weight reduction VFN frontend
weight reduction VFN frontend I wasn't really forsure where to post this but since the main reason to do it would be weight reduction, I thought it would fit better here. I searched for this but really didn't find anything. Does anyone have experence with the full fiberglass frontends and rear bumper's from VFN, I was looking at these piece's for my car and was wondering how much of a weight saving's I could make by installing them and How good the fitament of the peice's are and if the quality of the parts are good and how hard they are to install as I would still need headlights, which I assume would just be some work with the old cut off wheel. Do they bolt back in on the factory points?
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The do not mount to the original mounting points and need custom mounts/stands made to mount them at least from the ones I saw on the tube chassis cars, but your best bet is to ask VFN about the mounts...
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I wasn't really forsure where to post this but since the main reason to do it would be weight reduction, I thought it would fit better here. I searched for this but really didn't find anything. Does anyone have experence with the full fiberglass frontends and rear bumper's from VFN, I was looking at these piece's for my car and was wondering how much of a weight saving's I could make by installing them and How good the fitament of the peice's are and if the quality of the parts are good and how hard they are to install as I would still need headlights, which I assume would just be some work with the old cut off wheel. Do they bolt back in on the factory points?
It's certainly not a bolt on part that I can guarintee you. Weight wise they are alot lighter, but with the amoutn of work it takes to get them on the car looking right and fitting right, and the amount of fab work it stops most people from ever doing it.
I have seen a complete vfn 200x camaro, and it was pretty damn good but on a full tube chassis car. To put the nose (this one was the extended one for a longer wheelbase) on a stock unibody car, would be a TON of work. Lighter absolutely, but alot of work that would really need to be done by someone with alot of experience with that type of thing, and even then it may not be perfect to what the stock stuff was.
It's easy to put all that stuff together on a tube chassis car since you have nothing to base what it looks like off of, but on a factory unibody car you may not be happy with the fit, unless the installer is an absolute perfectionist and have a TON of time
I have seen a complete vfn 200x camaro, and it was pretty damn good but on a full tube chassis car. To put the nose (this one was the extended one for a longer wheelbase) on a stock unibody car, would be a TON of work. Lighter absolutely, but alot of work that would really need to be done by someone with alot of experience with that type of thing, and even then it may not be perfect to what the stock stuff was.
It's easy to put all that stuff together on a tube chassis car since you have nothing to base what it looks like off of, but on a factory unibody car you may not be happy with the fit, unless the installer is an absolute perfectionist and have a TON of time
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we found that out on someone's car...took 60+ hours of fiberglass work to make it fit...
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Absolutely. VFN stuff for the most part generally fits pretty well. I have a hood of theirs sitting here waiting to go on, initial looks it should be pretty close.
None of them are perfect though, and all are built with the intent that trimming and fitting will be needed.
None of them are perfect though, and all are built with the intent that trimming and fitting will be needed.
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Sorry I didn't list my car it's a 95 z/28 haven't wrote in my sig yet, I'm kinda new to this forum. I kinda figured the full front was more or less a piece for someone building a tube car but It would look Damn sweet, I think I will just push that to the back burner for now as a way future project. I still got more than enuff weight that needs to be cut off the car now before I need to get into glassing the front end. thanks for the replies
