Homemade front lip aka Homedepot special

[mmdb]

I got a 97 240sx and it's been a pita to find a nismo usdm lip for it. So much that I'm pondering the idea of making one myself. Anyknow know where to find a good type of material that isn't brittle but flexible at the same time let me know. Basically something that comes in a sheet.

[the240sxer95]

what does a usdm nismo lip look like?

[holisticbeatz]

You could go down to your local Nissan dealership and buy it. They're pretty expensive, I believe they're around $170-$200 MSRP. But as far as making a front goes, some people use garden wall. If you don't know what that is, go down to your local Home Depot or Lowes and ask.

[phrozen]

search.. its been talked about

[mmdb]

97 usdm lip is sold at nissan. It's pretty big. To purchase a new one it retails around 330 bucks. I was thinking about using whatever material to make the general shap and fiberglass whatever else I needed.

[ridebmx]

who was it that did this already...I remember a while back someone made one...Search, u should find it, it was a 95 i believe

*edit, pretty sure it was aceinthehole, pm him

[AceInHole]

lol.... flood my pm box eh??

he's got a '97. He needs pics of a '97 home depot lip:
http://www.jmcn.com/images/cars/240SX/05-09-03-1.jpg
my friend jmcn's car. lip was made using plastic garden trim.

[Zemus]

WOW actualy it doesnt look half bad..

[s0ldats]

how did you attaach it

[Bbandit]

^^^ ducktape ;)

[matlock]

Yes, I agree it doesn't look bad at all, but I wonder if it would look cooler painted, I understand its F-ing garden trim so its not like you are gonna take it to a body shop and pay for it to get painted, but I dunno it could look cool if you tried matching it with some spray paint maybe.

[Nismo1182]

How much was it?

[Zoom8112]

How much was it?

i have a kouki front lip for sale if anyone is interested - it is brand new in box

i bought it hoping that i would get a kouki, but i ended up getting a zenki instead

email me at zoom8112 at yahoo dot com if interested

[Nismo1182]

i have a kouki front lip for sale if anyone is interested - it is brand new in box

i bought it hoping that i would get a kouki, but i ended up getting a zenki instead

email me at zoom8112 at yahoo dot com if interested

How much for that lip, I might know someone interested.

[s0ldats]

^^^ ducktape ;)


lol are u kiddng haha. anyway, i was checking out my chuuki bumper and i only found holes that were parallel to the ground. that would mean folding the gardening trim at a 90* angle and then bolting it in unless i drill new holes in my bumper.

[DSC]

lol are u kiddng haha. anyway, i was checking out my chuuki bumper and i only found holes that were parallel to the ground. that would mean folding the gardening trim at a 90* angle and then bolting it in unless i drill new holes in my bumper.

Yeha, fold and screw or better yet use 90 degree angled brackets or both.

[s0ldats]

Yeha, fold and screw or better yet use 90 degree angled brackets or both.


90* brackets. I DID NOT THNK OF THAT... awesome. haha thanks. gogo ghetto lip

[SimpleS14]

interesting....


since I work at Home Depot I might jack...err....dispose of some marked down garden trim.

BTW...the cheapest I found the OEM lip is $275 shipped (brand new).

[HyperTek]

I was checking some out before and they all had a hole from a steak going thru it in a role...

[AceInHole]

zipties. the racer's best friend

[fliprayzin240sx]

haha...that ish didnt turn out bad. I was thinking of that same ish back in the days after i saw a zenki with it. The only thing that stopped me is figuring out how to bed the lip cuz of how the center piece of the kouki bumper is not straight across. As for the painting it part...I WOULDNT..shit would flex and there goes the paint.

[95s14zenki]

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm237/penguinjonsey/DSC01069.jpg
heres a lip that i made for $5 bucks
i used a house roof gutter from home depot.

[Sam_Well.13]

you're about 3-4 years late on this and the other thread you just bump. but that looks good though

[shiftdrift]

or 6 years late.

[xavier240]

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q239/XavierWRX/100_2020.jpg

[40cal]

haha, i've seen eclipses evo's, subaru's all do this mod.
cheap, easy and not bad at all.

[nismoracingsx]

Thread from the dead!
Seriously, there's another thread on this exact topic also on the first page ^_^

Next time you have an idea, google it first, you'd be surprised how many people have already thought of it.

[5pecialist]

So Home Depot lips are still in style. Good to hear!

Why do people get mad when someone actually follows directions and search for an existing thread to add to??? Y'all get mad at them when they "start a new thread instead of searching"... so you can't get mad when they actually follow through :2c:

[scooby steve33]

had it on my last two cars and i loved it. used doublesided tape and it worked great

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n244/greatgatsby_01/IMG_2179.jpg
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n244/greatgatsby_01/IMG_1611_3_4_5_tonemapped.jpg

[Z_Spool]

So Home Depot lips are still in style. Good to hear!

Why do people get mad when someone actually follows directions and search for an existing thread to add to??? Y'all get mad at them when they "start a new thread instead of searching"... so you can't get mad when they actually follow through :2c:

Because the point is to search, find your answer and move on... kind of like a library. I'm pretty sure you'd find it moronic if you were researching a paper and at the bottom of a paragraph with the info you needed someone scribbled in "me too lulz."

[Siberian Husky]

Because the point is to search, find your answer and move on... kind of like a library. I'm pretty sure you'd find it moronic if you were researching a paper and at the bottom of a paragraph with the info you needed someone scribbled in "me too lulz."


But he didnt just do that. He updated the thread with the pic of his work regarding the subject, how much it costed him, and the type of material he used (which is a different type that was discussed in this thread).

[Z_Spool]

I didn't say that's what he did. The question was written in generals about people always getting butthurt over a thread getting bumped and I was simply stating why.

[95s14zenki]

chill out, im just posting a picture of my bumper lip so maybe it can help out other people who choose make one. im not flossing and im not thread jacking, disregard if it offended you.