Front bumper bracket

[Charlesmaserati426]

That’s good prep for a long haul, will be good to take the car back to it’s motherland! I look forward to the day I can take mine on a long trip like that, still needs some paint touch up doing before I’ll take it on anything like that!

I always find pallets the most useful things, worth keeping a spare in the garage!

My friend should be here with the material tonight, so fingers crossed I can hopefully work on it tonight.

 

[Corranga]

Thanks for the drawings, I get it now. Following with interest as I'm sure I'll end up doing this sooner or later!
I'd love to get mine back to Italy, I've never been so having a local could be useful

My NC500 run this year was a sort of first long-ish distance run in a short period of time as a bit of a test. Need to figure out what's next

 

[Charlesmaserati426]

My engineer friend dropped off the material to me last night, he drives a Ferrari and first thing he said was....this is what you get for buying a poor mans ferrari lol....cheeky git! I can’t complain he let me borrow a digital angle gauge from his work!

Anyway...I ended up measuring the original broken bracket to get my flat length. I then cut out a sample from an old piece of steel strip I had spare, marked up and drilled out slots. I roughly knocked it into shape following what was left of the original and checked it against the bumper (it was ok!). I then made up a pattern board from the sample using smaller pieces from a pallet (so useful!). I wasn’t planning on crudely knocking my replacement into shape, so I ended up making a v out of steel to go in my hand press to get the bends and used the angle gauge to get the bends right! Cut out the new piece from the material, bent it, cut out slots, sprayed it up and mounted it this morning! I also cleaned up the original bolts with a wire brush fitting on my drill! Looks really good, happy with the replacement.

Good spot fernando!