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Lute said:You made my day, Adam. ;-) Right after I bought a used copy of the DVD-A version (for its Mch mix), I heard the news that this Bluray would be coming out. At the time I could have kicked myself, but thanks to you I am in Mch bliss again. Cheers, Brett
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rammiepie said:Ditto: Love my DVD~A and the BD~A is phooey (unless you have nothing to compare it with)!
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Meta Models¶
Certain models in scikit-lego are "meta". Meta models are models that depend on other estimators that go in and these models will add features to the input model. One way of thinking of a meta model is to consider it to be a way to "decorate" a model.
This part of the documentation will highlight a few of them.
The thresholder can help tweak recall and precision of a model by moving the threshold value of
predict_proba. Commonly this threshold is set at 0.5 for two classes. This meta-model can decorate an estimator with two classes such that the threshold moves.
We demonstrate the working below. First we'll generate a skewed dataset.
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
from sklearn.datasets import make_blobs
from sklearn.model_selection import GridSearchCV
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.metrics import precision_score, recall_score, accuracy_score, make_scorer
from sklego.meta import Thresholder
X, y = make_blobs(1000, centers=[(0, 0), (1.5, 1.5)], cluster_std=[1, 0.5])
plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=y, s=5);
Next we'll make a cross validation pipeline to try out this thresholder.
pipe = Pipeline([
("model", Thresholder(LogisticRegression(solver='lbfgs'), threshold=0.1))
mod = GridSearchCV(estimator=pipe,
param_grid = {"model__threshold": np.linspace(0.1, 0.9, 50)},
scoring={"precision": make_scorer(precision_score),
"recall": make_scorer(recall_score),
"accuracy": make_scorer(accuracy_score)},
mod.fit(X, y);
With this cross validation trained, we'll make a chart to show the effect of changing the threshold value.
[['mean_test_precision', 'mean_test_recall', 'mean_test_accuracy']]
.plot(figsize=(16, 4)));
Increasing the threshold will increase the precision but as expected this is at the cost of recall (and accuracy).
Grouped Estimation¶
To help explain what it can do we'll consider three methods to predict the chicken weight. The chicken data has 578 rows and 4 columns from an experiment on the effect of diet on early growth of chicks. The body weights of the chicks were measured at birth and every second day thereafter until day 20. They were also measured on day 21. There were four groups on chicks on different protein diets.
Let's first load a bunch of things to do this.
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
from sklearn.linear_model import LinearRegression
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline, FeatureUnion
from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder, StandardScaler
from sklearn.metrics import mean_absolute_error, mean_squared_error
from sklego.datasets import load_chicken
from sklego.preprocessing import ColumnSelector
df = load_chicken(give_pandas=True)
def plot_model(model):
df = load_chicken(give_pandas=True)
model.fit(df[['diet', 'time']], df['weight'])
metric_df = df[['diet', 'time', 'weight']].assign(pred=lambda d: model.predict(d[['diet', 'time']]))
metric = mean_absolute_error(metric_df['weight'], metric_df['pred'])
plt.figure(figsize=(12, 4))
plt.scatter(df['time'], df['weight'])
for i in [1, 2, 3, 4]:
pltr = metric_df[['time', 'diet', 'pred']].drop_duplicates().loc[lambda d: d['diet'] == i]
plt.plot(pltr['time'], pltr['pred'], color='.rbgy'[i])
plt.title(f"linear model per group, MAE: {np.round(metric, 2)}");
This code will be used to explain the steps below.
Model 1: Linear Regression with Dummies¶
First we start with a baseline.
feature_pipeline = Pipeline([
("datagrab", FeatureUnion([
("discrete", Pipeline([
("grab", ColumnSelector("diet")),
("encode", OneHotEncoder(categories="auto", sparse=False))
("continous", Pipeline([
("grab", ColumnSelector("time")),
("standardize", StandardScaler())
pipe = Pipeline([
("transform", feature_pipeline),
("model", LinearRegression())
Because the model is linear the dummy variable causes the intercept to change but leaves the gradient untouched. This might not be what we want from a model. So let's see how the grouped model can adress this.
