I need a brushguard for my wrx wagon. I kissed a guardrail, so my bumper is toast, amongst other things. I’ve had a crazy idea to make a brushguard for it for awhile, so I figure now is a good enough time as any. I want something simple, beefy, and can mount 2 fog lights (or driving lights)
and I need it to be able to hit shit (lightly, of course)
here’s some ideas
I want something relatively cheap, and I’ll let the fabricator hit some stuff with it (woot)
All them shit’s are weak cosmetic pieces and will fold like a taco with any substantial amount of force, their design is good for an occasional nose scrape coming out of a parking lot but that’s about it.
My rally bar seems to be way overkill for what you’re looking for but they way you’re talking. Could stand the car on the nose of it without breaking a sweat. But it also will not fit w/o modifications to the car.
Just the part visible from outside the car, ALOT more underneath…
adam>* :bowdown
I wouldn’t mind something similar to that, but I need it to bolt up to the car, like in place of my bumper beam
adams is ridiculous. you could lift the car up with it with most of the bolts not in it.
Well it does bolt up to the car, but does so in place of the factory U-bar and has a welded/threaded plate on the front bumper bar for added support. Thus requires a but of a cutout and license plate relocation as well.
It unfortunately, isn’t on the relatively cheap side.
The Rally Innovations stuff bolts to the weak tabs on the bottom of the front U-bar and require the bumper bar to remain as well. I’ve seen these literally disappear from the front of a car in a moderate hit during stage runs, some end up in the radiator.
RI’s shit’s made of 16 gauge 1.25" tube. A small rodent strike at speed will flatten that with ease.
Just food for thought
I actually ended up putting a jack plate on it :lol
how does this not suprise me :lol
trust me if you want something completely badass and what some would call overkill… adam is the man for you. but trust me that “brush guard” on his wrx is more like a fucking battering ram. :lol
I do not with to modify my entire car for the bar… the main purpose of those pictures was to give design ideas.
adam- i didn’t see your post. currently, the front end of my car looks like this…
so yea, I don’t think I’d have to worry about cutting things out lol
This purposed “bar” is not gonna do shit. Except fuck stuff up worse…
The reinforced bar is only going to transfer the stress of what you hit to what it’s welded to. IE - subframe etc. I’d rather bend the bar than the subframe.
C’mon Wayne, you should know me by now…plausible in terms though, and why I didn’t necessarily recommend my piece for Jay to begin with. I merely mentioned the weakness of the rally innovations stuff as Jay mentioned he wanted to bump shit with the bar and I’ve seen those come off and do more damaged going through the core(taking out the engine cooling and timing components) or going underneath damaging shit along the way.
This is also not a bolt on unit and the load is spread across far more of the cars chassis than the OEM piece with welded on subframe connectors and reinforcment plates throughout the chassis. Roughly 700 sq inches of load dispersion more than OE(which is a total of about 15sq inches in reality). Think of it as a “roll cage”…only has to work once. I didn’t design it for street cars to go bashing around lots and alleys hitting shit with along the way. It’s meant to protect the radiator and engine core frontal/lower from nose shots when four off in a stage and deflect boulders from punching skid plates up into oil pans upon landings. Rally/HC guys don’t give a shit about bending suspension and subframe parts as long as the car crosses the stage line for points. that what stage repairs are for. You go four off in the woods during a hill climb event at 50mph and the last thing you’re worried about is bending a subframe 
Silly me for even posting here. Jay, carry on with your search. You have my number if you need me :thumbup