# Stuffing a front mount onto my 05 STi - done!

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stuffing-a-front-mount-onto-my-05-sti-done/26104>\
**Category:** Builds\
**Created:** [March 19, 2007, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stuffing-a-front-mount-onto-my-05-sti-done/26104 "2007-03-19T11:04:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 60

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![neonglh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/neonglh/32/4951_2.png) [@neonglh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neonglh)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stuffing-a-front-mount-onto-my-05-sti-done/26104/60 "2007-03-23T06:23:11Z")

</div>

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](http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/skidplate.jpg)

And the grill and fog light surrounds:  
 ![http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/grillfogs.jpg](http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/grillfogs.jpg)

Where did my bumper go?:  
 ![http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/front1.jpg](http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/front1.jpg)

Right side:  
 ![http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/rightside.jpg](http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/rightside.jpg)  
 ![http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/rightfront.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/leftside.jpg)  
 ![http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/leftfront.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](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](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](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](http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/mounted1.jpg)

Again:  
 ![http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/mounted2.jpg](http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/mounted2.jpg)

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

And its 3" thick:  
 ![http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/ic2.jpg](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](http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/rear.jpg)

Were both smiling 😃 :  
 ![http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/smiles.jpg](http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/sti/smiles.jpg)

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

---

_[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stuffing-a-front-mount-onto-my-05-sti-done/26104)._