Reason For Front Bar Coming Off

[QUIKBLADE]

Hey guys,

I installed an R32 GTS-T Hybrid Intercooler kit (600x300x76) and well... after some hard driving the other night, the engine bay was hot as all... **** but the pipes were AT MOST 4 degrees C... but when compared to the stock piping, which you still use a little bit of, it was still kind of hot, but maybe that was about 10 degrees C. So, FMIC... Highly Recommended!!!!

Installed it with the help of a mate in my garage, and did the front bar myself (Very time consuming)...

NEED TO CUT A LOT OF THE Standard Front Bar to fit it back on! NOTE: kit was for a R32 (RB20DET) NOT Cefiro.

Please excuse the dirty drift pig look

Edited July 28, 2006 by QUIKBLADE

[Simon-S14]

nice ceffy but i think you need to keep cutting as the opening doesnt quite look right

[QUIKBLADE]

nice ceffy but i think you need to keep cutting as the opening doesnt quite look right

What do you mean?... An aftermarket front bar would be nice, but cash... ya know... Plus the lack of EVERYTHING except for URAS and URAS style bodykits, which IMHO look well tacky!...

[Simon-S14]

each to their own

but what i mean was. you need to keep cutting the stock back... make the cut out for the cooler a rectangle shape. instead of the shape you currently have... if you catch my drift

[smurf80]

Thats too clean to be a drift pig. Nice car by the way!

Cheers

Chris

[AlcoholicA]

I used to have what appeared to be the same front bumper/bar as you, but recently changed it...

Before...

after....

[QUIKBLADE]

I used to have what appeared to be the same front bumper/bar as you, but recently changed it...

DUDE, I've been looking for that EXACT same bar for ages...only place I found on was on the Japan Auctions (Yahoo)... Where'd you get it?... Yeah Looks like we both had the stock bar, but modified it accordingly... I tried to make it look like it "fit in" with the car, and a bit Jap Spec, so cut the numberplate part out, and 'relocated' the plate to one side (j-spec ) Nice car man

PLUS, for those who've not had a standard bar to work with... that sucker from the number plate cuts back in to the body SO far it's insane... probably on a 60 degree angle, back in towards to main body of car... hence why FMICs look massive on these cars, with standard cut bars.

Edited August 12, 2006 by QUIKBLADE

[AlcoholicA]

DUDE, I've been looking for that EXACT same bar for ages...only place I found on was on the Japan Auctions (Yahoo)... Where'd you get it?... Yeah Looks like we both had the stock bar, but modified it accordingly... I tried to make it look like it "fit in" with the car, and a bit Jap Spec, so cut the numberplate part out, and 'relocated' the plate to one side (j-spec )

I'm actually in Thailand, where there are lots of bodyshops that have every different style of bodykit imaginable..... so I know it doesn't help your search to find it in Australia.

Mine is a fiberglass copy, which while being very cheap - isn't a perfect fit. The bodyshop got quite $hitty about it when I complained it didn't fit perfectly, but I think I can modify it to make it fit slightly better - so if you are going for a copy, be very careful and trial fit it [and modify accordingly] before its painted.

Nice car man

Thanks for the positive comment... I like it a lot. Here's another photo

I think it makes a huge difference to how the car looks, and it makes the FMIC look huge. I haven't decided yet where to move the number plate to, so its still sitting on my dashboard.

I've noticed that I get lots of looks from people checking the car out. I work at a university and a lot of the students are rich-kids and they have highly modified Cefiros since Skylines are very hard to find over here.... for me to have a car like this is instant street-cred with the students