How much should a decent body kit cost?
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not bad but uras/origin/vertex are all pretty boring at this point in time. that s13 you posted is pretty solid minus the borderline mb weapons on it. looks like oem or copy kouki front bumper with Vanquish lip and Hot Road copy side skirts. rear looks stock maybe 180 valences. also pretty much anything Msports looks good.
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questions about kits huh?
here's my $0.02.
$400 ebay kits = up to $1000 just to make it fit right and painted.
$1000 quality kits = $400 to make fit and painted.
Pick your poison, you can go cheap, think you're saving money, till you paint/body guy hits you with the bill. OR you can buy a quality kit, from a reputable source. Granted you'll pay more for the aero, but in the end, you'll pay less because your body man doesn't have to make some side skirts fit, that are a copy of a mold, that was a copy of a shitty mold, that was copy of a legit mold. You pay the body man more, and it will STILL look like shit, due to the low quality of the mold, ripples, over spray, way too thick in places.
Quality kits are usually first mold made, as in, it's the original "tooling" if you will, so 90% of the time, the surfaces are smooth, and well prepped for your body man. Also, the quality kits tend NOT to be too thick in places, and tend to fit more like OEM (but still needing a little work).
or you can be like 80% of the other shithead kids out there, buy the ebay kit for 5 hundo shipped, rattle can it within 20 shades of your car color, zip tie the entire kit on, then go post on facebook how your "racecar" is "legit", till you hit your firt speedbump, and that shitty "FRP" shatters into 50.72 peices.
carbon kevlar? are you fucking retarded? GTFO.
do what you want.
here's my $0.02.
$400 ebay kits = up to $1000 just to make it fit right and painted.
$1000 quality kits = $400 to make fit and painted.
Pick your poison, you can go cheap, think you're saving money, till you paint/body guy hits you with the bill. OR you can buy a quality kit, from a reputable source. Granted you'll pay more for the aero, but in the end, you'll pay less because your body man doesn't have to make some side skirts fit, that are a copy of a mold, that was a copy of a shitty mold, that was copy of a legit mold. You pay the body man more, and it will STILL look like shit, due to the low quality of the mold, ripples, over spray, way too thick in places.
Quality kits are usually first mold made, as in, it's the original "tooling" if you will, so 90% of the time, the surfaces are smooth, and well prepped for your body man. Also, the quality kits tend NOT to be too thick in places, and tend to fit more like OEM (but still needing a little work).
or you can be like 80% of the other shithead kids out there, buy the ebay kit for 5 hundo shipped, rattle can it within 20 shades of your car color, zip tie the entire kit on, then go post on facebook how your "racecar" is "legit", till you hit your firt speedbump, and that shitty "FRP" shatters into 50.72 peices.
carbon kevlar? are you fucking retarded? GTFO.
do what you want.
Last edited by Blackzenki82; May 24, 2012 at 09:09 AM.
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questions about kits huh?
here's my $0.02.
$400 ebay kits = up to $1000 just to make it fit right and painted.
$1000 quality kits = $400 to make fit and painted.
Pick your poison, you can go cheap, think you're saving money, till you paint/body guy hits you with the bill. OR you can buy a quality kit, from a reputable source. Granted you'll pay more for the aero, but in the end, you'll pay less because your body man doesn't have to make some side skirts fit, that are a copy of a mold, that was a copy of a shitty mold, that was copy of a legit mold. You pay the body man more, and it will STILL look like shit, due to the low quality of the mold, ripples, over spray, way too thick in places.
Quality kits are usually first mold made, as in, it's the original "tooling" if you will, so 90% of the time, the surfaces are smooth, and well prepped for your body man. Also, the quality kits tend NOT to be too thick in places, and tend to fit more like OEM (but still needing a little work).
or you can be like 80% of the other shithead kids out there, buy the ebay kit for 5 hundo shipped, rattle can it within 20 shades of your car color, zip tie the entire kit on, then go post on facebook how your "racecar" is "legit", till you hit your firt speedbump, and that shitty "FRP" shatters into 50.72 peices.
carbon kevlar? are you fucking retarded? GTFO.
do what you want.
here's my $0.02.
$400 ebay kits = up to $1000 just to make it fit right and painted.
$1000 quality kits = $400 to make fit and painted.
Pick your poison, you can go cheap, think you're saving money, till you paint/body guy hits you with the bill. OR you can buy a quality kit, from a reputable source. Granted you'll pay more for the aero, but in the end, you'll pay less because your body man doesn't have to make some side skirts fit, that are a copy of a mold, that was a copy of a shitty mold, that was copy of a legit mold. You pay the body man more, and it will STILL look like shit, due to the low quality of the mold, ripples, over spray, way too thick in places.
Quality kits are usually first mold made, as in, it's the original "tooling" if you will, so 90% of the time, the surfaces are smooth, and well prepped for your body man. Also, the quality kits tend NOT to be too thick in places, and tend to fit more like OEM (but still needing a little work).
or you can be like 80% of the other shithead kids out there, buy the ebay kit for 5 hundo shipped, rattle can it within 20 shades of your car color, zip tie the entire kit on, then go post on facebook how your "racecar" is "legit", till you hit your firt speedbump, and that shitty "FRP" shatters into 50.72 peices.
carbon kevlar? are you fucking retarded? GTFO.
do what you want.
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some people don't want to drive around, pushing pennies in thier JDM tyte drifter 240's, some just want to make it look fanceh for the hangouts...
If you drift/beat the crap out of your car, get a cheap ass kit, and have some po dunk body shop scuff and squirt it.
If you just want to have a nice clean, presentable car, go legit, it's worth every penny, and your wallet will thank you for it.
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some people don't want to drive around, pushing pennies in thier JDM tyte drifter 240's, some just want to make it look fanceh for the hangouts...
If you drift/beat the crap out of your car, get a cheap ass kit, and have some po dunk body shop scuff and squirt it.
If you just want to have a nice clean, presentable car, go legit, it's worth every penny, and your wallet will thank you for it.
If you drift/beat the crap out of your car, get a cheap ass kit, and have some po dunk body shop scuff and squirt it.
If you just want to have a nice clean, presentable car, go legit, it's worth every penny, and your wallet will thank you for it.
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But a whole lot more expensive. Origin aerokit? Origin Aerokit - 180sx Stream for Nissan 240sx - Enjuku Racing Parts, LLC
