I never posted a pic of the Burkhart tips installed, nothing fancy but perfect for a factory muffler.
Vorsteiner bumper finally arrived about 2 weeks ago, and I can finally start making some progress on all of this. Stripped the front end, and test fitted the CSL bumper. For fitment, the brake ducts, foam padding on the top of the kevlar carrier, and the outer suction cup stud things had to come off. The Vorsteiner doesn't use any of those suction cup studs and I'll remove all of them before final install. Lastly, the bottom lip of the kevlar carrier will need to be sanded down/trimmed a little bit to make room for the center grill. Nothing crazy.
Overall, fitment is great. With these kinds of parts, you can't expect that it will just slide on and fit perfectly without much adjustment. Also, this thing doesn't come with any instructions nor is there any documentation online. But with some time you can get everything fitted up properly. Once I was satisfied, I pulled it off and the factory bumper slid on perfectly haha.
Then I got cracking on the Karbonius CSL trunk. Removing the factory trunk really was a piece of cake. So far I am actually quite surprised and relieved at how easy all of these panels come off haha. I didn't install everything on the CSL trunk yet. Since the entire car is more or less going to get repainted, my painter told me to just fully install the trunk and that he'll just paint it installed. I don't see why that would necessarily be a problem, but I don't know just yet. It is tempting though. Would be nice to just do it once and not have to mess with all of that after the car is painted.
Fitment is generally good. I still need to keep tweaking it, to get the panel gaps perfect. I am having a harder time doing that, but had to walk away for the day. Honestly, the way I have it now I don't think anything would catch someone's eye unless they specifically looked for it. Still, I'd like to get it as best as it could be, and then I can comment on it. Regardless, I am pretty happy that everything generally fits pretty good. I could have bought OE, but I really wanted the weight reduction and the exposed carbon is really cool. A big sigh of relief, b/c the last thing I wanted to deal with was returning parts like this.
Next up, removing a bunch of exterior stuff to get the car ready for paint and stripping out the interior for the CSL stuff.
Oh, honorable mention to some new bulbs haha...
Vorsteiner bumper finally arrived about 2 weeks ago, and I can finally start making some progress on all of this. Stripped the front end, and test fitted the CSL bumper. For fitment, the brake ducts, foam padding on the top of the kevlar carrier, and the outer suction cup stud things had to come off. The Vorsteiner doesn't use any of those suction cup studs and I'll remove all of them before final install. Lastly, the bottom lip of the kevlar carrier will need to be sanded down/trimmed a little bit to make room for the center grill. Nothing crazy.
Overall, fitment is great. With these kinds of parts, you can't expect that it will just slide on and fit perfectly without much adjustment. Also, this thing doesn't come with any instructions nor is there any documentation online. But with some time you can get everything fitted up properly. Once I was satisfied, I pulled it off and the factory bumper slid on perfectly haha.
Then I got cracking on the Karbonius CSL trunk. Removing the factory trunk really was a piece of cake. So far I am actually quite surprised and relieved at how easy all of these panels come off haha. I didn't install everything on the CSL trunk yet. Since the entire car is more or less going to get repainted, my painter told me to just fully install the trunk and that he'll just paint it installed. I don't see why that would necessarily be a problem, but I don't know just yet. It is tempting though. Would be nice to just do it once and not have to mess with all of that after the car is painted.
Fitment is generally good. I still need to keep tweaking it, to get the panel gaps perfect. I am having a harder time doing that, but had to walk away for the day. Honestly, the way I have it now I don't think anything would catch someone's eye unless they specifically looked for it. Still, I'd like to get it as best as it could be, and then I can comment on it. Regardless, I am pretty happy that everything generally fits pretty good. I could have bought OE, but I really wanted the weight reduction and the exposed carbon is really cool. A big sigh of relief, b/c the last thing I wanted to deal with was returning parts like this.
Next up, removing a bunch of exterior stuff to get the car ready for paint and stripping out the interior for the CSL stuff.
Oh, honorable mention to some new bulbs haha...
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