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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's (Declassified) Off-Road Bumpers and Rock Slide
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longer and it would be very cool and how long be for you would have one for a kj 02 would love to have one .

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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's Off-Road Front Bumper Stinger Q&A?
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Anyone else have any comments on stingers?


Here’s my opinion. 99.9% of the buyers will not use the stinger for what it’s true purpose is; however, if people request the stinger for “curb appeal”, then I would offer it as an option. A more “user friendly” option is to incorporate a grill guard in which people can protect their headlights, grill, and other front-end parts. :2cents:

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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's (Declassified) Off-Road Bumpers and Rock Slide
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I am excited about these parts! I am a new owner of a 2009 KK! I have read this entire forum and know that you are not giving prices yet so I will just wait patiently :juggle:


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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's Off-Road Front Bumper Stinger Q&A?
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Anyone else have any comments on stingers?


Here’s my opinion. 99.9% of the buyers will not use the stinger for what it’s true purpose is; however, if people request the stinger for “curb appeal”, then I would offer it as an option. A more “user friendly” option is to incorporate a grill guard in which people can protect their headlights, grill, and other front-end parts. :2cents:


Just a caveat onto that. I would love to have a front bumper assembly that has the option to remove a grill guard/headlight protector and what not. For instance we use them on the hummers over here. Just pull the pin and you can drop them to raise the hood, or take them completely off. I doubt this is something that others might be interested in though.

I suppose that getting a decent front bumper would be the biggie, and I could probably fab the grill guard myself.

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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's (Declassified) Off-Road Bumpers and Rock Slide
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nice designs... and so what if the rails look liek someone elses... there are only so many ways to do a solution for a problem efficiently.

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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's (Declassified) Off-Road Bumpers and Rock Slide
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First I've seen of this thread. Nice work!

Make sure you price these things at an amount that will make it worth it for you. Many headaches can arise: shipping / shippers, parts out of spec, material price changes, taxes, liability, etc.

As for the pricing game, if I were to make those, with my waterjet costs in steel, I'm guessing:

1k front (not including piaa lights)
900 rear
400 sliders

keep it up. Can't wait to see where this goes.

As for originality: if you can get products to people inside of two months after payment, THAT will be original enough for most people....

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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's (Declassified) Off-Road Bumpers and Rock Slide
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As for originality: if you can get products to people inside of two months after payment, THAT will be original enough for most people....


there is that too.

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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's (Declassified) Off-Road Bumpers and Rock Slide
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yea, id love a stinger too. :mrgreen:

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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's (Declassified) Off-Road Bumpers and Rock Slide
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were adding a stinger to mine after tax season some time.. late spring.

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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's (Declassified) Off-Road Bumpers and Rock Slide
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longer and it would be very cool and how long be for you would have one for a kj 02 would love to have one .
Thanks evil, but I have to finish developing my off-road armoring for my KK and the KK enthusiasts before I can think about anything else.


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MtnLuvr wrote:
Anyone else have any comments on stingers?
Here’s my opinion. 99.9% of the buyers will not use the stinger for what it’s true purpose is; however, if people request the stinger for “curb appeal”, then I would offer it as an option....
Thanks and I tend to agree.
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...A more “user friendly” option is to incorporate a grill guard in which people can protect their headlights, grill, and other front-end parts. :2cents:
:twisted: Look for my post a little later.......


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I am excited about these parts! I am a new owner of a 2009 KK! I have read this entire forum and know that you are not giving prices yet so I will just wait patiently :juggle:
Thanks for the encouragement. Probably no one is as anxious to be done as I am since I've been without the use of my KK for coming on 7 months. I'm ready to get it back and have some awesome off-road armoring and then to be able to have my armoring reproduced in batches so other KK enthusiasts can so-equip their KK if they want. Thanks for your patience and welcome to LOST.


