Solara body kits (bumper) and carbon fiber hood.............

[Paladin06Greg]

I love it and Rich what's with your avatar? I see a white box with a red X.

[Rookie Solara]

damn Howard... your avatar isn't work safe. Any way you can change it to something less explicit?

You want a NAKED MAN instead..? I think she is the only 1 that has the MOST CLOTHING on...........I have plenty of those with less.
(I agree, I will have to change something.....but really hard to find someone who is HOT and still wearing a lot of clothing...)

[Rookie Solara]

Exactly what I would like to see.....so both are from EBAY..? Do you recall the brand of the carbon fiber hood...? I don't think there are much on the market....just want to make sure they are the same one...

About the VIS bumper....fiber glass, any problem so far..? Paint still there or they are chipping already....? Looks like you only get the front bumper....how much did you paid..? Right now, they sell the full kits for like $280 plus $159 shipping....and they quote me the front bumper is $200 plus $150 shipping....that is almost no different, just want to get some input from you and others...

The reason I ask is....if the paint (or the bumper itself) won't last more then a year or so...I might as well leave my damaged front bumper and hood DAMAGED.....cause at least, it will save me $1000 for milk money...

We have 24" of snow here in Chicago once a year....does anyone tell me the PROS and CONS of fiber glass bumper versus SNOW...?

Thanks again...

vis hood.
I've had the bumper for about a year and a half now, it was about alittle over $400 shipped i think...the roads that i drive on isn't rough but there is the occasional scrap, nothing major yet. No problems with the paint too.. I swap to the stock bumper during the winter.
From what i've heard...the octane side skirts and rear bumper is a bad fit so u'll need to shell out more $$$ to get it flush.

I too has the TRD kits already, not planning to use the sides and the rear, unless someone going to T-BONE me, or rear end me in the future, then I will use THEIR money to mount/paint the rest of the VIS kit....
Thanks for the info........

P.S....you use the stock bumper on WINTER...? how long it take you to mount the stock bumper back on..? There are 2 fogs below, are they hard to mount or dismount..? Thanks........(sounds like a really pain in the butt job, but no matter what, I hve to mount the 17" winter tires back on and coil it up higher for the snow anyhow...)

[geminimouse]

I too has the TRD kits already, not planning to use the sides and the rear, unless someone going to T-BONE me, or rear end me in the future, then I will use THEIR money to mount/paint the rest of the VIS kit....
Thanks for the info........

P.S....you use the stock bumper on WINTER...? how long it take you to mount the stock bumper back on..? There are 2 fogs below, are they hard to mount or dismount..? Thanks........(sounds like a really pain in the butt job, but no matter what, I hve to mount the 17" winter tires back on and coil it up higher for the snow anyhow...)

first time, it took me about 3 hours...but now less than an hour.
fogs come off with the bumper...if u want to take them off the bumper, it's just two screws for each fog..

[krook]

This is where I got my CF hood over a year ago and I've had no problems. Good luck putting her back together.


http://www.mmrusa.com/carbonhoods.htm

That's a FIBER IMAGES hood. does anyone prefer this hood over the VIS hood?

[1st Gen Sol]

^^^^ I'd rather get the Fiber Images hood over the VIS hood b/c its more durable and the quality of the hood is a lot better in my opinion.

....it'll be the hood I get once I got cash to spend on one.