DIY s13 chuki lip (gen4 Accord), side skirts (gen3 Legacy, gen2 Outback)
 

can't find a good thread to put these in, so i'm making one. deal with it.


90-91 ACCORD FRONT LIP. go to your local junkyard, find a 4th gen pre-facelift Accord ('90 and '91), and get the front lip. mine was $10. it's too wide and doesn't extend back far enough to directly fit the chuki bumper, BUT its overall "length" (or "perimeter" if you will) is dead perfect.

to do it yo'self: simply notch the accord lip's mounting surface to allow it to curve closer to the middle and straighten out towards the wheel well. with your chuki bumper off and upside down, carefully mock up the lip and drill a few holes thru the bumper/lip for zip ties. you'll be able to zip tie it corner to corner. it lines up so well, no one will realize it isn't stock.

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a little dirty, but you get the idea.
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98-03 LEGACY, 00-04 OUTBACK SIDE SKIRTS. go to a local junkyard and hope/pray they have such new cars. if they somehow do, get those skirts. mine were $30 for the pair. they f'kin rule for so many reasons.

1) they look cool. they have bulges similar in style to the s14 kouki sides, except they mainly bulge out, not down.
2) the front end-cap fits the rear s13 wheel well dead on.
3) that end-cap lines the skirt up PURRRRR-FECTLY with the s13's lower body line (same line the OEM skirts follow).
4) the underside "tray" part of the skirt gets just close enough to the pinch weld to use as a mounting point, but doesn't hit/interfere.
5) the front side can be trimmed to line up with everything there too.
6) because they follow the body line so perfectly, there is no interference with the door opening/closing.
7) $30 and an afternoon of careful cutting and drilling. seriously. you can't beat that.

to do it yo'self: test fit the Legacy skirts "backwards" so to speak; right side mounts on the left, left side on the right. the [now] rear end-cap butts up perfectly on the rear wheel well, and has a hole in place for mounting. mark that spot on your s13 wheel well lip and drill it for a zip tie. for the front, mark where the skirt reaches the wheel well and cut off that extra 8 or 10 inches of overhang with a dremel. drill a couple holes in the bottom side of the skirt (it'll be obvious where exactly) and mount it (w/ zip ties, duh, but seriously they work best) to the lower mud flap mounting hole and the two fender-to-pinch-weld holes. done.

i have no front end-caps cuz i'm lazy, but you could make some pretty easily with abs/plastic/whatever and some glue/sealer.

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now i need rear valences. i'll probably just use some shortened mudflaps to continue being cheap.

in closing: $40 total, looks great, can't complain, suck it :fawk:


*EDIT* fancy pics! see page 2 for more.
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*EDIT* painted that shit to match.
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*EDIT* REAR VALENCES (TRIMMED/PAINTED MUDFLAPS) added. see page 3 for brief how-to. the pair was $10 at a local junkyard, bringing my ghetto aero package (lip, skirts, and valences) to a grand total of 50 bucks :fawk:
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*EDIT* 90-91 ACCORD FRONT LIP ON SILVIA FRONT as copied from my post on page 4.

my housemate just got around to notching a '90-'91 accord front lip for his Silvia front end. came out super clean. the only main difference is the "perimeter" of the Silvia bumper/fenders is shorter than my Chuki by a few inches, so he had to trim off about 2" on each side where the lip would otherwise overhang into the wheel well.

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*EDIT* NOW WITH MOAR PIGNOSE. fyi, these skirts flow super well with a pignose bumper/lip combo.

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nice find! i think it looks really good! thanks for sharing

thank you!!!

thanks! i need to find someone with a better camera, mine doesn't bring out the colors and detail very well. the skirts look 100% OEM in person. i swear they were made for an s13, then extended to fit a Legacy, haha

Looks really slick in person. Nice job Jay

I must say, bravo. those sideskirts actually do look decent.

Your car is a whore of other brands though lol

Sick!!!!!!!!

bravo sir... good job

Looks pretty good!

looks good. are those starion wheels all rears or all front? i have a set on my toyota truck and i`m thinking of putting them on my s13 hatch.

thanks! they're the the 16x9 +0 SHP rears all around, with 245/45s.

