where should i buy my Bomex body kit??

okay i've decided i like the bomex body kit for my 99 gst, mainly because i love the front and it keeps the factory side markers and factory reverse lights.

a few questions.

i fould 2 sites that carry the kit that look legit.

Importinovation kit is $1,025
http://www.importinnovation.com/aerodynamicsdetail.aspx?ID=2008

Racerwheel kit is $399
http://www.racerwheel.com/abr-me95bmxkit.html

why is there such a price difference? is the one from racerwheel crappy? will it take $600 more to get it installed?

also my car is lowered a good amount, not sure how much. i can stick my foot under the side (factory side skirt) and move it up about an inch. would this kit make it too low? doesn't the eclipse have a factory body kit so that its already low? would a bk make it too low?

car has a sport suspension, shocks and springs, is there any way short of replacing parts to get it rasied up any? like could anything be done cheaply to get it up about 1/4" or more? i really want a body kit but i don't want my frong bumber hitting the ground.

thanks

idk ,that kit adds another 3 feet to your car and 800lbs of weight...if you like and thats the look your going for get it.....i personally think it looks to bulky...and unless your like an inch off the ground you should be fine clearance wise...

well what body kit would you reconmend since you seem to know everything? i'm being seroius, let me know what looks good and is good?

i dont know everything...and personally i like the stock 97-99 bumber covers....

If you like the kit itself then go for it. I was gonna get the same kit myself a while back, but then reconsidered even getting a kit. If I was to get a kit now, I prob would go with that.


As for the price diff. The one costing $1g from importinnovation is prob high quality and will bolt right on. You shouldnt have any prob installing it. However the $400 is prob cheap quality and installation WILL be a pain. Just think about it, if the kit was good quality then why is he selling it for $400 and not like $900? Its prob Ebay quality. My advice is, if your gonna get it kit, do it right! Dont try to save a few bucks (which may be hundreds in your case), but end up screwing yourself and spending alot just getting it to fit. And with the labor costs these days, you prob dont want that to happen.


Let us know how it goes! Good Luck Man! :thumbsup:

yo if your looking for a bodykit i have one that i could sell you, it a 13 peice widebody non-painted(just a pic of the kit)
http://www.victoryperformance.com/output/174eef4847d9e035878b465641c04645.jpg
also have some 18x8.5 rims that i will sell.
http://i13.ebayimg.com/01/i/02/cb/ee/36_1.JPG
they dont have tires on them and are still in the box they were sent in.

i think the drift kit is the nicest kit for 2g and 1g

The price difference means the cheap one will be really shitty and lots of install work the expensive one will have less work so either way you will pay the same amount. Also when you install body kits fiberglass and stuff you actually lose some weight cause you dont use all the stock brackets and all that crap and sometimes you end up cutting your bumper rienforcments so it lightens your car actually but when somebody runs in to you at 2 miles per hour like somebody did to me yes 2 milers per hour. YOUR KIT WILL BLOW UP CRACK RIGHT IN HALF AND FLY 50 FEET if its made out of fiberglass.

does the bomex kit have to cut the stock reenforements? how do i know if the kit has to cut the renforcement of the stock bumper?

i say try http://www.extremedimensions.com/index.asp . they have some good stuff. i dunno if they have it or not. if you get a kit though , for sure get a polyurathane kit, fiberglass sucks ass.
personally i think that wide body is bad ass. i saw gs-t the other day and it was fuckin clean lookin

how much will you sell me the wide body for?? remember i get the af.com dsm'er price spaecial

Is one of the kits fiberglass, and the other one polyurethane? If it is that way, DEFINATLY get the polyurethane kit, much stronger/durable and really flexible. A good polyurethane kit would probably last you upwards of 8 years! Whereas a cheap-o fiberglass one would probably top out at 4 years or so, plus fiberglass cracks easily.

EXAMPLE: Say you have that Bomex kit and its Fiberglass, and you pull up to say, Sonic to get a chili pie mmmm...chili, and you hear a loud cracking noise....you assume the worst and get out and, sure enough there is your brand new front bumper, cracked almost in half on the curb you just pulled up to so you could get close enough to push that damned little red button to order a damned CHILI PIE BUT YOU GET TO CLOSE AND RIP OFF YOUR NEW BUMPER THAT YOU JUST....ahem, sorry...Now then, lets say you get the Bomex kit you got is polyurethane, same situation except this time instead of a loud cracking sound, you hear a loud SCRAPING sound, you get out AFTER you push the infamous little red button of DEATH AND DESTRUCTION that caused this to happen in the first place, to get your long awaited chili pie, you assume the worst, but whats this? The front bumper is merely bent under the car?!?! (Still not good but better than cracking the shit in half.) Minor-medium paint damage (not even that if you powder coat your kit *hint*) and maybe a minor crack and ripped out bolt TOPS, but in the fiberglasses case, that bumper would be f*****, maybe even beyond repair...

