peewizzle

if you guys want more info on the story and details of the process, the link to my process thread is below
https://acurazine.com/forums/2g-tl-performance-parts-modifications-116/ebay-replica-02-03-oem-lip-kit-pics-862765/

anyways, it took me 5 hours of prep, paint, gloss, and 3 hours of rigging and screwing to install the cheap eBay kit. i advise spending the extra dough and getting oem kit. the pieces aren't flush and it took modifying to get each piece to fit...3 hours of pain staking work in 90 degree weather...

since it's a cheap ebay kit, i decided to just spray can it with $60 worth of duplicolor paint..

i just finished a few mins ago so i went off and took a few quick pics at the supermarket






i'll post more pics tomorrow for daytime look

03tLsNBP

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doesn't look bad at all at night. of course the color is slightly off, but nice job.

xtremex626

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great job on making it fit but the shade of color is off, which bothers me. i know when i had my 2g in anthracite metallic.. it was a bitch to get my lipkit matched up to the body color. had it repainted several times and it still didn't match up. i'm currently doing what you're doing to your lipkit, but instead on my front bumper.

i used a spraycan too but it was paint matched professionally and it cost me $18-20 a can. i just finished wetsanding and buffing it and it literally looks like a professional grade paint job with no orange peel!

peewizzle

nice, i didn't really do a quality job with sanding so i got orange peel on the side skirts ugh!

i bought the $6.99/can duplicolor "perfect match" paint and it's def not a perfect match haha

i wasn't originally planning to ghetto paint it but after the package arrived and i better observed and realized "i got what i paid for" i decided EFF it I'm just going to spray can it and get genuine later on

i'd imagine naples gold metallic isn't an easy color for anyone to match tho

klectic

Not bad at all. I stumbled across your thread in the parts section and was going to give you kudos on a nice step by step process of the prep to the installation.

This should help out other members who are searching for the quality / look of a replica, so thanks for the share! Car looks good, post up some day time shots!

peewizzle

here's some updated day pics i took before work today, wish i could somehow add them to the first post

the first two pics are slight photoshop for clarity, but the rest are natural color

Ruthlessem1

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not bad...

floored4door

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Looks decent. I'll probably never do the kit for this reason...

02type-s

Kit looks great, color match bothers me though

tOny3

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looks good, i got tired of my oem white aspec sideskirts sitting in my garage so i just sprayed them black. Rather have black then white imo.

peewizzle

i wouldn't even have known yours was black unless i examined them lol

jo3lo22

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My front lip is the same color of your car n my cars black...think ima ghetto paint it for now i dislike the diff color

02type-s

Looks half assed when 1/2 or 1/4 of the kit is installed at a time

HondaProtegeX2.3

its looks not to bad for a kit thats cheap i wouldnt mind looks straight.

my car is black do you think i might be able to get away with it more then the gold???

dreem1er

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Hows the kit holding up

peewizzle

the black should be much less noticeable, my color is so bright in some lights it's super obvious it's spray canned lol

so far the kit has held up really well. no cracking whatsoever and i've bottomed out the front about 6 times hard too...damn new england roads...

the paint, surprisingly, has little to no wear. there's like 3-4 small chips from rocks on the front but otherwise still really good. i'm imagining the winter cold and snow won't be so friendly though.

here's two updated pics i just took today while at work

dreem1er

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So its not that bad in quality even for fiber glass...not a bad choice for the price

CLtotheTL32

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Looks good! The color is a bit off but I've seen worse, especially with 3G lip kits.

Now it's time to ditch those wheels

klectic

Fiberglass isn't that bad. I've had a few fiberglass kits on previous cars and never had major issues aside from very minor fitting due to the fact it was a replica. But I never once cracked or split one. I really think it comes down to the driver lol.

I still think it looks good and I would highly consider it if I ever needed to replace my front or sides. What was the sellers name on eBay?

kidduce

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Hmmmm. How bad was it aligning the sides? I'm thinking of getting the sides and just getting the oem front since that's what would take the most abuse.