Model 2: Linear Regression in GroupedEstimation¶
The goal of the grouped estimator is to allow us to split up our data. The image below demonstrates what will happen.
We train 5 models in total because the model will also train a fallback automatically (you can turn this off via
use_fallback=False). The idea behind the fallback is that we can predict something if the group does not appear in the prediction.
Each model will accept features that are in
X that are not part of the grouping variables. In this case each group will model based on the
time since
weight is what we're trying to predict.
Applying this model to the dataframe is easy.
from sklego.meta import GroupedEstimator
mod = GroupedEstimator(LinearRegression(), groups=["diet"])
And the model looks a bit better.
Model 3: Dummy Regression in GroupedEstimation¶
We could go a step further and train a DummyRegressor per diet per timestep. The code below works similar as the previous example but one difference is that the grouped model does not receive a dataframe but a numpy array.
Note that we're also grouping over more than one column here. The code that does this is listed below.
from sklearn.dummy import DummyRegressor
feature_pipeline = Pipeline([
("datagrab", FeatureUnion([
("discrete", Pipeline([
("grab", ColumnSelector("diet")),
("continous", Pipeline([
("grab", ColumnSelector("time")),
pipe = Pipeline([
("transform", feature_pipeline),
("model", GroupedEstimator(DummyRegressor(strategy="mean"), groups=[0, 1]))
Note that these predictions seems to yield the lowest error but take it with a grain of salt since these errors are only based on the train set.
Decayed Estimation¶
Often you are interested in predicting the future. You use the data from the past in an attempt to achieve this and it could be said that perhaps data from the far history is less relevant than data from the recent past.
This is the idea behind the
DecayEstimator meta-model. It looks at the order of data going in and it will assign a higher importance to recent rows that occurred recently and a lower importance to older rows. Recency is based on the order so it is imporant that the dataset that you pass in is correctly ordered beforehand.
We'll demonstrate how it works by applying it on a simulated timeseries problem.
from sklearn.dummy import DummyRegressor
from sklego.meta import GroupedEstimator, DecayEstimator
from sklego.datasets import make_simpleseries
yt = make_simpleseries(seed=1)
df = (pd.DataFrame({"yt": yt,
"date": pd.date_range("2000-01-01", periods=len(yt))})
.assign(m=lambda d: d.date.dt.month)
plt.figure(figsize=(12, 3))
We will create two models on this dataset. One model calculates the average value per month in our timeseries and the other does the same thing but will decay the importance of making accurate predictions for the far history.
mod1 = (GroupedEstimator(DummyRegressor(), groups=["m"])
.fit(df[['m']], df['yt']))
mod2 = (GroupedEstimator(DecayEstimator(DummyRegressor(), decay=0.9), groups=["m"])
.fit(df[['index', 'm']], df['yt']))
plt.figure(figsize=(12, 3))
plt.plot(df['yt'], alpha=0.5);
plt.plot(mod1.predict(df[['m']]), label="grouped")
plt.plot(mod2.predict(df[['index', 'm']]), label="decayed")
The decay parameter has a lot of influence on the effect of the model but one can clearly see that we shift focus to the more recent data.
Confusion Balancer¶
Disclaimer: This is an experimental feature.
We added an experimental feature to the meta estimators that can be used to force balance in the confusion matrix of an estimator. The approach works
n1, n2, n3 = 100, 500, 50
X = np.concatenate([np.random.normal(0, 1, (n1, 2)),
np.random.normal(2, 1, (n2, 2)),
np.random.normal(3, 1, (n3, 2))],
y = np.concatenate([np.zeros((n1, 1)),
np.ones((n2, 1)),
np.zeros((n3, 1))],
plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=y);
Let's take this dataset and train a simple classifier against it.
from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix
mod = LogisticRegression(solver='lbfgs', multi_class='multinomial', max_iter=10000)
cfm = confusion_matrix(y, mod.fit(X, y).predict(X))
array([[ 72, 78],
[ 4, 496]])
The confusion matrix is not ideal. This is in part because the dataset is slightly inbalanced but in general it is also because of the way the algorithm works. Let's see if we can learn something else from this confusion matrix. I might transform the counts into probabilities.
