The way I understand it, the bumpers are more for low-speed impacts than anything but I could be wrong. I really don't think it will make the car substantially less safe. However, I certainly wouldn't remove the side impact bars from the doors on a daily driver!

If I weren't so lazy, I'd have pulled off both my bumpers on my DD and not thought twice about it. I'm an emergency responder, too, so I've seen and worked all the gory wrecks in the world.

 

Damn you.

Now I will have to reconsider this in the future.

 

I've got the BMR Kmember and it's a great piece. As others have mentioned, the weight savings is really just a bonus considering how much room you gain to work around. Installing/removing headers is a 30 minute job with an aftermarket Kmember.

Mike

 

You can usually control who you hit, but not who hits you. That's why I took out the front bumper support and not the rear.

Not to mention the rear bumper support is good weight - over the rear tires.

 

Joe how bad does your front bumper cover flex without the supports? I want to take mine out but dont want it to sag or spider crack the paint from flexing.

 

you can run the Burkhart tubular front bumper support, it's a nice piece. I've had it for a couple months now, it weighs about half the factory piece. i'm also running their rear bumper support for additional weight savings.

 

As long as you don't break or lose any of the clips the sag is really not noticeable. The gap between the bumper cover and the hood opened up MAYBE 1/16th of an inch.

 

How much is the burkhart front and rear support. Think about building my own. looks to damn easy.

 

It's about 250 for the support wit PC. It is not as easy as it looks. If it was we would not have sold several hundred of them.

 

As far as I know they dont have a LT1 Firebird front support yet.

Thanks Joe, Im still thinking about it.