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Ive been on the hunt for a MS front bumper, Ive resorted to Yahoo Japan Auctions as I was able to obtain my side skirts from there.
My question is why do all/most the JDM MS bumpers that are up for auction have the front center piece missing and some times the oil cooler ducts are also not present.
As you can see the "JDM" MS Fronts are missing the items circled in yellow. Some of the JDM bumpers have one duct and one block off plate... others are missing everything entirely.
Are these well made fakes or what? Any insight or explanations will be appreciated.
The JDM bumpers don't always have the black piece, one of our SARX members owns an RX-8 in Japan and has a full dealer installed MS kit and it does not have the black piece. But on the USDM kits they do.
Alright thanks 9k, damn this is probably one of the few times where having the JDM vs USDM part sucks.
IMO the black center piece is a great final touch, and I imagine it blocks the crash bar from view as well. As to WHY the JDM models choose to go without the center piece is beyond me.
Last edited by batangisip89; 08-12-2014 at 12:10 AM.
Reason: Autocorrect
They have different crash standards in Japan so they use a smaller front bumper crash beam. Since the JDM car has a smaller beam it doesn't need the finish piece to hide it. The finish piece on the USDM bumper covers the larger beam.
Stubbs is correct, the bar on JDM RX8 is in fact smaller, and unlike the USDM (actually, ALL LHD) version, the back of the JDM impact beam (crash bar) is actually hollow, on the USDM bersion it's more like a "rectangle" shape.
I have my JDM rx8 bar out a while ago, maybe when I go to the car next week I will snap a pic of it, u will notice the difference right away. and I'm gonna get myself a USDM bar for this reason, no matter how much I love the 8, I rather let my 8 to take all the impact than my body
I am bumping this old thread as I was wondering if someone would have a source for the Mazdaspeed bumper oil cooler ducts. The only source I was able to find was at vividraing but they sell it as a kit with the cooler and cooler lines for over $500.
I was about to start fabricating something to direct more air through the coolers with my Mazdaspeed knockoff bumper but if I could just get those that would save me some work.
Alternatively, maybe someone would have a 3D scan of those so I could just print those? or maybe someone local to Chicago would have those on their car so I can make a 3D scan at work and share for everybody to print their own? I know its a long shot but I thought I would try before fabbing something up from an old plastic bucket (LOL )
08-11-2014, 07:21 PM
