help!!! HIRO rear extensions!, kits here, how to put on Options

[lil_lissa]

yes yes i know, i always need help

i got my hiro rear extensions and ss3 front extensions painted,,,
this is where i need the help though.. the front ones have the little tabs to screw into the bumper.. thats okay.. what about the hiro rears?? theres no tabs. friend of mine suggested 3M tape.. is this what u guys have done or is there somewhere that needs to be drilled??

i'll be putting it on tomorrow so i will love you guys to death if you help me out

This post has been edited by lil_lissa: Jul 21, 2005 - 2:56 PM

[madmods]

yes yes i know, i always need help 

i got my hiro rear extensions and ss3 front extensions painted,,,
this is where i need the help though.. the front ones have the little tabs to screw into the bumper.. thats okay.. what about the hiro rears?? theres no tabs. friend of mine suggested 3M tape.. is this what u guys have done or is there somewhere that needs to be drilled??

i'll be putting it on tomorrow so i will love you guys to death if you help me out 
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pack a overnight bag and come out here, Ill put it on for you Personally I wouldn't use the tape alone without some screws or rivets. you dont want to lose your kit o the go.

[lil_lissa]

yes yes i know, i always need help 

i got my hiro rear extensions and ss3 front extensions painted,,,
this is where i need the help though.. the front ones have the little tabs to screw into the bumper.. thats okay.. what about the hiro rears?? theres no tabs. friend of mine suggested 3M tape.. is this what u guys have done or is there somewhere that needs to be drilled??

i'll be putting it on tomorrow so i will love you guys to death if you help me out 
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pack a overnight bag and come out here, Ill put it on for you Personally I wouldn't use the tape alone without some screws or rivets. you dont want to lose your kit o the go.
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okay but where do you drill holes on the hiro rears?? there isn't really anywhere except for right in the wheel well.. any suggestions?

[dahoman9]

do it right in the wheel well. That's what people have told me. Man, I still need to force my rear onto my bumper.

[lil_lissa]

do it right in the wheel well.  That's what people have told me.  Man, I still need to force my rear onto my bumper.
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okay so if i screw right into the wheel well..w hat abuot the other end.. just 3m everything and screw into the wheel well so it wont fall off i guess??

[orvillescelica]

in interested in this as well. I remeber test fitting them when i got them and had the same question, but since they are still not installed, i forgot about it. Maybe you should PM some people who have them like Ghost Dog, rza619, chucho, or H8DC3lica94.

Looking at rza619's profile, it looks like he put a bolt at the very end of the extensions:

http://www.6gc.net/photo.php?file=/images/...otos/2436_4.jpg

also, maybe editing the topic to include something about the Hiro extensions might attract people who have them in here. I didnt come in here for a while though i saw the topic.

[lil_lissa]

^^ thanks, i'll edit the title...

yeah my extensions have a "hole" there but i'd be drilling right into the metal of the bumper and that doesn't sound right?? whenever i saw it on other cars it always looked like there was nothing there but i've never seen it up close so i can't say for sure

anyways, thanks for the input
i bought some 3M tape and hopefully that holds, at least for this weekend at the show

[Consynx]

i believe GhostDog had his done the same way.

[ghostdog]

yeah theres a screw that goes on the end. there was a hole predrilled when I got my extensions from hiro so thats how they are intended to be attached.

also note how the left extension on my car isn't on right. the rivet popped out, gotta get that fixed

if you need some pictures of how its attached I'd be happy to oblige

[lil_lissa]

pleeeeeeeeease send me over a how to with pics on putting them on.. i just put my sides on, and about to start the front ss3 extensions.. leaving the rear till the end.. did you use that 3M tape for yours?? does that screw on the very end actually drill into the bumper??

ps. your inbox for PM's is full!!!

[Consynx]

because we can only hold 50msgs...

[lil_lissa]

im just playin around, just so he knows he cant get any msgs.. lol

[orvillescelica]

yeah theres a screw that goes on the end. there was a hole predrilled when I got my extensions from hiro so thats how they are intended to be attached.

also note how the left extension on my car isn't on right. the rivet popped out, gotta get that fixed

if you need some pictures of how its attached I'd be happy to oblige
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can you also send those pics to me, jsut i have them as refernce when i finally put mine on?

[ghostdog]

hey guys, sorry I didn't get to this earlier. didn't check the site last night

anyway here are the pics:

1 - rear attachment point
2 - side attachment point (note that there is another screw further up on the splitter, but its too tight on the body for me to take a picture)
3 - front attachment point

in my opinion I don't think the side attachments are necesary. and they are quite a bit of extra work. if the splitter seems to fit flush without too much tugging I would just use double-sided tape

[lil_lissa]

awesome! thanks for the info.

we got the front done last night but didn't get to the rears, so this should help me out for tonight... how did your front exntensions fit?? mine are okay.. but have some gaps in the corners

oh well
thanks again!!!

[ghostdog]

yeah my fronts aren't perfect either, the gaps are pretty small though. again the shop used screws along the side of the splitter so they are pretty tight. in hindsight I really wish they hadn't though because I don't think I can take my front bumper off

[lil_lissa]

okay now i have a new problem
looks like in the corner that goes around the wheel well, theres a little crack.. my dad accidentally dropped the peice when he was trying to fit it, so the paints a bit scratched and theres this little crack in it (whether thats from dropping it or what i dont know) oh, and yes i gave him **** for it but what can you do... accidents happen

anyways.. will this hold up? what shouldi do? i still wanna keep it on, but when i drive is it going to crack even more??? maybe get a body shop to fix it with some more fiberglassing? or should i get a whole new peice... ??

[ghostdog]

can you post a picture of the crack?

[Consynx]

ghost, in your pic it looks like they may have been made to keep the rubberish-plastic piece in the rear well...
hope you understand what i mean, lol

[lil_lissa]

can you post a picture of the crack?
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ill post one tomorrow when i can get a good shot of it
looks like it'll hold okay.. have the screw in the back part, and then one in the wheel well (for some reason we couldn't put both on the wheel well.. it didn't fit properly and had a huge gap where the second screw was supposed to go, closer to the bottom... the one with the crack we used some of that 3M tape to make it a bit more firm, so hopefully it holds. i do wanna get it fixed eventually though cuz i'm sure its just asking for problems...

but like i said, ill post a pic of it later this weekend when i get home