My 04-06 LS430 merged w/ a 98-00 LS400 bumper Project (heavily loaded w/ pix)
03-25-10, 08:32 PM
#46
Pole Position
This is a really fantastic write-up for DIYers. I am actually considering something along the lines of this myself. Congrats on this project man, it's gonna look bangin' once you're done bro 
04-12-10, 09:57 PM
#47
A couple of updates for you guys. Sooooo, progress has been really slow since I've had to work the past 3 weekends in a row. So yeah, the J.O.B has me tied down bad, but I managed to get some progress going.
So, there was A LOT of sanding that we needed to do. Knowing that this was going to be painted black, and black is a super unforgiving color, we didn't want any imperfections. So we began sanding:
My boy Chet, lending a helping hand:
Pretty much, anytime we felt the level was off, we added more bondo and sanded it down. We kept doing that to get the leveling perfect.
So after a substantial amount of sanding, we loosely laid the bumper on the car w/ the fog lights to see what it looks like:
We then sanded it down some more, and worked our way to higher grit sandpaper. Then we primered it:
Overall, it looks really good being one color. You can't even tell that this bumper was two pieces, which, of course, was our goal. There's a lot of sanding that still needs to be done before I can say it's perfect. After that, I'll primer it one last time before sending it for paint.
So, there was A LOT of sanding that we needed to do. Knowing that this was going to be painted black, and black is a super unforgiving color, we didn't want any imperfections. So we began sanding:
My boy Chet, lending a helping hand:
Pretty much, anytime we felt the level was off, we added more bondo and sanded it down. We kept doing that to get the leveling perfect.
So after a substantial amount of sanding, we loosely laid the bumper on the car w/ the fog lights to see what it looks like:
We then sanded it down some more, and worked our way to higher grit sandpaper. Then we primered it:
Overall, it looks really good being one color. You can't even tell that this bumper was two pieces, which, of course, was our goal. There's a lot of sanding that still needs to be done before I can say it's perfect. After that, I'll primer it one last time before sending it for paint.
04-23-10, 08:52 PM
#51
I finally found some time to take some pictures. Too bad I haven't had time to wash the car yet. Still A LOT of work needs to be completed. The front bumper and Wald bodykit haven't even been fitted correctly yet, gotta make it fit better. Actually, the front bumper isn't even on there correctly yeither. I have to take it off and put in my fog lights and mount the HIDs for the fogs, so I just threw a few screws on there just so I don't have to keep driving around w/out a front bumper. The Admiration non-led tail lights looks wayyyyy better than stock though, that was an awesome buy. I gotta thanx kanagawa21 for hooking it up w/ the Wald bodykit and tail lights. Anyways, I gotta work on my stance too, lower the front more (LOL, my stance is all jacked up right now, so don't laugh fellas, I'll fix it, haha) and I need spacers. *phew*, one step at a time. Still more to come, I got a few parts that I need to install. In the meantime, here are some crappy pictures I took at the car wash place, lol, too bad I didn't have time to actually wash the car beforehand. Sorry for the dirty-ness.