Not bad, doubt I'd ever do it though.

nice write up man!!

color match the lip with spray paint and your rockin

^ yeah for sure. i have the can already. next time i have to jack up the front, i'll remove the lip and bomb it red.

no shit on side skirts not bad

need something in the rear now however

i seen pignose lip on the rear kinda funky but you need somethinng

i love the ingenuity.

yeah, i mentioned that at the end of the post. i'll either be cheap and get some factory mudflaps (just the "valence" part, not the "flap" part), or i'll finally cough up money for something real, haha

PM sent, good job

Oh wow, the Legacy skirts look good, thanks for the write up!

nice write up! car looks good

time for me to hit up the local junk yards, money is short so time to improvise!

thanks for posting

Wow, your car looks really good. Very good mix and match! Just need to clean it up a bit and its gold!

where did you get the fender trims from. i love those...

just put that hot road valance on your car thats on the one in the background haha


i'm pretty sure the accord rear lips are to boxy for the hatch's over the s14's but you might want to try that

Nice find. Didn't know you can slap some different makes on the front end.

Want to try this out on the coupe. Thanks.

Whoa!! Good find!!

Gen2 legacy skirts work too.

That lip looks just like the factory one, just abit bigger. Nice!

thank you!!!!

they're specific to the s13. they fit the arch of the s13 perfectly and come right down to that main body line and stop. not many places carry them, here's one:

bings.ca


hell no. it's a G-Grow lip and it fits like complete ass. riveted on, bondo'd together, and still doesn't line up.

they don't, i already tried. the guy here on Zilvia (silviaks2nr, post #5) that buys/recuts those lips to fit s14's lives right down the road from me. he's the same guy that i go junkyard hopping with, and who helped me pull off these legacy skirts, haha.

It amazes me how much i actually like those conquest wheels.

they look even better when i get off my ass and reclean/repolish them... i've just been lazy lately. polished, pre side skirts:

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yeah it makes me miss my '86 starion :(

BRAVO SIR

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fancy pics!

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link to the DIY write-up for ^that^ taillight garnish:
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link to all ^those^ pics:
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You and Spencer do really cool shit

that actually looks pretty good.

not feeling the red a-pillar but the lip and skirts are a nice touch actually.

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Someone on here also used a ford explorer sideskirts.

^^^ haha! These look awesome, deff gonna slap some on my red hatch in the near future.

wow i like the lip alot. looks really clean. im bout to do that. idk bout the skirts but props for being so cheap nd finding these haha

u still not answer my question...where did you get the fender trims from

on your mark. get set. READ.

thanks that what i was looking for...also how do you install them? is it just rivets?

Your cars amazing makes me want starion wheels!!! You should sell me some of your wheels lol

i have them attached with small nuts and allen bolts, but rivets would work fine too.


i own a couple, yeah. not selling any of them. :fawk:

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you starion wheel WHORE

Very cool man thanks for sharing

I love the way it looks!

Would love to see it with a perfect paint job.

Love the yellow letter goodyears.

are you able to go any lower in the rear or front or does the meaty tire rub horrible?

Where do you get all those sexy shp rears from?

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no problem, thanks!

gold paint pens at walmart in/near the crafts section, they work great for sidewall lettering.

it rubs the driver side flare a bit... but thats cuz that flare is cracked/broken/ruined from a tire blowing out at a drift event.

i could lower it more (and kinda want to) but one of my rear coils is stuck at the moment and i've been too lazy to bust it loose lately.

my housemates went through a LOT of trouble to find the Base and SHP rears for their cars... and then they decided to go 17" so i bought them all for cheap! i only had to go out of my way to buy 2 of those 12.

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so you holding on to the wheels for the events, nice

jealous. i cannot find those wheels anywhere.

Omg damn..look at that starion collection hehe great job on that DIY lip kit hehe

nice job. it looks really good. i love how it makes it look lower.

you know why I like you, cuz you know all the cool cheap shit to do!

everything is better when it's cheap.

lol thanks. for more of my cheap shit DIYs...

http://zilvia.net/f/s-chassis/400538...onversion.html

http://zilvia.net/f/s-chassis/431400...lettering.html

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Def like the car

nice write up imma have to try this on my hatch.

