Bumblebee, I agree, your car has an incredible list of good equipment but, for me, the headlight and hood fit would kill a potential sale right off. I can see that you can repaint the hood and the bumper but, why don't you take an hour an readjust your fit. I simply do not believe that that is the best that can be done.

I happen to have the exact same bumper, same CWest lights and look at the difference. The lights fixtures have to be shimmed and raised so that they fill those huge gaps around the hood and bumper. It is an easy adjust, I know, I did it myself.

Albert

 

^beautiful^

 

that sucks that the car has tho's gay *** air brushing. the car looksed pretty good before that.

 

art wise the airbrushing looks amazing, but not on a car, especially an fd which relies on its sexy curves, not a scary ***** on the bumper, gonna have nightmares now... sorry dude. how come you did it, im not being ar5y, i just would like to know.

 

I cant speak for the headlights, but the hood cannot be made to fit any better, and most of the gap is due to the hood. They actually make that hood about 1/4" too small on EACH SIDE. You could actually see the fender bolts, even when it was perfectly centered. Everything lined up perfectly when using the stock hood as a template, other than the front bumper being off.

Also, I actually had 2 of those exact same front bumpers. The first one fit almost perfectly, but eventually the lower lip cracked and I had to get another one. The second one, even though made by the same company, was WAY different, and did not fit nearly so well. I can probably find some pics of this to illustrate.

 

well the car is still well sorted out to say the least.

 

Not trying to be argumentative here but, a qualified body person can make just about anything fit. I have zero experience with regular body work (except fixing my race car fiberglass bodies after crashes) and when I got my front bumper there was a minimum 0.5 - .75 inch gap betwen the hood and the bumber. The hood leading corners were rounded off to show even bigger gaps. I was so disillusioned that I was going to throw the bumper away...

Then, I slept on it and went to work. Cut and cut and added layers of fiberglass in many places, over and over, until I was satisfied with the fit and finish. It is still not perfect but, almost factory qualtiy. Then, I installed the lighths and painted the front bumper myself as a challenge.

Albert

 

You have failed the car .

 

That's one hurt FD. The new owner tore the car up..

 

that poor car

it kinda looks borgified or something.

 

Thats one for the record book

 

Cut the guy some slack, he said he would repaint it for the future owner

 

lol @ NSU

 

Sure, if enough money were invested (on top of the initial investment of buying the parts) they could be reformed.

As it is, the parts are simply not molded and shaped right, and are too small, leaving gaps at the corners. There is no way to "pull" or "force" them together any closer as they are. IF the distance from fender to fender is 50 inches and teh hood is only 49 inches wide, what are you gonna do? Put it in the "frame stretcher" or something? You can either cut it and add material in somewhere (it is a CF hood) or just run it as-is.

I think I paid $2500 in body work/part installation AND the entire paintjob. Seeing that it was a streetcar that'd be daily driven, I didnt see the need to put a 5 thousand dollar body/paint job into it over and above the cost of the custom parts themselves.

BUt then there are those that want to build a show car with perfect paint and clear and every seam and body line perfectly flush and straight. I guess they don't realize that if you drive the car more than twice a month it WILL get imperfections on it from rock chips, road debris, people walking by it in the parking lot, etc. Dude that bought the car from me was apparently one of those people, as he kept telling me how bad and shitty the paintjob was and remarked that there were rock chips and scrapes on the bottom of the front bumper.

 

Well to say the least, the car doesn't worth 30 G. The dude should never had put in that money for the stereo system and that airbrush front. I guess it's his loss.

 

Repaint it then sell it! Who wants graphics with someone elses web site on the front of the car?

 

for the last time if you want the car repainted before you buy it i will pay for the airbrushing to get covered up.

 

Cool car.

 

But then again, you know that you will not get $30G for it right? The most I see it at is around $22-$24K. No more than that.

 

car looks ok i guess ...just that airbrushing does look kinda weird ......some wierd twisted sister

 

airbrush on a car is the gay

 

Wow, did Satan purchase the car? I'm SO glad the guy I sold my car to didn't **** it up...

 

i never found out what happened with your old fd
did you buy it back to do ls1? or did u pick up another mb FD for the swap