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Originally Posted by Accumulator  victory- Glad to hear it worked out so well! Was the plastic easy to cut accurately with the snips? |
The bumper cover cut like butter. Tin snips were definitely a good recommendation. Take a look for yourself.
When the fascias come in, I'm ready for them. Paint prep, primer, storm grey metallic, clear.
For some reason autozone only stocked big cans of the storm grey and if i wanted a tiny can i'd have to order a case. No bother, it was only a buck more. Now i know i'll definitely have extra to spray into a cup and touch up that scratch on my passenger side door.
This is what i plan to use to attach the fascias to the bumper.
There's about a 1" lip on the fascias. Some people recommended 3m double sided tape, but, even if that does hold well, i don't want any kind of gap between the lip on the fascia and the surface of the bumper becaue it would always bother me. This stuff should hold strong, be flexible and resist heat pretty well. Figure i'll rough up both the lip of the fascia and the contact area on the bumper with sandpaper, prep, lay down a bead, press in place and not mess with it for at least 24 hours.
Here's the tips i'm getting welded on. Same as on the white buick i used as an example above.
304 stainless. Good deal at $100 for the set. Nice replicas of the Corsa's, which i cannot afford at $300-400.
Anyway, hopefully the addition of a second muffler in there will fix that boost stacking problem i was having and get the car ready for a slightly smaller supercharger pulley without an appreciable increase in noise ruining the sleeper aspect.
So, the guy who let me use his template said he'd help with the custom computer tuning in return for a full detail. Guy is running a full intercooled 12 second buick. I took him up on it.