This thing is more of a pain in the ass than it's worth. I'm not digging this mod one bit and it will probably be scrapped soon. Did this mod with a buddy before doing mine and both of our lips fit like complete ass and that's after trimming the shit out of the north american bumpers. Perhaps we got a bad batch of lips or something... I dunno. Whatevs.

Essentially to those who don't know, the euro VR6 bumper valence/lip/spoiler is deeper than the NA (north american) lip but it obviously wasn't meant to fit on NA bumpers so trimming is needed.

At the top corner of the lip, the tabs need to be trimmed and notched so they bend easier with the curve of the NA bumper. Instead of just cutting "V's" and leaving the chance of cracking at the v point, drill holes first and then notch them out. This will prevent cracking.

Drilled


Cut


Now, flip the bumper and remove the old lip if you haven't done so already. You will notice a small notch going along the perimeter of the edge (denoted in red). This has to be trimmed so the lip will seat correctly. I used a dremel with a rotary cutoff wheel. Start by trimming 1/8" and go from there. I eventually trimmed nearly 1/2".



Trimmed


Here is my final result which was pretty close to my buddies. We trimmed a shit load off the bumper and still get the gap. We even inspected to see if the lip was touching the bumper where it should be trimmed and there is ample space between the two so trimming more isn't an issue. I suppose it's just a bad batch of lips or something. I guess I could deal with the gap but I'll probably just pull the fucking thing off. Kinda irks me that such an easy install turned out to be such a clusterfuck.

This entry was posted by JKREW, on Wednesday, April 11, 2007. You can leave your response.