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picked up some ijdmtoys 2500k Yellow fogs

me being curious, took them all apart to see how they are built

and the wheels finally

popped some Nutsert to the bottom of the bumper so that my new skipper Front lip bolts on sturdy and easy to remove rather than the supplied Nut and bolt from Skipper.

the test fit.

Off to paint now.

10-26-2015

parts back from paint,

Here is some teaser shots. still working out some kinks at the point before i call it done.

11-15-2015

Lets add to this.

Messed with the ijdmtoys fogs a bit

wanted opaque they mentioned but they didnt have it in production so I decided to emulate the look.

Bought some of this.

came up with this

comparison of with and without film

ran a fog light harness in the vehicle so made a harness plug off the Light side as well so it is easy to remove with it still attached to bumper.

final product

fog light switch, color is off when camera flashed but its close enough

LED backlight is white as well. and dims like all other factory switches

video of the switch in action

Here they are done and on the car.

11-20-2015

dropped off the car yesterday evening at the SF Autosalon show within the SF Autoshow for the week.

snapped some photos of it during setup before i left.

2-9-2016

thought i'd toss a little update from the last two months

For those of you running Airrex or any other Air bags that are bellow style, You may want to take a look at your rear swaybar endlinks to see if it is rubbing bag. I caught mines early but i can see that this can be a big headache if it rubs through

When the bags are filled with air, one side rubbed the bag while the other side was fine. I'm sure over time it would also rub the opposite when the sway bar shifts towards that direction

I couldnt even put a piece of paper through in between the endlink and bag. They were literally rubbing slightly.

Figured out a easy fix. I removed the endlinks from the vehicle and then took the pressed on Washer off so it gives me that exra couple of mm clearance.

Also This car has some odd suspension issues in the rear, It seems like it is more biased to the driver side of the vehicle.

When Airing out I see that the tire is touching and making horrible noise with a small tab on driver side of bumper.

When looking where the wheels sit in relation to body quarter panel it looks like wheel sits much closer on driver side. This is probably not noticed on a factory height car but definitely noticed when you are much closer in tolerance when lowered a lot or on Air so you can see the relationship. I do not think this is issue with just my car as I have spoke with others with 3IS and they also point that they also seem to have issues on driver side more so. So in order to get rid of the horrible rub noise from the tire and bumper, I decided to install SPC Rear Camber arms even though it wasnt part of the plan. But I rather not hear any noise when dropping the car on the Ground.

You can hear the awful noise in this video of tire rubbing some of the plastic support for bumper before I installed the camber arms

The stock next to the SPC arm.

I also ended up installing the Seibon Rear diffuser and did not like how the Fsport exhaust was sunken in from the cutouts so I will end up selling it and keeping it stock for now until i see something else come up that I may like more. Didn't seem to have snapped a photo because my mind changed so fast when I reinstalled the bumper with the diffuser. It was literally 1 minute on and then right off.

Here are some out in its natural habitat. Will finally start driving it a bit more rather than just letting the car sit in the garage for weeks on end.

Next coming months, I will finally start the custom Subwoofer enclosure in the trunk.

and maybe wire up my remote start alarm 2-way pager soon as well since majority of the exterior cosmetics are done.