On my quest to be closer to the ground with my I30 I decided to get a front lip. The only company that makes one for the i30 is ionic dynamics but i'm not too big on that one. So I decided to go custom. Heres a few teasers cause its not finished 100% yet and its not painted.









Questions comments and critisism are welcome. Good or Bad.

 

looks effing sick man! love the drop and rims, i like the lip alot

 

Your car is pure sex. We need a full front end shot though.

 

you need to tell them that you have a 5spd swap!!!!!!!!!!!

 

There's still some glue on your trunk...

The car looks great, lip is coming along really nicely. Love the fitment/stance too.

 

I have a 5 speed swap everybody!

Thanks... Trunk has to be repainted. The glue wont come off without the paint going with it. lol. That will come when I re do the fenders, and finish the lip.

 

Looks very promising!

Although I think extending the exhaust tips would have been a better idea than to chop the rear bumper

 

is it just a front valance, or a is it going to be a full front lip?...
^^^+1

 

That looks cool. Man i wish i could get low like that but not so in the STL Too many speed bumps, pot holes etc for me.

 

Hey shane, coll and I bought a new camera so lets rock our cars' socks.. lol

 

sick!! i want a lip on my 99

 

Nice start. You planning to do some different side skirts?

 

I wanna join!!!

 

cant wait to see the finished product!

 

Car is beautiful, props.

 

god your wheel setup is sex. I'd like to see the finished pics of the lip when its painted

 

aww man this is my favorite i30... how beautiful... u just convinced me on something also... whats the tire specs???

 

5 speed swap huh ! Car looking nice though.Did someone say "meet".

 

Damn

 

Whack.............that you dont have anymore shots! Looking good dude! also loving the stance on it!

 

Well, original plan was to both cut and extend but I havent been to the exhaust shop yet. I'm lazy. lol.

How did you do yours? Did you move the entire muffler back? Or just make the tips themselves longer.

I'm not 100% sure yet. More than likely it will be a valance though. It will probably be molded in though.

More than likely. I'll probably find some stillen sides to chop up.

 

I'm down for whenever.


225/35/19 F (its supposed to be 215 but the shop didnt have it so Rub rub rub)
235/35/19 R

 

Thanks for all the feedback guys. I got some more pics from a mini photoshoot me and the guys from palm beach did.

Sorry for the garbage quality in advance. My boy didnt get a chance to send the originals yet so I had to save them from a site and re upload them. But enjoy anyways.

 

These last few are from my camera.





^1JZ on the left. V8 on the right^



And some honda love.

 

lip looks awesome!! pics all kinda look grainy to me... whatd you shoot with?

 

I had the muffler shop chop off the tips on mine (both HKS and on current stock muffler), added a 3" inch piece of tubing to extend the tips out more. Since the Cattman is single wall tips, I think your best bet is buy buy whatever tips you like, and have it welded on.

 

OP, what front lip is that? I'm thinking of fabbing 1 up for my 4th gen.

 

Thanks for the info. I guess thats the plan. I'll see if I can get it done soon.

The lip is some aftermarket lip from an 05-06 acura TSX if i'm not mistaken. We just cut it up some.

 

not crazy about the lip but it doesn't look sloppy or anything... just not my style.

looking at the curve under the fogs it almost looks like it was made for the i30. i think you should trim it down a little more and set it higher on the bumper. goes against the "lower to the ground" goal but it will look batter than a lip that hangs significantly lower than the sides/rear while still eating up a little gap.

*edit - here's what i'm talking about:

 

^ thats exaclty what I was I was thinking 100%.

The reason I went for the lip though is because I cant ride daily any lower than it is now. The car just cant take it. As you know I can feel the axles fighting for their lives as I accelerate lol. But I'll discuss things with the body guy and well go from there

I'm actually thinking about raising it back up another half inch to see how it affects drivability. Also because ther driver side is already about that much higher since the 5 speed swap.

 

That's pretty interesting. I wanna fab up some cheap lip so I'm just looking around.

 

sounds like someone needs some air.

 

is it bad that im going to touch myself while look at these pics

 

^^lmao...

car looks sick! wish the lip went all the way thru the front bumper tho... lip instead of looking like 2 pieces....

 

lmao@wirelessdude. Yo essential.....any engine pics.?

 

Another Emerald Performance Mod

You need a match rear lip now...

 

lookin at this over and over makes me want to fab up one for my 99.

 

 

First picture of the shoot look sick!!

 

I've been thinking about it. I've gotta do some research though. I know absoutely nothing about air as of now.

Feel free

Nope. Its just a dirty dek with a gold valve cover and intake.

+1. He's the ****. This weekend, I'm ordering the stuff we talked about when I was there so hopefully it'll me up and running in a month or 2.