Fun "free"ish mods for appearance

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Fun "free"ish mods for appearance

Postby Cesaros » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

Homedepot front Lip...looks decent enough for a $10 mod.

Painted Engine cover and battery cover.


****EDIT****
I took off the front lip. The drivers side half looked really good but the passengers side didnt set very well and curled a little.
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Postby tsx_guy » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

engine/battery covers look nice!
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Postby Fly boy » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

Hey C,

You should swing buy and let me see the lip. I am trying to convince the wiff to let me do it.

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Postby Cesaros » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

ok, im actually redoing it right now...trying to make it look a little better than before

***EDIT***
It was about 1 1/2in too short this time...im not spendin any more money on that stuff for now..haha..you really have to get it right the first time or it doesnt look right or doesnt fit.

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Postby Regulator » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

thread jack!

my HD lip, double heavy duty outdoor tape holding it up just fine so far :)

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Postby Cesaros » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

mine held up fine to highway winds...but had to redo twice cause it wasnt fitting right...and the ends looked a little funny

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Postby Regulator » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

mine curled really bad too after like a week. had to re do like five inches of double sided tape on each end
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Postby GR-8 » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

Looks reall good. Good job.

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Postby deepSpeedMS3 » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

did you make them? out of what?
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Postby GR-8 » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

deepSpeedMS3 wrote:did you make them? out of what?

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Postby Colombia28 » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

Looking good!
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Postby Cesaros » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

deepSpeedMS3 wrote:did you make them? out of what?


there is a How-to writeup on mazdaforum. google search "Home Depot Lip Kit"

you'll be surprised what its made from. If you do it correctly and dont mind fixing it every once and a while, it looks really nice...i funked mine up so i have to retry maybe next week :6ff4efab:

When I get more paint, ill be doing the fuse box and maybe one more thing (dont want to overkill on the red)
Once I get my CAI it'll balance the black to red ratio a bit more since its flat black

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Postby T-time » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

if you use good tape and dont scrape (colorado, it aint gonna happend) you'll be good
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Postby Cesaros » Sat May 09, 2009 9:14

T-time wrote:if you use good tape and dont scrape (colorado, it aint gonna happend) you'll be good


yah, about 15min after i removed it...i scraped my front end on a low incline...that wouldnt have been good for that lip..haha.

BTW T-time...when did you buy your F2 catback? Im trying to get the full setup at once but they havent had the headers or exhaust in stock in a loooonnngg time.

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Postby T-time » Sun May 10, 2009 9:14

i bought it in like nov 07 or something like that. but if you had the lip on it coulda protected your bumper
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