No aftermarket kits come prepainted... only OEM factory parts do. Authentic ones dont need any drilling, it just bolts right on. Replicas have the holes slightly filled. The parts that would need any drilling are obvious and easy to drill through since those spots are thinned out for drilling. Painting varies from place to place. It can range anywhere from $200 - $2,000. Call your local shops and get quotes in your area.

 

Need to be a little careful with the OEM front lip...steep driveways and parking lot curb slabs can kill it. Be careful of high centering, the y-pipe likes to scrape too.

 

from the pictures of the kenstyle rear bumper, it seems like its not possible to install a rear diffuser after installing the rear bumper.. is that right?

Kenstyle rear
This car is athens blue i believe ?

rear diffuser

 

Finiti - the AB is a tough color to describe. I had my heart set on a Daytona Blue G for a long time, but Inifini didn't step up to the plate - and I never understood why.

I almost went with Athens, but if the lighting isn't right it can look too light for my personal taste. It has a nice silver tone, but I was looking for something more indigo. For that reason, and what must be some latent masochism, I went with black... But I have to admit I do wish I went with blue sometimes!

 

It's not athens blue, it is carribean blue, available from 03-04.

 

Is the diffuser even detachable? It is my understanding that it's all one piece.

 

Read pages and pages of posts on the forum again.. and some questions come to mind. I don't want to start a new post about it so i hope you guys don't mind if i ask here.

The kenstyle kit is a fiberglass kits as many kits are, as one post suggests, fiberglass is more 'fragile' or 'brittle' than urethane. How brittle is the kenstyle fiberglass anyway? Is it gonna get rock chips everywhere? Obviously, they don't get dented or bent.. so will a minor collision cause an unfixable crack and eventually lead to the whole bumper breaking off or something?

 

If you read my sticky thread about urethane vs fiberglass, it should give you a little insight. I'll edit it and add more detailed comparisons of the two, some time this weekend. Alot of people really dont know the benefits and faults of both, and are falsely being led to believe the hype, over the truth. Hand layed fiberglass is better than urethane in almost every way.

 

thanks..

Does anyone know if I decided to keep the OEM front bumper with kenstyle sides and rear, are the sides gonna line up properly(height) i.e bumper being a little short and skirt / rear being lower to the ground?

 

An oem bumper with out any front lip may look a tad to short imo. The kenstyle rear is pretty aggressive, and the sideskirts also stand out. If you dont have anything in the front to balance it, it will look like you're missing something. Even though theres only 1 inch difference from the OEM and Kenstyle sides, the Kenstyle give the illusion that its around 1.5 or even 2 inches thicker than OEM. The OEM sideskirts roll under the body. The lowest point of the OEM sideskirt is tucked in the shadows underneath the car, so you dont really notice how thick they really are. The Kenstyle sideskirts flare out a bit, and the bottom is flat and doesnt roll in... giving it the illusion that its MUCH thicker than the oem sideskirts.

Also, I updated my "urethane vs fiberglass" thread... so you can read it now. I added it to the lower half of the first post, titled "PROs and CONs"

 

Can somebody show me pics with and without the 3rd brakelight?