Body Kit Advice!!!!!

[ashii.vs]

Ok so i have been working on my vs now for a few months and i have completely re done the inside now i need some help with a body kit. anyone got any ideas ?????

[klampy]

this pic is photoshopped, but the bumper is real. i just did the bonnet black and lowered it .

[ashii.vs]

awww yeah thats not to bad did you photoshop the bonnet lol
and thank you

[maurso]

I recently saw a VS with an Apache FrontBar on it it looked amazing and I really liked it set the car off. I asked where he got it from and he said SSV I assumed that was a website so I looked it up and sure enough there it was so try Car Parts - Body Kits - Spoilers - Rear Wings ...and more Car Parts | Sydney Special Vehicles || Sydney Special Vehicles.

I have ordered the VZ Body Kit for my VT Wagon and can't wait to get it fitted.

[klampy]

yea bonnet is photoshopped. pretty crappy chop really... lol i was going to go with white n orange two tone but i like the black i think.

the bumper is top half Lexcen, lower half VZ exec. and iv got the HBD skirt to go on it.

and the sides and rear are going to be BA XR falcon.

[ashii.vs]

awww you cant but ford bits on a holden lol you wont have anything to seperate them
yeah personally with urs i like the black more

[Sabbath']

this pic is photoshopped, but the bumper is real. i just did the bonnet black and lowered it .

Interesting...

[ashii.vs]

got any ideas ?

[DAKSTER]

Body kits are a matter of preference when it comes to the style, but unless you want to spend a bunch of time reinforcing and modifying it to make it fit properly, don't buy a cheap one.

When speaking to someone about buying one, don't listen to the bs. If they want to fit it while its fresh, to 'make it fit better, while its still pliable' its a kit that doesn't fit properly.
Cheap kits also contain less fibreglass. Hit a grasshopper on the way home and watch them shatter!

I bought a cheap VX-R8 kit for my VS. I hit a couple things on the 3000k journey home, which did far more damage than they should because the kit was badly made. There was actually dry fibreglass mat under the gelcoat! Saving money on resin... The fit was also bloody terrible.

However... its not hard to remove a kit and beef it up with a bunch more fibreglass. Its not hard to reshape edges to make the fit better. Just so long as you want to do the work.

A decent kit, which bolts on fitting right and doesn't shatter with an angry look, costs thousands, and there are less options available to you. A cheap kit (mine was $650 without the bonnet) will cost you to reinforce and correct the fit. Its up to you which way you want to go. (note that on mine, the bonnet is very well made, strong and fits perfectly.. and also cost me $650 from a different company.. just the bonnet. You pay for quality.)

Spend even more for original stuff and you should get plastic instead of glass, and this is much, much better. You will pay thru the nose for it though and your choices are going to be limited.

In the end, I love the look of my VS, and its all worth it

[ashii.vs]

i really like it thanx heaps

[klampy]

thanks to the people who commented on my pic, but heres a rear view with all the skirts on. its a bit four wheel drivish at the moment due to being engineless.

[clubsport-r8]

Damn that is a one of a kind kit, was it hard fitting the XR6 skirts?

I have a genuine Clubsport kit on my VS Exec and the VZ well it is a Clubsport, but I would never put a VY-VZ Clubsport kit on a VS or earlier, I like the look on genuine hsv kits.
However I do think the HSV E2 Series kits are a little over the top Series one GTS looked much nicer.

But that is just me.

[Patti2912]

Mate, i have to give you my compliments, that is one of the best VS body kits i've ever seen, VY Clubsport?
And trust me, im pretty opinionated with body kits on VR/VS's as most of them look like dick.
Good work.

[klampy]

Damn that is a one of a kind kit, was it hard fitting the XR6 skirts?

theyre about 4-5mm too short, but other wised theyre pretty much a perfect fit on my wagon. they had to be trimmed where they fit in under the doors but i reckon a bit of sikaflex and theyre not going anywhere. as for the rear bar skirt, i had to trim it back pretty far in order to stretch it around my bar, and its still a bit short near the arches, so i have another rear skirt that im just going to make extensions with. i want to make the rear bar one piece and smooth, so theres still more trimming on the bar yet, but so far, im very pleased with the way its turning out.

this is a photochop done by richie but this is the aim.

[DAKSTER]

Mate, i have to give you my compliments, that is one of the best VS body kits i've ever seen, VY Clubsport?
And trust me, im pretty opinionated with body kits on VR/VS's as most of them look like dick.
Good work.

Thanks, I am pretty pleased with the overall look. The bonnet is VR Monaro, the kit is VX R8 clubby. The rear wing was already on the car, looks like a factory VS SS but not sure.

The kit was crap, but I wanted that particular look so I had to buy it and make it good. The fit was terrible, the whole thing was way too flimsy and they basically just didn't give damn about the customer. I reasoned that at least the shape was right, so its been pretty heavily reinforced now, more than doubled its weight! I fixed all the fitting problems while I was at it. $100 worth of glass and resin, and about 8 hrs work and it looks good I reckon.

I guess in the end I saved a couple grand doing it this way too, the whole kit was $650, and a quality one would have been pushing 3 grand if I could have found exactly what I wanted. Not going to post a link because I didn't like the quality but if you are willing to do what I did, the kit came from XXX bodykits in Dandenong.

The bonnet was a separate purchase, from Sydney, and cant speak highly enough of it.. Monaro Fibreglass Bonnet The guy is a craftsman, if you want a kit see if he does one before asking anyone else. The bonnet on its own was $650 though.

