you miss the fitment???

i wanna see some pics of your hood latch, headlight mounting, and generally, the whole front end of the car where everything mounts. i'm not saying the other bumper is correct or not--haven't seen it up close.

there's a reason the companies recommend professional installation on body parts.

 

I meant veilside was better than n1 bumper..
I just want you guys to think one more time before buying replica n1 bumper..
that's it.

 

think man... if any bumper you put on there is way off, MAAAAAAYYYYYYYBEE it's not a problem with the bumper. check your car out man.

 

If you would cut down the rubber stops on the hood, it will drop it to be even with the front bumper. And all you will have to do is adjust the lights to sit lower. I think that you were just lazy with your install job.

 

ok...I'm sooooooooooooo lazy...so I took pics and post thread on rx7club.com hehe..thanks for advice but the problem is the height of that bumper....I had to take more pics...

 

You might want to check with your panel beater if your car had been in an accident before done by the previous owner.
Not to accuse, but I'm assuming this because it happened to my car too. When mine was fitted with a knightsports front bumper, there was a minimum ammount of gap. But when I tried to fit my Vertex front bar, it fits like crap!
Turned out that my car had been in a front-impact accident that it needs to be rectified in order for the Vertex to fit. I could also see the crack and dent near the headlights area where the impact took the hit.

As for genuine/replicas. It comes down to personal view and taste. But I must admit, not all genuine parts (exterior parts from Japan especially) fits 100%. Some still need to be modified for it to fit on a "accidentless" vehicle.

 

Sorry, but it takes a bit of convincing even to get my stock bumper back on. I too think it CAN fit better/good based on the pictures provided, and that your headlights/hood are off more. You can visibly note the hood is on an angle. Judging by the offset of the bumper based on the position of the fenders, the cause appears to be that the bumper isn’t lined up correctly more so than its sizing. Your driver’s side headlight is even clearly higher than the OEM fender. As is your passenger headlight, just not as much.

Question, the bumper height is off but it fits better around the top of the fender vs. the aftermarket headlights/hood?

I'm not saying you can get that bumper to fit "perfectly" but I will say this. I don't think you really took the time to do things right. That includes taking the time to address the issues with the angled hood and the headlights.

Since you have hoodpins, was the factory hood latch being used at all with the Veilside bumper and is it still on the car?

Guys, most seem to be forgetting he did have an aftermarket front end on before this, NOT an OEM bumper. So take that as you will as well. Unfortunately, given that the overall install of the aesthetics on the front of this car are not inline, it makes it difficult to identify which individual piece(s) if any, as being most at fault.

 

It's RE headlights. oh I didn't mention the headlight was not into the right place.

I can't say which is better.. top of the fender looks not bad in the picture though.....all those are so bad as I expected in reality.


without plastic cover

yes, hood latch is still on the car. same position as the veilside pic.
the height is too low. also, the front bracket needs to be fixed. the bracket is not even close to the chassis. (hope pre-auto.com will do something for future customers after this thread. or show a detail picture of air dam like shineautoproject..)

 

why don't you just pay a professional to properly install it instead of half-assing it?

 

Is it just me or in this pic the bumper and lights have a better fitment:



than here

 

its sad when people have nice cars and they screw them up. it looks like someone didnt know how to drive and had to put the other bumper on b/c the wrecked their car and thats why everything looks bad.

 

JUNsupraTT,
I'll bet you couldn't build a hill out of sand.

The RE-Amemiya lights are meant to be flush with the covers on, unless you don't use them (this obviously doesn't apply to you).

 

anybody know where can I get the Re-amiya n1 bumper with the original turn signal? don't like the 99spec turn signal on it...

 

saiyan---no such thing, it would have to be custom made. 99spec and Original are one and the same. 92-98 same 99-02 same.

 

yeah ya'll are right. that is one of our parts that fits awesome. we had a problem with one of our hood molds, but everyone ive sold the n1 to loved it. the pics speak for themselves. Trav, how the heck are ya?

 

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I noticed the front bumper lining up perfect with the fenders, but in the first pic he posted, it looks like the hood is in line with the fender height on the top part...IE the hood is even with the fenders.

So does that mean the front of the hood is not shaped right to bend down further to the front bumper or is the front bumper sagging in the middle? Would pulling down the latch cause the hood to bow/flex, ruining the line with the fenders?

Tim

 

I think it is a combination of headlights and hood fitment. The headlights are sitting too high as is the hood.

 

If you look at his pics with the veilside bumper in page 3, it shows that the hood lines up with the other bumper fine... Not perfect but it lines up better than what he has now. That's unless of course, it's a different hood than in the other pic