How to Install MSA Aero Kit?

[st0878]

Well I finally got the courage and the money to buy the MSA Aero Kit that includes the front and rear bumber replacement and side skirts. Anyone that has ever ordered one of these kits will tell you they need some tweeking before you can install them. I was wondering if anyone has any tricks or advice on how to trim and install them. I am especially interested in which adhesive and which method would be best to bond them to the metal? Also what could you use to blend the edges of the fiberglass to the body so that it looks like one piece and something that's not going to crack.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

EZ

[Tidoubleger24]

from what ive seen, side skirts are applied with double sided tape thats 3 in long and spaced out 3 to 4 inches. ive seen people silicone the whole length so they dont hold water.. but those were tuner body kits

[26th-Z]

An opinion....

If you plan to fill the seams, you won't be able to hit anything without cracking the filler. A welting strip would normally be used for tape or screw attachment allowing some flex between the aero kit and the body. If I were going to fill the seams, I would bond the new body part - bare metal - to the car. But I wouldn't fill the seams. I would opt for flex because reality dictates that you ARE going to bump it.

[hls30.com]

Get the Z-Therapy video-not so hot in the production department, but more than makes up for it in the info and procedure department.

Will