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09-27-02, 03:59 PM
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hey have any of you guys heard of the wald body kit? i have a 92 sc300, and i was thinking of buying the kit. do any of you guys know if the front bumper is a complete replacement or is it just a front lip? it looks like just the front lip, and it seems as though the stock 92 front bumper is used however it also has the grill from the 97 up model sc! the pricing i found for the kit is around $1600 is that a good price?
thanks....furby
thanks....furby
09-27-02, 07:16 PM
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Call WALDUSA and ask for Jon Pek, he's good ppl. Mention SC300TURBO from this board when you talk with him, and you should PM 'TURBO if you have any questions, he recently installed his kit. Oh, and they offer a full front bumper replacement which uses the older fog lamps with the newer grille, or they have a front spoiler designed to work with the oe 97+ front bumper. The rear bumper is a full replacement.
09-29-02, 12:46 AM
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09-30-02, 04:03 AM
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Originally posted by do-luck sc
sorry bro, no poly kits out there. if they did have one, i'd have it already....
sorry bro, no poly kits out there. if they did have one, i'd have it already....
that sucks the prices on some of the kits should warrant polyurethane haha oh well
09-30-02, 04:27 PM
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Originally posted by manaray
It's all about QUANTITY...do some research on how much it costs to make a urathane mold...not cheap...also, urathane has it's disadvantages...
It's all about QUANTITY...do some research on how much it costs to make a urathane mold...not cheap...also, urathane has it's disadvantages...
and with Urethane hehe I have the stillen polyurethane front lip on my Maxima and damn that thing takes a beating but the only downside I've experienced is ya have to pay the paintshop more to add flexi agents in the paint
i think its worth it and it makes a $3000 kit worth it too
10-01-02, 06:24 AM
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Urathane, once damaged, is not easy to repair...in most cases, you just toss it. For a hard to get kit from Japan, I'd rather have fixable Fiberglass...
Also, with a 10K mold, plus the cost of actually manufacturing the parts from the mold, do you know how many kits you'd have to sell to break even? These are not $3K kits...some of the kits sell for $2K retail...so you can imagine what the wholesale price is...now if they were selling direct to customers and charing $3K a kit, then yes, it would be profitable...but it doesn't work that way.
To do a urathane it, you need have enough buyers...with Lexus kits, there just aren't enough. You HEAR a lot of talk here about people wanting to buy kits (and other things) but it's 90% talk. Very few people actually buy.
Also, with a 10K mold, plus the cost of actually manufacturing the parts from the mold, do you know how many kits you'd have to sell to break even? These are not $3K kits...some of the kits sell for $2K retail...so you can imagine what the wholesale price is...now if they were selling direct to customers and charing $3K a kit, then yes, it would be profitable...but it doesn't work that way.
To do a urathane it, you need have enough buyers...with Lexus kits, there just aren't enough. You HEAR a lot of talk here about people wanting to buy kits (and other things) but it's 90% talk. Very few people actually buy.
10-01-02, 07:21 AM
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I understand the reasons why and all... my personal preference is with poly urethane I've seen them run into curbs, folded underneath the car (fron parking into a curb) even seen a lip that fell off on the freeway just get repainted and slapped back on- and the manufacturing I know it would take alot of orders and alot of money my friend runs a factory in Taiwan so I asked him about making us some kits and... he said hell no haha not until we have 100s of buyers
thing I'm worried about is that the SC is a long car and parking it isnt as easy as a Civic the front end is huge- just dont wana run into any parking blocks with a fiberglass kit and come out with a totally messed up bumper- with the poly front lip on my Maxima I can run into curbs all day long (not that I do ofcourse)
thing I'm worried about is that the SC is a long car and parking it isnt as easy as a Civic the front end is huge- just dont wana run into any parking blocks with a fiberglass kit and come out with a totally messed up bumper- with the poly front lip on my Maxima I can run into curbs all day long (not that I do ofcourse)
10-01-02, 08:24 AM
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I've had my fair share of curbs... You most likely wouldn't mess up your fiberglass one unless you are ^;^. The most i've done is scrape the bottom... I've never actually hit one right on.