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Ok i'm looking into a front end before i leave for tuner bash and i was just looking for an opinion/quality imput from you all. so which one is it and a short lil reason why would help out alot thanks guys
andy's combat front bumper? or Invader style? |
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both these front ends require either the bumper support beam to be removed or the front to be modified (the back of the bumper must be notched out). if you were in a front end collision above 10MPH, your car would likely be totaled because there is nothing besides fiberglass stopping the collision from reaching the radiator support beams and more than likely bending the unibody. your car will no longer hold its crash safety rating making it as illegal as a racing steering wheel w/o being certified to remove the airbag. will you get pulled over by a cop specifically for not having it? no. but if you really were to piss a cop off and he wanted to write you citations for everything wrong with your car, he could possably impound it for that. like i said though, 99% of the time this doesnt happen, and i bet over 50% of bodykits for just about any car require some kind of modification to the 5MPH bumper setup (making it "illegal"). for piece of mind you could probably custom fab a new bumper support beam to not interfere with the kit, but it wont make it any more legal... unless you are really good at custom fabs and the cop doesnt notice it isnt the actual support beam.
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