In this episode of Mighty Car Mods were going to teach you guys how to make a cheap arse
lip kit for less than 8 Dollars
Welcome to another episode of Mighty Car Mods, Proudly supported by Just Car insurance
Now who doesn't want a lower, madder car so that they can live the JDM life
You want ground effects!
is that what its called, ground effects? I dont know Martin
I think what you can do Martin is you can trick the Balls and trick the brain
But if you can't get your car lower you can make the body appear lower but putting a lip kit around it
which is why today were going to be doing a budget front lip install using
Garden Edging
Now this stuff is about $4 a metre
Now were going to start of by doing the front lip of the car, its going to need around about two meters of this
Which means we are going to be doing our after market lip extension kit for 8 Dollars
Now not everybody wants to extend there lips downstairs, but for those that do this is the cheapest way of doing it
Today were are going to be working on my Saab 900 turbo also known as wasabi
It already has a small factory lif but its about to get a whole lot bigger thanks to out garden edging
Alright so this stuff here you can get from your local hardware store
Its used for a variety of different things, Concrete from work, garding edging
This ones Australian made and its Black. This one is 100mm, you can get 150mm aswell depending on how hectic you want to go
or theres a 7.5 cm one. Now our basic plan is going to be to unwind this and see how much we need
To loop right around the front of the car like this
And I reckon its going to be around about two metres
And then we punch some holes into it, attach it. And our car should actually be looking Mad
There are a couple of differnt ways you will be able to attach your garden edging
Its actually like a hard plastic even though it looks like rubber
but thats a good thing because its really solid
Now you can use tek screws which is the easiest way which is just grabbing a screw and drilling straight through it like a self tapping one
they do have a habbit of falling out
And they can rust aswell which is a little bit annoying and it doesnt look as classy
Now alot of body kits you also see people using rivots which for this case is actually going to work really well
Now the idea with a rivot is you drill what you need through the plastic
Then you grab a pop rivot and what ever you want to attach it to
you put the rivot through it, through your little bracket in this case
you grab your rivot gun
theres all sorts of differnt ones you can get, theres manual ones, air powered ones
you throw it in there
you pull it tight
and it snaps off automaticly like that
And that is a really really solid way of attaching this garden edging to a little metal bracket or what ever
Looks awesome man
People may remember that as the way we put the body kit on our bogey 180 on our drift project
It just looks really neat like that actually looks cool like you could do rivots and its even part of the design
and there really cheap, a rivot guns like 30 bucks and there rivots are 5 bucks each
and the options we were talking about were tek screws, cable ties or these
the problem with tek screws is they can fall out, you see it all the time
Cable ties you kinda gotta get around the otherside in this case its not as easy
but thats just clean and classy
Just like a Saab
The first step is to clamp it on temporarily and mesure out how much your going to need
Is it going to look Mad? Yeah I think so. Dude its going to look really good
thats going to look good the whole way round, that actually tidys up the front of it quite alot doesnt it
You got a texta there Marty?
Yeah, you gonna chop it? Yea im just going to mark it with a bit of extra overhang so that we can get rid of the excess
Do you want me to hold it up?
umm yea can you hold it up where it needs to go
I'm a little bit shocked actually
After market front lips can cost hundereds of dollars so if this works it going to be freaken awesome
Plus it will be super Durable
This is the stuff that goes inbetween your lawn and your garden so that you can run your mower along it
So its not only in this sun which is why this is UV protected
Its ment to be getting smashed with power tools
On your rivot you get your diameter which in this case it 3.2 but the number your looking for is grip
So grip is like the lenth beneaththat little ledge there
6.4 so we get an extra 3mm of grip which is exavtly what were going to need to hold that in
Drill through the edging and your existing lip and get a rivot and smash it in there to hold it all together
Rivots are a really popular choice for adding parts to boats, planes and cars and you may have seen us using them in the past
when putting together our budget 180SX drift project
Yes rivots are mad and Marty is a massive fan
You know who else uses rivots? well obvious not. Umm dudes that work on Airplanes man and dudes that work with sheet metal
There Lame - Lisenced aircraft maintenance engineers. Thats right! Lameys
but yea to do repairs on Airplanes, you probably noticed next time you get on a plan like have a look around theres rivots everywhere
Cause its all aluminium, super light weight
Becuase the frogs have taken over man
what do you mean?
