02-26-2014, 05:27 PM | #1 |
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Front bumper carbon fiber?
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Is the front bumper on a 1M carbon fiber? If not, could a CF front bumper from an e92 be made to work?
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02-26-2014, 05:31 PM | #2 |
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The front bumper on the 1M is plastic. You could cut a E82 bumper and add the E92 styling too it similar to how LTMW makes 1M bumpers for F80/E92/E90 etc.
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02-26-2014, 06:49 PM | #3 |
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Sorry, I did not mean bumper covers. I mean the steel bumper. Sorry for the confusion.
Ralph put an e92 M3 front bumper on an e90 M3 and got the cover to work.
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04-07-2014, 06:42 PM | #4 |
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Hmmm - so that makes me wonder if I could somehow manage to fit an e92 CF front bumper under a 1M front bumper cover and make it work. I'm willing to try it if there is a pretty high degree of confidence it would work.
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it is entirely possible. just look at the LTMW 1m bumpers for e9x and e9x M. The even made an F30 bumper with 1M / M6 front.
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04-08-2014, 08:02 AM | #6 |
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If you're talking about the "beam" under the bumper cover, I don't think it is carbon fiber on the M3 -- pretty sure it's some sort of FRP (i.e. reinforced fiberglass).
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04-11-2014, 10:58 AM | #7 |
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Ralph did that upgrade on the e90 M3 race car and he thought it was CF. But whatever it was, it was a decent weight savings.
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