well lately i have been doing alot of plastic welding and figured i would share some of the stuff i have done. let me know what you guys think.

heres my ek front bumper i did
shaved the liecense plate holes and replace the drivers side corner that was missing along with filled screw hole in the lower front from past owner. all made the front lip




heres an eg 92-95 civic coupe bumper i shaved the holes on as well
original

holes cut

filler peices

welded and sanded

smoothed and primed

test fit



EK side skirts shortened and end caps welded back on for that factory look

primed

installed



more to come aswell

 

Looks good...don't know what's going on with that sideskirt in the last pic, but the shaved bumpers look nice.

What products do you use?

 

yeah whats stuff do you use to cover the holes looks good
want to do that to my hatch since i dont like plates in the front

 

the ek sides flare out at the front thus being wide its has that gap there. if thats what you are reffering to.

as for what i use, i use basic plastic welding rods, air plastic welder, and just plastic most of the time from other damaged bumpers.

i could but i dont think you ganna wanna ship your bumper to the other side of the country for just that.

 

looks good can you explain the process, always wanted to try plastic welding.

 

The two bumpers look amazing, I'd really like to try this as well, I prefer my plate mounted off to the side opposed to the run-of-the-mill center mount. A How-To video would be beneficial to everyone I'm sure.

 

what kind of front lip is that ????

 

i will try to write something up. its not that hard to do. it just more or less time consuming than anything.

thanks yea i never liked the center bumper mounts my self and the relocater plates are just to common, so right now im looking for another project bumper to take the holes from the middle and reweld them off to the side almost like the bumper came that way.

honestly i couldnt tell you just because i dont know i got it from a buddy who had it in his garage for like 3 yrs, to make it fit i had to chop about 10" from the middle as well as melt and form the side to contour to the bumper.



thanks agian for the comments so far here are a few others i have done

this is actually my car i drive and the front bumper was one my frist attempt at plastic welding

the front bumper i made as well modifidy the front lip and made the side skirts



i have also almost finish some ek side skirts made to fit a del sol. will have pics soon

 

Man where do you get the supplies and the welder to do this? My si lip is off my car because of a curb. Broke my mounting tabs and I'd like to plati-weld them back.

 

you can buy the stuff from most tool and eguipment style stores like harbor frieght or northern tool but some place have stop carrying plastic welding for some reason. as for what your looking to do im not sure how well the platic welding would work just becuase the mountin tabs on the lil are the most flexable part on the lip and they are kinda thin but you might be able to make extra support for them as well.

 

started another project on a bumper my friend gave me for free so let me know what you think and enjoy

92-95 Civic 4Dr front bumper
doner bumper from a friend


areas that need to be fix are marked




will update as progresses

 

update on the bumper


license plate holes cut out

marking the new location if the license plate holes

new section cut out

license plate resting in new location


frist weld laid on outside


plactic welds sanded

filler peice from another bumper

 

 

So are you using the bondo plastic filler for leveling out the rough spots?

 

i go over the welds a couple time just to fill them with the plastic and then a tiny amount of bondo because the bumpers flex and bondo doesnt it just cracks

 

your teg is rice, but good job on the welding.

 

Teg? I didnt see a Teggy in any of the pics

 

lol i must of missed the pic of the teg too haha

 

wher is the write up u promised? good job btw

 

lol your rice for calling his delsol an integra

 

im working on one for yall

and to every one else i thanks for your comments!!! mor pics to come soon
as well as a write up

i dont have a teg

 

great work man! i would love to try this on my jdm bumper on my teg, but I'm afraid of ruining it.

 

i know that feel i got a buddy with a jdm teggy front bumper i might buy just to mess around with and see if i can shave the front plate box on the bumper to give it a nice clean look

 

Seems like an awful lot of work to accomplish such a basic task.

Why not just fill the original holes, and then just relocate the plate over to that side?

I mean, it's cool I guess to have the "OE" mounting tabs there, but it's not like anybody is going to know those were used instead of just mounting the license plate there with regular license plate mounting hardware.

 

I have to disagree with this statement, it really depends on quality of filler your using and how you apply it. I filled my front plate holes in with glass and bondo and it came out just as good as plastic welding with about half the work. All I did was sand down the tabs with a orbital, glassed the back of the bumper, then layered the holes with bondo.