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YOUR RESEARCHTurbo Rear Bumper and New Exhaust Tips!!!!
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look i wanted...pay less get mpre...lol
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On top of that they were dont the way i wanted them so it was the look I wanted...pay less get mpre...lol...
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Then since the exhaust tips needed to be changed, I had some custom tips made and installed to complete the look..I LOVE IT!!!!
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Yes I will do front spacers this weekend....Tips were $400, the bumper was used $250 amd modifying it to fit was $400, don't know how much paint was because it was covered under the settlement...but I got it all done for the settlement,nothing out of pocket, so what the insurance company would pay for replacing the rear bumper and painting it...
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Yes I will do front spacers this weekend....Tips were $400, the bumper was used $250 amd modifying it to fit was $400, don't know how much paint was because it was covered under the settlement...but I got it all done for the settlement,nothing out of pocket, so what the insurance company would pay for replacing the rear bumper and painting it...
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Yes I will do front spacers this weekend....Tips were $400, the bumper was used $250 amd modifying it to fit was $400, don't know how much paint was because it was covered under the settlement...but I got it all done for the settlement,nothing out of pocket, so what the insurance company would pay for replacing the rear bumper and painting it...
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Yes I will do front spacers this weekend....Tips were $400, the bumper was used $250 amd modifying it to fit was $400, don't know how much paint was because it was covered under the settlement...but I got it all done for the settlement,nothing out of pocket, so what the insurance company would pay for replacing the rear bumper and painting it...
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Just got my car back from the shop...Raj and Brian at VCE are awesome....I had the fiberglass Turbo "Look" bumper on my car before and got rear ended and it cracked right down the middle. So this time I got a real Turbo rear bumper and had it modified to fit. I also had the bumperette holes removed for the Euro look Turbo rear. Then since the exhaust tips needed to be changed, I had some custom tips made and installed to complete the look..I LOVE IT!!!! The rear bumper looks SOOOOO much better than the fiverglass Turbo Look bumpers out there....I was never really happy with the fit of the old bumper.
Wow - looks really sweet. I love those tips. What year is your car?
Custom fit, custome made - must've set you back a pretty penny, but it looks awesome.
Car is a 99....yes the turbo bumperis wider, but my body shop knows how to modify it to fit a narrow body car. They cut out a section then seal it up again. the cost total was less than a new fiberglass bumper, including new tips....just gotta know where to go. If you were in LA, I could get you new tips installed, custom the way you like it for less than $400. The have a few designs and types of pipes...you tell them what you want and they make the pipes for you and install them. They do only high end car....There were 3 AMG's, a 7 series BMW and a Range Rover there while my car was there all getting custom exhaust work done. Nicolaas, not quite finished...i have about 3 more things to do....But I am getting VERY close....New amp and speakers go in this weekend....
Looks great Bob.
Have you considered 7mm spacers for your front wheels? Looks to me like that may help bring the fronts out to more closely match the rear wheel/fender lip relationship.
Yes I will do front spacers this weekend....Tips were $400, the bumper was used $250 amd modifying it to fit was $400, don't know how much paint was because it was covered under the settlement...but I got it all done for the settlement,nothing out of pocket, so what the insurance company would pay for replacing the rear bumper and painting it...
newport - pardon my ignorance but I don't understand what you had done to the tips.... aren't those tips made by Porsche (and others)? Or did you have those custom built to resemble the P tips instead of paying their $800 asking price?
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krista
no those are not Porsche tips....the diameter of these seems to be a little larger and yes it was ALOT less than buying the Porsche tips....PLUS since this is a Turbo bumper on a non Turbo car the exhaust does not line up, I think you can simply use the C4S extension, or have an exhaust shop route your existing tips....so it was going to cost me a couple hundred anyway, add $200 to that and I got those tips. On top of that they were dont the way i wanted them so it was the look I wanted...pay less get mpre...lol...
Yowzer...that's one mean-looking black beast! Nice custom work and paint job on the Turbo-esque rear. One question, though: is that enough clearance between the bumper cutouts and the exhaust tips?
