VRG Bumper/USDM heads & grill new pictures added pg.2

[lonestar22]

still much work to do

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d175/lonestar22/newfront001.jpg

any advice on making the bumper sit flush?

i like it so far

[n3oAcid24]

still much work to do

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d175/lonestar22/newfront001.jpg

any advice on making the bumper sit flush?

i like it so far

can we get a closer picture please?

[polishmafia]

x2 need a better pic. whats not sitting flush?

looks good tho.

[bmore303]

Look by the headlight

[RAZ_76]

Looks sexy, I like it. Maybe theadlights to to be swapped to JDM :lol:

[devgrp]

This dude really need to learn and take better pics. First he showed us that stupid teaser, then he ask how to make the bumper flush when we cant even see the where he is talking.

Dude are you scared of the camera or your car? Take some better pics so we can see what the hell you are talking about shm.

[SleekGTZ]

Can't see the gap much on that pic, but I understand what you mean, that VRG bumper is very hard to line up and make it fit perfectly. I just let the shop do the fitment issues that I had since it was gonna be painted anyways. In your case, you might also need to get JDM heads, but it's hard to tell.

BTW, that VRG bumper looks good on a black car. :)

Welcome to the club! hehehe

[fatal1]

looks great on your car i miss that bumper on my old car, anyway i assume you removed the crashbar like the rest of us....i advise you strongly to have one welded to fit back there when i did it it only cost me like $50

there were no gaps when i installed mine after i removed the crashbar to fit it, although when i installed it i already had jdm heads and the grill if you want to keep the top usdm i guess whatever gap you have you will have to live with

better pics and closeups would definatelly help on better answers though to make it better

[QnzMostWanted]

yeah the gaps under the heads is normal when ur using USDM heads with a JDM bumper

[lonestar22]

ill post more pics when i get off work

[WarmAndSCSI]

Was this what your mystery thread was all about? :lol:

[Serstylz2]

musta been, how the HELL could anyone tell from that far ass shot he took.. looks good tho, now get ur rim fixed or back on or whatever it is you're plannin

[Divinity]

Looks good... silly boy :smt011 You don't have to get JDM heads if you weren't planning on it, just get a body shop to fill the gap, probably would cost as much as getting the heads though

[6G72Galant]

Looks good... silly boy :smt011 You don't have to get JDM heads if you weren't planning on it, just get a body shop to fill the gap, probably would cost as much as getting the heads though

I thought the same too until i saw how horrible my bumper fit with my USDM heads. The USDM heads are wider than the JDM heads.

[QnzMostWanted]

it wouldnt be so bad, just the US heads are smaller on teh corners

[Divinity]

When I get my bumper I'm just going to get the gap filled, no way am I giving up these projectors, lol. Maybe if I have the funds/time, I'll retrofit some TSX projectors into some JDMs. I still think a black car helps minimize/hide the gap a bit

[Sillyasianz]

Thanks! I see that w/ the VRG usdm heads wont fit. The area where the fender and bumper meet has a gap..thats what I see. I wanted to go back to usdm heads, but now I see I cant do that w/ this front end. Thanks!

[QnzMostWanted]

yeah u'll def notice it on a white car

[G-spot]

so is your car no longer "all usdm"?

[IceDouTGaLanT]

that looks good, i miss that bumper aswhell =(

[silver01g]

I knew you like that bumper in person, at the dallas meet. looks just like mine. at less your car is black i still gotta paint mine. keep it up man

[lonestar22]

silver: yeah i couldnt take my eyes off of it lol

silly: yeah the usdm headlights line up with the fender line and the jdm bumper dips down where the headlight begins.

i want to find a grill similar to this one that will accomodate jdm headlights, so far all ive found is this but id have to paint it all black

http://i24.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/b6/66/1e18_1.JPG

[fatal1]

just go with the regular old style grill imho it looks clean

[G-spot]

the taiwanese grille looks sweet

[djflex167]

with another picture i can tell you if hot!!

[RedGalant2k1]

Looks better than with USDM than with JDM headlights.

[9G]

i disagree.

[dknight3]

i say leave it the way it is and slap some bondo in the gaps.

[Chaps]

thats lookin great!

