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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 01:22 AM
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Originally Posted by 1sWt2GS
thread has plenty of potential
it's pretty cool to see the creativity in some members when merging two different bumpers. does anyone know the price point on doing this?
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 07:27 AM
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the isx50 conversion looks very similar to the cyber kit. not to my taste imo... however, that mb rear is better than the ls460 rear imo. flows extremely well with the sideskirt. mb front, not so well. but overall, great looking car. i'd go with a front admiration lip kit.
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 08:17 AM
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Im actually in procces of doing mine front and rear
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 09:34 AM
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Here are a coue of pics to get an idea of wat its looking like sorry for such a huge pic
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 09:47 AM
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It coming along real sweet! How much work u had to put into it?
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Advil4u
Here are a coue of pics to get an idea of wat its looking like sorry for such a huge pic
can't wait to see full updated pics
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by tmf2004
can't wait to see full updated pics
yea car should be outta the body shop next week as i gotta get everything ready for sema but i will stop by the shop today and shoot some pics
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Doneve79
It coming along real sweet! How much work u had to put into it?
the rear is fairly straight foward i did my homework and measured and the two bumpers were almost identical in shape. as foe the front it was a pain in the butt since i wanted to be hard headded and get a bumper tat has no similarity to the stock gs bumper shape. if you do not have any type of body work skills or think its easy cause it looks easy think again its not. i chopped and and shapped and strapped the bumper to my licking then handded it over to the body shop for finishing
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 12:03 PM
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Here are a couple more I found in my sd card
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Advil4u
the rear is fairly straight foward i did my homework and measured and the two bumpers were almost identical in shape. as foe the front it was a pain in the butt since i wanted to be hard headded and get a bumper tat has no similarity to the stock gs bumper shape. if you do not have any type of body work skills or think its easy cause it looks easy think again its not. i chopped and and shapped and strapped the bumper to my licking then handded it over to the body shop for finishing
man...im in love! I've seen the LS conversion but it ddnt wow me like ur conversion. I'll be looking into getting mine done soon.
Btw, how much the MB bumpers cost u?
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 01:12 PM
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the front i paid around 320 and the rear wald was a arm and a leg wich ill rather not discuss lol
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 01:16 PM
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also will be installing job design skirts
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 03:15 PM
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love the rear... looks great
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Advil4u
the rear is fairly straight foward i did my homework and measured and the two bumpers were almost identical in shape. as foe the front it was a pain in the butt since i wanted to be hard headded and get a bumper tat has no similarity to the stock gs bumper shape. if you do not have any type of body work skills or think its easy cause it looks easy think again its not. i chopped and and shapped and strapped the bumper to my licking then handded it over to the body shop for finishing
First off, big shout out to Advil4u and his bad *** GS and for sharing his creativity. I'll be there soon enough as I'm purchasing another on in a week, week and a half tops.

Secondly, I'm glad to see that I was on the right path in my research. I knew the Wald bumper would look SICK on the 2GS, I just hadn't seen it done til now. I'm also researching different bumpers that I think would give my GS a different look but, flows with the architecture or the car. So far I've learned there are many possibilities IF you have a good body shop guy. Of course we all know the MB fits but, some other ideas I'm also looking at are; a 2013-2014 ES350 front bumper conversion (see pic), a 2012 Hyundai Genesis Rear Bumper by BMC Extremes (see pic), Sarona 2010 BMW 7 Series custom front and rear bumpers (see pic)... I can't wait to get started!!
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 02:08 AM
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Originally Posted by LSUGS430
First off, big shout out to Advil4u and his bad *** GS and for sharing his creativity. I'll be there soon enough as I'm purchasing another on in a week, week and a half tops.

Secondly, I'm glad to see that I was on the right path in my research. I knew the Wald bumper would look SICK on the 2GS, I just hadn't seen it done til now. I'm also researching different bumpers that I think would give my GS a different look but, flows with the architecture or the car. So far I've learned there are many possibilities IF you have a good body shop guy. Of course we all know the MB fits but, some other ideas I'm also looking at are; a 2013-2014 ES350 front bumper conversion (see pic), a 2012 Hyundai Genesis Rear Bumper by BMC Extremes (see pic), Sarona 2010 BMW 7 Series custom front and rear bumpers (see pic)... I can't wait to get started!!
I have that BMW bumper conversion done from the 2012 BMW 7series Msport if anyone wants to buy it off me! It's for sale for cheap still needs some work on the bumper to make it look 100%! PM me if your interested I need some $$$$

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/2ge...r-forsale.html

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