Seen the s4 bumper with it so i figured i would make one for the s5 and see how its going to look. the lip is going to get finished. ends extended and a few other things heres the mock-up.

 

good job dude, nice to see some DIY threads around here.

How are you making that extension?

should resize your pics, people with dinosaur computers are gonna btch at you loljk

 

Holy giant pics batman!! Looks good though. I've always assumed the 626 lip wouldn't work with an S5 bumper, but, alas, it does.

 

I know the pics are HUGE! i didnt know they were going to be that big i thought they were all going to be like the last pic. There is quite a bit involved in make this lip. I am in the garage right now with the laptop with me making this lip and talking on the comp. The first thing i did was line up the curve in the lip to the fog light hole Closest edge to the center of the bumper. I am lineing up the face of the bumber first, try to get everything as close as i can before i do the curve and line up the side. the reason for this is if you look at the pictures you can see there are fenders attached to the bumper. When i set the bumper on the ground the sides bow out. After i get the face pretty close i will put the bumper on my car and do the sides that way everything is lined up on the sides correctly. I thought i was going to fiberclass the ends but my father came over and told me im not doing that. (hes been a body man/builds hot rods since he was 14now hes 43 does it for a living) He told me to go back to the junk yard and cut the sides off another one and we will splice in a piece on the lip. He has a plastic welder so it shouldnt be to bad. Now for the center...Its getting a piece of plastic welded on to it. In the picture all that is is cardboard spray painted black just to get the idea. For me school starts tomarrow so idk how much free time im going to have. well im getting back to work.... ill keep posted

 

so is that just taped together?
what are we looking at?

 

The tape is just holding the piece of cardboard on. In the picture the lip is just clamped to the bumper from the backside. If you look at picture 3 you can see the clamp. last night i go the pass. half of the lip almost fitted completely. i took pics and will post them up when i get a chance. There is going to be some fiberglass work to the backside of the lip for structure and stability reasons. From the looks of things and the way everythign is going this lip should turn out and look pretty good.

 

looking at the last photo, which is looking down on the bumper/lip- the line of the lip does not look straight, it seems the drivers side sticks out further then the passenger, not just where it meets the bumper but in the span as well. The line in the span is not true

 

That is 100% correct because all i did was walk into the garage hold the lip up to the bumper one handed and clamp the back side with the other hand. If you look even more you will see that its not really lined up at all, just take a look at the center of it looking from the top. the next pictures i post you will see measurments and such. That was just a mock-up to see if it would even be worth my time attempting, thiking, taking into consideration making it fit. I also held this up to laser front bumper its DAMN close on that as well. so i wonder what lips are out there for lasers.

 

ok, I thought you said you had fiberglassed the back of it.
If the lip is urethane I would consider using structural urethane and not fiberglass to slice and dice.

 

the lip is plastc. Thats why most of it will be plastic welded. I havent even begun to apply any product. The lip is still getting chopped and fitted. I still have to go back to the junk yard and get another lip so i can splice the sides in.

 

Worked on the lip for a 3 hours today. I got ALOT done, no were near finshed but getting there. pics will be up

 

sweet make me one lol

 

 

 

There is still alot to be done. There is no clue or adhesive apllied to this lip. It is all welded together with a plastic welder. The lip still has a long way to go this is just the beggining and basic fitment. I still have not been able to make it to the junkyard to get another lip.

So far:

Lip- $11

Time- 5hoursish

TO Come:

$50 worth of material to finish it.

When im done i should not have over $70 bucks into it and a maximum of 15 hours total.

 

good god resize your pics

 

i did resize these ones but when i posted they didnt stay resized. you really think i wanna post this big of pics.. i have to look at this thread all the time and im on a Dell Mini. It sucks!

 

CTRL + scroll down is essential for viewing this thread . Good progress though, I wasn't aware of plastic welding until a few months ago, pretty neat-o stuff.

 

Very interesting. I picked up a 626 lip a couple of weeks ago at Pull-A-Part and was a little stuck on how to resolve the issue of both sides being too short for the 7. I'll head back over and pick up another lip and mold it into mine the same way you are approaching it. Thanks for the pics and the idea. With a little crafting time, this should work.

 

15 hours??

 

thats my guesstimate, completely done..including paint time mounting on the car to stay lol....

 

did you not like any of the lips being sold for the car?

15 hours at just $10 a hour your already at the $200 mark which is what most lips sell for

 

I think he did the work himself so the cost is cheap

 

No, the "cost" is what it is, it's only cheap if you choose to ignore it.

 

I know he did all himself and has that satisfaction, im just saying that for the amount of time into it he puts himself into the position that his time was worth more then what lips are selling for.

So are you going to smooth that one out and paint it a gloss or leave it a flat spray paint finish?