Had another busy day saturday
The plan was to remove the existing tatty old metallic green-painted red bumper off and replace with my newly refurbished one.
This is what she looked like before hand...
You can see from this picture how bad a fit it was, and a couple of the fixings had broken, so it had been bodged in place with screws
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I also wanted to replace the headlights as the internals had broken and I wanted black instead of chrome
Both lights were like this...
I didn't realise how bad the damage was until I'd removed them tho
(The cracks go all the way around) ...
So anyway, with the bumper and lights removed, I was left with this...
Which then made it blaitantly apparent where the car had taken a shunt once upon a time. I don't know whether you can notice it, but the wing is quite out of shape where it fixes...
At least the original owner had left me this to make up for the damage... Should come in handy
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So anyway, kinda on a whim, I decided to remove all the oem induction set up...
Shaped the fender back into place as best I could. And then primed...
Then "kurust'd" the metal work from underneath the battery tray and left it for some of the recommended 3 hours
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Meanwhile... I made up this baby!...
Using a classic ebay duct courtesy of the "Floyd", I chopped it up into the appropriate lengths and assembled it with electrical tape (lots of)
I can't be forking out too much more on the car at the moment and silicone joiners are ridiculously expensive!
The pipe work butts up almost perfectly with the CDA and the whole thing is solid, so I think I'll just leave it as is
The end of the ducting was gonna tally-up with this...
... I call it "Crappy flexible ducting from Halfords, which is no stronger than the Asda smart price kitchen foil, all for (in consideration with it's quality) the overly expensive price of £8.99!) ... This is temporary!
Then mint black JDM 1-piece headlights put in position...
And then bumper offered up
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And nostrils!!!
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Then the temporary ducting was arrange as so, though not before putting the indicators back on and crushing the life out of it!
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No picture of crushed ducting tho sorry
... I've got an idea to convert the side reflector into indicators instead now actually. That'll give me enough room as the reflectors are a lot shallower than the oem indicators, and it'll be something subtly different
I decided not to fit the front fogs back on. I didn't want to cut into my new bumper, didn't want the added weight, I still don't have the correct connector for the switch anyway, AND... my new headlights are a hell of a lot brighter than my original ones were anyway
(Actually by far the brightest set I've ever had on a lude
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And now for the glory shots
(These are the first pics since the rear end has been lowered as well i think
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Excuse the thumb
In time I'll replace the OSF wing as although the line is a lot better than it was, (there are no gaps now) the wing by the headlight kicks in and also there's a slight flat spot up on top, that not many people would notice, but I know it's there
You can see the bonnet doesn't sit perfectly above the headlight's, but that's no biggy as I hope to eventually get a CF bonnet as well
