Fitting a JDM front lip

[minorobsession]

What is the best way to fit a JDM lip to the front?

I am not really kean on puting hole in the bumper for screws or but will sikaflex on its own hold it?

[RAd28]

for a little while yes... but then it'll rip the paint off. don't piss fart around, just use screws, not like your gonna be pulling the lip off to go to the shops are ya??

[minorobsession]

arent the screws visible?

[RAd28]

not if you screw it from the back...

[minorobsession]

what self tapers from the back with the extra cut off?

[RAd28]

self tappers (or something similar) the right length to start with wouldn't hurt

[minorobsession]

Have you ever fitted one?

[RAd28]

nope........

[CrUZida]

Care to elaborate what car and what lip ?

[gurumaster22]

How you mount it exactly will depend on car and particular lip.
But in any case you want to try and have a captive fixture.... So if you can, mount with washers and secure nuts.

If anything is visible, use stainless for aesthetics.
(And the smallest size fixtures that will hold it all together.)

[EldarO]

A70 supras have a metal strip in the bottom of the bumper, bolts go through this and out the bottom, and the strip then slides onto these bolts with nuts inside the backspace of the lip to hold it on, you cant see any of the fittings.

Eldar.O.

[takai]

6mm dome cap screws will do you just fine.

[Mr Ed]

I agree that some decent washers or a strip of metal behind the bolts and nuts is the better way to go. You dont want the screwing pulling through the fibreglass and the lip coming loose on the highway in traffic at 100kmhr.

[minorobsession]

Yeah sorry it an AE86,

The lip overlaps the front bumper covering the original bottom lip, I have tried to see what other people have done from photos on the web but I cant see any srews to secure it

[Mr Ed]

Needs more pics