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« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2018, 04:15:16 pm » |
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I have seen pictures of cars without the upper rubber strip on the front bumper. What is involved in deleting it as I think the car looks 'cleaner' without it? What does it conceal? Does it perform any useful function?
If you leave the rubber strip off, the air will go through the gaps and under the bonnet and head light pods. Dirt will also enter and especially in poor weather conditions the state underneath the bonnet and pods will be worse. The air entering will also create a tendency to try to lift them. Another aspect is that the air flow with the strip in place, gets lifted slightly and the bonnet and more importantly the screen stays cleaner. This I can verify having driven a car without the strip compared to how I know my own performs. Only larger heavier objects get through this airflow. So for instance smaller flying insects in the daytime, moths at night, etc. tend to go straight over the car whilst something such as a bumble bee would probably hit the screen. I have most of the panels off the car at the moment so I can't experiment and I would be interested in any comments that you may have. I am, at present, in the process of assembling both front and rear bumpers off the car.
regards Ron Murrell Sydney, Australia
Personally I also believe the car looks better with it on. Without it there is a step up from the bumper slope at the bonnet edge, which looks bad. There was another bumper made by a thirdy party, not the factory, which had the slope altered to blend in with the bonnet and pods, which looked OK. Roy
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« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2018, 07:57:29 pm » |
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Close to, Martijn, close to.....
The Kierena ( from KIEfer and MuRENA) , later known as Perestroika was designed in the 80´s. I´m not sure what year it was exactly, would need to check some old invoices, but i think it was 1986, when i saw the prototype. Definately it was before 1990 because i have an old cataloque from january 1989 from the company Kiefer, Blieskastel, Germany. The Kierena / Perestroika is already in there. The kit was listed there for 12000 Deutsche Mark plus mirrors, plus rear-hatch plus...plus...plus
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