DIY: Make a custom splitter for your OEM/AM bumpers or lips
 

I posted this on another forum I'm on often and it helped a lot of people out, just thought I'd share with the Van city guys. I'm at Home Depot a lot and I noticed something one day that wasn't meant for what I ended up using it for. I've seen on other forums some guys are doing a similar things with this as well, so there's different ways to do it and for each of yours it will probably be the same as I did it though. For my specific bumper I did it my way, no need to drill holes, just use 3M sticky double sided tape. Pics below.

UPDATED PICTURES FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THIS MOD

1st, you go to home depot, to the garage door section and buy the rubber lining that goes on the bottom of your garage door

This is the tape you buy at Lordco
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...1808172809.jpg
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And this is how you install it onto the bumper (keep in mind this is the thin 3m tape below, I used the wider one pictured right above for full adhesion)

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...2108210147.jpg
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and here's a picture from a few months ago the first day I installed it
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...5/IMG_2453.jpg

the lip is still holding up very well with minimal sag, but I'm gonna take it off again and redo a fresh new one for the summer. This thing has protected my bumper from various scrapes from not so bad, to very bad scrapes, the lip takes damn near all the impact, if it wasn't for it I doubt I would have any silver paint around the bottom of my bumper.

ha! that looks cool! Good job! :)

^
well you know what, I never even factored in looks when I was doing it. I wanted strictly bumper protection, but it looks good and that's a plus as well.
I was waiting for someone on the other forum I posted it on to call it rice, just because it's such a cheap little mod, but nobody dared, lol.
Rice = something cheap that doesn't have any effect whatsoever on the car
and this thing definitely has an effect, saves my ass from small to major scrapes, and it does look pretty good too

Good Work... as long as it serves a purpose its all good.

It flows pretty well with your bumper as well

Impressive. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Looks good, I will be sure to do this when I have time! Thanks

RICE

That's the most amount of rice anyone can put on a car. God damn Ricers!


Kidding :D.

I should do this to my lip soon...

thanks for the post!

wow.. look very nice! ;)

The HD lip is awesome. Looks quite OEM too :D

added new pic of a reversed section of the lip so you can attach the lip 3 different ways which is even better.

once you paint it to match your car it also gives the appearance of your car being lower than it actually is, while still protecting it.

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...2508205855.jpg
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...4/IMG_0023.jpg


and this is how it looks once you reverse it and do install it with the rear side facing frontwards, and as you can see by looking at the middle section of the bumper, since it's very flexible you can curve it to fit and contour to pretty much every front bumper, but it's hard enough not to sag

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...e/IMG_9630.jpg
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...e/IMG_9631.jpg

from ferrari style from bumper to lambo?

looks good tho and thats a real good way to use those weather seals

awesome post, shit dude. do you live near that school?

yup from ferrari to lambo.... wannabe! 'till I can afford one, i'll just try and fake it


no that's my friends house, he lives right in the alley by the school, he took those pics for me recently


yea i wanted to update the post to let people know it can be done in a few different ways, so if you dont like it 1 way, you might like the other method

thats pretty darn inventive....i think im going to do this....to save my brabus bumper..aside, it looks cool.. haha

Wow...great DIY write up! I'll give this a try when i have time!

damn.. nicely done man.. wow.. so you live right behind Mac Corkindale eh xD...

still got that R33?

i saw a silver g35 with the the lambo style bumper around metrotown.
i've only read about them on g35driver, but i thought it looked sickk

got any pics of the garage liner on the oem lip?

dark no I dont live at that house, it's my friends house, he sold the blue R33.

mmmk yea the silver G with the same bumper is a buddy of mine, I actually sold him that bumper, I bought 2 of them for myself cuz I was gonna have some custom widebody work done, but I went anothere route and he got a killer deal.




actually I installed this on my buddy Jacky's OEM lip, he has a thread on it on driver, his nickname there is ELE, here's a few pics of it the day I installed it. This was like last year, he sold his car a while ago. I installed it facing the lip forward, I think on the OEM lip it would look better and cleaner if it was done backwards like mine in the pics above.


http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...0/P1010292.jpg


http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...526_edited.jpg


http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...539_edited.jpg


http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...0/P5250649.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...0/P1010300.jpg




and here's me bout to paint mine newbie stylezzz.... chinese newspaper method pwnz all!!

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...0/P1010307.jpg

^^^

LOL
chinese newspapers no less ! :haha:

lol fuck painting anything while it's on the car = sketchyyyy

i learned that when i tried to paint my tail lights way back lol

Hearing my front bumper scrape or hit the pavement has got to be one of the most cringe inducing sounds I ever hear

^ i hear it everyday coming out of my driveway

hearing your piping from the cat to muffler scrape is worse.