Any of you guys realize that you can buy this bumper from RE Amemiya for $1000-$1100 with yen conversion, and you get lights, and bumper, and its the genuine article, just pay a tad more for shipping.

Rotary Extreme, since theyre so cheap, maybe you could have the real one with HIDs for like $200 extra, wouldn't sell as many copies but would still sell them.

For a slow car I think its cheesy to put any kit on the car.



For a turbo car or a warmed over N/A its the icing on the cake.

There are certain mods a slow car can get away with.

Your conversion is so wrong. The bumper is listed for 148,000 yen. right now the exchange rate is about 115 yen to 1 dollar. So the bumper will be $1287. When you buy any parts from Japan, they charge sales tax even for exporting so that brings it up to $1351. And that does not include shipping yet. RE does offer 10% off to thier RE Amemiya car club so without shipping it's still $1251. Too bad you can't join because you are in America. Shipping is going to run you at least $250 by ocean freight. If you got jacked, it can be up to $500. The rest is simple math so you can add things up and see how much it is.



Besides that, the lighting on the original FC2002 bumper sucks.



I can sell you the original too if you want. I promote either one. It's only money we are talking about. =)



Chuck Huang

the frist time i seen this front i thougth it was a fd omg i have this bumper from japan i cant wait for it to be put on when it gets warm out and the sides filled in gp side skirts and bomex rear bumper then after i get a good computer job turbo in my convertible . i got more pics if u guys want to see .

Looks great, i wish I could afford it.

You have any pictures of RE Amemiyas lighting compared to the german made lighting?

I don't have a pic of the RE Amemiya 3rd gen headlight kit. I got rid of that long time ago. But I do have my HID light kit photos:



http://www.rotaryextreme.com/product...ightbeam-3.jpg



I have more photos on my website. http://www.rotaryextreme.com/sleeklight.html



Check them out. I even have some video of it



http://www.rotaryextreme.com/hid



Do a search on the forum and ask them about the 3rd gen RE sleek light kit.



Let me tell you why it sucks:



1. It's a spot light. There is no cut off point. You have to aim the light down so you don't blind the on coming traffic. And when you aim it down, you don't see anything.



2. It's penciel beam, means you don't have any peripheral lighting



Why the German Hella is better:



1. The low beam is a projector, same technology as the BMW projector lights and Audi projector lights. The BMW lights are made by Hella. The HID on Lexus is not as bright because it's not a projector style.



2. Very sharp cut off point. You will not blind the on coming traffic. You can even aim it straight.



3. Wider spread. Refer to the pictures on the website.



Here is another picture of the HID. Just one!. I was holding it on my hand and powered by a battery jumper



http://www.rotaryextreme.com/Pa050019.jpg



Some people on the forum already have the original bumper. They can comment on the lighting. If you have the original bumper and you want better lighting, I will offer you the HID upgrade for $900. The HID upgrade I am talking about is not just the bulbs and ballasts. It will come with the low beam projector HID hella lights, high beam hella lights, brackets to make it a bolt on replacement on the original bumper. Even if you upgrade them to regular halogen Hella, they are still much better than the IPF. If you just want to upgrade them to regular halogen hella, that will be $400 and it will come with lights, brackets, and all the other hardware for a bolt on installation.



Chuck Huang

Besides that, the lighting on the original FC2002 bumper sucks.





Chuck Huang [/quote]

Chuck, you couldnt be more wrong. The lighting is amazing good. Its a nice sharp, wide pattern. Incredibly bright. If you align the headlights properly, its not only very bright, but damn sexy on the road. Looks like a FIA GT car. Serious, the lights they use are NOT like the FD kit at all. Quite the opposite. A light upgrade is not neccessary.

Any chance of a side by side comparo? https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png

Hmm i was gonna buy one of these as the last thing to do to my 7 but this is making me want to do it now and just store it for a while. I'll have to make up my mind sometime soon

Besides that, the lighting on the original FC2002 bumper sucks.





Chuck Huang [/quote]

Chuck, you couldnt be more wrong. The lighting is amazing good. Its a nice sharp, wide pattern. Incredibly bright. If you align the headlights properly, its not only very bright, but damn sexy on the road. Looks like a FIA GT car. Serious, the lights they use are NOT like the FD kit at all. Quite the opposite. A light upgrade is not neccessary. [/quote]

Seth:



You want to come out sometime next week for me to do a comparision?



On the FC bumper, it uses the same IPF lights as the 3rd gen RE Amemiya sleek light kit. The beam pattern is no way wide spread. I had both the Knight Sports and RE Amemiya headlight kit and they use the same IPF lights. Myabe you are talking about having all 4 light up at the same time.



It's the same light they use on the FD and the knight sports. I have the bumper as well and I have seen them all.



Or you can do everyone a favor. Take a picture of the light pattern by parking your car in front a wall or your garage door and take a picture and post it here. See if it looks anything like this



http://www.rotaryextreme.com/product...ightbeam-2.jpg



See how sharp the cut off is? It's because it's a projector.



I already have one guy PM me about getting the upgrade for his original FC bumper.



If you can come out sometime next week, we can park our cars right next to each other and take some photos. Sounds good?



Chuck Huang

Yes take the pic, I *might* be buying this and want to know which is better.

me too

Besides that, the lighting on the original FC2002 bumper sucks.





Chuck Huang [/quote]

Chuck, you couldnt be more wrong. The lighting is amazing good. Its a nice sharp, wide pattern. Incredibly bright. If you align the headlights properly, its not only very bright, but damn sexy on the road. Looks like a FIA GT car. Serious, the lights they use are NOT like the FD kit at all. Quite the opposite. A light upgrade is not neccessary. [/quote]

Seth:



You want to come out sometime next week for me to do a comparision?



On the FC bumper, it uses the same IPF lights as the 3rd gen RE Amemiya sleek light kit. The beam pattern is no way wide spread. I had both the Knight Sports and RE Amemiya headlight kit and they use the same IPF lights. Myabe you are talking about having all 4 light up at the same time.



It's the same light they use on the FD and the knight sports. I have the bumper as well and I have seen them all.



Or you can do everyone a favor. Take a picture of the light pattern by parking your car in front a wall or your garage door and take a picture and post it here. See if it looks anything like this



http://www.rotaryextreme.com/product...ightbeam-2.jpg



See how sharp the cut off is? It's because it's a projector.



I already have one guy PM me about getting the upgrade for his original FC bumper.



If you can come out sometime next week, we can park our cars right next to each other and take some photos. Sounds good?



Chuck Huang [/quote]

When i first aligned the lights on the garage, the pattern did not look like that. There was much much more light below the bumper. The car is in the body shop getting the full FC2000 kit painted, when i get it back, ill take a bunch of pics.

If i buy the front bumper can I take off the headlight ducks? I want to keep the flip up lights. To me that helps the rx-7 stand out among the rest.

You would have to modify the front end. And for that much effort you might as well go with a different front end if you want to keep the pop ups.

take off? its molded. And its one of the major attaching portions of the bumper. If you dont like that feature of the kit, i suggest you look at another brand. Or keep the stock one. =)