Hey,

Okay, here's the story...Somebody must have backed into me at the office the other day, b/c now I am missing a big blotch of paint from my front bumper. So what I intend to do is order a new bumpter, take it to the local body shop and have them eliminate the opening for the bumper lights. Therefore, I will have the headlights, then the fog lights with nothing in between. I think it will look EXTREMELY clean, and change the entire look of the car. Does anyone have any opinions on this, or a photoshopped pic of what it would look like? I have until monday to decide, as that is when I am picking up the bumper and dropping my car off at the shop. Thanks.

(1996 SE)

 

Wouldn't that block the air going into the radiator? If so thats not good.

 

How would it block anymore air than the bumper lenses are already blocking. What I was talking about, is where the bumper lenses go, use some bondo, or whatever it is that body shops use to fill in holes, and make that solid.

 

bondo will crack, they can only plastic weld it and most shoips dont have the equitpment to do it, if they do theyll charge you big $$$

 

I was going to take it to the shop that did my tailights. They shaved the entire rear of my trunk, and installed the IS300 lights in it. It worked perfectly, so I'm sure they could do something very simple like this.

 

jus paint em body color and rewire the clearnce lights as blinkers

 

Ah, ok.

 

trunk is metal, it can be welded, a bumper is polyurethane and will crack if anything is "slapped" on top, only plastic welding can be done so it wont crack, you cant use a reg welder, all special eqpt. its not cost effective for a shop to have it most of the time because bumpers are cheap

 

That's exactly what I was going to do with the blinkers, but I don't want to just paint the lenses body color, I want it to be smooth and even, like people could not even tell anything was ever there.

 

there isnt a fiberglass full bumper that is somilar to the stock one that you can modify. you can do work to 'glass easily

 

LIke this?



His name on the org is Mad Dhan

 

yup he smoked is corners... looks very nice

 

well you can use Bondo for most people they wont notice but for the pros out there they will notice, its up to you how much u wana spend on doing it, you could buy a Sarona front bumper or the Skyline bumper and do something like that before you put it on the car

good luck with your project! (if ya decide to go ahead with it)

 

Here we are..

 

If you color your turn signals like that then the orange doesnt shine through. I would love to color my deep evergreen but If the orange wont come through I wont.

 

Its not a matter of the light coming through its a matter of taking the hole light out of the scenario all together.

 

Is there a way to make it my body color but when I turn on my turn signals, the light glows orange?

 

try this:
http://www.4sided.com/rsx/

 

Hey Big L...who's white maxima is that??? That actually doesn't look so bad, and I guess it would save me a couple hundred bucks (which is always good)...Does that person have any other pictures of their car (i.e. straight on view, other side...etc). Thanks again for your help bro in pulling up these pics. Hit me up.

 

that pic is a photoshop, thought it was real eh. The car is real(rims, drop, etc.) but the corners are not. If you still want the pic of his car his part of the NE guys and that was a big meet they usually have up there. Im not sure of his org name but you can find him easily. NP, always like to help out the fellas, and the ladies

 

That covers your taillights... redding them out. For the front bumper lights tho, i would suggest just smoking them the body color. I only say this because finding a translucent vinyl film for the body color of your car is EXTREMELY RARE. paint it! It's your only option if u wanna preserve the turn signal lights...

 

we can always paint the car to match the orange lens..

 

Now that has been done before.

-Cyrus

 

ive seen what he's asking....on 2 cars actaully...it was a compltely custom body kit, where i think it was fiberglass maybe?

but, i have seen this done before, and it looks ok in my opinion

 

pics?

 

this has been done a couple of times.. it won't block air to the radiator, but it will look more than weird on a car with stock bumpers and etc.. yes it will round out the front more, but if that is the only thing you have done body wise, i'd say wait on it..

and bondo would work, but may crack, and plastic weld is kinda pricey unless you know people, the only other other way would be fiberglass, but i am not sure you can glass eurathane very easily either.

 

I thought the orange DID still come through on Mad Dhan's turn signals? At night I think it came through alot.

SuDZ

 

i only saw the cars in person, no pics tho...ill try to ask the people if they have pics tho

 

Man - I think that looks fugly as hell.

IanS