General Rear Abarth apron question??

[Brooky]

Hi all.

How much lower does the abarth apron hang compared to the standard bumper??

I want one but i have a center exit exhaust so i would fill+smooth the left exhaust exit and then cut two holes in the middle and try to copy the detailing of the exhaust lip thing from the left side. then smooth apron into standard bumper. I would probs fill or make somthing out of the centre gash in the apron.

A few pics of exhaust (i currently have the pink bumper on as i got rear ended ) and the apron i want.

 

[custard]

it sits pretty low.i had an upswept rear and it would have meant the pipes coming out in the rear meshed slot of the abarth rear.
you may fare a little better with a straight outlet

 

[Brooky]

Will it 'wrap' around the two pipe like it does on the standard exhaust outlet??

 

[fingers99]

Rather than mess up a perfectly good Abarth rear end, I'd be inclined to re-do the exhaust or take a mold of the existing rear bumper (it'll have to be a relatively complex 3 part mold) pull a bumper from that and mod it to suit.

If you go the other way you'll be messing with polyesters on a base which isn't exactly polyester friendly: sooner or later the joins are likely to crack big time.

On an Abarth rear end, the exhaust will exit just about where the mesh stops.

 

[arc]

these help?

 

[custard]

Will it 'wrap' around the two pipe like it does on the standard exhaust outlet??

theres no way it will 'wrap' unless you make it so

heres trickers custom job

 

[CinqyAbarth]

let me know how you get on with in tom as i might need to modify mine soon to make room for my towbar.. ps i like that pic of your room lol, nice to see the wheels and CSC manifold are in a nice safe dry place Craig

 

[MiG]

theres no way it will 'wrap' unless you make it so

heres trickers custom job

i was thinking something like that.

looks very sweet indeed.

 

[custard]

lot of work went into that as can be seen in the finish :worship:

 

[Brooky]

theres no way it will 'wrap' unless you make it so

heres trickers custom job

Perfect. that is exactly how i want mine. well maybe a little bit that goes inbetween the two exhaust pipes. like a v inbetween.

 

[bad_boy_cinq]

Very similar idea to what i have had. Smoothing out the exhaust hole and just about to cut the centre section out and mould for my centre exit exhaust.

Will be smoothing the apron into the bumper too.

 

[Brooky]

yea like that.i though i had an nice original idea,obviously not lol,ahwell there still wont be many of us with them

 

[custard]

Very similar idea to what i have had. Smoothing out the exhaust hole and just about to cut the centre section out and mould for my centre exit exhaust.

Will be smoothing the apron into the bumper too.

looking good :chin:

 

[Brooky]

Yeah it is

 

[cheekycento21]

I have twin dtm coming out of the middle of my cinq, i had the abarth kit all i did was, got a mate to cut the lip out and plastic weld a bit of plastic where the exhaust was ment to be, then small bit of filler. job done. ill try get a pic for you at the weekend.

 

[Brooky]

cheers,i dont have access to a plastic welder so ill have to fibeglass it up