kkilmore89

How are you dealing with all the ducts and such?

ahmed24

Are you referring to the brake cooling ducts? The air scoops on the bumper don't actually line up with the exisiting brake ducts. I was thinking of customizing the brake ducts to re-locate it to the air-scoops, but might not have enough time. The existing brake ducts fall behind the centre lower grille and therefore should get the air needed to go through the existing ducts.

ahmed24

***UPDATE***
I've had a busy week so have not got round to doing much. Hoping to have a more productive week this week. I've almost finished the custom LED fog light and pictures are below. I'm going to build the LED driver to drive the LED's each at 3W.

Here are some recent update pics:

jennie

What adhesive did you use to join the bumpers and where did you find the projector lens?

ahmed24

I used heatgun and temporary bolts and nuts to first make sure that the two panels sit flush without any stress. Once that was done and fully cured, the two panels had almost no gap and was naturally sitting on each other, i then I used a product called Pliogrip which is an equivalent to 3M 8115 at a more reasonable price. Here's a video demo of the Pliogrip i found online:
I then use heavy duty paper-clips which i opened up and used as metal wires to stitch the two panels at intervals of 25mm. the stiches were countersunk and recessed into the plastic and later covered up. Once it all cured, i covered the metal stitching with the adhesive to prevent corrosion on clips.

In the picture below you may be able to see the stitch/staple points and all the temporary holes.



I then used a big flat-head attachment to my soldering iron to melt the joints and blend them in, this can be seen in the following pic:



Then everything filled in, here's how it looks all filled in:



After filling it and sanding it, i applied a layer of 2 part ePoxy paint.

The LED projector lens I bought are from here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221270527801

jennie

Thanks for the info and the link!

When they run the bumper over at the end...

PAVGR

iTrader: (2)

Very nice job my friend!I can't wait to see it done!

LEX6IX

Thanks for documenting your process. I am also hoping to get this project started in the near future.

RookieCL

You are true inspirer. Thanks a ton for step-by-step photos. I definitely get my car done follow your first step in Jan. Awesome job!

ahmed24

Sorry guys, been very busy haven't had time to update with photos. Happy new year to all and here are some pics of the completed project.

cmiser

I love this look on the 2nd gen. Any way you could get a close up where the grill meets the hood? I'm tempted to do this on my 09'.

PAVGR

iTrader: (2)

Hey buddy Happy new year!I m glad you finaly did it!It looks very good!I guess we are now 2 in Europe

Jdang

Man that is nice. Good job!

videopho

Very nice mod in deed!
Would look a bit sportier if you can get rid of the license plate.

pattatted4

Well worth the wait! You did an awesome job on the conversion...