So... 1 year ago my rear bumper got damaged in a rear end accident by some asshat college student from florida.. then 4 months later my evo7 front got damaged by old man who cant
drive worth **** (my car was parked at work).. took me months to get over the accident ( at times I felt I had to goto the hospital due to the stress from the financial loss. it bothered me
that bad, felt like I was gonna have a heart attack or somthing ).. Since then I moved out of office depot to work at home depot and much happier with less stress...
So now comes the good part ( nothing wrong with the ED version of this bumper, in fact I like it as a replacement but the accolade fits better and is closer match to the evo9 bumper..

Bought this to help me out and only cost me $25 and these mats to help doing the job


Here is what it looked like before: 1st image was when I did it myself, came out good.. 2nd image is from mod2015 not bad eh... several years difference between the 2



Closeup of what I was working on. the zip ties stayed in place until it cured and was cut later on.. As you see, a lot was done...


Put some bondo-glass on front side sanded then regular bondo ontop. still more bondo/sanding to do....


Closeup of the work.....


And the backside, going to lay more fiberglass here to reinforce it and fill the hole I cut out so it will be flush....(that section was push/cracker from accident)


As for the evo7 front... I still have the damaged one and its in worse shape than the rear bumper.. I'm currently waiting from RRM to see if I can buy a new evo7 bumper by itself

 

More work done . used a 3m coarse paint stripper wheel with my hammer drill I had to remove nearly all the paint.
once the black paint is gone gonna sand down with palm sander and bondo bumper sand etc.. end result should be nice...

 

nice progress..i could definately use your skills to hit up my fenders and such if i was still in the area

 

Whoa, nice work!

 

thanks.. got day off on tuesdaay to do more work, weather permitting ( its been raining here in san diego last 2 days )..
move back to san diego and ill do them for you my friend lol....

I sent you image what it looked like but here is the idea where I'm going at with this now that its initial stripping is done. this is just first part/step of
the work ahead of me. bondo is being used to fill in the groves left over from the 3m Stripper...

 

good progress made over last week, almost ready for 1st shot primer ( to check for spots to touch up ).....



Everything was sanded with 60grit ( knock down high spots then to 120 )



once the primer goes on and lows are filled, gonna block sand more to smooth it out best I can and ill do curves by hand with a sponge

 

Moving along well.

 

thanks, didn't do much other day as I was in er for 8hrs for very bad viral infection .. was so bad it felt I was chocking in the am, so I called my brother and he took me to hosp at 2.30am..

if this goes well, I'm gonna do same thing to my evo7 front since getting a new bumper from rrm didn't go thro due to unable to seperatetion of the kit

 

filler primer on, so this way i can see whee i need to work on some more

 

Like porkins... almost their....

I prepped the bumper with 60/80 gritt then went to 150grit before I sprayed black primer



Only 1 coat is on bumper so far, gonna let it cure before I add a 2nd then a 3rd while wetsanding between

 

1st dry fitment done today and it looks good. need to make some new brackets to mount the right side cause the oem mount is broken off from
accident so I can either zip tie the ***** or try something different by making a new mounting point somewhere

 

Looking good yo

 

made a new bracket and much better than thin mount that was welded to the car lol

 

and gap filling in....

 

Looking better everyday