260z front bumper onto a 71 240z

[Wade]

Trying to locate any pictures someone may have of this. In particular for using the Blackdragon 260z front bumper on a early 240z.

http://www.blackdragonauto.com/icatalog/zr/full.aspx?Page=20

From searching it appears that the brackets would need to be adjusted, just curious if the 260z bumper wraps around neatly or basically how they would look. I am just looking for a bare bumper without any the override bars or guards. I suppose I could go with the 260z rubber strips and just leave the guard holes there without the actual guards place.

[Gary in NJ]

How about a 240Z bumper without override bars and guards. It would bolt right up too.

[Wade]

Ideally yes, but just happened to see that they still carry the 260z front bumper and not the 240z ones so I was considering my options and I wasn't really sure how different they were, mounting brackets needing to be reworked is not an issue as long as the bumper still wrapped around correctly. As in if the fitment was close I could live with it rather than spending big bucks for a 240z bumper which most likely looks like hell then paying again to straighten/re-chrome.

[Walter Moore]

The first problem is going to be that the 260Z, as a 1974 model, had the energy absorbing bumpers. (At least in the U.S.) The bumpers for he 71 mount on bent, flat steel bars that bolt to the sides of the unibody's front "Manta-ray" wings.

(Sorry, I don't know how else to describe the protrusion.)

The 74 bumper has tubular shock absorbers that have to mount to the frame. I am not as familiar with the details, but I suspect that you would have to alter the grill and the unibody to make the shocks fit, and I have no idea where you would mount the shocks for the rear bumper. (You were planning on making both ends match?)

I bought both my front and rear bumpers on Ebay. They may be available other places. If you have more money than you know what to do with:

http://www.zcarsource.com/front-bumper-with-guards-70-72-refinished_8_53583_63386.html

[Wade]

Ok, thanks guys, seen the item on that site and the bumper looked darn close so thought I could fabricate the mounts using some spare 240z mounts I had. If this is not something you have heard of others doing then I take it that 260z bumper wont fit right even with fabricated mounts. Thanks again.