I tried this in the 4th gen forum and I didn't get much responce so i figured I'd try it here. I'm working on making a custom front bumper for my max and this is what i have so far. I'm looking for any ideas to make it look as good as possable. I know i'll go out and get it painted and someone will say "looks good but you should have done...." so I'm trying to get ideas while its still being worked on. thanks for any ideas.

 

another pic

 

Dude did you dye your seats or are they black factory?

 

I like the molding, but to be honest, I don't really like thw huge rectangular opening. Doesn't really go with the bumper. Maybe if it was smaller or not so "boxy", something like that. But I definetly like the molding of the lip. Is that the Sarona lip?

 

it'll be easier to tell once its on the car and matched with some sideskirts, but for one it'll be different! I don't think the Maxima has a "big mouth" front end setup yet...that would work really nice for the guys that wanna show off their intercoolers. heres a 3rd gen who went "big mouth" too-->

http://a6.cpimg.com/image/C6/BC/6957...-014000F0-.jpg

 

thanks guys, im not set on the big opening yet, i kinda got that from the skyline but if you don't think it will look good i'll close it up some, as far as the seats there leatherseats.com

 

I think small openings for fog lights might look good... even if you won't put fogs in them... it would just look nicer, cover then up with some mesh or something....

 

personally I like the big openin,as everyone has seen with
mu modified stock front.What i would do is keep the large
opening is round out the edges an with some mesh or a big inter
cooler it be PHAT,also maybe shaving the outer corner lights would
look pimp,i want to shave mine.

 

if u can....i say imitate the veilside front...that would look soooo coool then maybe if there's enough peep interested maybe u can have a company mass produce....but make it even of better quality then sorona...

 

hard to tell

 

looks too plain where the fogs would go... i agree there should be some fogs or at least some sort of openings in that spot

 

somehow it reminds me of Optimus Prime

 

Its going to look like a mix between the buddy club and the BattleZ. I think it looks good, needs something where the fogs used to be, and maybe the front lip could stick out a bit more. It looks like your trying to go conservative with a agressive style...but just my opinion!

 

I'd do one of the following:

1) Round off all of the 90 degree corners in the large rectangular opening to give it a smoother look, much less rigid.

2) Taper the top corners in some, so it looks like this /____\

3) Taper the bottom corners in, so it looks like this \____/

Just some ideas to throw around. Peace.

 

well i was thinking about doing it like the black widow lexus kit till i was told about the other max with that kit, i still like it just without the opening on the side and keeping the corner lights. I don't know what the veilside kit looks like.

 

quick photoshop job.... hope you dont mind. (not the greatest, but i wasnt goin for cleanlyness) i took out the line across the top (just looks better to me) i rounded off the top of the opening and made the "lip" on the bottom the same width all the way across the bottom. just my $0.02
-Barto

 

i don't mind the photoshops at all, as a matter of fact i was hoping for some. i do hope it looks good enough to get maybe shadow or greg from custommaxima intrested in making another front end thats why i was asking for the suggestions. Thanks guys.

 

i like it the way it is. what would be really nice is recessed mesh in the big mouth

 

The mouth would look fine if the bumper face wasn't so flat..

 

i like the mouth. would look good with a mesh grille

 

time for my 2 cents.

instead of a drop down, add a slight curl to the front of the lip, so it actually acts like a front lip and add some functionality to it since we do have a FWD.

second, why not add some cooling vents for the front brakes, you can add some inlets near the bottom and channel it to toward the center of the car and then sweep outwards underneath toward the back of the rotor.

then for the front, you should add ..well. something .. just having the front with a rectangle would be too little, and besides. it wont look good unless u have an intercooler to fit that hole anyway...

overall it looks like the sonara kit chopped up, i suppose..

take a look at the Sentra SE-R front. i think you're getting an idea to emulate that perhaps?

 

here you go. take a lookey.

 

I stole this bumper off of another nissan car... hehehe. bet you would never guess which one. i put some mesh in the opening, it has fogs, there are no holes for the marker lights but i didnt think of that till now... you get the idea though. i would put this on my car
-Barto

 

Here's a quick and dirty photoshop with your front end.

 

Round off the corners of the rectangle, add some fog holes, and mabye add some vents. Looks good so far; keep us updated...
Ian

 

well thanks for all the help, much better responce than i thought it would get. if you have any other ideas or photoshoped pics let me know, im gonna try and work on it tomorrow if i decide on something.