body kit opinion

[RSLaser]

ive been workin on my custom body kit and have hit a cross road...im not sure which one looks better? Grant it its still rough, but i havent got my liquid foam in yet.



So, my question is this...which one do you think will wind up looking better?

[1stGenRocks]

is this to go over the stock bumper or to replace it?

[Import2nr99]

what exactly are you trying to do? like how are you planning on making this a body kit? if you want to build a kit, your best bet would be to just glass it onto your existing bumper. making your own mold or whatever you're trying to do is going to be hard and you'll have major issues once you try to bolt it up. Thats just my 2 cents. We've always done it using the stock bumper and fused an existing kit up to it or added on with glass and sanded to the desired design. it'll take half the time that building a custom one would and you won't have any fitment issues because it's your stock bumper!! either way I wish you luck. I personally can't really tell what you're asking by the pics. sorry.

[EclipseRST]

i seriously hope thats not wood!!! and btw i think the bottom one looks better!!! and like Import2nr99 said... fiberglass it together or its goin to look like ass if you end up screwing it together or glueing it on!

[1stGenRocks]

i think its foam.

[EclipseRST]

yea but you can never be to sure... with the people these days, i dont know!!!

[RSLaser]

Posted by 1stGenRocks - 06-20-2004 at 10:21 PM
is this to go over the stock bumper or to replace it?

its going to replace it

Posted by EclipseRST - 06-20-2004 at 11:30 PM
i seriously hope thats not wood!!!

no, its foam

after ive made up my mind on which kit is better looking, and finished the foam, i will then lay a sheet of film over the whole bumper and tape it. spray the release agent, lay down 3 sheets of glass, remove it and thats the mold. For the finished product i will again spray release agent inside the mold lay 8 layers of glass let completely cure. then i will cut the existing mounting brackets from the old bumper, rivet it to the new kit, bondo over it, smooth with sandpaper....and waalaa, sounds difficult but ive already done it twice. I just wanted to know which one of the designs will probably look better on my laser.

EDIT: Doing it this way only costs about $120 for the whole thing(front bumper, rear, skirts) And the forst time i made one it was pretty hard. now its easy. And they only took me about a month to make it.

[ashah000]

Now that is a project Post pics when you are done

[1stGenRocks]

in that case definately the bottom one

[thefro]

I'd go with the bottom one too.

[RSLaser]

Now that i have decided to go with the bottom design, i sprayed my liquid foam...itll be dry tomorrow, then ill smooth it out, and spray a little more in the spots i missed (have to see how the foam expands). Ill be takin pics along the way and ill post them up if anyone is interested.

[ashah000]

Post them

Are you using that great stuff expanding foam stuff?

[RSLaser]

Are you using that great stuff expanding foam stuff?

sorta, its the cheap stuff from Ace True Value. You can buy it in the stores in little 16 oz cans...but since i bought a canister that uses an air tank for pressure, i buy the 5 gallon buckets.

[GTPSPEED]

that looks fucked up,id like to see it when its done too,lol,looks like wood

[RSLaser]

Posted by bostonjoe98gs - 06-22-2004 at 10:18 AM
that looks fucked up,id like to see it when its done too,lol,looks like wood

LOL, i agree it does look fucked up right now, but itll look better when the foam is shaped i promise. And again no its not wood its foam. Actually its some foam packaging that comes in huge blocks, i stole some from the gov't when they got there new flight sims.