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Old Jul 11, 2009 | 05:38 PM
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Do you have to take out the complete plastic honeycomb to make the bumper fit. What do you do with the steel bumper piece behind the licence plate holder? Any Help

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Do you have to take out the complete plastic honeycomb to make the bumper fit. What do you do with the steel bumper piece behind the licence plate holder? Any Help

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What year? For my 82, the bumper should fit over the honeycomb impact cushion. The steel plate on bumper extesion stays on, in fact it is all one piece and can't be removed separately.






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When I did one of my 75's last year, I left the honeycomb on, but it was VERY tight. One of the honeycombs' original purposes was to help keep the shape of the urethane bumper, but the new fiberglass ones can support themselves.

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Old Jul 11, 2009 | 10:47 PM
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Thanks All- It is a 75 , I am thinking of bolting on the steel licence plate holder with spacers to protect the front. Also I have just rebuilt one of the kids honda's, it just had polystrene piece behind the bumper cover, So i was thinking of just adding two pieces behind the bumper.

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This old post of mine should help....http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...umper-fit.html
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Old Jul 13, 2009 | 03:39 PM
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Yep take the honeycomb out. it will contort the bumper and I re used my tag holder I had to grind a very little bit to get it to fit I used the bumper etts also the little things that go in the part that sticks out .
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