HEAVILY Modifying This FiberGlass Front Bumper for the Subaru Swapped Porsche! | Blasphemy Build 66

[@kingcal53]

High five 🖐🏾 from the UK. Good to see you back.

[@bobscheller6516]

Good to rewatch this video. I am fighting the same issue now with a fiberglass rear bumper. I was going to call a friend that does body work to see if I can avoid cutting it up. Looks like I am going to start cutting 😊. Great tip of doing it on the car with the straps to keep it aligned. That makes me feel much more comfortable it will come out right. ✋

[@imremarloes]

Started to miss you… good to hear you are well👊🏽

[@RichardLangis]

Was wondering where you went, glad you're back!

[@pamacleod]

Welcome back mate, glad to hear you are well and trucking on 👍🙂

[@Hangin_With_Shane]

✋ Hand Slappy High Five Man! Welcome back Michael, good to see some new Rennch and Merch!

[@reedjacksonmaccom]

Like the Goldmember toit fitment

[@robertmarx8946]

I usually glass in a "L" shape fiberglass bracket to the bumper and bolt it to the side where the factory brackets are. Since it looks like there is no longer and metal there because of cooling ducting, I would glass in a squared off "u" shape bracket and bolt it to the front as you are doing with the steel brackets. You don' t need much to hold it as it is very light.

[@mattedwards4164]

Nice to see you back," toight " like a tiger. Smiles when you managed to get one of the funniest film words in from ........ ? ✋

[@MakerNZ]

great ta see ya back.

[@markallen8679]

I assume that the OEM bumper mount frame locations are not available due to your radiator installs, you might consider two lower mount locations as well, at the bottom of the inner fender, slam panel seam. That should minimize flex of the bumper at speed and reduce the strain on the upper mounts you just fabricated. Awesome project! keep on keepin on!

[@vogs72]

There are special bolt and nut pads for attaching to fibreglass- they’re mounted on a perforated pad you panel bond to the fibreglass ‘bigHead’ I think.

[@EffGee-ov7bk]

High Five ! Great job !

[@musclecarczarig4003]

Stuart Smalley for the win!!!

[@norgs79]

✋🏻 Loving the build so far ✋🏻

[@davidcollins9350]

Welcome back, glad to hear you are well. Breaking down barriers is what your build is all about. Keep up the good work and look forward to ep 2

[@yjmsrv]

Good work on that one Michael- I know you were not excited to do it- but it was inspiring to watch it come out that nicely!

[@Czochara84]

Is the primer job done?

[@tomgardner6294]

Love the way it’s shaping up!

[@alexanderdenette5101]

I was seeing you get ready to drill and just bolt through the bumper and was going to suggest adding some fiberglass or metal tabs fiber glassed in the back of the bumper to pick up on the radiator openings and then you finished by talking about doing just about exactly that.

[@rsrguy]

Keep it rollin👍

[@michaelanderson3771]

👋 keep heading forward Michael. How long till Sema 21?

[@keithmason5584]

You should of welded your 2 brackets to a flat bar and fibreglassed the flat bar onto the bumper so it can flex on road conditions 👍

[@justintreadway]

👍 I know you have probably bonded those brackets by the time you read this but try drilling a a bunch of small holes in the mounting surface so the epoxy squeezes through. I hear that 3M panel bond works really well for mounting brackets to fiberglass. Keep up the awesome work.

[@badger_claws]

Nice job 🤚

[@911highvoltage3]

Ahhh. Daily Affirmation. Anytime I record a video, the first 40 seconds of his Michael Jordon session is my motivator..... Long live Stuart. Good to see back!

[@rodneynelson3862]

High Five! Awesome, great video. Very timely for me as I am installing all of my body panels including the front fiberglass S bumper that has no mounting brackets. So, I will need to sort something out. Hopefully after watching Part 2 something will click.

[@ericcarrington9643]

Cool video

[@shawnstanford264]

I'm watching Michael cut the fender TOWARD his thigh with a SAWZALL, and I'm thinking, "Well, the title for this vid didn't say, 'I sliced my scrotal artery and ended up in the E.R.!', so I guess he'll be okay."

[@robertferrell8518]

Great👍👍

[@toddatstone_city_outlaw8714]

✋glad your back, the withdrawals sucked. As Nathaniel Rateliff says, Son of a Bitch!

[@jameshatfield5811]

Fiberglass- the other white meat :-) I would rather do body work any day than work on anything mechanical on a Porsche. You did well your first time out; but you are a natural on all this stuff. When you were cutting the first 1/2 of the bumper it looked like a fish that was getting electrified - jumping all around trying to stay on the thing called a work bench; not funny when the other 1/2 vibrated and fell to the floor. I modified a 1986 RUF front and rear bumpers for my 1986 911 (modified) Carrera and I didn't want to skimp on strength. The clamp on the outside of your bumper (I know it was temporary) was smart but I think you needed more permanent strength on the back side and I think the resin and the fiberglass wasn't long enough; too small of an area. The high points should have been sanded (I don't remember seeing that) so when you put on the mat you have a tighter connection. I also think the fiberglass cloth and the mat needed to be extended longer to about 14"- others might say this is excessive and I would say that all of the connections and modifications I have done to fiberglass parts over the years have never cracked or broken. However you say it, over kill or just doing a little more is peace of mind for the future. I agree with Justin Treadway below (scroll down) about drilling holes in the bumper so the resin oozes into those holes, it's like having 1/32" tiny hands holding on. Good that you put on the mat and the glass as some DIY people short cut this process and just put fiberglass cloth. After all the glass and mat is completed I grind off all of the high points and paint the whole back side of the bumper. O.K. I will give this to everyone that sounds excessive, but I am sure they do that kind of work at Canepa car restoration in Scott's Valley, CA My comments were NOT to puff myself up but to give Michael and others reading this hints on fiberglass work that I have been doing for 30 years. "A garage without a Porsche is just a dark hole" - Walter Rohrl - Porsche Development

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