Collapsing US bumpers: safe?

[rogercv1 at gmail.com (Roger concha)]

from the threads I read on vortex you will have to trim the edges once
you push the bumpers in. and just like the euro bumpers if you get hit
the body will absorb all the force of the impact.
If I remember correctly the bumpers were designed to absorb a 5mph impact

On 7/13/05, Denny Maula <DMaula@gordonrees.com> wrote:
> I'd like more info on this as well. I just can't justify the cost of the
> euro bump. But hate the us "park bench" bump.  I've read just taking off
> the shocks and drilling into them should suffice. Is that all that's
> involved?? Do you have to trim the bumper edges as well?
> 
> 
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> 
> I'm thinking of collapsing my big ugly US bumpers, but I'm curious what
> sort of crash protection they actually do provide.  Does anyone know
> what the official spec is (i.e. were they designed to resist a 10mph hit
> or something to that effect) or what consequence there would be to
> having the shocks emptied? At this point I'm not terribly concerned with
> doing it for it's aesthetic value because the car's pretty rough looking
> anyways, but I have them off for powerwashing and repairing a bit of
> rust, so I'm thinking I might as well.  The car looks so good without
> any bumpers on it, too.  If it's genuinely unsafe I'd rather just keep
> them as is for now, though.
> 
> Oh, and I just finished power washing the car.  Did a real bang up job
> on the paint. Flaked right off all over the place.  Now the car's
> literally about 6 different colours.  It was intentional, but ugh.
> 
> Other recent projects:
> My headlights died and I couldnt find the problem (sockets fine, switch
> fine, fuse fine, etc etc) so I just wired them up with heavy gauge wire
> to toggle switches on the dash. New cable from battery to starter and
> ground strap to hopefully fix other electrical gremlins and starting
> problems.  It does actually seem to run much better!  It starts without
> me having to give it any gas and idles more smoothly. Painted my dash
> black to fix scuffs and petrified duct tape residue from the PO.
> Seafoam!  Timbo was right, fun smokescreen!  This helped reveal, too,
> though, that my entire exhaust system is shot.  Smoke poured not only
> out the tailpipe but exited at various other locations down the whole
> length. Vacuum and febreeze the interior.
> 
> Plus I helped my buddy cut his M3's exhaust in half, gut the cat and
> weld it back together.  That was pretty fun too :)
> 
> -Grant-
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