Busy on my friends maxima ! First Body Kit !

[Eclipse97526]

Helping my friend with his ride ! We got a body kit for his maxima and yea. Its comin along, not bad for a few hours, let me know what ya all think so far. Its not fitted together all the way or anything, we just got the fenders on, and the front bumper all ready to go.

To be...

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p110/eclipse97526/07-16-07_1838-1.jpg


us tearin it apart

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Front shot. 6 hours deep

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passenger side shot. Ill finish it and take more tomorrow ! :)

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p110/eclipse97526/09-01-07_0256.jpg

on its way to the skyline conversion ;)
hey its my galant ! :P before my hood , in the back anyways. ( first picture )

[6G72Galant]

Niiiice. Back in the day before i had my Galant, ive always pondered the possibility of doing a R34 conversion on the Maxima. Ive checked the measurements and everything. And it seems like the R34 bumper would be a nearly perfect fit for the Maxima. Anyhow, those days are long gone. Keep up the good work! :P

[unlimited6986]

eww sell everyhing he just bought and go back to stock

[9G]

cool.

[lonestar22]

eww sell everyhing he just bought and go back to stock

x2

[seth98esT]

It doesnt fit so well?

[Divinity]

I dunno ...

[mattalicslvr8g02]

i see it dosent fit too well from bumper to fender.. maybe if you push it in and scrwe the 2 peices together on the inside of the fenderwell.... i think thats the best looking kit for that style max

[Divinity]

If your friend is paying you to help him... invest in a digital camera if you're going to be taking all these pics ;)

[IceDouTGaLanT]

it looks good, just need better fitment

[Kwikfox]

Meh, its not really my taste, but if you can get everything to fit well, and look clean its alright.

[Eclipse97526]

Oh, is that how its supposed to work :) Everyone seems to think i do this for a living. Im helping my friend for freee ! And his camera didnt work so well at night.

and As i have said. That was 2 am last night, and all that were done is the fenders. And i dont do this for a living, i wish that i did. This is my first body kit project ever. And it dont fit cause that whole front bumber only has 2 screws in it for the time bieng. ;) it is getting full headers + dual exaust back on monday. And well. No it dont fit quite so well. But thats why there is bondo ;) hehe. This will be my second bondo experience. I would really like to do this for a living. We will see how it turns out.

Glad i can experiment on his car. I think i will stick with USDM front end in my galant personally. I might tackle the galant. at least the front bumper ;)

[Eclipse97526]

yea, the semi cool thing is that its by no means a ricer ;) its pushin 267 hp and 302 tourque. and thats very lightly modified. only reason we are doing this is cause he got a nice insurance settlement check. and basicly the cost of what we are doing to this car, is the cost the dealership charges to replace the front core support, and headlight + repaint bumber and hood.
But we got the CF hood. Fenders . halo projectors. R34 kit..with acutall r34 spoiler. + Clear taillights.

[Divinity]

I dunno, if I do something car related for a friend, I get some kind of compensation lol, but that's just me. Good luck.

[Eclipse97526]

hehe, its all good, he is a homeboy, and we have been friends for 18 years or so. i have no problem helping anyone =)

[SLS2000]

^ That is the way me and Zobgel run it. Works good for us. We get more things done that way.

[Divinity]

Female friends = free
Male friends = depends... if it's something they could do themselves, at least buy my dinner lol.

[lonestar22]

actually i change my mind on the kit. it would work if u got rid of those two random squares next to eachother and the side bumper holes were shaved off

[Eclipse97526]

yea, Thats just the way the R34 Kit is designed ! :) we going to do something with them. not sure tho, its done now, And he has a digi camera, so here are some pics ;) it just needs Bondo'd ( all the seams filled in ) and flushed out, and painted. he is painting it a true silver color. :)

Before Mounting . First thing in the morning . After spending 6 hours the other night.

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Tada !!! :)

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There she is . All ready to go for a test drive ! :)

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Let me know what ya all think ! its my first time doing this ;) just me and my homeboy did this project . Ill keep everyone posted as the R34 conversion comes along ;)

[seth98esT]

Looks alright, I hope he plans on painting it within the next week or so.

