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Originally posted by tour96wnb:

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Yeah, but it does not effect my satisfaction of the bumper whatsoever, I love it. I knew when I bought it that there would be plenty of work involved, the Mirko splitter was not easy to fit... but yeah.....
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so then the splitter fie? what did you have to do? can you heat the splitter up and bend it?

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Well I personally shaved the whole bottom edge off the CF bumper because im going to be molding the mirko straight to the bumper, Im not sure how Midnight95se did his. The problem is that the CF bumper's bottom edge is spread wider than the splitter, so i had to cut enough in the CF to allow enough flex just to fit the bloody thing on, and it still does not fit quite right..... check my profile for some pics.....

Originally posted by stolontour97:

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Originally posted by Plastique_synthetiX:

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The bottom contour on micah's front bumpers don't quite line up right with the rest of the SVT kit... That has been bugging the crap out of me, seems to be aimed down a bit....

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Yeah, the crease/contour on the sides of the bumper don't line up to the rest of the car, but on mine it doesn't angle down, it's perfectly straight, but it is a tad lower but at least it's straight. Besides, it's not noticable, at least to me it isn't. Now maybe if mine DID angle down like I've seen on some others, then maybe I'd be a little perturbed...

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I'd also noticed that yours does not seem to angle down What is different about your bumper, or was there something different with the installation of yours? I'd be very interested to find out, cause the only way i could see to fix it on my car would be to cut a whole section out of my bumper and then remold it (no way in hell im going to do that.... if i were going to try that, i'd just buy a Stock SVT bumper and do what micah did in the first place.....

Well, along the sides where the 2 bolts go into the fenders I got some 1/8" thick by 1" wide steel bar from Home Depot and cut it to run the whole length of the lip under the bumper where it bolts up to the fender. Then drilled the holes to match up w/ the ones in the fender and bumper and bolted it up. The steel strap is very ridgid and pulls the whole bumper up tight and snug against the front fender. when I had put the bumper on w/o any additional supports or tried to just use the black plastic brace off of the orig bumper, it sagged horribly and the contour line area angled down then. That is why I opted to try something more ridgid and guess what, it seemed to work.

I was looking through your pics, and your front bumper doesn't look like the crease is angled down all that much. That splitter looks like it sits really low in one of those pics!!! Do you have the factory suspension on your car in those pics or something different?

Stock suspension, but get this... I'm just waiting for my konis to get back so I can install my Ground Controls