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Front lips for an NA bumper?
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 1:57 am
by Subiekid94
Are there any lips you can fit on an NA bumper? I got one of th he 06-07 sti ones off ebay and it doesn't line up near as good as it does on a turbo bumper. Are there any that would fit better?
Re: Front lips for an NA bumper?
Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 9:31 am
by oldscoobyturbo
to get a better fit use a heat gun and bend the lip of your choice to the car. I attach the ends at the wheels then heat, bend, and add screws etc as I go from one side tot the other. Use the low setting on the heat gun
Re: Front lips for an NA bumper?
Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 12:19 am
by Subiekid94
I already did some retro fit of a MK3 jetta lip, almost was a perfect fit with no bending and heating it up.
Re: Front lips for an NA bumper?
Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 12:13 pm
by oldscoobyturbo
the heat and bend method will increase the choice of lips you can use. I had one from an astro/safari van fit on my 00 forester
Re: Front lips for an NA bumper?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 6:43 pm
by Subiekid94
I had talked to a friend who has a shop and mainly does bodywork/painting and he had told me if I were to heat up the STI lip, it would bubble up and would bend downward in the center, I thought that the bottom of the turbo bumper on a post lift was less squared out than an NA bumper, but then again I have never seen images of how the bottom itself looks.