they just rivot, rivot every where you go
thats the lamest joke you've ever said
you can mesure these out if you want to be really clean but we are just smashing them in by eyeball
the next thing we have to do is just trim these off so its the right lenth
and also try and make it so it follows that curve that is already there for that super factory
aftermarket look
That may be easier to do before its attached to the car, I was going to do it first
but then I thourght it would be easier like this
Basicly going to follow this line down and then mark that
And then just trim that down flush
And that is goint to be a mad Budget lip kit extender
Trim off the end at what ever angle suits your wheel arch
And get into it with some sand to clean it all up
So for alot of people theres actually an aesthetic look about making sure all your rivots are fully exposed like that
For me I want to black them out, theres a few differrent ways you can do it
You could paint them, I'm just going to use a sharpie and just color those in like that
I dont know how long thats going to last, but there just going to zip away
Into there new home with out being too visible
And that looks freaking awesome
8 Dollars plus some rivots and you car now looks a million dollars
thats a good return on investment my freinds
I am left handed, Marty is left handed
Cut and clean up the other side and you lip is done
That has surpassed my wildest dreams, it looks so good. this stuff is awesome
Its cheap. Its easy. Its quick and like minimal tools like rivots, drill bit, drill and some cutters
I reckon we should keep going
Of course we are going to keep going
were going to do the whole car
What I would like to see is this stuff, instead of sitting like that
We actually kinda go wide body and extend it out like that
Yea, catch the light with it aswell
We've decided to do the rest of the car and give it some more mad areo street presence.
Again were mesuring it up and then were rivoting on small brackets which well use to attach the garden edging to the underside of the Saab
Once all the brackets are in place we can attach it to the car
But theres a small problem due to the design of the Saab
We've just realised that were going to have to cut the edging so that the door can still be used
to take your passenger to that swingers party
and its going to be hard to keep the pecies lined up
and while this would work on most cars it ain't gonna fly on this dentist jet
If the door was inside a frame, you could just have one peice with out the cuts that would just be the best
But lets get real for a second the front lip is killer
Its cheap, its easy and a fun DIY project for the front of any car
So that is a mad project you can do on the weekend or mabye even after school or before work
the mad thing about that is you can get on Eballs and flick yourself away untill your going to find yourself
Going to exite you
But really your just getting the same stuff aren't you
Like that stuffs probably getting pumped out of the same factory
But alot of the stuff you buy is all coming from the same place
Alot of the time it is that same thing, Particuly universal one size fits all
Like if you going to by a specific body kit for your car that can cost thousands of dollars
And thats fine if thats the road you want to go down
if you are just going to go and buy a one size fits all lip kit
It probably is just the same thing and by making it yourself you know its going to fit properly
and nothing looks worse than when you buy a universal one size fits all and its all hanging off
And we know that this one size fits all thing its like bolt on
Yeah it doesnt usually work
So there it is, Its a mad project, it looks awesome I'm very happy with the results
My Saab looks lower than it did before which is exactly what its ment to do plus I'm sure its giving
Me some mad areodynamic umm its not doing anything lets be honest
But it makes me feel and thats what cars are all about.
Like this stuff is so much fun to do
Exactly, and thats why we cant take our cars to seriously people
If everyone's like living the expensive life with there crazy cars
who's bolting garden edgeing onto there ferrari, whos doing it?
Other than those bozo dudes in Japan
Like not many people
But now you are so congratulations, well done follow our balls of faceballs
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It takes a little bit longer for things to get to Antarctica but yes they do get there eventually
See you later everyone, Im gonna go eat my self some mad Parsnip