During installation of the Mazdaspeed kit I've found out that you have to chop off half of the factory bumper to accomodate the rear valence. What a disappoinment. I thought the unpainted "valence" area of the factory bumper was removable. Before making any abrasive modifications to factory bumper I was hoping that the rear valence was a cover. It's not.

 

Drag, but worth pointing out. Thanks for bringing it up.

But lemme ask you this: chopping or not, will the end result be worth it? :D

 

Omi...do you have the rear aero flares or mud guards? I just wanna know how it flows with the side skirts..i'm not a huge fan of the MS Rear....

 

It was previously posted that you had to "shave" the rear bumper to install the MS rear. I opted against it. Looks good with the rear aero flares - may have the bottoms of the flares painted to match the rest of the MS kit.

 

Yes I do, and I think it flows quite well. Check starting at this post for a full set of pictures.

 

the rear sounds like a pain especially when I've heard the veilside rear bumper requires no cutting

 

If for any reason i need to take off the rear bumper, i think i'm going to be pretty pissed BUT i just don't see any reason why i would?!

 

...ouch!

I asked the bodyshop specialist if he could just shave the factory bumper... he said there's going to be lots of shaving... "we cab shave off have your bumper." Unfortunately this guy knows what he is doing. His shop has plenty of cover cars and he's been in the business for almost two decades.

 

Here's a picture I found in the gallery page showing how much was chopped off the stock bumper to have the MS rear diffuser fit.