un-official progress thread: bumper swap

[raafhimself]

just trim them up man. it will look alot better. they wont fit right at all with out them cut. and before you worrie with the swap you should do suspension bro. but other then that nice swap. better then mine with paint atleast, i think.

did you get yours pro-painted? well do suspension and the rear and then we will talk haha. too much 4x4

oh and get off the caps man. just ugly i think. at least get some weaves or something.

yeah yeah, im just not looking forward to doing it. i took the parts to a local painter, not too bad, kinda a short-term thing until i do a full respray...which will be AFTER suspension, which will mate up with some koni reps (or ronals)

[Wh33lhop]

Love the first pic, those RBs look awesome.

[bimmer_E30]

looks better!

[etta325]

just trim them up man. it will look alot better. they wont fit right at all with out them cut. and before you worrie with the swap you should do suspension bro. but other then that nice swap. better then mine with paint atleast, i think.

did you get yours pro-painted? well do suspension and the rear and then we will talk haha. too much 4x4

oh and get off the caps man. just ugly i think. at least get some weaves or something.

[raafhimself]

its on like donkey kong! i've already got the front end swapped on mine....
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i'm expecting the rear apron soon-ish, i started posting on wanted parts thread for a rear apron off an 88+ - i wanted to keep the oem look. good luck with your swap, i'll keep you posted once i start working on the rear.......i posted about spacing out the rear shocks so as to avoid having to cut/trim the bumper sides, i'm hoping it wont look too bad....if not i'll just have to bit the bullet and trim them up

[etta325]

Oh. I actually like what I see. Very nice.

Haha well I'm glad you approve my man!! Haha it will
come even further lol

[Edev]

Oh. I actually like what I see. Very nice.

[etta325]

Looks 10x better! Nice job

Thanks bro! thats what danny said when we first got them on there haha.
couldnt have done it with out that guy

What wheels are those? They look like Konig Rewinds but not. Are those the wheels the Konig Rewind is a "knock off" of?

not konigs at all. Rota RB's. check it out

http://www.racinglab.com/rotawheelsrb.html

Mine's an 88 so no cutting and the apron was already there. Was still a pain in the ass swapping the shocks though.

ahhh gotcha well i still have to figure out what I am going to do about the apron haha. dude I am not looking forward to doing the rear haha

[Kristeun]

thanks bro! I'm loving it! Was the rear hard for you or dd you have someone else cut the bumper? What did you use for a rear apron?

Mine's an 88 so no cutting and the apron was already there. Was still a pain in the ass swapping the shocks though.

[Desaevious]

What wheels are those? They look like Konig Rewinds but not. Are those the wheels the Konig Rewind is a "knock off" of?

[///m3]

Looks 10x better! Nice job

[etta325]

Thanks man yeah it's hard to tll in the pics but a drivers side high beam was hit hard by a rock and needs a new one and so me and my pops are looking for elips right now. Oil coller grill is in the garage some where just need to find it and the fog lights as well as the air flows or whatever the heck they are called will be in soon as well I have fogs but not the others and I want to get some lamenex cuz Danny said he destroyed a bird driving and the fog light wasn't even hurt with that stuff on there.

[Wishno87]

Looks better now. Ellipsoids and oil cooler grill would be good though.

[etta325]

Look's good TJ. Get that rear done. Not a big fan of completely "smoked" tails. just a nice little tint like mhw's have looks great. but, shoot them with some clear, sand and polish up. And get some fogs in there!
Matt

Thanks man. Yeah I got the lights off a crappy car at the shop and just threw them on there I want them to be less smoked as well. I might get another pair and red them and then do a very nice light tint but yeah for now I will just do what you said haha it will good and shiny when I'm all done. Haha

[ayemattyyy]

Look's good TJ. Get that rear done. Not a big fan of completely "smoked" tails. just a nice little tint like mhw's have looks great. but, shoot them with some clear, sand and polish up. And get some fogs in there!
Matt