Lower Duct Mod
Not sure if anyone has done this before but well, like staring at Angelina Jolie's enormous lips (politics makes me soooo horny - just for you kate), it just seemed right to do.
Add that to the fact that I haven't driven Roxy in damn near two weeks because I removed the bumper for the shaving project, I'm itching to get her back on the road. Buuut, after said shaving project, I now have no turn signals, parking lights or the nicety of fog lights (it's safe mom, trust me). That won't do. I was going to graft in some cayenne lights but they are just too damn big for the MK3 bumper so I was stuck with no options. And then after I was staring at all of the parts on the floor of the kitchen, it seemed like both turn signals AND fogs would fit on the duct grille. w00t!
Now don't start shaving up them bumpers so quick folks, it isn't plug and play. MANY things have to be relocated in the engine bay for the lights to fit including the radiator overflow tank, the factory horn and alarm horm as well as somehow notching the drivers side frame rail (yeah, that's gonna be fun). But fuck it, it will be dope when finished right?
So yeah, construction was pretty damn easy. Begin with cleaning everything up so the glue will stick to the plastic. I was gonna wet sand the lenses to clean up 180,000+ miles of debris pitting but decided not to because a) I was tired and that would have cut into miller time and b) I don't want Roxy to be perfect anyways...
Oh and p.s., a few of you have mailed me asking what's up with the summit hat. Trust me, it's not product placement, just my inability to keep a clean house =)
Take a dremel or a cutoff wheel and trim some tabs (denoted in red)
Take a hot glue gun and glue the lights to the grille for placeholder purposes only. I'll be using flexible epoxy to attach them permanently later.
I took some scrap ABF plastic sheet and cut a small piece to fit between the lenses and clean up the overall look to be more OEM-ish
The drivers side grill had these lame filled in sections so I decided to first roughly dremel them out and then finally take a file (perfect fit too!) and file the sides down (yeah, I'm anal haha)
Viola. This weekend, I'll finish up the gluing as well as the final installation so I can finally drive the Roxster.
Add that to the fact that I haven't driven Roxy in damn near two weeks because I removed the bumper for the shaving project, I'm itching to get her back on the road. Buuut, after said shaving project, I now have no turn signals, parking lights or the nicety of fog lights (it's safe mom, trust me). That won't do. I was going to graft in some cayenne lights but they are just too damn big for the MK3 bumper so I was stuck with no options. And then after I was staring at all of the parts on the floor of the kitchen, it seemed like both turn signals AND fogs would fit on the duct grille. w00t!
Now don't start shaving up them bumpers so quick folks, it isn't plug and play. MANY things have to be relocated in the engine bay for the lights to fit including the radiator overflow tank, the factory horn and alarm horm as well as somehow notching the drivers side frame rail (yeah, that's gonna be fun). But fuck it, it will be dope when finished right?
So yeah, construction was pretty damn easy. Begin with cleaning everything up so the glue will stick to the plastic. I was gonna wet sand the lenses to clean up 180,000+ miles of debris pitting but decided not to because a) I was tired and that would have cut into miller time and b) I don't want Roxy to be perfect anyways...
Oh and p.s., a few of you have mailed me asking what's up with the summit hat. Trust me, it's not product placement, just my inability to keep a clean house =)
Take a dremel or a cutoff wheel and trim some tabs (denoted in red)
Take a hot glue gun and glue the lights to the grille for placeholder purposes only. I'll be using flexible epoxy to attach them permanently later.
I took some scrap ABF plastic sheet and cut a small piece to fit between the lenses and clean up the overall look to be more OEM-ish
The drivers side grill had these lame filled in sections so I decided to first roughly dremel them out and then finally take a file (perfect fit too!) and file the sides down (yeah, I'm anal haha)
Viola. This weekend, I'll finish up the gluing as well as the final installation so I can finally drive the Roxster.