27 Reasons, to back date your bumpers |
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27 Reasons, to back date your bumpers |
arkitect |
Sep 16 2015, 06:33 PM
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JeffBowlsby |
Sep 16 2015, 08:49 PM
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914 Wiring Harnesses Group: Members Posts: 8,537 Joined: 7-January 03 From: San Ramon CA Member No.: 104 Region Association: None |
My perspective on 15 reasons why NOT to backdate the late-style bumpers, in no particular order, anyone is free to disagree. Assuming your car is not a race car or customized hot rod:
1. Loss of the cars originality - impossible to get originality back once its lost 2. Loss of the cars front/rear safety bumper equipment 3. Loss of the cars value – both resale and long term 4. Loss of the cars integrity – attempting to make a late-model 914 something it is not 5. Loss of time spent to perform the backdating 6. Loss of money spent to perform the backdating 7. Loss of early bumper parts that are only correct on early 914s 8. Loss of better aerodynamics of the late front bumper 9. Requires at least selective painting where bumper side brackets are removed 10. Requires mods to chassis for early front/rear bumper mounting hardware 11. Requires mods to chassis for early foglights mounting hardware 12. Requires mods to chassis for early horn(s) mounting hardware 13. Requires custom wiring harness to adapt early foglights to 75-76 chassis harness 14. Requires custom wiring harness to adapt early license plate lights to 75-76 chassis harness 15. Creates remnant holes through chassis from removed bumper shocks |
porschetub |
Sep 17 2015, 01:09 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,706 Joined: 25-July 15 From: New Zealand Member No.: 18,995 Region Association: None |
My perspective on 15 reasons why NOT to backdate the late-style bumpers, in no particular order, anyone is free to disagree. Assuming your car is not a race car or customized hot rod: 1. Loss of the cars originality - impossible to get originality back once its lost 2. Loss of the cars front/rear safety bumper equipment 3. Loss of the cars value – both resale and long term 4. Loss of the cars integrity – attempting to make a late-model 914 something it is not 5. Loss of time spent to perform the backdating 6. Loss of money spent to perform the backdating 7. Loss of early bumper parts that are only correct on early 914s 8. Loss of better aerodynamics of the late front bumper 9. Requires at least selective painting where bumper side brackets are removed 10. Requires mods to chassis for early front/rear bumper mounting hardware 11. Requires mods to chassis for early foglights mounting hardware 12. Requires mods to chassis for early horn(s) mounting hardware 13. Requires custom wiring harness to adapt early foglights to 75-76 chassis harness 14. Requires custom wiring harness to adapt early license plate lights to 75-76 chassis harness 15. Creates remnant holes through chassis from removed bumper shocks Wow Jeff you waved the big stick with this reply,one you missed out was how much better they look with big bumpers (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif) . Really the reason they get back dated is obvious to so many people wanting less weight, cleaner lines ,not sure about the safety issue ,as they did with the 911 it was only to get around the 5mph crash laws (1974 ?),BMW managed to ugly up there cars so bad with this. Car makers of the time that imported to the US had all sorts of not so nice solutions,same with smog control, however that's another topic. All these so called safety bumpers did @ the time was to cost the owner/insurers more in repairs. I can't see Mark @ 914rubber replicating them in a big hurry but I might be wrong. |
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