Early in the season and later in the season yes. Not all night but a few hours.
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Deuling's 1985 K5. "Restart thread on post #8415"
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Awesome!
I think it is something that either people will love, or hate. I doubt there is going to be much in between
This. I am neither loving it nor disliking it. It's somewhere in the middle.
Have you been running this in the dark with your existing lights?
No, because I couldn't see $hit.
I will be putting in an order to Sidetracked that should fix that.
This is a way more aesthetically pleasing design to me. See how the lower supports meet the stinger bar at the main tube to eliminate a dead node and the lower is straight instead of bent and angled? Has a sleek look to it while still offering very good protection and having the straight engine cage tie ins both hides them better and makes for a stronger design.
I think you could keep most of your current design and do what Ryoken said about the 45 or 30 bend back in the grille and I would add a gusset tube from your lower support up to the stinger termination at the main tube. I think the latter would really help the overall headon and profile views.
I don't want to copy someone else's bumper designs. That would have been easy to do, but instead I stared at mine and thought "what can I do to make this totally different". I realize that different tends to be taken as bad in some cases, but that's ok by me.
I think it will look great in the end.
I think it will look great in the end.
I'm with you on that one. My cage is my design. Not a copy cat
You can make anything your own even if you start with a base design. Personally, I like to see what other people have done and then take the ideas/portions that I like, change what I don't, come up with new stuff on my own, etc. Some things in my build are 100% custom right out of my brain, no research. Some have been researched and I didn't see anything I liked so I did my own creation anyway. Different is cool, but I am not one of those guys who wants different just for the sake of different. 
I am 
A hipster says what?I am
Except skinny jeans.
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Some one Photoshop some mater teeth in that bumper
Is that side-to-side droop in the horizontal member going to stay?
I would say that it looks "off," but saying that nearly guarantees that you'll want to keep it that way.
I'm not sure what you mean.
Quick MS Paint mashup should help clarify things (kinda
):
The dimensions that I've highlighted on the sides are larger than the corresponding dimension in the center. Looking at it again, the mark on the right is too far outboard (so it's hitting the radius
), but the one on the left is still on the straight. Not sure if the chrome is curved or your pipe isn't straight, but it makes the pipe look droopy to have the center "higher" than either of the sides.I will add that your bumper is different and weird, but I'm kinda digging it.
Optical illusion. That tube is perfectly flat.
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