My cheap car has come a long way in the last two weeks. Now all I need is a new paint job and front bumper onmine is broke. Where is the best place to get one there is none in the local salvage yards. I will go aftermarkett but I dont want one that is lower than factory and I am not planning on installing a full body kit. Also price is important since I am working with a limited budget. Any help on this would be great.

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id try ebay ive seen them every once in a while

 

For a stocker , search on car-parts.com it can search area yards to national yards, most have prices(some you have to call)
Then you can find one most yards will ship or you can drive and pick it up ...

All the aftermarket noses are lower then stock
TC1=3" lower then stock
TC2(viper)= 1 1/2" lower then stock
Blitz= 1 1/2" lower then stock

 

You know, I've looked for this info a long time ago (I was thinking of getting one of them) and never found it. Thanks BV.
If these are good clear, roundabout, specs I may put this up in the resource list thread for future referrencing.

 

I had tried all three and that was measures from my stock nose to the aftermarket nose ...I'm 3 1/2" off the ground
TC1 left me 1/2" of ground clearance .....

 

I would go 1 1/2" lower than stock that wont hurt anything plus Ilike the look of the viper fron end. I had a friend with an Eclipse and he put a fiberglass front end on his and it was almost sittion on the ground. Every time he went in and out of his driveway it would hit. He finally put the stocker back on.

 

Yo ucould always just fix your one you have on the car now if its not too bad. I just used some epoxy from aoutzone, i mixed it up and used it for my whole front piece right in the center and it did the trick it looks ok too. al i have to do is sand and paint it. and my cut was all the way through like from the front to the back bottom of it. and it works nice.... thats just a thought if you wanted to do the cheapier way plus u said u wanted to repaint it.


joe