S13 Bumper?

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Flipzide
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Hey, i got into an accident a while back and i ordered a replacement front clip off somone from ebay who sold his front end for a sil-80 conversion.

anyway, i was led to believe i would be recieving a pignose front end to replace my 1989 front.

i ended up recieving a bumper from a 1991-1993 style bumper and it was equiped with JDM turn signals. anyway i was surprised but im not sure about something.

is the front end completely interchangeable without modifications? i lost my right fender and my bumper in the accidents and i just had the body shop put the right fender i recieved and also had the bumper put on . they said they had about 1 inch hanging off one side when it was mounted... is there something im missing?


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Dattebayo
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The bumper horns are not the same, you need the ones from a 1991-1994 model in order to make it fit right. Everything else is the same (and those guys at the body shop are dumas$es for not knowing that by looking at it...

quote= flipzide]1 inch hanging off one side when it was mounted...[/quote]

Please elaborate what you mean by this...

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Flipzide
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the bumper looked like it was slightly wider than the fender on the side

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Did you replace the bumper support with the bumper? You kinda need that too.

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Flipzide
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isnt it possible to run without the bumper support? ive heard of people doing this when they run FMICs

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So when you hit something you will lose you radiator and possibly damage your engine, right?

Not very smart for daily driving and also illegal.

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oh alrite thanx


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