Alright folks

Does anyone know where i can get hold of an Octavia WRC front bumper . Hoping to get a FMIC soon and think it will look it's best sat behind a WRC bumper.

Cheers

Si

hi mate, i think there are a few places that do replica's. try searching on briskoda and see what you come up with

i found this one clicky

You could of course spend and hour or two with your existing bumper and do some "wrecking" and make your own, see the piccie in the below thread:

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/showthread.php?t=22807&page=6&pp=10

Lee

Hum :confused: ......................maybe, looks good, but i'm not that talented unfortunatly. Might call Prospeed who run two Octy WRC's, they might have a spare haha.

Cheers

Si

had a look on the net for about 30 minutes last night and couldnt find anything, except a little model car some guy built himself, looked identical lol

You could of course spend and hour or two with your existing bumper and do some "wrecking" and make your own' date=' see the piccie in the below thread:

[url']http://www.briskoda.net/forums/showthread.php?t=22807&page=6&pp=10[/url]

Lee

what exactly is involved in getting that look?

Far simpler than you would imagine, but you need to way up whether you want the low impact crash protection the bumper bar provides, or take you chance and discard it as I did - I have since added upper and lower strut braces to counter any loss in front end stiffness caused by the removal of this lump of metal. I have noticed no increase in vagueness regarding steering etc.

Start by removing the bumper shell then using an hack saw take out the middle section of the bumper bar. This is not as daunting task as it may seem. A couple of good quality hack saw blades and a bit of elbow grease will see you cut through both sides within the hour.

Next there are a couple of points in the centre of the bumper bar which are spot welded onto the black steel pressing from which the lights, radiator and bonnet catch hang. Drill these out and your bumper bar is now removed. Warning - be careful when sawing/drilling not to cut/puncture the radiator/air con unit and connected pipe work. (see attached picture of completed job).

Now turn your attention to the bumper shell. Remove the black rubbing strip trim (number plate will need to come off too). Using a sharp stanley knife, slowly follow the natural shape of the hole you wish to make. This is not as hard as it sounds because the bumper moulding plastic is actually quite soft to cut through. Just apply pressure once you have made the initial cut and its like a hot knife through butter (well almost); no need for a sawing action.

Finally you then need to fill in the hole in your bumper shell with an appropriate mesh material (the stuff used here was stainless steel mesh from Halfords. This I suppose is the tricky bit with regards to cutting and forming it to shape and hiding the fixings behind the bumper. I will take a piccie of the back of my bumper to illustrate how I did this using steel strips and shelf-tapping screws, exapnding squirty foam and a couple of bits of uPVC plastic and then post it on this thread at a later date.

Hope this helps, any questions, send a PM.