Moral of the story is, if your gonna get a bodykit, dont crap out and get the cheap-o fiberglass, ask if they have it in polyurethane...you'll wish you had later on.

<EDIT> I didn't see that anarchy and coolguy already mentioned that fiberglass sucks ass, so actually I just typed all this for no reason, but still, you get the point.

wow, that was great Hpnotiq86 lol. i think i need to go and try one of those chili pies

wow, that was great Hpnotiq86 lol. i think i need to go and try one of those chili pies


LMFAO.... go for it try that chili pie... just make sure you nail the curb with a fiberglass front. lol

I need to check out that red button.

Is one of the kits fiberglass, and the other one polyurethane? If it is that way, DEFINATLY get the polyurethane kit, much stronger/durable and really flexible. A good polyurethane kit would probably last you upwards of 8 years! Whereas a cheap-o fiberglass one would probably top out at 4 years or so, plus fiberglass cracks easily.



thanks for the great info!!! now i just need to know how i can tell what kit would have to remove the stock bumber reienforcements


also i can't find any other urethane kit besides the blitz, and it says they expand and contract with different temps. that may not be good for me, as i'm in Erie, PA. 4 seasons. 15 F in winter and 90 F in summer.

Yah no problem for that info, as for that chili pie, I get goosebumps just thinking of them....I bet they throw a little cocaine into the Fritos to get you addicted, then they'll probably JACK THE PRICE UP to like $14.69 or something, so they can be all like "Man those chili pies must be good!" Then he'll be all like "Yah dude I put cocaine in them!" Then he'd be all, "WTF! Dude, you cant just lace dem' Chili Pies!" Then he'd be like "Chill dude, their LOW-FAT Fritos, with the full flavor of Fritos Original!" Then he'd be like "Oh, nevermind then, as long as they aren't getting to be even fatter-asses...."
















I apologize for that, its pretty late, and I think I have "ChiliPieWithdrawl Syndrome" or something.

pretty much with any kit you will end up cutting the bumper rienforcment because most of them have a smaller part where as the stock one has that big space in the middle where it goes. Also if you decide to just take the bumper rienforcment off. your like wow a 2 in one, weight reduction, and i got my new bumper on. Lets say you go driving around and your like shit i hit somebody at 20-30 miles per hour no biggie insurence will cover the body damage no more then 200-300 for the paint. You come out and your radiator is cracked in half your engine is bent inward your like HOLY SHIOT. really any more then 30-40 and you would need a new engine and everything in the engine bay.

i got a body kit from this guy, its duarble and didnt need alot fo prep work. I got z3 fenders and a full body kit for 495$ shipped. his site is http://www.nskustomperformance.com and the guy who runs that is a personal friend of mine, so its good quality. i got the bomex or on his site its called the BMX. its nice and its the exact front bumper off of the supra in the first F&F. i just liked the look if it, and the rest of the kit is awsome. i actually have the kit in my room because my car has been in the shop waiting for a tranny. if u want pics or something PM me

that link to http://www.nskustomperformance.com doesn't work.

so you are serious ALL kits make you cut the stock bumper reienforcement off????? are there any that don't? i REALY don't want to do that

i didn't have to cut it with my blitz front. you could see like an inch of it in the opening but it was all good. after awhile tho i said fuck it and took the support out so i didn't have that black hanging an inch into the big opening in the front

you could alway paint that peice the color of the car, and/or put a mesh grill in front of it right?

yea. you could do that. like i said the support hangs about an inch or so into the front opening in the bumper. so painting it would work and then the mech would help cover it more.

I would agree that the Bomex polyurethane kit is the better of the two. I picked up mine at www.jdm-motor-engines.com. I believe i got it for around $450. If this helps.

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okay i've decided i like the bomex body kit for my 99 gst, mainly because i love the front and it keeps the factory side markers and factory reverse lights.

a few questions.

i fould 2 sites that carry the kit that look legit.

Importinovation kit is $1,025
http://www.importinnovation.com/aerodynamicsdetail.aspx?ID=2008

Racerwheel kit is $399
http://www.racerwheel.com/abr-me95bmxkit.html

why is there such a price difference? is the one from racerwheel crappy? will it take $600 more to get it installed?

also my car is lowered a good amount, not sure how much. i can stick my foot under the side (factory side skirt) and move it up about an inch. would this kit make it too low? doesn't the eclipse have a factory body kit so that its already low? would a bk make it too low?

car has a sport suspension, shocks and springs, is there any way short of replacing parts to get it rasied up any? like could anything be done cheaply to get it up about 1/4" or more? i really want a body kit but i don't want my frong bumber hitting the ground.

thanks