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Old 12-02-2013, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by tama05
The car is looking great man, I know how you feel with the front fenders, I did the same thing, gonna have them resprayed once I get back to go with the new front end. Like the new wheels as well, how did you go about doing the tuck because I would also like to clean up my bay a little too, great job overall.
as far as the tuck, which i have never done prior to this, so i was pretty overwhelmed when i started,but soon realized it was pretty easy. on the drivers side the only wires i had to extend were the wires to the secondary air pump, and i believe it was a wire that plugged in down by bottom of the radiator i think they're might be one I'm forgetting about not too sure.the little temperature sensor on the air box i just moved to the outside of the fender and ran longer vacuum lines. for the passenger side after pulling the battery out and unbolting the fuse box i played with the fuse box a little and noticed that the wires unplug from it so i did that and moved that along with the silver box that has a ground wire on it ( think it's the esp) out side the fender. if you look right in the corner of the bay over there where the battery sits is a hole big enough to push all the wiring through just take your time, on that side i believe you'll need to extend wires that go by the subframe (only wires there its about 3 plugs). also the wires to the horn, alarm, condenser and radiator fan. and depending on how you mount the fuse box maybe a few of the headlight. a lot of people will say extending the wires affect the voltage, i have no problem just make sure the wire you are adding in is the same gauge as the oem wiring, the only gauge i had difficulty finding was the i believe 22gauge wiring, but i ended up finding it at a hobby shop. the rest you can ether order online or find in stores. the hardest part of the whole process to me me was figuring out where and how i was going to mount the fuse box (which I'm still not happy with) everything else was extremely easy. if you have any questions while your doing it shoot me a pm. i'd be more than happy to help out a fellow s2k owner
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Originally Posted by redkid
Originally Posted by miloking' timestamp='1386024363' post='22904106
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oh and since i got the jdp these are up for sale theres a scratch on one of them looks to be repairable pm me



How much do you want for those rear bumper caps? Are they only for AP2 bumper?
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Sorry to hijack your thread these are your rear bumper caps... modified to fit AP1 bumper and painted to match ap1 "faux" difuser color...

Thanks again!

Old 12-22-2013, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by miloking
Originally Posted by redkid' timestamp='1386030122' post='22904219
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oh and since i got the jdp these are up for sale theres a scratch on one of them looks to be repairable pm me



How much do you want for those rear bumper caps? Are they only for AP2 bumper?
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Sorry to hijack your thread these are your rear bumper caps... modified to fit AP1 bumper and painted to match ap1 "faux" difuser color...

Thanks again!


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it looks real nice!!!!
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Nice red seats! I think I saw a post where you said you ordered from seats01. I'm still waiting for mine to come in...How difficult was the install? Also, was fitment pretty good?
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Nice red seats! I think I saw a post where you said you ordered from seats01. I'm still waiting for mine to come in...How difficult was the install? Also, was fitment pretty good?
if that's the ebay seller then yes they are the same ones. as far as the install goes, I'm not going to lie when i 1st started i didn't know what the hell i was doing but its pretty straight forward, basically take the seat apart and then pull the skins off. as your pulling off the skins you need to cut the little metal retainer rings. and then use the retainer rings they supply you with on the new skins, i didn't know there was a special tool you can buy to install the rings, makes it a lot easier. as far as fitment there are some wrinkles around where the hole is for the head rest but personally i don't think it looks bad also the skins look a lot better then oem because they aren't as glossy
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Originally Posted by redkid
Originally Posted by s2krxx' timestamp='1388121821' post='22939299
Nice red seats! I think I saw a post where you said you ordered from seats01. I'm still waiting for mine to come in...How difficult was the install? Also, was fitment pretty good?
if that's the ebay seller then yes they are the same ones. as far as the install goes, I'm not going to lie when i 1st started i didn't know what the hell i was doing but its pretty straight forward, basically take the seat apart and then pull the skins off. as your pulling off the skins you need to cut the little metal retainer rings. and then use the retainer rings they supply you with on the new skins, i didn't know there was a special tool you can buy to install the rings, makes it a lot easier. as far as fitment there are some wrinkles around where the hole is for the head rest but personally i don't think it looks bad also the skins look a lot better then oem because they aren't as glossy
Is the red much different than the OEM red?
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Nice red seats! I think I saw a post where you said you ordered from seats01. I'm still waiting for mine to come in...How difficult was the install? Also, was fitment pretty good?
if that's the ebay seller then yes they are the same ones. as far as the install goes, I'm not going to lie when i 1st started i didn't know what the hell i was doing but its pretty straight forward, basically take the seat apart and then pull the skins off. as your pulling off the skins you need to cut the little metal retainer rings. and then use the retainer rings they supply you with on the new skins, i didn't know there was a special tool you can buy to install the rings, makes it a lot easier. as far as fitment there are some wrinkles around where the hole is for the head rest but personally i don't think it looks bad also the skins look a lot better then oem because they aren't as glossy
Is the red much different than the OEM red?
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yes it is. the oem red is gloss/shinny these don't have a shine to them
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Ya, I just got mine in today. As hard as I tried, I still couldn't get all the wrinkles out on these seats. Bummer, looks like I'm ganna return one of them. I'm glad u had better luck.
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update- I've decided to change the look of the car for this season, I'm trying to think outside the box but at the same time maintain the clean look heres an idea of what I'm working with still waiting on a few little parts
Tamon duckbill and ASM hood

Jay-Z lipped my Works but they aren't 100% done still got a little some up my sleeve for them

fitted my camber ball joints but haven't really dialed them in waiting on the wheels to be done

and lastly some interior porn
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small update picked up my wheels the other day


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