I had the rear bumper off the car last week and decided to install a rear bumperette delete kit. I was unsure how it would look as but since only the US market cars came with the rear bumperettes I figured I'd give it a go. Installing the kit is very straight forward. After removing the bumperettes and the bumper cover itself, all of which takes about 10 minutes, you will expose the rear aluminum bumper crash brace which has the bumperette supports riveted onto it. To remove the supports, you simply need to drill them out as you would any rivet. I removed the crash brace which is attached by two bolts to get better access to it. Drilling the rivets out takes another 10 minutes. Once this is done you simply reinstall the crash brace and the bumper cover back on the car. The final step is to install the plastic delete cover to hide the two openings left in the bumper by the missing bumperettes. The whole set up is easily reversible if you'd like to go back to stock. My primary goal was to remove some weight from the vary back end of the car but I was pleasantly surprised by the clean look of the rear of the car without the warts. To me anyway, it's much better than the bumperette look and I can see why all the ROW car do not have these. For those wondering, removing the bumperettes does not in any way affect the crashworthiness of the car as the crash brace along with the shock absorption pistons still remain. Total weight saving is 3 lbs 10 oz from the very tail end of the car.

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It's a pre-production sample. No word on if this will go into production Steve, not sure what the market size would be for something that would likely sell for about $125 for plastic and probably double that for CF due to the material cost of panels that large. Depends on feedback that I would have to forward to the company that would make these. I'm basically giving them my impression right now. It's not a terribly difficult thing to make if you have time and patience.

I'm also not sure that CF would work as there is a very slight curve to the area in question and the plastic cover will bend easily while CF will not as it's totally rigid. I think you'd have to bolt the ends of the CF cover down to keep them from popping up. Double sided 3M tape is used on the plastic cover ends to keep it attached. The center of the cover is attached by the License Plate bracket which bolts to the bumper cover. Many materials could be used to skin the cat. The plastic piece used here has a slight texture to it which gives it a nice sheen to it.

 

Looks great!!
Taking 3 lbs out at the very back of the car has to help a bunch.
I dropped mine off at my carbon fiber guy and am still waiting for him to finish them up.
I should have done something like this instead. Though CF should look pretty sweet.
If my car was a track car like yours I would TOTALLY do what you did! Looks super and 100% functional\useful.

 

Clean! It probably keeps the rear license plate area much easier to keep clean as well. 125$ isn't a terrible price point in my opinion, I think it's right around fair. Interested to see how this progresses.
Shawn

 

I like it. I'd prefer mine to be sprayed the same color as the bumper.

 

+1

I agree!

 

Agree

 

Looked at the bumper a bit today. I think the best looking way to go would be to have a cap over the holes.

 

any updates? I need one

 

Any specific reason for the wing uprights mounted inside the wing? Most pics have it the other way including mine, but this seems to be only on the Porsche as many have it your way in other marques.

 

I have mine mounted the way that is specified in the 996/997 Cup maintenance manual. The wing mounts to the inside of the main wing uprights...

 

It's on the back burner. Too many other projects right now.

 

Interesting as most cars I see have the uprights on the inside and the wing mounts on the outside. Here's a 997 pic depicting the same. I guess it really doesn't matter though.


https://www.google.com/search?q=996+...lE0uKLzw2pmcM:

 

What lid wing combo are you running?

 

You can install it that way but it's not the way the factory does it. Most cars I've run across have it mounted the way I do. Functionally it does not matter but visually to me it looks cleaner to have the mounts on the inside of the uprights. Just my $0.02...