I had some time to kill last weekend and I performed a couple of small mods to my G.

First I installed the 07 lights. Since I already had the bumper off I painted the top portion of the bumper so that the plastic lip was not visible once behind the grill.

I always found it distracting to see the tow hook hole behind any aftermarket bumper so I painted it black.

I took off the crappy plastic grill that my Kuruma Z bumper came with and installed a more durable metal one. I find it disturbing how some people pay 75 bucks for the other metal grill, I only paid $16 for mine including paint.








Metal Mesh that I used after I cut out the portion I needed.



Mesh installed before I folded the edges down into the contours of the bumper. I used truck bed liner as paint.



Painted tow hook hole.

 

not bad bro.. keep the mods going

 

Any pics of the new mesh behind the bumper??

 

+1 on pics of the mesh grill behind the bumper

 

+2 post pic of the car with the bumper and the painted mesh grill on.

 

Ok wabbit, now take a pic of the finished mod like everyone....^....has requested. Great painting the grille mesh with that super strong/nondestructive paint. Nice ramps, you won't be using those with the new front bumper. You'll need to make shorter ramps that are less than 2" long and 4" tall like mine.
Gary

 

Nice. How are you liking the 07 headlights?

 

Do you actually need to tape the fenders if you are unbolting the bottom of the bumper? Shouldn't it just drop down/off without sliding up as you would if just install headlights or grill?

 

I've always taped mine, there's occasionally beer involved in working on cars and sometimes it's better to take the extra 2 minutes to tape

Where's the finished pics OP? Inquiring minds wanna see that mesh Is that just the metal screening you get at home depot? I've got a large roll in the garage to fix our porch since our Boxer is half ruh-tard. Wouldn't have probably thought to use that, interesting.

 

looking good.. lets see that baby on the G35

 

Post finished pics you lazy bum....

What are you plans with the headlights??? You should paint the inside of them.... How long will your car be apart?

 

nice job

 

I made new 2 piece ramps that are taller and longer than those, they look like this:



More info on the build of the ramps can be found here:

https://g35driver.com/forums/lounge-...car-ramps.html


I like the headlights a lot more than the 05, I had no idea there was so much difference in lighting, much nicer

Most poly bumpers bend and twist under their own stress a little so when you take them out or put them in they don't always line up and you can sometimes scratch your own car.

I thought I included a pic of the finished product in my first post but I guess not. I will paint the headlights another day when I have more time, the car was only apart for a few hours while I completed all these minor mods.

First pic I took the same day of installation, the last two closeup pics I took this morning. The spots you see on the bumper are dirt from rain.

 

Looks good.. I knew that other mesh was over priced..

 

Where did you get the mesh??? I like it much better than the stuff that came with my Nismo bumper...