Fast/Furious Body Kit?

[dazsherm]

hey guys.... im wanting a Fast and Furious type body kit.. perhaps a blitz style.... i love the way they look in the front. i want one of these for my '98 x...... but i have NEVER seen one..... but i know its not impossible.... any of you guys know where i can find one of these? or where i can get one made? i just want the front peice really..... i think it would look mean!

 

[jssong]

u can get one custom made at a body shop.. thats about the only option available.

 

[jssong]

u can get a front valence at Explorer express or performance products. do a search for valence or front air dams

 

[93BLUEXLT]

If youve got a performance shop near you, heres what ya do. measure the width of your front bumper. then go to the performance shop and find one that is the same width and take it to a body shop. then give them your checkbook, and come back in a month. and see what theyve done. I know it can be done, because ive seen a blazer with a honda civic combat front end on it. It will take some research and some $$$ but it can be done.

 

[benj75]

click here for andy's auto sport

i have no idea what it would cost, but they do make custom kits. you'll just have to contact them and see what they have to say.

 

[dazsherm]

thanks! i have been looking for a place that will custom make kits from scratch, i just emailed them.... i hope i get a positive response... this is the type of front bumper i want them to make me
http://www.andysautosport.com/zx2bombf.html

 

[ExploderXLT00]

If you do a search on here, you will find I started a thread about building my own kit this summer.... I got some ideas, and am gunna try it. As for buying the kit, no such thing....I've looked at every internet site possible I think, and there isn't one damb thing for x's. The only thing you CAN do is build it, or get it custom from the bodyshop. Also, i dunno how youd get that style you want to blend in w/ the front of an X? the style is part of the head lights, and hood it looks...with out those, the kit would look 100% different...I would recommend finding a kit that you like the looks of on an SUV or truck...some S10 kits are hot and im sure can be rigged to fit ur ride...hope this helps

 

[benj75]

i agree about that air dam not looking right.

there are some f-150 and expedition air dams that would look good on an explorer, also.

 

[Hartman]

It's hard to compare how things will look on an import and how it will look on an Explorer. Do you really think that style of valance will look right on an Explorer? I can only imagine how much it would be to go custom......

 

[ExploderXLT00]

agree....WOW <whistle> spend the dough, get the chicks...my justice scale says SPEND baby SPEND

 

[akcrogers]

If it was done right, it could look really good. I love that mean lower grill look...

 

[unabonked]

if you custom fab, upi may as well redo the grill too. it may not look too bad if you folow the lines of the good. Hell if you do that then you can go with some other headlight asebilly. lights off a lincoln navagator with HID unites inthem would look pretty hot with that kinda front clip.

 

[akcrogers]

Don't have the time to do a good job but:

 

[Digger196]

what in the world!!!!!!!! please tell me that won't happen to an X.

 

[Hartman]

Thanks akcrogers, that made the picture a whole lot clearer, LOL. Where did you learn your Photoshopping skills?

 

[akcrogers]

I've been messing with photoshop for several years now. I took one class, but had already selftaught myself everything they did... I could do a much better job, the problem is I'm mousing lefthanded because of my wrist, and the effort/time to do a even an ok job (not to mention a good job) isn't worth it. I couldn't resist the huge wheels on the first one. That was how I pasted them in, and was going to shrink them to like 20s, but left them as wagon wheels. The second one looks almost doable, the camera angles were a little off, and thus everything doesn't line up quite right, but it seems like something of this sort is possible... but with the same $ you could have one hell of an offroader. Plus, if you have a fast&furious body kit, everyone is gonna want to race, so you better have a Troll-style engine in there...

 

[Hartman]

Well those Photoshop jobs are pretty horrid....

 

[akcrogers]

You try to do even that good of a job with your bad hand I suck at everything left-handed, its hard as hell to select areas, and honestly, I didn't want to put more than a few minutes into this project. I could have searched the internet for another hour until I found pictures that actually matched the angles, and then spent another hour or so matching colors... right handed it wouldn't be too bad, but still time consuming. left handed? forget it, I was just trying to get a picture of what it would basically look like, not make it look real.

 

[expo5.0]

why would you want to look like that with an explorer? why not just retain the imo wonderful front end lines of the explorer and accent them with the performance products or explorer express air dam. i for one would rather have my trucks front end, look up at that rotating picture thing if you don't know how it looks than any riced out high dollar job we're talking here. it will end up just looking silly and costing a fortune that could be spent elsewhere on your truck, the front end styling is one of the strengths of the explorers everything i've done to the front is under a grand and it looks pretty complete. in my opinion any money for custom fabbing would be better spent elsewhere. also i agree that if your gonna do this you better be running 12s or 13s or people will make you look like an idiot like daily.

 

[unabonked]

i saw an OK looking bumper/grill in my JC whitney sport truck catolouge for a 98-02 s10 (page 9). That might be worked out to fit a 95+ explorer, but i'm not sure. the diference in the curved lines between the 2 trucks is pretty big.

Yuk. thats all i got to say! we now know ricer and explorer really don't mix. if you like look of the bomb, maybe you could rollpan the front, cut out the grill/rollpan between the headlights from the hood down. put lateral extentions on the frame bars just infront of the radiator. checken wire the area. custom fab a bumper-bushgard that covers only the headlights. this would mount on the lateral extensions you put on the frame. that should give the overall "bomb" effect, while still keeping that "built ford tough" look. it would be very involved, prolly over 15K