[Sillyasianz]

show a closeup of your issues. thanks

[lonestar22]

show a closeup of your issues. thanks

i need freetime to do that but i hav yet to have been given that in the daytime

[Proto]

JDM heads with a retrofit and a newer style VR4 grill.

[lucap100is]

JDM heads with a retrofit and a newer style VR4 grill.

agree. make it look like this.... :smt114

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o123/lucap100is/00112.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o123/lucap100is/00129.jpg

[Sillyasianz]

Like mine :P I have those projector fogs too, in my garage.

[4g63lover]

see, the USDM G's shoulda gotten that bumper instead of the book shelf hanging off our front end. :?

I like it lonestar!

Didnt DanJ have USDM heads with the VRG bumper?

[lonestar22]

more to come
my camera battery died.
im not having much luck taking pics of this car
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d175/lonestar22/VRG/newfront007.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d175/lonestar22/VRG/newfront006.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d175/lonestar22/VRG/newfront005.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d175/lonestar22/VRG/newfront004.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d175/lonestar22/VRG/newfront003.jpg
cant get the second bolt in due to the gap
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d175/lonestar22/VRG/newfront002.jpg

[QnzMostWanted]

gap has nothing to do with the second bolt, u gotta get that one in first before the one at the wheel well

[Divinity]

Hmmm... that gap... that's a little more of a gap than normal with USDM heads isn't it?

[4g63lover]

it would be easier to readjust the bumper with the wheels off. so if you did it with the weehls on I'd recommend taking the wheels off then taking the bumper off.

also, make sure you try and take the fender lining off makes it ten time easier IMO.

looks good if you could just minimize the gap bro. I'm waiting on how it will come out in the end because I wanna use a JDM front bumper with my USDM heads due to some stuff I got up my sleeve that I need a bigger front bumper for. :twisted:

also, qnzmostwanted is right, you'd need to put on the second bolt in first before the bolt in the wheel well.

[6G72Galant]

Dude, you should get some JDM heads and youll be amazed how much better your bumper will fit. Those USDM heads are just too damn fat. I cut and trimmed and cut some more....and i still had those horrible gaps. Once i properly installed my JDM heads, the gap disappeared. 8)

[fatal1]

the jdm heads will definatelly help on the gap but...thats not completely your problem...actually when i installed my vrg bumper on the old car, i noticed that the second tab didnt lipe up for whatever reason so i cut it off, secondly you need to add the second bolt to the bumper to close the gap as well

[Reelax]

u have gaps behcause ur bumper is not bolted on all the way.

[lonestar22]

it would be easier to readjust the bumper with the wheels off. so if you did it with the weehls on I'd recommend taking the wheels off then taking the bumper off.

also, make sure you try and take the fender lining off makes it ten time easier IMO.

looks good if you could just minimize the gap bro. I'm waiting on how it will come out in the end because I wanna use a JDM front bumper with my USDM heads due to some stuff I got up my sleeve that I need a bigger front bumper for. :twisted:

also, qnzmostwanted is right, you'd need to put on the second bolt in first before the bolt in the wheel well.

no matter what there will always be somewhat of a gap under the headlight due to the jdm bumper dipping down more where the headlight starts while the usdm slightly goes down. i cant get the bumper high enough to put in the second bolt but when i get a chance ill take everything apart and try again

[Reelax]

no matter what? i just don't believe that you can't bolt the bumper on flush on the sides (since so many other people have done it right)... go back and try again. DANGER DANJ's JDM bumper fit 1000x better and he kept the USDM headliught grill combo so either he has magical powers or u did not do it right:

http://www.dangerdanj.com/gride06.jpg

[lucap100is]

i guess his not mechanically incline :lol: . you probably need to check the clearance of your bumper support bar. maybe it needs trimming.

[RAZ_76]

THings like these require a little bit of imagination. If people can fit JDM heads and look like they came that way, you can install a damn plastic bumper bro. Take it off again and improvise if you have to, I think you bumper sags in front and thats why you have that huge ass gap between bumper and heads. You will have a gap but it will not be noticable, even with USDM heads, find away to push the bumper up from the front. Just take your time. That looks sloppy but then again you are not a body man. It's alright bro, you can get this. :smt023

[dknight3]

take the metal thing off your old bumper on the top and drill new holes in it that line up with the vrg bumper and reuse it... worked for me..

