A question about body kits for you auto gear heads out there?

) March 6th, 2011

My fellow gear heads those of you familiar with body kits or ground effects what does it mean when they say you have to extend the side skirt to make it fit? I am thinking of getting a body get for my ‘93 Probe GT but seemingly all kit manufacturers note that to use them on the GT you have to extend them to make them fit because they are made for the base model only (whatever that means). What or how do you suppose to extend them with? Do you have to fabricate something to act as a bridge? If you have a body kit or had one have you run into that problem and how did you handle it?

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I am adding side skirts a rear bumper and front bumper to my E36. What they mean by extending the side skirts is you will have to break it into pieces and add some sort of holder in the middle of the breaks. Some people use cardboard and then you need a lot of bondo and fiberglass, a ton of sanding to make it look good. If they only fit the base models (meaning Ford Probe…not GT) I would get a kit that says it will fit a GT, there may still be fittament issues but that is the case with most body kits, but at least it would be minimal. Me personally though I am taking mine into a professional paint and body place, because if not done correctly it can make the car really look bad.

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I agree that you should not tackle this yourself with a non-GT kit. Bodywork is a bit tricky to get right and pretty easy to screw up or just ugly, so leave it to professionals unless you want to take the time (usually a couple of years) to learn to do it right.

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