wylin
06-26-2002, 01:24 PM
personally i see both as nessary evils
fiberglass or Fiber Reinforced Plastic: common kit material thats a sprayed on mesh of fiberglass built into a mold, sumtimes its also injected. Most American body kit companies such as VIS/ www.importtrenz.com/ extreme dimensions sell this as their lowend body kit costing between 350-800$, its also used in by most japanese aerokit companies but in a higher grade/ better quality mold (typically). The way these kits for us companies are attained from overseas or japan. Fiberglass kits vary wildly, same w/ their fittament. Main advantages of fiberglass is for the manufactuer its cheap to make a fiberglass mold for a body kit, its relatively light weight and durable, its cheap to fix. Typical disadvantages is it cracks on impact, many irresposible kit manufactures make u remove safety devices such as bumper supports and such for that latest cool look, fitament is horid on certain companies products.
urathane and abs plastic these are OEM plastic type materials mostly (sum new US companies urathane is excluded still looks and fits like shit and INGs hybrid FRB/Urathane matrix $$$ are included) typically urathane bounces back from most minor impacts instead of cracking it pushes in and returns to its orginal form, its much lighter then even FRP/fiberglass. Typically the problems w/ urathane are its expensive to make, even more so w/ ABS plastics (think ur old kids toy transformes toy arm but a body kit). BUT very few OEM's will even bother making u a mold and the array of companies that acutally use highquality urathane and abs are very limited, also urathane sags after a while and cant be just bondoed like fiberglass in large impacts.
well so as the buying public and the lay people what would u buy.
personally for my car im getting an OEM nissan japan made optional front bumper and body kit its made outa ABS hard plastic and it fits and looks perfect cuz its stock. The main reason i know alota ppls fiber kits break and are warped and to me perfection is everything when i buy a product.
fiberglass or Fiber Reinforced Plastic: common kit material thats a sprayed on mesh of fiberglass built into a mold, sumtimes its also injected. Most American body kit companies such as VIS/ www.importtrenz.com/ extreme dimensions sell this as their lowend body kit costing between 350-800$, its also used in by most japanese aerokit companies but in a higher grade/ better quality mold (typically). The way these kits for us companies are attained from overseas or japan. Fiberglass kits vary wildly, same w/ their fittament. Main advantages of fiberglass is for the manufactuer its cheap to make a fiberglass mold for a body kit, its relatively light weight and durable, its cheap to fix. Typical disadvantages is it cracks on impact, many irresposible kit manufactures make u remove safety devices such as bumper supports and such for that latest cool look, fitament is horid on certain companies products.
urathane and abs plastic these are OEM plastic type materials mostly (sum new US companies urathane is excluded still looks and fits like shit and INGs hybrid FRB/Urathane matrix $$$ are included) typically urathane bounces back from most minor impacts instead of cracking it pushes in and returns to its orginal form, its much lighter then even FRP/fiberglass. Typically the problems w/ urathane are its expensive to make, even more so w/ ABS plastics (think ur old kids toy transformes toy arm but a body kit). BUT very few OEM's will even bother making u a mold and the array of companies that acutally use highquality urathane and abs are very limited, also urathane sags after a while and cant be just bondoed like fiberglass in large impacts.
well so as the buying public and the lay people what would u buy.
personally for my car im getting an OEM nissan japan made optional front bumper and body kit its made outa ABS hard plastic and it fits and looks perfect cuz its stock. The main reason i know alota ppls fiber kits break and are warped and to me perfection is everything when i buy a product.