mavs on a diet!

here is the original front bumper from my 74 mav weighing in at 102 lbs no BS.

 

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here it is after I gutted it and built new brackets 32 lbs!!!

 

another

I also moved it back quite a bit.

 

last one

front veiw

 

Makes a differance. Nice plate Russ

 

Cool! I had no idea those bumpers weighed that much! Better looks, and a big weight reduction! What a good idea!

 

Madmav74,

Looks great!!! Thanks for posting the pics, I have been thinking about doing the same to my 74' this year! Sure is inspirational!
Great job!!

Any advice for others? May you could write a Tech Article for the MCCI newsletter?

 

interior

here is a few of the interior what you see is it, there is no heater box no lower dash no sound deading pad or carpet anywhere, no rear seat, no kick panels or back side panels. Only thing left is head liner,dash pad for now and door panels.

 

and another

the dash

 

i love this board...something new all the time. up until now i was a total enemy of big bumpers.. just cuz they stuck out so far. that looks great!

 

dont have a wreck =)

 

nice work, i guess you finally got rid of the snow there? lol

 

Definatelly looks better. Now you need to take sections out of each side to pull the sides in.

 

Are ya gonna do the same to the rear?

 

bumpers

I'm not sure about the back yet? I probably will move it in, not sure about gutting it yet,I think the extra weight in the rear would help traction?

At the moment I'm on to other projects, I recieved my new front and Rear springs from ESPO today and a set of Cal-Tracs so I spent most of the afternoon tearing into the suspension! Tomorrow I'll be putting in the new gears and new shocks!