Bumper re-installed and lights added.

[hocrest]

When we got the Baja a few months ago, it came with a MudRat front bumper. It was somewhat pitted and had some surface rust so I took it off and put the stock bumper (also included in the sale) on for the mean time.

Today I picked up the bumper from powder coating. I went with a gloss black instead of the silver it was. I also added some Hella Driving and Fog lights. The driving on in the original tabs up top. Before getting it coated, I added some new tabs on the bottom to hang the fogs.





This is one of the tabs that I added to the bottom rail to be able to hang some fog lights.

[hocrest]

Some more pics at night;



All ofthe following pictures were taken with identical manual exposure settings on the camera.
Stock Low Beam;


Stock Low and Fog Lights;


Stock High Beam;


Stock High Beam and Driving Lights;


Stock Low Beam, Fog Lights and Driving Lights;

[Snorkeled]

First off Beautiful Baja, its always nice to see another Baja with the Mudrat Bumper. I would only change one thing .. The 2 lower Fog lights hang pretty low.. I dont know if you plan to take your baja off road at all. I have ran over a few animals at night that would do a good ammount of damage to anything that low. I am not bashing on it by any means, I love to see all the ideas out there. Thats just my 2 bits. Have a good day.

[hocrest]

First off Beautiful Baja, its always nice to see another Baja with the Mudrat Bumper. I would only change one thing .. The 2 lower Fog lights hang pretty low.. I dont know if you plan to take your baja off road at all. I have ran over a few animals at night that would do a good ammount of damage to anything that low. I am not bashing on it by any means, I love to see all the ideas out there. Thats just my 2 bits. Have a good day.

Funny you should say that... I just came in from taking them off in the middle of the hotel parking lot (we're participating in the 48hrs of Tri-State). I busted one up yesterday negotiating a entrance of Target

So I pulled the fogs off for now, I have a couple of ideas for version 2...

When I mounted them, even when I was welding the tabs on. I had a feeling they were gonna hang low. So my one thought is to use the new tabs I mad and an extra bracket to poke a smaller fog light out between the bars, just inboard of the perforated metal panels. Another thought is to abandon the tabs I added and hang these under the driving lights on the big tabs.

I'll figure it out next week when we get home.

[PenguinSub]

First off, awesome! I think it looks great in a gloss black. I am actually planning on linexing mine with my trim, but as for right now....



It's red.

Second, Is there any thoughts about throwin a winch on that bad boy?

[Snorkeled]

That is definately a RED BUMPER lol I like it. As for the winch you should do it for sure.. I miss having a winch on my bumper.. The first bumper I had came with a winch. Here is a old pic.