Originally Posted by Civicman1988

This is a great mod and a pretty cheap mod. If you are going for weight reduction on your car this mod is not for you. A scale 1 to 10 this mod is about a 7. If anyone does not understand something or need help do not hesitate to Pm me or email me. If you need more pictures or need to knwo where to purchase somethign contact me.


Tools:
1.) 1 gallon of bondo ( I used rage pretty expensive stuff but it is very easy to work with any bondo will do the trick)
2.) A sanding block
3.) 80 grit sand paper and 150 grit and also 60 Grit
4.) Icing for the last coat you will see in the pciture
5.) boxcutter or razor blade
6.) sheet of plastic or metal to put in the back of the bumper so bondo stays in
7.) 2 tubes of 5min appoxy
8.) card board and smoothing stick
9.) saw-horses to put bumper on (optional it is easier to work on these then on the ground)

Directions:

1.) remove front bumper from car carefully.

2.) set bumper on saw horses and grab a hairdryer and heat the section you are going to be cutting out up.Which is the license plate section when you are done it will look like this. ( you do not have to use a hairdryer it just makes it easier to cut when you heat it up)

here is the section to heat:



here is what it looks like when cut out:



3.) This step is very important to get the bondo to lay right. I had an old bumper laying in my basement and i cut a section out of it. Now it did this because it had the same shape as the bumper on are car. I cut it longer then the opening by about an inch. I took appoxy and clued it in make sure you put a lot of appoxy around the edges so it doesnt start cracking on you in the winter. Also if anyone tries this and comes up with a different way to get a back on there. This is so the bondo has something to grab on to. Prep this section with 60 grit and clean it very well.

heres a few pic of wht i am talking about:



4.) Put two coats of bondo on the area fill the license plate section first. This coats can be heavy. make sure you read the direction to see how much harderner to use each brand may be different. Let these coats dry about 20 minutes and sand it with 80 grit.

<U><FONT SIZE=""3""><FONT COLOR=""Red"">IMPORTANT:</FONT></FONT></U> Try to spread evenly so you do not have a lot of sanding to do. let this dry over night because bondo shrinks. Also once you put bondo on do not touch it you will create more work sanding just leave it alone. I learned the hard way after i did the first bumper


heres a few pic:




5.) Shape the bottom lip. Take your time on this part this is teh hardest part you will have to do. I do not have any pictures of this step sorry


6.) Put a few morre coats of bondo on and spread them past the points where the licesne plate was so you can create the same arc that is in the bumper put one coat on. Let it try for about 30minutes and sand then sand. then reply a second coat and get it really close to perfect.

<U><FONT COLOR=""red"">IMPORTANT:</FONT></U> Some bumprer will take more coats depends on how thick the bondo is.

here is a few pictures:



7.) Shape the bottom lip really close to perfect. If you need to apply more bondo on this section then do so.

Here is a pic of the lip:




8.) Once you have the arc the way you like it then apply the finally coat. This coat is a flexible bondo and it is very thin this will fell in all the low spot in the bumper. This tube is very expensive roughly 40.00 thats what i paid. It is called the Autobody icing. You can get it at any body shop place.

Icing looks like this:



here are picture of the finally coat this coat is the most credical coat so take your time.:







9.) let the final coat set up for about 45 minutes adn then sand. It should look liek this if you did all the steps right.

Pic of finished product:










<FONT SIZE=""6""><FONT COLOR=""Red"">I CAN NOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH THIS IS A LONG PROCESS AND IF YOU RUSH THREW IT. IT WILL LOOK LIKE CRAP. IF ANYONE NEEDS ANY HELP AND THEY ARE LOCAL I WILL HELP YOU OUT IF ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTION PM ME OR AIM ME I WILL BE HAPPY TO HELP YOU. HOPE THIS THREAD HELPS</FONT></FONT>