biknman

Here some pics of my Mazdaspeed bumbper and side skirts and preistallation of Autopower roll cage. Tons more in photo album:
My photo album
Enjoy

Ambient

Two very enthusiastic thumbs up, looks nice.

Not to mention that uber-sexy guy in the picture.

turbonium959

Two thumbs up all the way. This is really nice car. I can only imagine the amount of hours you have put it in this car, or the amount of money! Great job!

biknman

Thanks
I started this project in November 01' The end of October 01' the car was completely stock. By the time I'm done turbo charging the car I'll have a little over $10,000 into it.

mazdaistheshit

does the mazdaspeed bumber have screw holes to put the factory foglights in them because i have a 2000 protege with foglight and i like to put them back in there?

biknman

My Mazdaspeed kit is Cork Sports version, which deos not came with any mountin holes, or hardware at all they require tons of prep work to be installed. I had a local body shop that specializes in this type of work and grantees it for life time do the work of installing and painting the bumper and side skirts and at the same time removing the antenna and rear emblems plus repainting about 2/3rds of the car do to scathes and dent cost me $3K too. But the work is awesome at least compared to other work I've seen that cost less or about the same even give the four days of prep work and fitment issues on the Mazdaspeed stuff.

Good Luck!

tresdos3

*wipes drool from mouth*
bloody awsome mate





pity about our shitty exchange rate...prices all the good stuff out of my reach

mazdaistheshit

so did the bumber fit right on the car with no problems? or was there fitment problems with the lights or grill or something? so there is nothing to screw to the back side of the bumber so no foglights or mesh grill unless you glue them in other words?

biknman

The bumper fits great as far as to the fenders and the headlights the OEM grill fits fine there is just no holes to screw the bumper to the frame of the car those have to be made and if you line them up wrong it will not fit right also the bumper re-enforcement had to be scraped and a bracket fabricated and epoxied to the MS bumper in the center so it could be mounted to the frame of the car. The lower grill mesh was attached in a similar way the Grill Craft attaches their custom grills the fog lights I attached directly to the car frame/body.

mazdaistheshit

so i have to get rid of my bumber re inforcement under the stock bumber and made a homemade bracket why cant u use the factory one ? is it too big or you couldnt cut it down to size of what. i just dont want to spend to much money the bumber and paint is alot of money itself. what happens if i have no bracket under the bumber it wouldnt sit right?

biknman

Since I didn't do the work myself all I know is what I state so far. The Cork Sport version of the Mazdaspeed bumper does not come with the mounting brackets mounted to the inside of the bumper and/or the holes propositioned or drilled for attaching it to the car. The OEM mounting bracket is basically part of the bumper I guess its molded into the bumper when its made. So a bracket has to be made and attached somehow to the inside of the bumper so it can be remounted to the car. The shop that did my work did not reattach the re-enforcement because they said the bumper would not fit well without have some gaps. Plus if you don't tailgate what's the worry and you lose like thirty pounds off the front of the car. I'll be removing my front bumper soon to install an intercooler for my turbo I'll take some pics of everything and post them to my web site for ya.

JAL1639

It's PHATness astounds me!!!!

Bruce95fmla

Dave is right you will loose your bumper reinforcement, but hey if you don't tailgate then it is no biggie, as with mine it is gone lol ,, I will post pics however of the full install of the bumper so you can see the removal the the reinforcement lol .... but the front end is much shorter and lighter and not to mention meaner looking
bRuce