Took a few minutes to just size it up on the front of my car. I kinda expected it, but I'll need to trim down the inside of the bumper to allow room for my IC. Probably will have to trim about 3-4 inches off.



Here are a few pics...



Now I just gotta find some damn LIGHTS!

 

the bumper requires a decent amount of work to install. even the original is a pain in the ***, so you can imagine all the work a knockoff requires.



kevin.

 

i think the original was mocked up on a wrecked car, cause it wasnt straight

 

prepare to cut the car to the point of no return!



once you start- your commited!

 

This bumper was made by ShineAuto. It was made from an original RE FC2000 bumper, then Shine prepped each bumper and pretty much eliminated all the imperfections. This bumper has been mounted and fitted by 4-5 people already with no problems whatsoever.



They made an excellent product.





I just need some freaking lights. Any info from you guys would be awesome, and I know many other people that were involved with the GB would be very appreciative as well.

 

thats amazing then because like i said, the actual original RE frontend, doesnt install without any problems.



the original one requires cutting of the bumper and more, Dragon (dunno if you know him) put a real one on a few cars and said the real one was just a smuch of a bitch as the rotaryextreme one.



guess shineauto couldve redesigned the original, or copied one that was already modified/fitted.



kevin.

 

Here is a link to the GB thread on the other forum:



http://www.rx7club.com/showthread.php?t=58...ge=32&pp=15



Test Fitment starts on that page (32), post #480.



You'll see they point out the imperfections to the original, they fixed them, then made the mold. Thus making a far superior product.



Pretty cool, IMO.



I also found some lights. Looks like I'll be using the PIAA 510 SMR series. They are 100mm and should fit inside the light housings and look fairly simple to mount.

 

well cool deal then if they fixed the problem areas.



kevin.

 

it always helps when someone else did the hard work and you just take it from there, I feel bad for the first bastard that made the bumper, he did all the hard work, just to have multiple copies made after that.



the thing with fitting that bumper is if you dont bolt it up 100% you cannot get the fit right, I made the mistake of having bolts hand tight and clamps holding thongs- dont work that way.

The bumper does not flex like a urethane one would, if its not 100% bolted up, its not going to all fit when you do bolt it up for good.

 

Thanks for posting up the pics! Those are definitely the 90mm hellas. I was pretty sure that's what the Rotary Extreme kit came with according to their site, but when I heard BMW boxes, it sparked my interest. The brackets look like the ones you can source from rallylights.com as well. It is definitely good to see everything mounted up from behind the bumper. That definitely helps with coming up with some good ideas.



All I can say, is that I was buying this bumper from somewhere no matter what. I got lucky in the fact that ShineAuto created an interest thread, then started a GB. I was fortunate that they took the time to take a product and make it better, rather than just reproducing it in the lacking form.



I'm thankful for all companies that want to improve existing products, especially ones that are hard to come by anymore. If nobody wanted to improve anything, we'd be stuck, going around in circles with the limited parts that are available to us.



ShineAuto makes their body pieces out of FRP, a nice material that is strong and flexible. Here is a pic of a bumper that came right out of the mold.