Fitting Group 3 kit to VK.

[Shaun_VK]

Hey, as i am currently half way through my V6 confertion to my VK the set big thing is paint and a Group 3 kit, just wanted to know what is involved in fitting the kit, from what i see in the pictures that comewith the kit on ebay, its not aful bumper but more a add on to the original bumper ofthe vk, how would you go about fitting this?does it involve huge amounts of work and money?

[vkberlina]

What sort of job do you want?
Originally they were just screwed on with tek screws and looked shit up close.

On my VK we spent ALOT of time reworking the kit as it didnt fit well, filing down the surface between the kit & bar till it sat right, built up other areas, completely reworked the profile of the sides of the rear bar skirt as it didnt sit in line with the grooves on the bar.

Once it was fitting well, we made up blocks to go between the bar skirt and the bar and fibreglassed them to the kit in various places, then primed the surface with sikaflex primer & glued them on with sikaflex and also screwed through the bar into the blocks we made and screwed in hidden places like behind the number plate and from under neath.

Also the part where the exhuast pipe comes out was always hacksawed out and looks crap, we reshaped mine into a curve to match the rear bar, side skirts were a pain where they come up the sides of the wheel arches im still not happy with mine after 2 refits and paint jobs.
The underside of my Group A rear spoiler is all rough mat same as the Group III, we filled mine in and smoothed them, also had to rework the overlap where the spoiler comes over the tops of the rear quarters as they normally rub through the paint there, plus where the spoiler runs along the boot lid was all wavey and took a bit of work to make it sit right and straight without gaps everywhere

After it was all fitted we painted them in 2pac hifil primer and sanded them wet by hand then re hifilled them as alot of pinholes formed in the fibreglass, secondtime round they were good.

All up it took about 1 week to prep ready for spraying colour, for 2 people, one a very experienced panel beater/spray painter and me assiting and doing alot of sanding, it was worth the work but damn id hate to do it again!

Scott

[Shaun_VK]

what do you mean by "bar skirt and bar" with the blocks?

[Jonno]

bar skirt is probobly the add on to the bar