Stuffing a front mount onto my 05 STi - done!

OK, here are the pics from last night:

This is the factory skidplate, after I removed it:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/skidplate.jpg

And the grill and fog light surrounds:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/grillfogs.jpg

Where did my bumper go?:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/front1.jpg

Right side:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/rightside.jpg
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/rightfront.jpg

Left side:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/leftside.jpg
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/leftfront.jpg

And here is the giant factory crash beam that I have to remove next:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/crashbeam.jpg

The bumper, after I cut out the middle section:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/bumper.jpg

I just did the basic cutting for now, here is the first section I removed:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/cut.jpg

It will look similar to this, but the IC will be higher, so it wont stick past the bottom:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/mounted1.jpg

Again:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/mounted2.jpg

The core is pretty huge!:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/ic1.jpg

And its 3" thick:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/ic2.jpg

Here’s a shot from behind, what it looks like:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/rear.jpg

Were both smiling :smiley: :
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/smiles.jpg

This will go on tomorrow!:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/piping.jpg

Lets hope that it goes smoothly. I cut some more before I went to bed. It is really close to being done cutting, but now its at the point where I have to keep mounting the bumper, cutting where it hits, and repeating. :tdown:

–mark