makstraw

I PM I wrote to a member a while back… Just for more info related to this conversion. PM me for further details in the future.

These questions are not easily answered. The reason is that there is quite a few variables that depend on your check book, abilities, patience, and who you know….

First off, I looked and looked and looked for these pieces used. Sometimes this works out, and you'll find the whole kit used for cheap(between $600-1200). Id say a good condition front bumper cover, under diffuser piece, rear bumper cover, and side skirts will be hard to get your hands on for less than that.

I purchased my front bumper and diffuser from a forum member in Massachusetts, Rear bumper from a forum member in Texas, and side skirts from eBay. I waited more than 2 months waiting for everything.

I have a local hookup at a paintshop, I know the manager, and he gives me good deals because I bring a lot of business to his shop. Again, Its gunna save you a lot of money. I do my own body work for the badge delete areas, prior to paint, thus saving more money…. Basically I show up with all my pieces prepped, and ready to paint. Id say a good paint job thats OEM spec to match your car closely would be around $500-600 for these pieces…. I probably spent about $280….

Then When its all painted you need a "cut and Buff." This process is about wet sanding the paint and then buffing to a original looking shine. I let the pros do this. I spend around $175.

These pieces we are talking about do need supporting hardware. The Front bumper requires a bracket for each side to be made to conner the front of the fender liner to the edge of the bumper, and underneath I simply found self tapping screws to connect the stock sport slide plate to the back of the NISMO under diffuser. The side skirts fit into the OEM spots perfect, you just need new push tabs as its impossible to connect the old skirts off without braking the tabs. The rear bumper requires similar tabs to be made to connect the rear of the funder liners to the edge of the rear bumper. These tabs are crucial, as the wind while driving will rip your bumpers off if you don't have them. There is a large metal bracket mounted in the center of the bumper, down low. You can pay out the *** for the NISMO bracket, which is shorter, or you can cut the old one in half and weld it like I did.

So in total I probably spend around $1800 after it was all said and done. This is with a lot of patience and doing the majority of everything myself I hope this helped.

P.S., I priced all this work out if I would have got the nismo rear wing and all the brackets etc and paid someone to do it all for me…. Total was over $4000.

Cheers, Let me know if you have any other questions.

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