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....Just a caveat onto that. I would love to have a front bumper assembly that has the option to remove a grill guard/headlight protector and what not. For instance we use them on the hummers over here. Just pull the pin and you can drop them to raise the hood, or take them completely off. I doubt this is something that others might be interested in though.

I suppose that getting a decent front bumper would be the biggie, and I could probably fab the grill guard myself.
Pie, no "caveat" needed, I thought I mentioned in my original front bumper post on page 1 of this thread, that part of what I've designed into my front bumper design is the ability to personalize via options such as multiple Grille Guard Hoop options, multiple lower radiator and power steering cooler skid options, compact winch control box mounting, etc. My bolt-on Grille Guard Hoop options won't be "hummer-easy" with a pull pin to lower them, but they are bolted on and thus removable are able to be added when desired. You're not the only one who wants options, I personally can't decide if I want the basic Grille Guard Hoop or a full width Brush Guard, so I want to be able to change it out whenever I want (and maybe as a function of where I'm going wheeling :JEEPIN: ). Look for my post later with a little update on my bolt-on basic Grille Guard Hoop.


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nice designs... and so what if the rails look liek someone elses... there are only so many ways to do a solution for a problem efficiently.
Thanks.


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First I've seen of this thread. Nice work!

Make sure you price these things at an amount that will make it worth it for you. Many headaches can arise: shipping / shippers, parts out of spec, material price changes, taxes, liability, etc.....keep it up. Can't wait to see where this goes....
Thanks. I know you know the pain and hassles I've been going through. Fortunately (?), my early career prepared me for all the hassles. Now, if I could only figure out something to do about having more time...................


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As for originality: if you can get products to people inside of two months after payment, THAT will be original enough for most people....
there is that too.
Although there are some additional challenges not being someone building these out in their own garage or shop, one of the benefits of my plan is that I'll be having my KK bumpers and rock sliders made in batches by professional custom fabricators. To get some benefit from economies of scale, I'll need to have them made in batches. Thus, the benefit to everyone else who wants to buy my KK armoring is that my sell price is based upon my costs so I won't be selling anything until units are made. Thus, we won't be taking anyone's money until we know we've got KK products to ship. So, no one should have to wait multiple months or years to get the aftermarket products they've paid for.


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yea, id love a stinger too. :mrgreen:
Gotcha.



Thank you all for your patience, support and encouragement.

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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's Off-Road Front Bumper - 01/16/2011 update
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Ok, now for a little update from this past weekend. Since the welder tech at the street rod fabrication shop I'm (now) working with was going on vacation this week, I repossessed the KK last Friday to bring it home for some review, testing, mock-ups and design fine-tuning. The front bumper in these photos is actually the second one fully made from 100% pre-made parts. Although full-welded, none of the welds have been dressed as they obviously will in my final prototypes as well as in the final products made for me by other fab shops in batches.

Although not the actual hi-lift jack point, I did a little testing by lifting up the front corner of my KK with my hi-lift jack at the very outside end of the front bumper.
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Then, I decided to (yet again :dizzy: ), bolt everything in place, including some recently made parts. This included assessing options for front license plate mounting. Front license plates aren't required in Kansas where I live, but I know they are in many other states and sometimes people want a front license plate of some sort even when not an offical and required one. So, an off-the-shelf option would be to use one of the license plate brackets like the below that clips to a roller fairlead:
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But if you didn't want such a flat brick-face wall at the front of your KK, I designed my front bumper to accomodate mounting a license plate aerodynamically and aesthetically integrated, while not impacting approach angles:
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You'll see more of it in my next post on my basic Grille Guard Hoop .........

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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's Off-Road Front Bumper - 01/16/2011 update
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Ok, now for a little update from this past weekend. Since the welder tech at the street rod fabrication shop I'm (now) working with was going on vacation this week, I repossessed the KK last Friday to bring it home for some review, testing, mock-ups and design fine-tuning. The front bumper in these photos is actually the second one fully made from 100% pre-made parts. Although full-welded, none of the welds have been dressed as they obviously will in my final prototypes as well as in the final products made for me by other fab shops in batches.

