Re: Thoughts on moving 73-74 e-body bumpers in?
[Re: mike69rr]
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07/01/10 07:40 PM
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anlauto
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AMD makes it easy. Just go buy new 1970-71 Front and rear bumpers and the bumper brackets. Cuda's do not require a filler panel as mentioned above. You'll find the AMD bumpers are great for a driver and most likely cheaper then re-chroming your originals.
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Re: Thoughts on moving 73-74 e-body bumpers in?
[Re: cudabitten]
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07/03/10 01:02 AM
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Evil Monkey
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Hey, I've been thinking about this for a long time. I cant make up my mind about moving my bumpers in on my 74 cuda. I'm still in the middle of the restore, and I'll need to buy new bumpers sometime soon. Pretty sure I will nix the rubber bumperettes in place of the smaller ones in the rear, and none in the front. Just looking for your opinions. PS. Just making a driver. Thanks.
I did to my 74 Cuda exactly what you are thinking of doing to yours. I drilled a new hole in the front bumper brackets to pull it in (there was one factory hole on each side of the brackets that lined up so only one hole per side needed to be drilled), and took the front bumperettes off. On the rear, I fabricated some bumper brackets by using a torch to heat and bend some quarter inch steel bar, and drilled the mounting holes. It did take a little trial and error, but not too much. I then went with the small chrome bumperettes from a 70 Cuda. I think it looks much better this way. The only problem with doing it the way did is that you can still see where the old bumperettes mounted on the bumpers - there are some indentations from the edges of the old bumperettes in the bumpers, and the chrome on the bumpers is much nicer where it was protected by the bumperettes. However, if you are getting new bumpers this shouldn't be a problem. I believe I also had to drill new holes in the rear bumper to mount the 70 bumperettes, but the bumperettes covered over the old bumperette holes, so the old holes are not visable.
You can also just get 70-71 Cuda bumpers and brackets, I believe they mount right up with no fabrication needed. They are much lighter - the later bumpers have a heavy inner bumper - but those inner bumpers can help reduce damage if you get in a wreck. I was in a wreck in the late 90's that probably would have totaled my Cuda if not for the inner bumper, and it did total the Toyota that caused the accident. That's something to keep in mind if you're just making a driver and aren't too concerned with the added weight.
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1998 Neon
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Re: Thoughts on moving 73-74 e-body bumpers in?
[Re: ResQ911]
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06/05/17 03:57 PM
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I did this too. I used my '74 bumpers AND brackets. Redrilled the front brackets like mentioned. I posted some pics in this thread: Snug Your Bumpers Up Cut, overlapped then welded rear brackets to shorten them up. I then used the nice chrome bumperettes to fill the holes in valance where those huge and ugly 5 mph bumperettes were. I had to make the mounting brackets for those as no factory bracket would allow the 70-71 bumperettes to line up nicely on the '74 bumper. I have sets of the cuda bumperettes and mounting brackets for them if you need. I thought maybe cuda stuff could be modified to work but never used them. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beer.gif" alt="" /> I realize this is an old post (actually found it googling for ideas ) but just curious about your procedure. Did you delete the inboard brackets? I found that they hit the frame ends before it moves an inch. I am moving them 2". What about the reinforcement bar? I considered deleting this too but it seems just using the outboard brackets and no reinforcement, it wouldn't take much of a bump to really booger up the bumper. I'm done with the rear (Easy, I just cut the brackets and welded in a piece of 2" tubing that I had drilled to bolt up to stock holes.) I will post the whole project on my "Member's Projects" thread when complete. Anyway, thanks for any input. Hope ResQ911 sees this Image of front: just hanging on bracket. Need new bumper bolts...
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Re: Thoughts on moving 73-74 e-body bumpers in?
[Re: Scott Carl]
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06/06/17 10:35 PM
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I did this too. I used my '74 bumpers AND brackets. Redrilled the front brackets like mentioned. I posted some pics in this thread: Snug Your Bumpers Up Cut, overlapped then welded rear brackets to shorten them up. I then used the nice chrome bumperettes to fill the holes in valance where those huge and ugly 5 mph bumperettes were. I had to make the mounting brackets for those as no factory bracket would allow the 70-71 bumperettes to line up nicely on the '74 bumper. I have sets of the cuda bumperettes and mounting brackets for them if you need. I thought maybe cuda stuff could be modified to work but never used them. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beer.gif" alt="" /> I realize this is an old post (actually found it googling for ideas ) but just curious about your procedure. Did you delete the inboard brackets? I found that they hit the frame ends before it moves an inch. I am moving them 2". What about the reinforcement bar? I considered deleting this too but it seems just using the outboard brackets and no reinforcement, it wouldn't take much of a bump to really booger up the bumper. I'm done with the rear (Easy, I just cut the brackets and welded in a piece of 2" tubing that I had drilled to bolt up to stock holes.) I will post the whole project on my "Member's Projects" thread when complete. Anyway, thanks for any input. Hope ResQ911 sees this Image of front: just hanging on bracket. Need new bumper bolts... I had to notch a small hole on the inside of my front bumper brackets where it contacted the frame rail, put the reinforcement bars up into the garage rafters.
1973 challenger Dana. 4 speed. Low deck.
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