[lonestar22]

no matter what? i just don't believe that you can't bolt the bumper on flush on the sides (since so many other people have done it right)... go back and try again. DANGER DANJ's JDM bumper fit 1000x better and he kept the USDM headliught grill combo so either he has magical powers or u did not do it right:

http://www.dangerdanj.com/gride06.jpg

i know i can get the gap on the fender to go away. im talking aobut under the headlight, which is not depicted correctly in that picture. i know for a fact i can get the fender to line up neat and flush but until JDM headlights are installed there will be a small gap there. chill

[9G]

Yeah N00bs. Chillz Plz.

[SkylineG1]

Here's a better pic of David's G with the USDM & JDM setup
http://www.dangerdanj.com/gride04.jpg

[silver01g]

Hey are you still using the front upper bumper support? I had the same problem when i installed my bumper, even with the JDM two piece. but i talked to sillyazian and just asked him all the OEM and fab stuff done to his, then it came across my mind he was still using his OEM support bar. so i went the dealership and got a new one. made a big difference, NOW!!! there is still a gap but not as big as yours is. see mine was like yours at the dallas meet. but yeah like the other guys are saying about the fender part, headlight bolt first then wheel bolt. but i feel your pain i was the same when i put mine on.

[xd_01]

you have any pics of your bumper Silver01g?,,,,, i have the same bumper but im not finished putting it on, i cut about 16"s off both ends of the bumper support because ends were just not lining up and making things harder then they should be. so i just used the 2 bolts on the rad. support. one side of the bumper will go on fine with a little bit of a fight but the other its almost impossible to get the tabs to line up with the holes in the fenders. which can probaly be resovled with just widening the hole for the tab thats being stubborn or loosening the fender.
to make things even harder for me thats the side with wind shield wiper fluid res. so catching that bolt suckz.
and the head lights arent lining up like there suppossed to, and cant cut much more of the rad. support because the a/c condenser will have nothing to mount too.

[SleekGTZ]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d175/lonestar22/VRG/newfront007.jpg


This is how mine looks, I hope it helps.
(JDM heads of course)
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/5503/sleekvrgqg4.jpg




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[silver01g]

ill try to get some soon, i need a to borrow a camera first. yeah i understand the troubles. Yeah sillyazian told me he also cutted the ends of his support bar. i didnt. i screwed the to ends to the bolt closer to the headlight. it takes alot of elbow grase. seriously. Oh yeah make sure your foglight brackets aint hitting the frame either. alittle of the part also is with the foglights brackets. the top right screw hits the frame, i bent mine and it gave it alittle more room to to work with. ill try guys to get some pictures. !!!NOW!!! remember this doesnt completely solve the problem with the gap. there will still be a gap, just not a noticable.

[lonestar22]

was yours folded when you got it? i think that has alot to do with mine not fitting well.
i was told that the white lines wont go away even when repainted a body shop told me they would come back due to that part of the bumper being stretched. i dont really believe that part. yeah my support bar fits fine on one side but the other it doesnt line up right, same with the other side i wish i could just get ahold of a jdm one, i thought it would come with the bumper since it was pictured in the bumper trigg said he was sending. oh well im so anal when i get time this thing will be lined up right with the JDMs installed

[6G72Galant]

was yours folded when you got it? i think that has alot to do with mine not fitting well.
i was told that the white lines wont go away even when repainted a body shop told me they would come back due to that part of the bumper being stretched. i dont really believe that part. yeah my support bar fits fine on one side but the other it doesnt line up right, same with the other side i wish i could just get ahold of a jdm one, i thought it would come with the bumper since it was pictured in the bumper trigg said he was sending. oh well im so anal when i get time this thing will be lined up right with the JDMs installed

Mines was folded. BUt i also let my bumper sit in a warm room with a heater blowing hot air onto it until it formed its natural shape again. From time to time i even pressed and pulled on it to get the folds out. I also had my bumper painted. My bumper still looks fine. No folds, no nothing.

[djflex167]

just do your thing man!! i know u will come up with this one!!

[silver01g]

Yeah mine was folded too. yeah you'll get it man, im not really tripping about it anymore since this accident helped me out. i took it to my body and paint guy and he's gonna line up everything for me. but you'll get it.