#31638, "RE: blitz urethane what should i expect?" In response to In response to 3
ugh. still have my fiberglass blitz. my stocker was damaged from the previous owner running over a stop sign (he must have been pretty drunk), which gave me an excuse to buy a new bumper. being all "fast and the furious" i was like "yay! rice!" and got it. don't get me wrong, i think it's one of the niceset aftermarket bumpers around, it doesn't have like 352 pointy edges and "looks" like it makes downforce. the fiberglass it was crap, i should have gotten the urethane. i got my fiberglass one from asylumm motorsport, it took forever for them to ship it and it was packed pretty sketchey - just thrown in a box with no bubblewrap or anything. came with the primer scraped off on the edges from not being protected in shipping. whenever i'd bottom out on anything it would be my bumper and only my bumper that would hit the pavement (i've got a 1.6" drop, i think), which weakened it a little more each time. fiberglass doesn't flex, it shatters and cracks. currently, my blitz looks like $*it. i'm gonna put a stocker 97-99 eclipse bumper on as soon as my new projectors. urethane, on the other hand is probably a lot nicer. i learned this the hard way, maybe i shouldn't have been cheap and gotten the urethane instead.
in other words, you're smart for spending the extra cash for urethane. it'll probably last a lot longer than mine did. just don't forget, if you have a talon (the year doesn't matter) you need to get the "95-96 eclipse" bumper unless you either plan on getting new headlights or want to dremel out some of your new bumper. i was stupid and got the 97 eclipse bumper for my 97 talon, and had to dremel it a little. doesn't look THAT bad... heh. anyways, i'm done. sorry for the long post.
