one more thing to keep in mind with this kit; there is no official place to mount your rear plate. With this, there also is no place to mount lights for your plate. Twisted, the red RD1 in the ebay auction photos, put his way on the bottom, but I'm not sure if he lit his. The black RD1 in those photos mounted his squarish plate right on the "collision-contact" area of the bumper, and put little right angle lights on either side. Just wanted to make sure that you knew you'd have one more hurdle to jump!

Other than that, it'll look great!

 

So is mounting a body kit by yourself difficult? I'm inexperiences with body work, but I'm pretty accomplished mechanic wise. I see it as a lot more than just pullen some screws out of the old one and putting them in the new one, right? Andy how bout that dual exhaust thing?

 

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I'm interested in the answer to that as well. How hard is it to fit your own kit, is it a matter of a dremel and bondo, or is there a lot more to it?

 

Def. Cause I could do w/o 1000$ in body work... Then paint. lol

 

for once i can answer one of these questions. k well i ordered mine from evofusion off ebay and they were really cool about everything. it took 2 weeks 2 days to get here and came in one ENORMOUS box. spiffy is correct about it being pretty flimsy, well not like freaky weak flimsy but you can tell you should support it with something.

well i started off with the side skirts(oh and just to put this out there it is immaculate, ya know the usual...) but yeah the side skirts are the worst of the kit. everything fit perfect except for the fact that if you're looking at them, the top left of the skirt that is supposed to sit flush to the car, really doesnt. but its ok because what im doing is drilling two holes and screwing in the skirt to the side of my car and then just filling in the tops of the screws and then molding the skirt to my car.

now the big question is it hard to fit it yourself? nope. i have no prior body expierence, except for a lil help from my dad, but really it is mighty easy. just get another person to hold it up while you mark where the holes need to be then drill em and voila your kit is on.

oh and the front bar in the grill area im cutting off. the dimples are just ugly in my opinion along with the dimples on the skirts. and theres no point in keeping it if theres no cuda emblem.

one major precaution is that if you dont have someone to help be carefull cuz the parts will scratch ur car up and unless ur gonna repaint ur whole car like i am, TLC.

 

Two screws won't be enough mang. Does it work? Yes. Does it hold? Yes... but will it last in the long run? No. I think I posted a picture before.. gimmie a sec



You want to do multiple screws along the side for duability and longetivity. Where two screws will hold, multiple points will make sure the skirt never tries to pull away from the body and possibly cracking your bondo work.

I think I have about 25 screws per sideskirt holding it on.



(yes, I know your not supposed to quote post above you, but I'm addressing a specific item.)

 

hmmm. thanks for the tip!!! thats actually really true and may take me a lil longer tomorrow but atleast im doing it right.

oh and i meant two up top but im still going to put back in the ones from stock along the bottom etc.. yeah i dont know why but the skirts right above the duct dont fit flush, oh and wtf is up with the opening behind them?! more fiberglassing im gonna have to do.

oh and the eye lids dont line up real well on the knock off but nothing a lil fiberglass and a dremmel cant fix.

ill take pics of the kit if anyone wants. i just got it yesterday fresh out of the box. i ordered from evofusion but the receipt said import trenz so who knows how many interlinked companies are out there...

oh and phorq, im going to do my grills white, but when i mold it'll be impossible to ever getem out again, so basically if they ever need repaintin i'll need to tape off the car and spray paint the grill like that?

 

if you're talking about the grills on the skirts, then yes. Once they're molded on, you can't get to the mesh to take it off again. prepare to tape.

After having everything molded, I thought about something. If I were to jack the car up at one jack point in each corner, is that enough stress to crack the seam? I imagine that the car stresses in weird ways when jacked up at a corner, but is it enough to mess with the molded skirt? Spiffy? I guess I need to find out how many screws were used to bolt the skirt to the car before the mud.

 

Well, it could crack. I just went overboard with the screws so basically it would never crack. Yeah, stress on a corner and twisting the car could potentially crack the side skirt molding. Also landing on something like a speed bump (which I have done) can crack the molding. (Although I've landed the car on the couple speed bumps and never had a problem.

See Proen, Import Trendz man. smile.gif Yeah, the front might need a little work. But that's how low cost Fiberglass stuff is. Yeah, once you mold in the sides, you won't be able to get the grill inserts out.

I am working with a guy right now that makes really high quality fiberglass kits. He just finished making a kit for my 2006 Dodge Charger and that thing fits perfectly. Doesn't need any kind of work like my Tiburon kit needed. I now understand the difference between high quality and low quality stuff. Even stock parts snapped right into the kit this guy made for the Charger.

 

the mounting areas on the sides of the rear bumper lacks enough material so you have to add a lil fiberglass lip to the top and i layed about two layers on the inside of the sides of the rear too to strengthen the fiberglass cuz its pretty dam* weak.

so the only other fitment issues i will have is using my dremel to take off some from the sides of the headlights and adding fg to the opposite sides to make them line up perfectamundo. but seriously fiberglassing is not hard its just a pain cuz of the stickyness. i reccommend getting some quality resin instead of home depots. luckily my dads friend had a half a gallon left over from refiberglassing his boat, saving me like 60 bucks.

dunno. when i was told it was 1600 to fit paint and install this kit, i basically told them to F off. for one the guy was a complete idiot. i used the term oem once, and after that he tried reusing it to sound smart so i asked him what oem specifically meant and he had no idea. and then i was telling him how i wanted my whole car repainted in the process and he was putting it up in the mid 2500's. lol. oh and the best part of all. we were talking about paint and he was convinced it takes like 3 gallons of paint to paint a car. omg i told him maybe a gallon if that like 3 times and he got so pissed at me. lmao.gif

just remember any cuda kit you buy is a copy. so they took another kit and layed something over it to make a mold. and depending on where it could come out bigger or smaller. or the car they used could have had previous body damage so the kit may not line up perfect on your car. testicals. its all about the balls. if you've gottem have fun and when ur finished you'll feel like a million bucks.

or you could just work away for a couple more months.... sign up to get it fitted...... wait about a month with no car for that to get done.... and then they ship it off to get painted.

so what you got? balls or patience.