cfm.T / cfm.T.sum(axis=1).reshape(-1, 1)
array([[0.94736842, 0.05263158],
[0.1358885 , 0.8641115 ]])
Let's consider the number 0.2346 in the lower left corner. This number represents the probability that the actually class 0 while the model predicts class 1. In math we might write this as \(P(C_1 | M_1)\) where \(C_i\) denotes the actual label while \(M_i\) denotes the label given by the algorithm.
The idea now is that we might rebalance our original predictions \(P(M_i)\) by multiplying them;
In general this can be written as;
In laymens terms; we might be able to use the confusion matrix to learn from our mistakes. By how much we correct is something that we can tune with a hyperparameter.
We'll perform an optimistic demonstration below.
def false_positives(mod, x, y):
return (mod.predict(x) != y)[y == 1].sum()
def false_negatives(mod, x, y):
return (mod.predict(x) != y)[y == 0].sum()
from sklego.meta import ConfusionBalancer
cf_mod = ConfusionBalancer(LogisticRegression(solver='lbfgs', max_iter=1000), alpha=1.0)
grid = GridSearchCV(cf_mod,
param_grid={'alpha': np.linspace(-1.0, 3.0, 31)},
"accuracy": make_scorer(accuracy_score),
"positives": false_positives,
"negatives": false_negatives
df = pd.DataFrame(grid.fit(X, y).cv_results_)
plt.figure(figsize=(12, 3))
plt.plot(df['param_alpha'], df['mean_test_positives'], label="false positives")
plt.plot(df['param_alpha'], df['mean_test_negatives'], label="false negatives")
plt.plot(df['param_alpha'], df['mean_test_accuracy'], label="test accurracy")
plt.plot(df['param_alpha'], df['mean_train_accuracy'], label="train accurracy")
It seems that we can pick a value for \(\alpha\) such that the confusion matrix is balanced. There's also a modest increase in accuracy for this balancing moment.
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"The Africa we want"
"Ngos are losing their legitimacy. If it was the funeral of the ngo, Africans would attend without flowers and without speeches. They'd just attend to make sure it really died," says Moses Isooba to a room full of ngo-workers at Partos Innovation Festival today.
"We, Africans, want to determine the Africa we want! For our future. For our children. We want institutions that are working, protection and above all social justice."
And traditional ngos don't provide that. People are unhappy with their governments, and don't see the difference between government and ngos anymore. Local ngo-workers and young people start questioning the aid-narrative of patronage: aid workers from the North coming to help people from the South.
So, ngos "revisit your relevancy for the South. It must be radically different." A short summary of Isooba's speech:
Don'ts according to Isooba:
- Africans conforming to those in power, telling them what to do.
- A narrative that talks about a divide between the North and the South, currently embedded in ngo-language.
- Sending one person for a few days to Africa and then back home.
- A majority (currently 60%!) of the ngo-staff from the North.
- An appetite for managing or governing.
Do's according to Isooba:
- Interrogating power and inequalities.
- Supporting decentralised movements, like Isooba's Africans Rising.
- Looking for something you can bring to strengthen local struggles.
- Working with people (not the entire continent). "In them there is a huge power."
- Tapping into the potential of young people. "Hand over to young people – who are around in 50 or 60 years' time – to shape their own destiny."
- An appetite for risk: go to rural places, stay longer than a few days, think without the box.
- Changing the narrative. "Turn the story around: Africa is a rich continent and every year 50 billion USD leaves the continent" (e.g. coltan from DRC to Europe).
- Thinking about the positive gains of human mobility, instead of criminalising human migration.
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Whatever respective role you play in your company, no doubt your number-one priority is the customer. After all, your success as a business is inextricably linked to their success. And the best way to make sure your customers succeed is by strategically gathering, and then knowing how to use, customer feedback.
