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).

[smg914]

Don,

It's been my experience that none of the fiberglass GT bumpers available today fit properly without some sort of modification. Even the factory fog light grills don't fit these bumpers without modification. I think the molds being used today for the fiberglass GT bumpers are molds made from old molds that were made from older molds, so what you get now are bumpers that are not quite up to specs.

For my 914-4 race car I bought front and rear GT bumpers from Auto Atlanta which had the brackets already attachted. They didn't fit perfectly but the car had some front end damage from a prior shunt which was part of the problem. For my 914-6 race car I bought the GT bumpers and the seperate brackets from GT Racing. I paid a body shop to attach the brackets to the bumpers using fiberglass. Even these bumpers had to be modified to fit the car properly.

Some problem area are: The top edge of the FG bumper and the very front of the trunk lid tend to overlap when you bolt the bumper to the front of the car. The 2 holes inside each fenderwell where the bolts go through to hold the front bumper on don't line up properly. Also the brackets don't seem to protrude enough to meet the front panel where they attact to the body. The dog bones would help this issue. Sometimes it takes a lot of bending, pushing, pulling, cutting and sanding to get the FG bumpers to line up.