J-Spec bumper and lip installed

precidian · Post by **precidian** » November 9th, 2005, 12:11 am

My side skirts also say Eunos on them...... hmmm interesting.

The pic you are refering to is my car actually.......

Also here is a shot of the front 3/4s with Jspec front end conversion and TopMix Chin spoiler.

Yes the red thing is actually the tow hook and it is fully functional.

BTW.. jschrauwen --- car is looking good... keep up the good work.

jaydog5678 · Post by **jaydog5678** » November 9th, 2005, 12:26 am

Your car is looking good Tom.

Nice!

papa roached · Post by **papa roached** » November 9th, 2005, 1:45 am

Josh wrote:the sides i have are the North America spec. whats kinda wierd is they actually say Eunos on them.

but if there are enough people intrested i could look into making some molds.

please do

jschrauwen · Post by **jschrauwen** » November 9th, 2005, 2:17 am

precidian wrote:My side skirts also say Eunos on them...... hmmm interesting.

Mine also.

precidian wrote: BTW.. jschrauwen --- car is looking good... keep up the good work.

Thanks Tom, your's was the inspiration for me, although I think I'll paint my tow hook a little different colour than red.....LOL.

papa roached · Post by **papa roached** » November 10th, 2005, 4:09 am

i need a tow hook too....i REALLY need the crash bumper from japan really

jschrauwen · Post by **jschrauwen** » November 10th, 2005, 6:05 pm

When I pull the bumper off (skin only) to install tow hook I'll try and take a pic of them (side by each) to give you an idea of the difference. Unless you don't need it Jeremy. The reason I ask is that is that when I had the 2 rebars side by each on the basement floor, it looked like one could do a little creative carving and turn the NA spec one into something close to the J spec one (more or less). A big weight savings too. I'd say the j spec is at least half the weight of the NA spec or less.

JM1EC-V6 · Post by **JM1EC-V6** » November 11th, 2005, 10:57 pm

Where did you buy this J-Spec Bumper ? Brand new/ used ? Corksport ???

Am pretty interested for it, but don't know where to get one somewhere else than Corksport ...

Thanks !

jschrauwen · Post by **jschrauwen** » November 12th, 2005, 1:59 am

JM1EC-V6 wrote:Where did you buy this J-Spec Bumper ? Brand new/ used ? Corksport ???
Am pretty interested for it, but don't know where to get one somewhere else than Corksport ...
Thanks !

One set of J Spec chin spoiler form one of our members and then the whole J Spec front end (bumper, chin spoiler and foggies) from the Protege BB through this BB.

JM1EC-V6 · Post by **JM1EC-V6** » November 13th, 2005, 8:34 am

Protege forum ? They were ordering JDM parts and you just entered in with them to get your J-Spec bumper ? Is this still available now ?

jschrauwen · Post by **jschrauwen** » November 13th, 2005, 1:30 pm

JM1EC-V6 wrote:Protege forum ?

Yep, well actually Gro Harlem posted on here that there may be one or two J Spec bumpers coming in in a container for Club Protege.

JM1EC-V6 wrote: They were ordering JDM parts and you just entered in with them to get your J-Spec bumper ?

Well no, not really. See Gro and I both own Protege's (see my signature block) and are members on Club Protege. Also, he's an "Admin" on that BB. Since having a better insight and maybe perhaps a little persuassion with the organizers of the J-Spec parts container, I imagine that a small wish list for a few MX3 goodies was included in the initial requests. For more details on how all of that came about, do a search in the for sale forum with Gro Harlem as the originator and use "bumper" as a possible search item as well. Ther should be pics, links and greater detail as to how it all went down.

JM1EC-V6 wrote: Is this still available now ?

No. This was a one shot deal where a few Club Protege members took a risk, went out on a limb, invested the time, money and effort to have someone scour and beat the bushes in Japans junkyards and wherever to collect a container full of Protege/323 parts. Like I said before, perhaps in the shopping list for that container, was a few MX3 items. A lot of the times it's simply being in the right place at the right time to be fortunate enough to latch on to things like this. I've won some and lost some. It would be nice if a similar enterprise was undertaken for this BB. Realistically speaking, I don't believe we have a strong enough base to support an adventure like this. I believe most of this BB's membership is not financially capable of sustaining such an adventure, unlike the Protege BB which is much larger, more active and better of financially, IMO.

Hope this clears things up;

*John*

papa roached · Post by **papa roached** » November 18th, 2005, 12:09 pm

jschrauwen wrote:When I pull the bumper off (skin only) to install tow hook I'll try and take a pic of them (side by each) to give you an idea of the difference. Unless you don't need it Jeremy. The reason I ask is that is that when I had the 2 rebars side by each on the basement floor, it looked like one could do a little creative carving and turn the NA spec one into something close to the J spec one (more or less). A big weight savings too. I'd say the j spec is at least half the weight of the NA spec or less.

yea a pic would be nice, i got my bumper new from corksport