none.

 

I have seen a good mazdaspped replica kit, fitment was a few mill off on one side near the lights at the front but other than that it was good.

 

04wb8 had a really nice fitting mazdaspeed replica kit,

I think he said it was From Vis, from body-kits.com

 

but not any money...

 

I think people just buy replicas and realize they don't fit perfectly and give up. Then they go say a bunch of negative **** about them.

Honestly you can spend about 600 on a replica set, and even if it fit like crap i doubt it'd cost more than $1500 to have a body shop make it work for you.

That's around $2000 dollars rather than paying $4000 for an authentic set, that's if you can even find it.


Here's a prime example, +all this body work was done in his house.
https://www.rx8club.com/exterior-app...dy-kit-148031/


Yes they're are some replicas that are completely not worth buying at all, but i don't think you have the right to say every single one is just not worth it.

 

Just try to buy a fake Gucci purse for your wife and tell her that it's exactly the same as the original, only cheaper.

 

Ya they have horrible customer service. I tried to get some fenders from them and basically couldn't. They were less than helpful.

 

I was thinking about getting a replica and getting a bodyshop to do it for me. With bondo work and all that.

 

Ive seen a kit on Andy's auto sports its a mazdaspeed kit for over 2000+ did anyone order from there ?

 

The fitment on my bumper was good and it still took about 10 hours of labor to make it perfect.

 

i have been reading through a lot of threads and have come to the conclusion that the only kit worth buying, according to almost everyone is a mazdaspeed kit. the only problem with that is that they no longer are making kits and you will have to find someone selling one. if you find someone selling an authentic kit, you will have to hope they live close in order to pick up because shipping is ridiculous..i guess i will have to buy a kit i like and hope that what i cant get to fit properly, a body shop can. i just think it is next to impossible that ms was the only company selling a good kit and all others are crap..

 

Nothing is perfect, just gotta make it work.

 

It's not that most companies are crap. Replica companies are crap 99.9% of the time. AutoExe, Vertex, Re Amemiya and possibly Panspeed all make legit bodykits that fit almost like they should (take the almost away for autoexe).
You just have to know what you're buying, users tend to be happy to buy a stolen design built by a cheap manufacturer that fits like ****...

 

yeah,i know you have to make it work.i was just hoping to find something close enough that after i install it and want to get it painted, i wont be hit for a crap load more money because i happen to buy a crappy kit..i was looking at VIS until i read about all the bad experiences on here people had with them..kind of like how ed is looked at too on here..

 

The manufacturers i mentioned all have good fitment and nice looking bodykits. Vertex and Autoexe both have US distributors (Check Vertex USA on google or Mazmart for AutoExe parts).

 

@bse50- are you saying my best bet would be to get something from japan? i looked up those companies you suggested and besides a couple of stateside companies selling one or two kits, the majority of them are in japan.

 

Yep, that's why I put an accent on AutoExe and Vertex. They're both sold in the US and are decent looking\good fitting. Importing a body kit from japan would be fairly expensive.

 

forgive me if this has been linked in this thread ..





not sure if I hate it or like it..

 

^That front end looks like a fishes mouth.. That wing looks like a fishes tail. Wtf

 

 

It's a fish...duhhh! lol

 

That trunk, those doors and that hood all look familiar I think its a fish disguised as an Rx8.

 

you two doing the **** taking sounds a little fishy to me...

 

Auto Craft rear bumper, not too bad.

 

pretty sure thats what Izzy is rocking. too much going on for me though.