I have been looking at the lines of the USDM bumper VS the JDM bumper and they are very very similar. I was thinking about (I have access to a spare bumper) retrofitting JDM bumper turn signals into a USDM one. The cost of lights~ $50-100. And I have plenty of rotary tools, fiberglass, heatgun etc. So it would be a very inexpensive way of getting that nice JDM look that most people lust for . Has anyone tried this before? Flame suit on....

 

Try it and post pics

 

for the amount of time and work needed to do it and make it look clean...go the extra mile and purchase the JDM front end.

Chopped up car parts will never look as good as original parts. Keep that in mind

 

^^Yeah, I agree. Its just an idea, but I'm am still debating wether or not I should make it come to fruition. I will be photoshopping this tonight and depending on the result, I might go ahead and do it. I am wrapping up school next semester and I have a couple jobs lined up in Japan, so instead of investing $900 on a front end, i'd rather use that money towards some other go fast goodies/swap? I can probably pick up an EF9 in Japan for $1000.

 

i would like to see how it comes out

 

ive always wonderd the same thing. do it and post pics

 

So I did it. It came out pretty good...




J/K P-shop in progress...


Modified by wakaranai at 12:41 AM 11/28/2007

 

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i dunno...looks weird imo..lens looks almost long enough to be the headlights ...and where the hell can you find lens for 50? id say they go for 75-120

 

Yeah, I dunno. I can't wait to put my OEM's on tomorrow though!

 

man i think that looks tight man. its hard as hell to find the whole conversion. i look for a while. i rather do it ur way then play 900 for the conversion. which i still dont think i can find for that cheap. just the bumper alone now on ebay is 700 that just the bumper.

 

Unless you have some really crazy fiberglass/plastic welding skills I don't think it'll ever turn out looking 100%. I've had the 88-89 ZC front and now have the 90-91 SiR facelift front and the curvature of the SiR bumper is a lot more aggressive than the 88-89 ZC bumper. Not saying that it can't be done because I've seen it done on a European car (WW hatch body kit) a while back, but it won't look 100% right (Think blocky front end + curvy bumper lights).

The reason why people pay so much for the conversion is because everything flows together so nicely. It's not just the bumper lights that are attractive. It's the way that the entire frontend of the car is elongated/curved/smoothed out that makes it attractive.

Best of luck on the project though, and for doing things your way.

 

i think if you paint the white cross piece black

kinda like the mouth of it, i think it would clean it up a bit

lol just my two cents, photoshop it

 

i had the wings west front bumper and since it was plastic i decided to try to custom fit dc2 bumper lights to it and it didnt turn out to well but it might work on a stock bumper cuz the light forms to the stock bumper batter than the wings west one