83turbo280zx Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Thanks to my friend Pablo over at Tandem Automotive. His muffler flew off while we were going down I-20 to the Park n Ride meet and ran straight into my lower valance and front bumper. So he paid to have my front bumper repainted, and I had the idea of trying a 280z lip on my 280zx, so I had him order me a s30 lip for me to see if it would fit. I like the aftermarket lips for the s30s better than I do for the s130s so I figured I'd give it a try. Well the ZX i found out the hard way is 8" wider than the 280z. So i had to cut the lip straight down the middle and extend it. Thankfully the lip was fiberglass, so I just added some aluminum strips to make it rigid, and added fiberglass sheets to it, and filled the small gaps with a touch of bondo. I'm fairly pleased with the way it turned out, the only spot you can tell there was fiberglass work done is the top part of the area i extended. I kept finding air pockets in the fiberglass when I was sanding it down to smooth it out, so its kinda patchy with bondo, but other than that, its flush everywhere else. Sorry for the crap cell phone pics. I know I could've done a little better with the body work, but considering I have absolutely no body work experience and this was my first go around, I think I did a decent job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihiryu Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Looks good, can we get a closer shot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83turbo280zx Posted September 22, 2012 Author Share Posted September 22, 2012 yea i need to get out with a real camera and not use my phone lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skatekov Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Very Nice! about time someone did this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skatekov Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Very Nice! about time someone did this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83turbo280zx Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 Very Nice! about time someone did this. Thanks man! Yea I'd been wanting to try it for a while, just didn't want to take of a good looking lip in place of one I didn't know how the turn-out would be. But since it was damaged, that was my que lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1ghtymaxXx Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Looks very promising, but hard to see the final product in those pictures. Though I've traded my S130 for an S30, I'm quite interested in seeing how that all worked out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor_Zedman Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 I rarely see an S130 i like, but this is great man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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