Chances are, you've already gathered some basic feedback in the form of surveys, interviews, focus groups, and/or actual usability testing. And that's great - it means you're already ahead of the game!
But not all feedback is created equal -- depending on how it's gathered and applied, feedback can usually range from decent to dangerously misleading. But there is a higher-quality level of customer feedback, one that's tailored to your unique needs. It can uncover frustrations your customers are experiencing and reveal real opportunities to help them make progress -- and in turn, boost adoption and engagement. Plus, the high quality feedback we're talking about avoids the usual pitfalls inherent in most feedback gathering methods (which we talk about in depth here.)
In fact, the type of feedback we gather is so targeted and specific we don't even call it feedback - we call it intel. Thanks to our in-depth SLOW interview process and use of lifelike, code-free prototypes in our realistic Sim Lab simulations, we're able to gather honest, actionable data about your customers' needs, motivations, frustrations, and goals. And our years of experience and expertise allow us to synthesize the information and data we collect and present you with actionable opportunities to increase value, boost adoption and engagement, remove areas of friction, improve the customer experience, and meet your business goals.
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… The CEO/Founder
Your main concern is growing your business, and you don't have time to waste on missteps, guesses, or things that won't help further that goal. The type of targeted intel we gather in the Sim Lab will allow you to:
- Focus on what matters — Using customer intel to focus the team prevents people from wasting time on projects that don't benefit the company
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Democrats release Trump impeachment report
Pence's chief of staff blasts Schiff following report's release
The Vice President's chief of staff, Marc Short, blasted House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff after the release of Democrats' report.
"Adam Schiff is a proven liar and this allegation further solidifies that well-earned reputation," Short said.
The report highlights Vice President Mike Pence's role in the Ukraine pressure campaign and his careful statement about the investigations.
Democrats accuse Pence's office of crafting a "carefully worded statement" responding to US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland's testimony, arguing that the statement did not address the actual claims in the testimony. Sondland testified that he told Pence, during a trip to Warsaw in early September, that the withholding of military aid had "become tied to the issue of investigations."
The report accuses Pence, along with senior members of the administration, of being "either knowledgeable of or active participants in an effort to extract from a foreign nation the personal political benefits sought by the President," and heavily relies on what Sondland testifies he told the vice president in Warsaw.
Schiff: There's a "grave risk" in waiting for more evidence when we already have enough
House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff said there is "grave risk to the country" in waiting for more evidence in the impeachment case when Congress knows "enough about the President's misconduct to make a responsible judgement."
Schiff said the Democrats will continue to investigate and his committee could send additional information to the Judiciary Committee in the future.
"But there is, I think, grave risk to the country with waiting until we have every last fact, when we already know enough about the President's misconduct to make a responsible judgement about whether we think that's compatible with the office of the president," he said.
Giuliani called into the White House Situation Room after his plans to travel to Ukraine were revealed
Rudy Giuliani connected into the White House Situation Room by phone in May after The New York Times revealed his plans to travel to Ukraine and press the leader there to investigate the Bidens, the report says.
The calls into the Situation Room and the White House switchboard on May 9, which the report described as "brief connections," preceded a four-minute phone call that Giuliani held with someone at the White House, and were part of a flurry of calls that the President's personal attorney made in the hours following the newspaper report.
On May 10, when he eventually said that he had cancelled the trip, Giuliani spoke for more than 25 minutes with Kash Patel, the NSC official who had previously worked under Devin Nunes on the House Committee, the report says.
Giuliani also spoke with Hill reporter John Solomon, indicted associate Lev Parnas, an unidentified number, and Ambassador Kurt Volker — for more than 30 minutes — in that two day period. Volker told the committee that he warned Giuliani in the phone call not to trust former Ukrainian prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko, according to the report.
Schiff says Rep. Devin Nunes' phone conversations with Giuliani are "deeply concerning"
House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff said the committee's top Republican Rep. Devin Nunes was linked to an effort of coordinating with a conservative journalist to peddle "false narratives" about President Trump's opponents.