Although not the actual hi-lift jack point, I did a little testing by lifting up the front corner of my KK with my hi-lift jack at the very outside end of the front bumper.
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Then, I decided to (yet again :dizzy: ), bolt everything in place, including some recently made parts. This included assessing options for front license plate mounting. Front license plates aren't required in Kansas where I live, but I know they are in many other states and sometimes people want a front license plate of some sort even when not an offical and required one. So, an off-the-shelf option would be to use one of the license plate brackets like the below that clips to a roller fairlead:
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But if you didn't want such a flat brick-face wall at the front of your KK, I designed my front bumper to accomodate mounting a license plate aerodynamically and aesthetically integrated, while not impacting approach angles:
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You'll see more of it in my next post on my basic Grille Guard Hoop .........



I'm really liking how this is coming along. I'm getting more and more interested. Thanks for keeping us updated! :BANANA:

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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's (Declassified) Off-Road Bumpers and Rock Slide
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 Post subject: Re: MtnLuvr's Off-Road Front Bumper - basic Grille Guard Hoo
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As you should know if you've been following my thread, I've designed my KK off-road front winch bumper to be either as-is or to accomodate 3 different bolt-on front end protection options (basic Grille Guard Hoop, full-width Brush Guard and forward-leaning Stinger Hoop). Last week I picked up the couple formed tubing options I had formed for my basic Grille Guard Hoop option and then test fit and selected the below:

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Accessing and opening the KK's hood is no problem. The only problem is that with the Grille Guard Hoop there, you keep wanting to grab it when leaning into or out of or down below the Jeep. This won't be an issue in the final product when the hoop is welded to its mounted brackets (that are each secured by 3 bolts), but for me this past weekend, it created some amusing moments for my dad and I as one of us would repeatedly pull or lean on the hoop and since it was only sitting there, it would give way. :ROTFL:

I wanted to insure the basic Grille Guard Hoop didn't interfere with the driver's line of sight when wheeling:
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Really, it's all there in front of the grille, you just can't see any of it from the KK's driver's seat (although you can see how cluttered my garage workbench gets when working on my Jeep :lol: ).

Besides looking cool and offering additional protection for the front-end of your Jeep, what's a Grille Guard without the option to add additional off-road lights? So, I took my PIAA round-tube mounting brackets (I had from when they used to be mounted up on my OEM tube bar) and played around with visual spacing with a couple 6" 130W long-range KC HiLites (121)....

Mounted off the horizontal of the Grille Guard Hoop:
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I've seen a lot of Jeeps with off-road lights mounted here even though it blocks some radiator exposure.

So, I played around with mounting them up in the "corners" of the Grille Guard Hoop off the sides of the hoop:
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After playing around, I think I'll put light tabs on the sides to match the above and a couple on the horizontal top. When lights are mounted on the horiztonal, the tabs on the side can be used to secure the wire loom going to the lights.

I was pleased with how this worked out. I'm waiting on some feedback from my tubing bender guy before I finalize layout of the additions to the basic Grille Guard Hoop to turn it into a full-width Brush Guard to extend out and protect the front headlights. I'm also needing some input from him as I laid out a couple options for the Stinger Hoop. One would be much easier to implement but is more complex of a tubing bend while the other is easier tubing bends but more complex of a weldment and would require more pieces and be more expensive. I'm hoping in a couple weeks to post something showing test-fit of Stinger Hoop.

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Although there are some additional challenges not being someone building these out in their own garage or shop, one of the benefits of my plan is that I'll be having my KK bumpers and rock sliders made in batches by professional custom fabricators.


This is why you're smarter than me. Having them made to spec gives you time to design and sell. Instead of bringing in a fabrication partner, I should have probably just paid his money to my waterjet guy and had them welded right after cutting, and been done with it. It is pretty difficult finding the time to build them when you both have day jobs and 2nd jobs.

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