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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 04:00 PM
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Fishbowl lens makes unusual pictures.
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Old Jun 27, 2011 | 03:47 PM
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installed mine yesterday finally and it cleared my hks fine...my driveway, not so much
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Old Jun 27, 2011 | 04:15 PM
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Fisheye lens makes that thing look great, ill have to do mine soon...

And yes, my driveway doesnt like it to so much either...lol...

But the nice thing is, i dented the most right fin so that it was curved, but i took a rubber mallet and banged it back into shape, yay!
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Old Jun 28, 2011 | 01:10 AM
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Yea that's one thing I notice. One of the corner was damaged or bent when it was shipped. A block of wood and a rubber mallet fixed nice and straight. It seemed very easy to hammer it straight out if it were ever dented.
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Old Jun 28, 2011 | 02:57 AM
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I dd my car and have had it about 1k miles. It's scraped 4 times. The damage is barely noticeable and it's held up up well.

I've never scraped my front bumper with oem lip and coastal metal diffuser. I have 1 1/2 finger gap all around.
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Old Jun 30, 2011 | 09:12 AM
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Jordan,

Did I miss something (couldn't check the thread for some time)?
What's that status on the rear side pieces?
Would love to order them to match my diffuser if they are available.
Please let me know.
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Old Jun 30, 2011 | 10:25 AM
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Side pieces aren't finished yet.
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Old Jul 2, 2011 | 05:40 PM
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Jordan i gotta say i took off the diffuser today because i got into a accident last night and when i was trying to take it off, after all the scraping. It was extremely hard as more than half of the bolts hex opening was scraped shut. It was very very frustrating, and i ended up having to take off the entire rear tie bar after stomping and bending the crap out of so i can access the bolts.

Please next time just use standard bolts, theres no reason to use a hex apposed to a bolt...please please please!
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Old Jul 2, 2011 | 05:52 PM
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This is a good point, need to keep in this mind when scraping...
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Old Jul 2, 2011 | 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by it'S2klean
Jordan i gotta say i took off the diffuser today because i got into a accident last night and when i was trying to take it off, after all the scraping. It was extremely hard as more than half of the bolts hex opening was scraped shut. It was very very frustrating, and i ended up having to take off the entire rear tie bar after stomping and bending the crap out of so i can access the bolts.

Please next time just use standard bolts, theres no reason to use a hex apposed to a bolt...please please please!

If you scraped the heads flush, this was a full bottom out on the car.
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