New Custom Front Lip, not a Home Depot lip!
12-18-2010, 02:54 AM
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New Custom Front Lip, not a Home Depot lip!
I used to own a 03 Focus ZX3, non-SVT, hatchback. Always wanted an SVT Focus, so I had replaced a lot of SVT Parts on my Focus back in the day.
I had been wondering lately if I could use an SVT front lower lip to replace my Home Depot lip. The Home Depot lip is great and I enjoyed paying under $10 for it, but it's been falling apart on me ever since I've been on my KSports.
So I asked some of the SVT guys on my old Focus forum to measure their front lips so that I could see how it measures up to my xB's bumper.
I got a rough measurement and decided to bite the bullet and buy a front lip and try it out.
Well I got the box today and installed the lip pretty easily, very little modification required. Here we go...
Thank you UPS!
Looks like a Home Depot lip, but sturdier, thicker, and better!
Time to start working...
Home Depot lip, soon you will be gone...
Bumper off...
Took off the old lip...
Break Time!!!
Admiring my Yakima fairing that I just re-wrapped...
Started working on getting the new lip attached...
The only modification done...needed to cut off about an inch on each side due to the lip being longer than the bumper...
Done!!
Got dark outside, so I had to use the spotlights and takedown lights on my cruiser to see what I was doing
All Done!
Crappy weather and crappy camera make for crappy day pics, but I tried...will post more pics once I get the new wheels on...
Took about 3 hours overall, first time I had taken off the bumper so it was a learning process. Used about 12 zipties, 12 selftapping screws and 10 nuts/bolts combo to make sure that the lip wouldn't fall off. The lip really does look good, hands lower than the stock lip, and is made of quality Ford parts
I was originally gonna get a Mustang Mach 1 lip to put on, but I had one on my Focus, and I remembered that it did not flex as easy as the SVT lip. Anyway enjoy. Comments are welcomed...
Emanuel
I had been wondering lately if I could use an SVT front lower lip to replace my Home Depot lip. The Home Depot lip is great and I enjoyed paying under $10 for it, but it's been falling apart on me ever since I've been on my KSports.
So I asked some of the SVT guys on my old Focus forum to measure their front lips so that I could see how it measures up to my xB's bumper.
I got a rough measurement and decided to bite the bullet and buy a front lip and try it out.
Well I got the box today and installed the lip pretty easily, very little modification required. Here we go...
Thank you UPS!
Looks like a Home Depot lip, but sturdier, thicker, and better!
Time to start working...
Home Depot lip, soon you will be gone...
Bumper off...
Took off the old lip...
Break Time!!!
Admiring my Yakima fairing that I just re-wrapped...
Started working on getting the new lip attached...
The only modification done...needed to cut off about an inch on each side due to the lip being longer than the bumper...
Done!!
Got dark outside, so I had to use the spotlights and takedown lights on my cruiser to see what I was doing
All Done!
Crappy weather and crappy camera make for crappy day pics, but I tried...will post more pics once I get the new wheels on...
Took about 3 hours overall, first time I had taken off the bumper so it was a learning process. Used about 12 zipties, 12 selftapping screws and 10 nuts/bolts combo to make sure that the lip wouldn't fall off. The lip really does look good, hands lower than the stock lip, and is made of quality Ford parts
I was originally gonna get a Mustang Mach 1 lip to put on, but I had one on my Focus, and I remembered that it did not flex as easy as the SVT lip. Anyway enjoy. Comments are welcomed...
Emanuel
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12-18-2010, 09:52 PM
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Unfortunately this'll be the last post for me. I wanna say ____ you club xb. Thanks for Puttin a guy who fell on hard times. And Demonstrating with your childish actions Who the jerk off really is I hope I meet you in person some day. I was a member since middle of last year Before I even had my damn car.
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Unfortunately this'll be the last post for me. I wanna say ____ you club xb. Thanks for Puttin a guy who fell on hard times. And Demonstrating with your childish actions Who the jerk off really is I hope I meet you in person some day. I was a member since middle of last year Before I even had my damn car.
01-10-2011, 02:31 AM
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Unfortunately this'll be the last post for me. I wanna say ____ you club xb. Thanks for Puttin a guy who fell on hard times. And Demonstrating with your childish actions Who the jerk off really is I hope I meet you in person some day. I was a member since middle of last year Before I even had my damn car.
First off this isn't clubxb, it's scionlife. Secondly, your in the wrong thread. And thirdly, sorry for whoever wronged you 
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I'm sorry guys a word of explanation: There's this rule that you have to 10 posts to your credit. before you can sell anything on their classifieds. I have been a member since last summer. I didn't even have an XB yet... When I tried to get all my posts in tonight to sell stuff cause i needed the money, ##### banned me from the site forever. It doesn't matter now cause it looks like i may have to sell my "b" anyway. Having no way to talk to him I did what i thought was the next sensible thing. I figured people with dual accounts would relay the msg. for me. Now I realize i'm at his level. I don't wanna burn my bridge. Please understand I'm a dad that works 2 jobs and run a house. I dont always have time to post 10 threads I do enjoy your pictures and strive to get my car as good looking as yours'. If i end up able to keep my car just don't judge me by this post. I'm in a rare place now.
01-10-2011, 03:48 AM
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Train ban ya? Their rules there are way sticter but they had a history of like massive spam so that's why those rules are there. I'm a member there too.
And I may not be in your place but not as bad, my family is in the process of filing bankruptcy right now and only my dad working and having to feed 2 teenagers and a 10 year old plus our mom and pay for our new house has gotta be hard for my parents... if that made any sense. Understandable, your post was just out of nowhere, lol
EMAN, dude your lip is like way low! lol i love it, i do wish it would contour the bumper a little bit more though.
And I may not be in your place but not as bad, my family is in the process of filing bankruptcy right now and only my dad working and having to feed 2 teenagers and a 10 year old plus our mom and pay for our new house has gotta be hard for my parents... if that made any sense. Understandable, your post was just out of nowhere, lol
EMAN, dude your lip is like way low! lol i love it, i do wish it would contour the bumper a little bit more though.
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01-10-2011, 03:33 PM
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I'm sorry guys a word of explanation: There's this rule that you have to 10 posts to your credit. before you can sell anything on their classifieds. I have been a member since last summer. I didn't even have an XB yet... When I tried to get all my posts in tonight to sell stuff cause i needed the money, ##### banned me from the site forever. It doesn't matter now cause it looks like i may have to sell my "b" anyway. Having no way to talk to him I did what i thought was the next sensible thing. I figured people with dual accounts would relay the msg. for me. Now I realize i'm at his level. I don't wanna burn my bridge. Please understand I'm a dad that works 2 jobs and run a house. I dont always have time to post 10 threads I do enjoy your pictures and strive to get my car as good looking as yours'. If i end up able to keep my car just don't judge me by this post. I'm in a rare place now.
Emanuel