This was a long weekend... I picked up my new shocks on friday at lunch. At about 5pm i started lifting the van:





The lift was finished at about 11pm. Then we packed some stuff together, and catched about 3hours of sleep, before we started our trip to a german offroad event:































There was a stock car race, where we made first place...







This was an amazing weekend, i`ll upload some video and more pics later...

 

thats just sweet looks like you had a great time

 

Here are two videos of the stockcar race:

Offroad-Forum.de Schnoh änd Gloh III Stockcar Rennen - YouTube

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lol love the mini van

 

While driving offroad, i noticed how bad the approach angle is. I landed hard on the front bumper a few times, and also ripped the license plate off...

So i started with a new front bumper, to improve the approach angle a lot. Here is it with the stock bumper:



This is how i want it:



Then i removed the front bumper to see how i`m gonna built the new one:





There`s a lot of stuff that has to go...

I also did a quick sketch of the new bumper, but i`ll draw a few blueprints on photoshop soon:

 

A quick paint sketch:

 

looookin good!

 

you should check out some pics of "prerunner"bumpers..i think that would look good on there.

 

I`ve seen a lot of prerunner bumpers, but do you have an example what exactly are you talking about?

 

here is what i was thinking....about mid way thru the page..

Push Bar Grille Guard Help! - Diesel Forum - TheDieselStop.com

its on a red van.