He called Nunes' phone conversations "deeply concerning" and said "there's a lot more to learn."
"I don't want to state that there is unequivocal fact but the allegations are deeply concerning," Schiff told reporters at a news conference today,
He continued: "Our focus is on the President's conduct first and foremost. It may be the role of others to evaluate the conduct of members of Congress."
Lawyer for Giuliani associate tweets: "Devin Nunes, you should have recused yourself"
An attorney for indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas just tweeted, "Devin Nunes, you should have recused yourself at the outset" of the impeachment hearings.
The post was a quote tweet of a Politico reporter who earlier tweeted call logs from the report showing that Nunes, ranking member on the intel committee, and Parnas were in touch multiple times in April.
The tweet from Parnas' attorney, Joseph Bondy, included the hashtag #LetLevSpeak.
Sen. McConnell outlines how an impeachment trial could play out
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell talked extensively today on how an impeachment trial might play out.
McConnell said if an agreement with Democrats can't be reached on a resolution dictating how the trial is run, Republicans could use the strength of their majority vote to push one through.
"There are three ways this could end up being handled," he said on a Senate trial, adding that "51 senators of any particular persuasion could workout procedure for handling it."
McConnell also suggested that he and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer could work out an agreement "on what the procedure would be in the Senate."
He went on to say each issue that comes up could be dealt with like a "jump ball."
"If we don't work out the procedure in advance, at a minimum, we would probably go forward with the House, presenting the case," McConnell said. "The President's lawyers presenting the argument. And then a series of motions could be made if the Chief Justice handles it the way Chief Justice Rehnquist did all of those will be submitted to the body and voted on and so a motion could encompass almost any suggestion."
McConnell added the reason he provided such a lengthy answer is because he said "there is no answer at the moment."
He also said he anticipates Chief Justice John Roberts will play a "passive role" since that is "the way Rehnquist did it."
"Basically submitting suggestions to the body, and they voting on it," McConnell said.
Report lays out how information was withheld from Congress
The House Intelligence Committee described a wide-ranging and coordinated campaign by the Department of Defense, the White House, Office of Management and Budget, the Vice President's office, and State to withhold key documents.
The excruciating detail shows how witnesses told the committee about specific documents and information that they weren't able to recall or turn over because the administration was blocking it. The level of detail makes clear that this is a roadmap for an article of impeachment regarding obstruction of Congress.
The committee lays out in individual sections instances of documents being withheld from the intelligence committee. Here are a few examples:
The Vice President's office:
- Any notes taken by National Security Adviser to Mike Pence Keith Kellogg or Pence aide Jennifer Williams
- "A July 12 email from White House Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the Chief of Staff Robert Blair to Associate Director Duffey explaining that the "President is directing a hold on military support for Ukraine" and not mentioning any other country or security assistance package."
State Department:
- "Notes and memoranda to file from Mr. Kent, Ambassador Taylor, and others, including Ambassador Taylor's 'little notebook' in which he would 'take notes on conversations, in particular when I'm not in the office,' such as meetings with Ukrainians or when out and receiving a phone call," as well as his 'small, little spiral notebook' of calls that took place in the office."
White House:
- Notes taken of July 25 phone call and any briefing materials given to President Trump
Department of Energy:
- "A document passed directly from Secretary Perry to President Zelensky in a May 2019 meeting with a list of 'people he trusts' that President Zelensky could seek advice from on issues of relating to 'key Ukrainian energy-sector contacts,' according to David Holmes, the Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv"
Department of Defense:
- "An email sent to Ms. Cooper's staff on July 25 at 4:25 p.m. stating that the Ukrainian Embassy and The Hill newspaper had become aware of the situation with the military assistance funding"
- "An email received by Ms. Cooper's staff on July 3 at 4:23 p.m. from the Department of State explaining that the Department of State "had heard the CN [Congressional Notification] is currently being blocked by OMB."
Schiff: There is more investigative work to be done
House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff, discussing never-before-seen phone records included in the report, said there is "more investigative work to be done."
