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64 Polara Gen3 Turbo Build

Set them up with some wood first before you go cutting anything.
 
I think I will just cut it out completely, make a box out of 1 inch box tubing, level it, weld it back in.....they put a new piece of steel over the top of it.
 
My fiberglass showed up today. Apparently it needs A LOT of work according to my body guy. He is going to send me some pictures tomorrow.
 
Here's what I got. Not quality work from sled city

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Here's the rest of the junk sled city sent me

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Those lines are called split lines . They are where you bolt the seperate pieces of the mold together to make the big mold for your bumpers. Bumpers have many compound curves in them , thus, we have to have multi piece bumper molds. If you make a one piece mold, then you would break the bumper or mold getting them apart. These lines can be taken away with a simple piece of sand paper or even a sander called a D-A. Most well established body shops will have a D-A somewhere in their shop. We always let the customers QUALIFIED body shop perform that task. It usually takes less time than a coffee break. We have sold 18 of the front bumpers for the 64 Dodge since 1/1/14 and 22 of the 64-65 Dodge rear bumpers in the same time frame, and this is the first negitive coment that I have heard on those bumpers.
 
glassman said:
Those lines are called split lines . They are where you bolt the seperate pieces of the mold together to make the big mold for your bumpers. Bumpers have many compound curves in them , thus, we have to have multi piece bumper molds. If you make a one piece mold, then you would break the bumper or mold getting them apart. These lines can be taken away with a simple piece of sand paper or even a sander called a D-A. Most well established body shops will have a D-A somewhere in their shop. We always let the customers QUALIFIED body shop perform that task. It usually takes less time than a coffee break. We have sold 18 of the front bumpers for the 64 Dodge since 1/1/14 and 22 of the 64-65 Dodge rear bumpers in the same time frame, and this is the first negitive coment that I have heard on those bumpers.
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the big bubbles in the bumpers, the missing edges on the bumpers is all normal? You're completely absent for months but you can find time respond when I post pictures of the stuff? My body guy has to cut an 18x2 section out of one of the bumpers and glass in a patch. One of them you can see all the way through.

You heard it here folks, that's what you can expect if you buy from these guys. Their voicemail will be full, they won't return emails or pm's and when you raise hell about it they will send you parts that look like these.

I apparently have too high of expectations.

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lxmodguy said:
the big bubbles in the bumpers, the missing edges on the bumpers is all normal? You're completely absent for months but you can find time respond when I post pictures of the stuff? My body guy has to cut an 18x2 section out of one of the bumpers and glass in a patch. One of them you can see all the way through.

You heard it here folks, that's what you can expect if you buy from these guys. Their voicemail will be full, they won't return emails or pm's and when you raise hell about it they will send you parts that look like these.

I apparently have too high of expectations.

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Got my new computer up and running about 2 weeks ago thanks to the GEEK SQUAD. This is the first I have been on a forum for a while. July, August and early Sept. are any Mopar shops busiest time of the year because of races and other Mopar meets. At least it is up north here. Thanks for the pictures of the bumpers etc on this site. Because of them , I sold 2 more sets of these bumpers , a hood , and a scoop tonight. As for your body man, OMG, I have never heard of cutting out a piece and putting in a section. If there is an imperfection, usually a slight coat of bondo will take care of it. And of course that "D-A" will have to be used . As for our expectations of you, be more of a "Hot Rodder" and realize what hot rodding is all about.
 
I got a front bumper from AAR Fiberglass and it did NOT have any of the "parting lines" or bubbles or thin spots. Quality control on these parts from Sled City is a total farce.
 
5.7 hemi said:
I got a front bumper from AAR Fiberglass and it did NOT have any of the "parting lines" or bubbles or thin spots. Quality control on these parts from Sled City is a total farce.
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You are talking 2 different processes. We hand lay parts and AAR uses a bagging system , which is very complicated and expensive. I haven't heard from them in a while, are they still in business.
 
glassman said:
lxmodguy said:
the big bubbles in the bumpers, the missing edges on the bumpers is all normal? You're completely absent for months but you can find time respond when I post pictures of the stuff? My body guy has to cut an 18x2 section out of one of the bumpers and glass in a patch. One of them you can see all the way through.

You heard it here folks, that's what you can expect if you buy from these guys. Their voicemail will be full, they won't return emails or pm's and when you raise hell about it they will send you parts that look like these.

I apparently have too high of expectations.

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Got my new computer up and running about 2 weeks ago thanks to the GEEK SQUAD. This is the first I have been on a forum for a while. July, August and early Sept. are any Mopar shops busiest time of the year because of races and other Mopar meets. At least it is up north here. Thanks for the pictures of the bumpers etc on this site. Because of them , I sold 2 more sets of these bumpers , a hood , and a scoop tonight. As for your body man, OMG, I have never heard of cutting out a piece and putting in a section. If there is an imperfection, usually a slight coat of bondo will take care of it. And of course that "D-A" will have to be used . As for our expectations of you, be more of a "Hot Rodder" and realize what hot rodding is all about.
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I guess he can add a half inch of bondo to the whole right side of the bumper to level out the giant bubble. A half inch of bondo probably weighs more than the bumper. I've ordered a lot of fiberglass, I've never seen pieces this bad. Mold marks, waves in the gel coat, cracks even.....sure. but edges missing, spots where you can see through the fiberglass, bubbles raised up a half inch.....never seen it.

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Photon440 said:
Yes, AAR seems to be still around. https://www.aarqualityfiberglass.com/catalog/766
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I had heard from a good sourse that AAR had sold out to another company in Florida , and Allen, the former owner of AAR has the former AAR shop full of Dodge Dakota pickups that he is working on. Allen is a good guy , and I wish him luck in what ever he does. ------------Just checked out the site that was mentioned above and just by chance, the AAR phone number is the same as the other shop that I was told about. Go figure.
 
I saw these parts in person today. My body guy wasn't exaggerating in the slightest. He has every bit of 20 hours of work just to be able to get them in primer. The "parting lines" from the molds are an 1/8 to a 1/4 inch thick. The bumpers are wavy as hell. The hood has raw glass exposed on the edge. The bumper is missing an 18 inch section of the lip on one side and 8 inches on the other. There is a foot long bubble in the back bumper thats literally a half inch taller than the rest of the bumper. I will say the scoop is perfect. It must have been pulled out of someone else's order to fill mine.

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All the pieces are getting massaged. I ordered some fittings today and had them sent to the body shop. Hopefully he will finish the them next week, get the car painted, and I will start putting it back together the week after.
 
Scored an amazing set of valve covers for the build. Billet Tech valve covers are as good as it gets for the gen3 motors.

bt covers.jpg
 
There goes about 1k!!! You spendy spender, lol!!!
 
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