Hats off to someone that took the time to figure stuff out on his own. Dying breed.

really cool. nicely done. thanks for sharing.

i'm actually painting the skirts and lip to match the body color right now. errr, sorta match. it'll be close enough. i'll post pics when i'm done and not lazy.

[email protected]@[email protected] b/c i finally graduated from flip phones.

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i need a new lip... that accord lip has seen better days. buuuuuuuuuut i'm too damn cheap and too damn lazy to cut/drill another one, so whatever.

imo, it's good enough to look decent sideways, which is all i really give a shit about anyhow. :2f2f:

have any ideas for your rear? DiY rear lip??...The car looks great!!

i'm probably gonna get some rear s13 mudflaps, cut/remove the "flap" part, and just paint the "valence" to give the skirts something to flow into. again, this is all on the dirty cheap. i'm not about to spring for nice shit when i can patiently wait for free mudflaps :naughty:

That looks pretty cool, Really like your car and it's style.

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not bad for $40 and a rattle can.

edit: nevermind haha

Bumping with my recent find. $30 at the local yard.

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Though one needed some bodywork. Just a mock up before trimming, currently primered and waiting on paint.

Only thing I'm having trouble understanding is how exactly it's attached at the front. I know you attached them along the pinch welds, but how would that make it sit flush along the body at the front?

I was thinking the same thing, when I tried to attach them to my rockers it would pull the skirt away from the body up top. I just threw a couple screws in it since its just something to hold me over until I get type x or chuki sides

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Btw,mine were from a 99 legacy gt, which has skirts that are a little less aggresive

^^ hell yeah, guys! those are looking sweet!

ahhh yes, i had this issue too, as my fenders don't mount even with my doors, causing the skirt to not mount flush with the fender at the front edge.

i figured out a clever way around it. i need to take a picture of it, but the gist is get a couple plastic self-adhesive wall hangers, paint them black, and stick one on the inside of each skirt. use a ziptie between the hanger and the factory mudflap mounting hole a few inches away to pull in that skirt flush with the fender.

it works awesome. you can't even tell it's there unless you REALLY look for it... at which point you would find a million other things wrong with my car anyhow, soooo IDGAF :bigok:

very nice! thanks for sharing! your car looks awesome btw! :)

Excellent Thread!

nice! they look good and most appealing....how cheaaaaap it is :drool:

Could u post pics of where u ziptied it?

the front lip i mean

wherever i felt like drilling holes. for a few, i reused the original lip mounting holes to serve as ziptie holes. there is no right answer here; just center the lip and drill holes where the lip needs to be pulled/curved into place.

i made some rear "valences" the other day... aka carefully trimmed some factory mudflaps and painted them to match the body color. they really help fill in that naked rear wheel well area.

trimmed the flap with an air-powered cutoff wheel and smoothed/rounded the edges with a file. masked off the flap edge and sprayed the actual "valence" part. let dry, remove masking, and install. pretty easy stuff.


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installed:
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:2f2f:

and as far as the "notching" i take it u meant just v cuts...srry dont wanna ruin this lip...its in pretty great condition and theyre fairly difficult to find

yes, v-cuts, exactly. i had the bumper off, laying upside down in my bedroom. centered the lip and drilled holes thru the lip/bumper and attached with zip ties. then went down each side and v-cut it where it need to curve in more or straighten out more, drilling holes here and there for more attachment points. i think i have 9 or 11 zip ties across.

Sweet man... Greatly appreciated...i actually love the look of ur forty....

Why not leave the flaps on there and paint the valence part?

^ i'm not quite understanding your question. that sounds like what i did...?

i painted the "valence" part because it lines up with the wheel well. the actual "flap" part rests on the inside edge of the wheel well, so if you painted any part of the flap it wouldn't flow correctly. there would've been a hunk of red in the wheel well, not lining up with anything. valence is body color, flap stays black.

i didn't leave the flaps because they look dumb IMO, so i trimmed them down really thin.

does that say pos 13? lol i like your car a lot also. its different and in a good way. def like that last ass shot

^ yes, and thanks for the complements!

How To: DIY s13 hatch center garnish lettering
^ link to center garnish lettering

Nice you think aftermarket front lip for 90 to 91 accord would work too.

the side skirts look very nice!!
do you think they'll fit s14?