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brucepick · 02-15-2008, 01:28 PM

basjoos and Big Dave-

Good thoughts.
I'm going to have to look into the state regs myself if I can manage it.
Adding something I can call a bumper could be the solution.
I'll save the airplane drawing as a reference.

I've seen 12 degrees and 15 degrees mentioned. Anybody have a hard spec on that? How about a suggested radius? That would probably be as a function of length I think?

The good news re. scraping the boattail is that my bumper (bottom) is about 16-17 inches off the ground. So any boattail starts there and goes up as it goes further back. I'd have to pay attention to that though.

I'd probably leave the oem bumper in place. It's provided terrific protection in some rear-enders that I've been subjected to. You shoulda' seen the other cars! GMC Savannah van that hit me got hauled away. No lie.

02-15-2008, 01:28 PM	#25 (permalink)
brucepick OCD Master EcoModder Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Eastern CT, USA Posts: 1,936 Outasight - '00 Honda Insight Team Honda Gen-1 Insights 90 day: 54.18 mpg (US) Thanks: 431 Thanked 396 Times in 264 Posts	basjoos and Big Dave- Good thoughts. I'm going to have to look into the state regs myself if I can manage it. Adding something I can call a bumper could be the solution. I'll save the airplane drawing as a reference. I've seen 12 degrees and 15 degrees mentioned. Anybody have a hard spec on that? How about a suggested radius? That would probably be as a function of length I think? The good news re. scraping the boattail is that my bumper (bottom) is about 16-17 inches off the ground. So any boattail starts there and goes up as it goes further back. I'd have to pay attention to that though. I'd probably leave the oem bumper in place. It's provided terrific protection in some rear-enders that I've been subjected to. You shoulda' seen the other cars! GMC Savannah van that hit me got hauled away. No lie. __________________ Coast long and prosper. Driving '00 Honda Insight, acquired Feb 2016. Last edited by brucepick; 02-15-2008 at 01:41 PM..