front bumper questions

[GSRSOL]

GSR rad support is same as CC sedans/wagon. The CD9A and CE9A are almost the same as GSR rad support too, except for those brackets which are spot welded onto the rad support panel.
You can fab some of these brackets up pretty easily, otherwise just use a radiator diversion panel and you won't need them.

 

[3VOLUTIONIST]

Whats that air diversion panel going to do? It's just a flimsy bit of aluminium isn't it, couldn't attack the front bumper to that surely

 

[khubner1]

it does a coupe of things 1 it devides the air more eficiently so that more air goes into the radiator (better cooling) and 2 it affixes to the front bar to do this. remembering the actual structural support for the front bar comes from the reo itself and the screw/bolts in that the two tabs everyone is talking about only provide minimal support for the evo's vanity plate/grill which when the air divider is fitted into place is more than made up for.

 

[3VOLUTIONIST]

So just a bolt and washer through the top, nut on the bottom, and that clamps that upper reo piece? Seems like it'd slide off haha

 

[EVOCPE]

Zippy ties lol

a mate of mine drilled holes in the air diversion plate and used zip ties to hold the plate to the grill part of the bar

 

[4piknup]

I did similar, welded tabs onto diversion plate and screwed top of bar to the plate.

 

[94 GSR]

I just brought a rad support off an E3 for this exact reason on friday...

So here's some pix of all the brackets that are on the front of an EVO that are not on a GSR...

Drivers side top bumper mount

Passenger side top bumper mount

This mount is the drivers side mount for the crossover intercooler pipe. Passengers side is a mirror image..

This is the top center mount for the intercooler and crossover pipe..

The other difference is this piece.... A GSR one is longer (red line).. EVO is shorter like how this one has been cut.
This support came of an EVO but it's had the support replaced at some stage so the above brackets have all been swapped over to this non EVO support. This support has also been bent then sort of straightened. LoL. The car I got it off looked like it had, had a pretty hard life... Poor thing....
You do not "need" to cut this shorter for any reason.. I have EVO everything on the front of my GSR and the longer GSR version does not interfer with anything...

Also EVO headlights are slightly different because of these brackets too...

Non EVO. You can mod these to make them fit...

Genuine EVO.

If you need any more help just let us know...

 

[3VOLUTIONIST]

Ahhh I was trying to figure out why it wouldn't fit with my headlights! it interferes where the cutout is (obviously why they moulded it differently)
Thought I had bad Chinese replacement headlights for a minute then
Thanks for those photos

 

[evo-gsr]

Just cut or grind the bit away on the headlights.

 

[94 GSR]

No probs bud...