Front bumper

[kris_aka_edu]

Here you go guys here's a couple of pictures of it in the light. How does it look? Please don't say it's upside down and I've got to take it all of again ill cry! The holes where already drilled as you know Iain, I just had to take the bumper off to screw it on.

[Dbo]

1st bit of whole lude full looking good
did you rip out the resenator while you had the bumper off m8 well worth it

[wurlycorner]

That is upside down compared to how H10ndr has his fitted - look at the swage line on the sides of the lip. Yours go down, his go up. The lip's designed to sit over the outside of the bumper (overlap the bottom section under the foglights).
The holes would still line up with lip that way up.

Shouldn't need to take the bumper off in order to fit the lip? Should just be able to to do it working from underneath, with the bumper still fitted. (now that the fixings will come undone, anyway!)

@h10ndr do you fit it with the original chin spoiler in place to pack it down from the bottom of the bumper slightly, or do you remove that and fit it flush up with the bottom of the bumper?
If it goes flush, I'm wondering how it doesn't end up covering the fog lights?

[kris_aka_edu]

1st bit of whole lude full looking good
did you rip out the resenator while you had the bumper off m8 well worth it

No mate I didn't, don't really have a clue what I'm doing which is why it took me nearly 10 hours to take off the bumper, put a splitter on and put it back on again.

That is upside down compared to how H10ndr has his fitted - look at the swage line on the sides of the lip. Yours go down, his go up. The lip's designed to sit over the outside of the bumper (overlap the bottom section under the foglights).
The holes would still line up with lip that way up.

Shouldn't need to take the bumper off in order to fit the lip? Should just be able to to do it working from underneath, with the bumper still fitted. (now that the fixings will come undone, anyway!)

@h10ndr do you fit it with the original chin spoiler in place to pack it down from the bottom of the bumper slightly, or do you remove that and fit it flush up with the bottom of the bumper?
If it goes flush, I'm wondering how it doesn't end up covering the fog lights?

So I have got it the wrong way up? Even though the screw holes where pre drilled by you that way? Oh dear I'm going to cry!

[h10ndr]

Yeah lol that's upsidedown. It should hang over the edge of the oem bumper. Look at my profile pics.

[h10ndr]

Its always been on the lude so not sure if the oem lip is under there! I doubt it...

[wurlycorner]

So I have got it the wrong way up? Even though the screw holes where pre drilled by you that way? Oh dear I'm going to cry!

Fraid so, yes, that's what I've been saying.

The holes weren't drilled by me, they were on it when I bought it. But like I've said above, those holes will still line up. That means you will still use them - you don't have to drill any more holes! That side of the lip is still the bit you have to bolt up to the bottom of the bumper, just flip it through 180 degrees and allow the top of the lip (the bottom as you currently have it fitted) to overlap the front of the bumper. It will sit inside the bottom grille hole of the bumper. You'll see how the lip has cut outs to sit round either side of the foglights.

And you don't have to remove the bumper to do that now.

Have a look at more pics of h10ndr's car and you'll see (look at the website linked off his profile, in the restoration pics).

Alternatively, does anyone else have any pics of when they fitted their euro lip?

Keep the faith and you'll get there...

Did you look at the other ludes with euro rear lips at the national meet to see how that part was fitted, like I suggested?

[wurlycorner]

Its always been on the lude so not sure if the oem lip is under there! I doubt it...

Thanks, it's probably not, just wondered in case it was used to space the lip out in the same way people space the type-r lip down..

[honda-hardy]

Oh dear. It's a good job you didn't do the wiring on your car too Kris, otherwise that would have all been upside down too, oh my mistake... The wiring was drokked.

[Ted]

Tramroadtedstoptiptoday, get your truncheon out and batter yourself over the head with it repeatedly