last place i lived was garden grove in orange county. i lived in riverside for a couple of years, went to UCR, had a big house with 2 roomates, never went to class and flunked out. parents made me move in with them since they paid 2 years tuition and rent for nothing. gotta finish school then its prolly back to cali...long story i know...

i know some people from cal poly and walnut...used to go there quite often. what year are you???

 

looks good

 

freshman..third quarter. i live in diamond bar. so your comin to cali next week? or after you finish school? my sis goes to UCR..hopefully my third year i will be at UCI. my mom is buried in garden grove... you dont need to know that but, im familiar with all the areas. why are you coming back to cali?

 

Yesssir! I love it!

 

just to chill with the homies. i grew up in torrance so ima be chillin there at a homies house. im comin next week and for good after school is done. sorry to hear about your moms. i got accepted to UCI but chose UCR so i could live with my friends, turned out to be a mistake, i shoulda went to UCI, i porbably would still be in cali right now, but whatever.

 

its all good..everything happens for a reason.

 

how long did it take you to install the your kit? took me about 3.5 hours for everything by myself.
once i put on the kit, the car looked terrible with stock wheels. the kit makes the car seem more flared, making the wheels looks more sunk in (except for the profile view).

 

i started at probably around 11am and was taking pictures by around 2. so like a lilttle under 3 hours. it does look a little off with stock wheels. cause the lip kit does flare out at the sides and both ends of the side skirts. i had to go to work so no time to clean my car and put on wheels.

oh yea did you drill your rear bumper? i tried it w/out drilling and it seems impossible to stay on securely...

 

Wow it sure took me a lot longer than that!

But I'm still pretty much a noob at this stuff, so...

Yeah I drilled the bumpers front and back.

 

ohhh that looks PURTY why did you have to take your wheels off again? I couldnt find the answer (me = ) haha Looks awesome though

 

I drilled the front and rear bumpers. I dont see how the rear kit can stay on without drilling. I ended up removing both bumpers and drilling from the inside out.

 

^^ thats the only thing im scared about! I dont want to drill something too big or in the wrong place!

 

I was really nervous about the drilling, but it actually went really quick and easy. There are marks for the slots molded into the plastic on the insides of the bumpers.

With the bumper off, you just take your 1/4 inch drill bit and drill the ends of the slots. The soft material of the bumper makes it pretty easy. I had my buddy hold the bumper up at the right angle so the i had my work surface right under the slot for support.

The directions tell you to then remount the bumpers, tape some guides on the outside, and router out the slots with a 1/8 bit. Well we did that but the plastic kept clogging up the bit on my dremel, and then the dremel battery ran out. So we decided we would bust out the sabre/jig saw. That worked awesome; much better than the dremel. We just had to put on more tape to protect the paint from the base plate on the saw. Then I cleaned up the slots with the dremel.

We didn't even mess anything up! All the slots came out perfect. I would just recommend when cutting the slots, to err on the too small side... you can always enlarge them if you need to.

Also, if I had to do it over, I wouldn't mount the bumpers back on the car until the lips are all totally mounted. You'll be sure you don't cut anything inside the bumpers with the saw, and it's so much easier to get the tabs through and clipped when you have good open access to the inside of the bumper.

 

thanks. im sure your car would look purty with the lip kit also. i took off the wheels cause i went on a little road trip...600miles

 

few shots...gotta go to work so more pics later...lookin good or what???

 

Very nice!

 

damn sweet looks great!!

 

Looking good there, love those wheels .

 

that's dead sexy

 

thanks for compliments

^^^Mitch Hedberg is dead??? wow that sucks, he honestly is the funniest guy in the world. i always remembered this joke.

"i took a frozen banana out of the freezer cause i might wanna eat a banana later..."

or somethin like that...doesnt sound funny but it is when he says it...