rubber body kit?! say it aint so

[kamarozrule]

i was in my friends garage the other day and there workin on installing a bunch of mods on this 97 z28. well i walked over and checked it out its pretty cool. full custom exhaust sounds good, well neways im walkin over to bay #2 and i see this body kit gettin ready to be painted well i went to go touch it and wtf its rubber every piece is fukin rubber, i then checked who made the kit it was a xenon kit for 93-97 camaros. i was under the impression that body kits were made out of fiberglass. the pieces were so flimsy and i have no idea how there suppose to b put on. i could maybe see it would be good if u were to bottom out the pieces wouldnt break... i bottomed out twice and cracked my fac body kit left side skirt 2wice and i need it to be fixed again. but if u were to bottom out with these pieces wouldnt u need to repaint the piece neways cuz the paint would come off?

[redbird00]

its not rubber its pretty close to the same material that some of the body panels for the f-bod's are made up, like a polyeurethane or some sheet i dunno, but its not rubber...

merlin

[kamarozrule]

well what ever it was it felt like rubber, bended ;ike rubber, and tasted like rubber.... [img]graemlins/rofl.gif[/img]

[Loochy88]

gfx are commonly made of both fiberglass and urethane.

Check out this page... there some answers to your question. http://www.wingswest.com/faq.asp#

[Big Tymer]

yeah i thought my wings west gfx were rube also ;)

[nikon]

would you rather bottom out and crack your gfx, or just have them bend a little and have no damage done....its not rubber its polyurethane...good stuff, strong

[firebird1]

i might attach some "skid plates" on the bottom of mine, just where i know ill scrape them

[02PewterBird]

I remember seeing a Camaro with GFX trying to make a turn into Subway and they made the turn too tight and their ground effects hit the curb on the right side. I didn't see what happened after, but the ground effects flexed like a piece of rubber.

[Big Tymer]

Originally posted by firebird1:
i might attach some "skid plates" on the bottom of mine, just where i know ill scrape them

after i put mine on Im actually doing this. up at a friends place he has this really thin metal . in like 16 foot pieces. REAL thin so you wont be able to see it unles tou under the car. I am gonna cut it to fit just right, and then put it on using 3m double sided tape.... on the side skirts only im thinking . maybe on the front