Lil Dre

Hey, so my boy brought a riced out eg sedan. The ricey rear bumper was molded to the quarter panels. So was the front but that can easily be replaced.
How can he go about putting the stock bumper back on??

B_Swapped93

pics ? not sure how plastic can be moulded to metal to the point you can't just rip it off tho...

24TEN

iTrader: (2)

Exactly right, rip it off. Just don't expect the paint to stay intact on the body. Chances are extremely high there's a few layers of fiberglass and/or bondo holding it all together.

Lil Dre

Ill post pics in a min, but if you just rip it off, wont it leave a jagged edge??

Lil Dre

This isn't the exact car, but its molded like this

Marvin1985

iTrader: (5)

You mean it's SHAVED. Your gonna have fun removing em

B_Swapped93

ohh god ! angle grinder will do the job and leave a straight edge that you can then attach a stock bumper.

Lil Dre

Damn, thats the only way.
At this point, were trying to decide wether to de rice this, or find an eg coupe shell for like 200 bucks at a junkyard and swap everything over

NotARaCist

iTrader: (1)

Stop. Look behind the bumper, near the wheel wells. Was it welded on, or bondo/fireglassed on? If it was welded on...yeah, time to cut. If it was bondo/fiberglassed on, you can carefully rip it off.

Lil Dre

Ill have him do that now actually

Lil Dre

He says its hard to tell.
Maybe we should just try ripping it off, and if it rips its bondo, if not then -.-

95Sedan

looks like they did a decent job why in the world are you taking it off lol

Lil Dre

Its ricey lol

JDMswagSerf

Just try to rip it off, if it's not coming off not lol have to be cut.

Lil Dre

Does anybody know how much shells at junkyards usually go for??
were hoping around 100-200 bucks tbh

98ekb18c

It's not welded on, it's impossible to weld plastic to metal. It's filled with bondo. Take a sanding disc on a grinder and sand all the bondo off. Obv you'll need to repaint the car when you're done.

B_Swapped93

I've never known junked car to have an intact shell....thus why they're at the junk yard lol, rollers sell for 300-800$ look around altho I would part that thing out. guess the guy you bought it from was still living in 2001 hmmm

Lil Dre

Yes, I think he was as well lmao
it was a diamond in the rough though, with the freshly rebuilt d16y8.
And as far as the shell, its not on wheels lol, so if rollers start at 300, looks like were in a good spot.
Once we get the shell, we will start parting out. Starting to think its too much of a headache to de-rice

schollianmj

well, you can get front fenders for 60 each and a new front bumper for 65 on Ebay.... Thats what I did when I tagged a deer at 75mph... had the factory paint mixxed into three spraybombs for 25 bucks and my car was back better than when I got it.