The records show a web of communications between a conservative journalist, Trump officials and Republicans, which led to a "smear campaign" against former US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, according to the report.
"There was more investigative work to be done," Schiff said in a news conference, adding that perhaps the scheme began even before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was elected in April.
"One of the issues that we are looking into is, did this scheme begin far earlier than we first understood? Was the scheme, in fact, put in place to try to pressure the last president of the Ukraine, Poroshenko, and his corrupt prosecutor general, Lutsenko, into conducting these same investigations? and was that plan put into turmoil and chaos when this new reformer Zelensky surged in the polling and ultimately won that presidency?" Schiff asked.
Schiff said the issue is "something we continue to investigate and that is something these phone records also shed light on."
Democrats accuse Pence of knowing about Ukraine pressure campaign
In the report, House Democrats accuse Vice President Mike Pence of crafting a "carefully worded statement" during US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland's testimony, arguing that the statement did not address the actual claims in the testimony.
Sondland testified that he told Pence, during a trip to Warsaw in early September, that the withholding of military aid had "become tied to the issue of investigations."
The statement released by the Vice President's office denied ever having "a conversation with Gordon Sondland about investigating the Bidens, Burisma, or the conditional release of financial aid to Ukraine based upon potential investigations."
The Democrats, however, argue that Sondland did not testify to any of the items listed by Pence's office.
The report accuses Pence, along with senior members of the administration, of being "either knowledgeable of or active participants in an effort to extract from a foreign nation the personal political benefits sought by the President," and heavily relies on what Sondland testifies he told the Vice President in Warsaw.


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Neanderthals ornamental use of eagle talons in the Iberian Peninsula
Eagle talons are often regarded as the earliest items used to make jewellery by Neanderthals, a practice seemingly common in Southern Europe between 120,000 and 40,000 years ago. Now, for the first time, researchers have found evidence of the ornamental use of eagle talons in the Iberian Peninsula, in the cave site of Foradada in Calafell. An article published in the journal Science Advances describes the findings, led by Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, researcher at the Institute of Evolution in Africa (IDEA).
The interest in these findings lies in the fact that it is the most modern piece of its kind so far found and the first to be found in the Iberian Peninsula. This circumstance widens the temporary and geographical limits that were estimated for this kind of Neanderthal ornaments. The find has been described as "the last necklace made by the Neanderthals", according to Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo.
"Neanderthals used eagle talons as symbolic elements, probably as necklace pendants, from the beginnings of the mid Palaeolithic", notes Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo.
The bones are from a Spanish Imperial Eagle (Aquila Adalberti), and date to more than 39,000 years ago, with marks showing these were used to take the talons off. The characteristics of these marks, and comparisons with different prehistorical sites, led the researchers to determine that the animal was not manipulated for consumption but for symbolic reasons.
The findings belong to the châtelperronian culture, typical from the last Neanderthals that lived in Europe, and coincide roughly with when they would have first interacted with Homo sapiens. It has even been suggested by Juan Ignacio Morales, one of the authors on this research, that this use of eagle talons as ornaments could have been a cultural transmission from the Neanderthals to humans, who adopted this practice after reaching Europe.
Research article: The Châtelperronian Neanderthals of Cova Foradada (Calafell, Spain) used imperial eagle phalanges for symbolic purposes


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I understand that the passenger side shocks are harder to remove because it usually requires dropping the gas tank, but I cannot figure out how to get to the upper bolts of the housing/shield/cover on the driver's side bumper shocks? Would cutting it (or the whole shock) be easiest?
Sidenote: The fin on the back of the car that flushes the rear end to the bumper -- how does this come off? (Looks like small welds maybe?) Thanks!
Only way is to drop the tank to get the passenger side shock out. While you are at it; check the fuel hoses. Banzai Motorworks (GF-17 & GF-18)
The section that the bumper mounts to (curved like a banana) will fit through the oval hole in the body.
The panel is spot welded and has 4 small brackets under it for extra support. You can cut the brackets and move the panel up and down which will show you where the spot welds are. Then it grinding them away or using a spot weld drill bit. Then the paint work....
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