Challenge Rear Grill and bumper

Who sells the upper piece?

The lower bumper just needs to be cut at the clearly visible cut line. No need to buy another one.

 

It's not quite that simple to just cut the lower bumper. I installed an OEM Challenge grille with OEM lower bumper on my F430. The CF grille bolts to the lower bumper and if you just cut a non matching bumper, you won't be able to bolt the two together. The regular bumper doesn't have the moulded portions where the CF grill bolts to behind the bumper. I guess you could fiberglass those in but seems like more work to properly align the two. Much easier to use the correct bumper.

Here's my thread.

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/360-430/409774-430-carbon-fiber-challenge-grill-installed.html

To the OP, hope you find your bumper!

 

Make sure you get the correct carbon fiber piece for your car, the spider one is different than the one for the coupe.
I'm still looking for the lower bumper for a reasonable price, harder to find than the grill.

 

My shop cut my OEM non-challenge bumper to fit an OEM carbon challenge grille and didn't mention any of the items you described. There was certainly no fiberglass work involved.
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That looks awesome. Good job!

 

Looks clean and neat. Did they glue the grille to the lower bumper? Coz the oem grille has a row of mounting points to tie the lower bumper together.

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I'll check when it's daylight but here's a quick snap, looks pretty tidy.
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FFing awesome...with cf diffuser as well. 👍

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Agreed

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Sorry Loz997S ... I have to retract my previous statement about the moulded portions. It was late and my photos were on my other computer. I looked at the old photos of my regular bumper and it does have the mounting points. A nice cut like yours will save some money on a bumper.

Here's my old regular bumper and my new installed OEM bumper which shows a tight fit like yours.

Again my apologies.
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And yes, make sure you get the correct grill. Here's photos of the difference.
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No worries Ron and thanks everyone, yes I'm really pleased with how it turned out. I got the grill from an Fchatter, I did actually buy a lower rear bumper section but the fit was awful and my shop determined that cutting my original would be better. Et voila

 

According to the shop the cut line is factory-marked, they believe the same moulding is used for Challenge and non-Challenge but that is pure speculation.

 

Hmm, so your F430 is now badged as a 430 Scuderia? Seems kinda like sticking a "turbo" badge on the car when it's the non-turbo version.

 

Relax dave. What he meant was his shop found a shortcut to achieve the challenge grille aesthetics without having to purchase a lower bumper. Nowhere did he mention badging it as a 430 Scuderia. The later model F430 coupes and spiders come with the challenge grille.

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I'm relaxed. Just think it's lame to have a false badge on a car, if this is the result of the work. Like stuffing your underwear with a sock.

 

Oh wait...I didn't notice there IS a badge on the grille.

My bad.



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Ok, so now I'm itchy to do this mod thanks to you guys. Mine is 2008 Nero Daytona so the change may not be as dramatic as Ferrari Red.

Loz997S, could you provide your shop contact as I will most likely be cutting up my stock bumper as well. Thanks in advance.

Here's some pics of my current 430 and what it will look like.
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Thats a novitec diffuser. Nice mods.

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