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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:54 pm 
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has anyone seen one of the g force bodykits fited to a car.dose everything line up panels and bodylines and is that flex stuff really that good

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:24 pm 
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do a search on this,they've been spoken about on here before.

I bought two bumpers from them a while back and they're rubbish. I only bought them as noone else has anything suitable for my trueno in the country.
will be importing something else fairly soon.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:11 pm 
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i got one for $500 from G Force

cars currently at Queen St Smash so ill let you all know how the panels line up

i heard some bad reports about their kits but also heard their supplier in Japan has lifted his game and the kits line up nice without much modification

i thought id give them a go and if its not a quality fit then ill end up going with a D1 Garage Origin kit

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shouldn't that be their supplier in china? I highly doubt they're made in japan. noone over there makes copies of their own kits from the kits themselves,like these ones appear to be. they make prototypes,and then moulds to do the production run from,like the local guys here do. the bars I bought were clearly made from existing bars,as they have depressions where mounting holes would have been on the original,and other similar clues.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:07 pm 
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japan, china its all one country to me :P

ill let you know what the quality is like and if the guys had a tough time trying to fit it

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:37 pm 
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i was at Queen St today and we will be fitting the bodykit next week, we want to use allenkey bolts to secure it to the body but the only way this will work is if the kit matches the body, if not then it will have to be moulded, this will give a good indication of how good a quality these kits are

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japan, china its all one country to me :P
I don't think so, Go drive a chinese car :D

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i was at Queen St today and we will be fitting the bodykit next week, we want to use allenkey bolts to secure it to the body but the only way this will work is if the kit matches the body, if not then it will have to be moulded, this will give a good indication of how good a quality these kits are
Why allenkey bolts??? why not normal bolts??

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:41 am 
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hahahaha good call


no real reason, bit of a wank factor, bit harder for theives to get off aswell i guess

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:56 pm 
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im looking at getting one of these also.
has anyone fitted a kit to an s13 silvia themselves here?? how hard is it??


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yes ive fitted a flexi-glass bn kit i got from gforce. what do you expect for a $600 full kit. fits alright not 100% of course (arent all fibreglass kits like that?) i fitted the kit my self at home. everything seemed to line up alright. if a pro did it, it would look spot on!
worth it for the price to be honest.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:26 am 
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body forms kit fit spot on, even better then some fo the jap kits, some ppl even get him to copy the kit they bought from japan, fix it all up, then fix the copy as its a perfect fit.


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:02 pm 
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havent been able to update my progress as i found out me and my gf are having a baby so the car is on hold to i work out finances

more then likely just get kitted and resprayed

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:28 pm 
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how much does body form charge for a full vertex kit for a S15?

do you have closer pics whyte?

would be interested in them

i called avi from g force just then and said the s15 kits are coming in thursday or friday

i dont know the fitting, but i will be visiting them soon

anymore experiences?

please post

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:54 am 
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DREAMD wrote:
havent been able to update my progress as i found out me and my gf are having a baby so the car is on hold to i work out finances

more then likely just get kitted and resprayed

Congratulations!!


on topic - IMO it's always worth paying 3 or 4 times the price to get top quality gear... it just works better... check out the URAS kits, i love those ones


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:03 am 
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depends on the orignal mould... if they take a copy off a dodgey copy... and then take another copy... you end up with a bent kit...

i was fortunate that mine fit like lego...

i cant argue... 600 bucks a year ago for a full body kit was quite cheap...

I spoke to avi... he was able to let me pick and inspect and even swap if there was any defect...

Fit and paint was done by Xtreme bodykits in warwickfarm... there was excess fibreglass that had to be trimmed and grinded down... thats quite norm for all kits...

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