Paint should happen within 2 weeks, vivid (spartan untinted) white with VE Atomic Green highlights, and clear pearl over the lot.


Klampy, looking forward to seeing the finished and prettied up front bar, I have a feeling I am going to either love it or hate it. I do like the rear bar, looks ace on the wagon. Simple but effective. Are you working with glass here or is it all proper plastic mouldings?

[Patti2912]

I've heard mixed things about XXX man, some seem to come out great, some come out shocking, its really annoying as obviously i am not too keen on spending 3-4 grand on a kit when the car itself is probably only worth that much, and its just for appearence, but again i don't want to pay a cent towards anything thats going to look shit. I was going to buy a mondaro style bonnet from him as well, i've heard great things, and the end results speak for themselves.

[Blakvsexec]

In my opinion the only body kit that looks any good on the vr vs commodores is the clubsport kit that they came out with, the gen3 body kits look like arse.

What you haev done with the ford combination doesn't look too bad eitherm goos on ya for doing something different

[Vee-ard]

I always got told if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. So im not.

[DAKSTER]

I've heard mixed things about XXX man, some seem to come out great, some come out shocking, its really annoying as obviously i am not too keen on spending 3-4 grand on a kit when the car itself is probably only worth that much, and its just for appearence, but again i don't want to pay a cent towards anything thats going to look shit. I was going to buy a mondaro style bonnet from him as well, i've heard great things, and the end results speak for themselves.

Buy the bonnet from Savage Fibreglass as I linked to. Its a bonnet.. it needs to be strong, and you will be seeing both sides of the panel, so you need it to look good on both sides.

The XXX stuff is too weak, soon as you drop the bonnet it will smash, and if its needs fixing, will be much harder to fix since you need both sides to look good.

The XXX kit was crap but only $650 its a good deal in the end if you are willing to do the work.

If you are expecting it to bolt on, fit well and not fall apart, I say steer clear of them. When I bought the kit, the guy told me that if I drove the car to Melbourne and paid $600 bucks extra, he would make the kit especially for the job so it could be fitted 'before it sets too hard, its more pliable and I can get a perfect fit that way.'

When I came to collect the car, parts of the kit were 15mm out... he said to me thats normal, once its painted you wont even notice it... took me out the back to show cars he had done and painted.. all were bad fits, and he said 'see you cant even notice'. I said you gotta be joking, this is half an inch too long here, fits badly there etc... then he tried to say 'obviously the car has been in an accident'. Not true, I have the full history of this car from the day it was made, every receipt, every service, the lot. Accident damage is easy to find, there is none, and of course is he saying that every finished car he showed me had also had accidents?

I hit a roo on the way home, obviously not his fault, but it showed me that underneath the gelcoat was completely dry fibreglass mat.. no resin!!!!!!!!!

If you dont mind doing the work, the cheap kit is a good option. If you cant or wont work with fibreglass, I would stay as far away as possible from XXX.

[DAKSTER]

I always got told if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. So im not.

You just did. That was a waste of typing lol.

[Reaper]

Lol - this thread is the biggest cluster#### of shit body kits I've seen since the last bodykit thread. You got a VR/VS??? Get a VR/VS SS kit or VR/S HSV kit. That's about as good as it'll ever get. SS kit IMO looks best.

Reaper

[DAKSTER]

Glad Henry Ford wasn't happy with whats was on offer or we would all be driving horses. If you cant mix n match, then you have to go to the Holden dealer and just buy what they sell I guess. You do that, and enjoy your ride.
I'll do what I am doing, and be happy with that. In the end, the OP will choose something and that will be his choice.
Get your head out of your arse.

[Reaper]

Glad Henry Ford wasn't happy with whats was on offer or we would all be driving horses. If you cant mix n match, then you have to go to the Holden dealer and just buy what they sell I guess. You do that, and enjoy your ride.
I'll do what I am doing, and be happy with that. In the end, the OP will choose something and that will be his choice.
Get your head out of your arse.

Henry Ford trying to stick with the status quo nearly sent Ford broke. He ran with the Model T for decades whilst the opposition not only caught up but overtook him with better body styling and design. GM were the first to dedicate staff to body styling and design and then quickly overtook Ford Mo Co in sales never to be headed (by Ford anyway). I'm not sure what the relevance of it is to this thread however as there is nothing even approaching good design posted so far.

Reaper

[DAKSTER]

lol your history knowledge is no doubt superior to mine, I will happily concede that. The point is... 'IMO'. Its your opinion. Just because you dont like other mods doesnt mean they arent suitable or desirable for others.
So what should you do is say.. I think VR/VS shouldnt have kits from other models, etc... not 'this thread is the biggest cluster#### of shit body kits I've seen'. Who made you the only person with taste in the world?

I like my bodykit, I have no trouble saying it. I dont care much if you dont, but how about a bit of common courtesy? That shit just aint necessary.

[hsv91ss]

I like genuine kits on there respective models

I don't like the VY-VZ kits on vrs becasue imo they make the ass end look to square and ruins the lines on of the car, but each to there own I guess.

I also have a question though I have a VS with a HSV kit but the sideskirts are held on with screws and pretty much needs re-tightning each day and there is a 2 cm gap between the skirt and the part of the skirt that goes under the guard, what would be the best way to fix it glue it down and have the screw holes repaired and re-spray the skirts?