[Eclipse97526]

keep in mind, This is just fit on there basicly. Its mounted. It will be professionally painted Etc ;)

[Eclipse97526]

Any particular reason by this week ? he was planning within the month. But is there any defects that will happen other than just having it cosmeticly look like shit ? :P ie. Warpage, or what not...

[Divinity]

Looks good for the first time doing it, good work.


Looks like there's more mesh than bumper :lol:

[Eclipse97526]

yea, i agree ! Its not mine ;) i just helped my homie out, And thats the way the r34 is,. But it has massive lights and such. But we just put this on, he dont really wanna add anything, he wants to keep it clean, not sure what hes going to do ;) but im there to help. I would like to go to school or something for this and open a custom shop that does vynls and carbon fiber, and body kits. Paintjobs. Etc. as well as regular maintinace . I think that would be cool ;) and race on the side. At the track of course.

[mattalicslvr8g02]

yea .. that center peice is asking for an intercooler :twisted:

[Divinity]

yea .. that center peice is asking for an intercooler :twisted:

x2 lol


Owning your own shop sounds pretty awesome. You're definitely talented with the vinyl :lol: You do good work though.

Speaking of, I'm looking up some stuff about painting the body of the car right now, I might post something up later seeking some advice on it...

[Proud Galant Driver]

Tell him he better paint it right away and not drive around like all the ricers with unpainted body kits!

And tell him he needs rims before a kit!

Doesn't look too bad though, keep us updated.

[Eclipse97526]

Wow ;) 2 great minds think alike ! I told him today that he needs at least 18' Gold BBS' Rimms on there. But yes, He has the money, and im having my friend paint it that paints hot rods for a living... So it will be done right...

But reallly ? I did good work ? :)

[boostzealot]

yeah you honestly did a good job cleaning up the first day's work. i have also thought that the r34 kit is the best for the max of that style. but man its like having some dope ass rare rims and no drop if you dont paint it first. i didnt see whether this was just a test fit or not but i hope it is. people who ride around with unpainted body kits are obviously much too anxious to have anything really quality otherwise they would wait. ya know :wink:

[Jeffylou87]

Tell him he better paint it right away and not drive around like all the ricers with unpainted body kits!

And tell him he needs rims before a kit!

Doesn't look too bad though, keep us updated.

Haha like me.. :oops:

[mapid145]

Tell him he better paint it right away and not drive around like all the ricers with unpainted body kits!

And tell him he needs rims before a kit!

Doesn't look too bad though, keep us updated.

Haha like me.. :oops:

UNPAINTED BODY KIT MANNNNNN

[SkylineG1]

looks good to me for a first try. I hope that your boy saved some money for the paint. Unfortunately for now he is classified as a ricer.

[fatal1]

hmm i dont know about it, i like the stock body for that gen max i think the lip kit they make is a lot cleaner but i will have to see after its painted of course...he definatelly needs to do something about all that mesh tho im not feeling all that

[Censee]

looks okay,, for some reason the side squares do look kinda outta place and the grille mesh looks very flimsy, but besides that looks okay,,, good job fitting it in..

[dknight3]

i like it man looks good, just need to fill that bumper up with an intercooler and maybe some foglights and some different style mesh, i dont really care for that style.

[99 galant]

it looks good, 20 different colors lol, but really good job on it

[Proud Galant Driver]

Tell him he better paint it right away and not drive around like all the ricers with unpainted body kits!

And tell him he needs rims before a kit!

Doesn't look too bad though, keep us updated.

Haha like me.. :oops:

Shame on you too...

Lol j/p :lol:

[mitgalantes]

if he is going to paint it stock color i would paint the mesh to flat black that color is makin it kinda cheesy you did a good job on it dont mess it up by choice of mesh

[Eclipse97526]

he is actually painting it true silver, and 3 weeks away, im doing fiberglass work, its been one hell of a tripp, ill post pics, im just working on the front for now, ill do sides and rear-bumper before he gets it painted, i got a homie whoes doing it right, for damn cheap, it wont be grey'ish silver like his car, more like, True silver color.

[Shadow19]

Its cool to help your buddies out. Its cool that your buddy is putting a kit on his Maxima.. But man.. There is just toooooo much going on with that front end... For some odd reason the headlights make everything stand out and make it even more hideous. But to each his own...