GT Racing Fiberglass Front Bumper, How to install? Options

[dbledsoe]

I'm doing a change out on my 75 FRONT BIG RUBBER BUMPERS to a GT Racing fiberglass front bumper. The question is, how the heck do I mount it? What does/should it attach to? I have never seen a pre 75 bumper mounting system so have no idea what one should look like. I have read reference to "dog bones" here but have no idea what they are.

Does anyone have any pics of the glass mounted front bumper that shows mounting points. Certainly I can figure something out but your experiences would be greatly appreciated (what I'm likely to come up with may not be sufficient to hold the bumper for more than a few hours of running, and that ain't good because mine is a street car).

[dbledsoe]

QUOTE (smg914 @ Oct 8 2005, 11:50 AM)

Unfortunately, as you found out, the fiberglass GT bumpers from GT Racing are sold without mounting brackets installed. The brackets must be purchased separately and you have to figure out how and where to install them. This isn't going to help you now but there are other vendors that sell GT bumpers with the mounting brackets already installed which sure makes the project easier.

SMG914,

Thank you for the information. My GT Racing glass front bumper isn't a GT model (it's a standard 914 bumper in glass), but I suspect that makes no difference in what is supplied by GT Racing and what's required to mount it. There are brackets, if you can call them that, molded into the bumper but they don't mate up with anything I can see. I suspect, as a minimum, the dogbones would be required to even get close to them fitting. Ahhh, such has been life for me. Live and learn the hard way.

I'll make this bumper work, somehow, but if you can provide the name of another vendor with a properly made front bumper I would appreciate it because I have another 914 I plan to convert to glass bumpers.

Thank you for your help. It is greatly appreciated.

Don