too. Can you describe the details? I agree with you on the ethics of not producing a part that is still available OEM...that has a lot of integrity.

I assume these will be molded and identical in dimensions? Why will the rubber need to be harder? Will the texture be like the original or smooth? What differences if any from the OEM part?

These will be molded in identical dimensions, the hard part was finding a candidate that was in the correct dimensions to make identical to. Most of the samples I came across were warped, or split, which we could work with, but Craig had a pristine one he let me borrow. This helped speed up the process by not having to extrapolate what the shape should be.

The rubber would not have to be harder, but it will not absorb water as readily, and would actually be more abrasion resistant. It's the texture will be like the OEM, not smooth and shinny like a fiberglass part. The idea is to keep it as close to OEM as possible making improvements where they make the most sense.

To the observer the only way to tell the part is not OEM is that the mounting studs will not rust and the Porsche stamp will not be on the part. Some of the cavities on the bottom may be slightly different, but those will not be seen.

Hope that answers some of the questions.