Long story short, I was driving to work monday morning and got my driver side rear clipped and the guy ran away.. couldn't get his plate either due to the jacked up dodge in front of me... I get to work and survey the damage. Not too bad, a few scrapes but easily repairable. I go to work and about 10 mins later my co-worker comes and taps me on the shoulder asking me if im having a bad day.. i laugh and ask if they saw my rear bumper. They say "no, I just hit your front bumper"... WTF!!! so anyway, they didn't pay enough attention while pulling in and completely sideswiped their car and rubbed it all along the front driver side corner of my bumper.. wearing the plastic flat on the curves, and tweaking the fender ever so slightly... still mostly cosmetic damage, but it looks like i will have to get a new bumper cover at the minimum, so now the time for a upgrade...

Now to my question, anyone have a recommendation for a front bumper that looks cool, doesn't lower the car anymore ( or is at least close to) then stock. and won't require side skirts to look right? Thanks! links appreciated.. lol

Russ

 

Dude Sorry to hear that....Ebay has some nice ones. thats what i heard..do a search toooooooo. Good Luck ...there is some Hot lookin ones out there

 

I have been asking for months now what body kits don't lower your ride hight. The answer I get is none.
There are some great looking kits out there. I just don't know what to tell you about what one however.

 

please.



Most of the body kits around will only append a front 'lip' to the bumper, and are not an entire bumper. In the photo below, you can see a kenstyle lip on a stock bumper:



Some of the kits that are true bumpers are the FAB, Nobleese, and Attraction. Unfortunately, these are all JDM, and as such, are made for a different bumper architecture. There is an EVO 5 full bumper for USDM, but in my opinion, it's beyond ugly. There are several outfits making FAB replicas, but i think bBist is one of the better known around here. http://www.fujiz.com/index.php?page=...pshop&Itemid=6

The Vizage is a really nice full bumper in my opinion, but I do not know enough about the company linked here to recommend:
http://www.kgsengineering.com/vizage...er-p-6330.html

I would seriously suggest that you stay away from the ebay body kits, as most are poor quality. It's also more likely that the ones on ebay are fiberglass, which will not last as long as a quality polyurethane kit. It's also a substantial enough purchase that you will want to know for sure what will fit.

There are two guys that i know on this site that can be really helpful with body kits - EMU and MattyRattyPoo... you may tell them I referred you.

 

Damn Russ that sucks man. Hopefully you find something you like..

 

well apparently the body shop im using is also the primary body shop that stevinson uses so they are getting a brand new OEM cover for like 150 bux.. so to pay the difference it would be a bit more out of pocket for me then I can swing. Was hoping the cover costed more then that but oh well. Its good to have a straight and clean spare cover anyways =)

Thanks a lot for the links and pics tony.. I will still be looking into a upgrade in the future and those are nice for reference. I also didn't even see any of the ebay ones that even resembled something i would want.. besides the fact i would be putting like 3-4 more layers of fiberglass on them before i installed them anyhow.

Russ