OK i tried since 2pm today to try and get this thing on my car without it doing the wave effect, i'd played around with every idea i could come up with without using brackets or something of the such yet....Support one from the bottom won't help since these are all buldgeing upwards and need to be somehow forced back down... here are some pics.
At this point in time i am OPEN for any and all suggestions to help me with this becuase i have nooo freaking clue how to cure this.
wow, that's pretty bad...instead of forcing that piece down...force the rest up using some sort of spacer...
move the sides out as far as you can, and put a l bracket under it. drill some holes and put those black plastic push clips in. it helps a lot.
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yeh the bumper looks like it needs to come up some more.. can u push on teh wave and make it go downward? just try and make it as high as possible that looks good(not as much gap between filer plates) then find out where to mount the Lbracket and do that way..
When i push the wave down, the space under the filler plate goes away...and the sides of the kit are lined up perfectly with the 1/4 pannels, so i just got back from the homedepot and i came up with a killer idea...
I found the widest piece of aluminium that they carried 2" wide.. I am going to cut it to follow the contour of the corner edge of the body kit and then i got a thinner piece of aluminium and i am going to sandwich the whole freaking thing together so it cannot possibly wave or do whatever its problem is right now. After that I am going to polish it to look like billet aluminium. After that if there is still a gap between the filler plates, i have 10 L-brackets and plenty of left over scrap aluminium to take care of that problem. If i don't like the polished look with the screws flush into the metal, i will fust paint it when the kit gets done. But this is the best idea i can come up with for now.
if you're going to do that, get the alum anodized to match the kit
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i dunno about having a visible peice of aluminum.. are u bascially making a trim peice where it will only be like a inch wide if that? Like itll slide into the curve of the trunk? if so u might have problems of ur trunk rubbing it when u close it.. Also i dont think it would look to good.. id say just do the Lbrackets.. if u have to do the aluminum thing.. just paint it body color..
Well i am going to try and and remove the bumper again and see if i can pull the edges out a little bit more and maybe that will take care of the problem. ALso going to put a few L-brackets under the filler plates. We'll see what comes of it all.. Because trying to cut the piece of aluminium is a real chore... My dremel dosn't like it very much.. lol..
you got pics of the lbrackets on before the bumper? i might need to do this soon remedy soon so itd help to have a visual of what to do.. glad it worked out for ya.. now u can take that 40 and save for some better taillights lmao
Manta Z(The Primered One) wrote:you got pics of the lbrackets on before the bumper? i might need to do this soon remedy soon so itd help to have a visual of what to do.. glad it worked out for ya.. now u can take that 40 and save for some better taillights lmao
Right under the filler plates there are 2 nuts holding them onto the car, i took 2 -2" stanley zinc plated L-brackets, cut the lower portion in half so there was only the top hole then drilled the hole out larger its going to have to be larger than the bolt you slide them onto because the nut you remove has a washer attached to it and needs a little more clearance. Reinstall with nuts with the brackets behind and tighen... it caused the type-j to actually lock in place under the filler plate for me. I don't have any pics of it either, so i hope that helped, I don't want to remove the rear bumper again now that is on there perfect... lol.. sorry man.
let me save this to my favorites for reference next month.
Carbon Cavi wrote:let me save this to my favorites for reference next month.
If you need any further info when that time comes around man, just PM or get at me on AIM. My SN is the same as on here..
alright deffinitly! lol im probably going to do it myself, my front bumper was easy, i just want to get the rear right cause they are infomus for the wave, if nething id do that and just have the skirts done at the shop cause of where they go inside the doors. but deffinitly ill hit you up.
