I'm looking at purchasing the following kit within the next month or two...

http://www.andysautosport.com/pontiac/1995_2002_sunfire/exterior/body_kits/vision_auto/visi00092471.html

I just want to know if anyone has had any issues with these people, if there is somewheres I can get this for cheaper (I live in NB, Canada), or if anyone has any comments.

oh nice their using johns car

John? Is he a JBO member? Any ideas if he had any issues with it linning up?

home brew wrote:John? Is he a JBO member? Any ideas if he had any issues with it linning up?

HAHA, He built his kit to custom specs (as far as I've heard), if you order that, it will not look EXACTLY like that.

These companies are something else.........






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home brew wrote:Is he a JBO member?

John Piparo

Kevin Richter wrote:

home brew wrote:John? Is he a JBO member? Any ideas if he had any issues with it linning up?

HAHA, He built his kit to custom specs (as far as I've heard), if you order that, it will not look EXACTLY like that.

These companies are something else.........

The picture they are using to sell it looks the same, but has some differences. When you say build his custom specs, do you mean that he modded this/his kit a little to look the one on his profile picture?

i have heard nothing but bad from andysautosport and i have heard they are slow as hell on shipping the product. Oh and i have also heard some people getting the wrong thing they paid for.

chris b wrote:i have heard nothing but bad from andysautosport and i have heard they are slow as hell on shipping the product. Oh and i have also heard some people getting the wrong thing they paid for.

That isn't good at all. I can deal with slow shipping, but if I received the wrong item, I wouldn't be happy at all.

Any recomendations on a good place to buy a kit that will cost me under 1500 shipped to canada? I realy liked this vison body kit mainly because it looks to be very areodynamic, but I am willing to look at others.

www.onderground-design.com, they are canadian,



www.driftnamiperformance.com

home brew wrote:John? Is he a JBO member? Any ideas if he had any issues with it linning up?

The fitment on that kit was horrible. I'm pretty sure I remember talking to John about it when I was working on the fitment of mine (I had one of the original kits on my old Sunfire for a while), and I'm pretty sure I remember him saying that the fitment on his was horrible as well. He put a lot of time into that kit to make his car the way it is.

My kit was one of the firsts from the original Xplozion mold. The kit was given to Craig Flango (the guy who first made this kit for the Sunfires) by Aerogear, then I picked it up when he listed it here in the classifieds. My rear bumper fit pretty good, but the front was way off and had to be modified to make it work. I know he mentioned the mold was warped during shipment and that is why the first kits had fitment issues. I'm not sure whether the mold was fixed or replaced so I can't say much for the quality of these kits being made today.

try extreme dimensions i heard some people like them i got my kit from hyperformance and had a few problems with fitting but hell everyone has problems with a body kit fitting perfectly and if you dont your lucky.

the cheaper the kit generally the worse fitting it is

Hello, I just noticed this, figured I'd chime in.

The ads that have my car in it for this kit (which have my old silver 17s), those were what I submitted to Aerogear/WaysonUSA as my end of a sponsorship agreement after installing the kit and revamping my car with that new color. The way you see it fit in those pictures is as best a fitment I could get it (before I eventually had to redo it all to fit the way it does now, which took TONS of work). The main issue is the corners of the front bumper that meet up with the fenders, it just doesn't even come close. And the side skirts will take quite a bit of trimming and shaping to get to fit right. The rear actually fit like a glove, thats the one good thing to come out of this kit. The pictures of my car with black 19s are after I modified the kit (front and rear) to fit and look the way I wanted after my sponsorship deal was over.

This is the fit I am talking about. Maybe this is ok compared to alot of body kits out there, but I wasn't happy with it at all, looked incomplete.


And compared to the end result, it was well worth the effort.


Also, I made the grills and molded them in, and had to smooth out the waviness of the fiberglass and fill in all the low spots.




And this is the sides being glued on. The screws were later filled in after the glue dried, and the front area that meets the fender took a bit of TLC as well.







-- John

absolutely stunning car sir.



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good to know what hard work can accomplish.

John Piparo wrote:Hello, I just noticed this, figured I'd chime in.

The ads that have my car in it for this kit (which have my old silver 17s), those were what I submitted to Aerogear/WaysonUSA as my end of a sponsorship agreement after installing the kit and revamping my car with that new color. The way you see it fit in those pictures is as best a fitment I could get it (before I eventually had to redo it all to fit the way it does now, which took TONS of work). The main issue is the corners of the front bumper that meet up with the fenders, it just doesn't even come close. And the side skirts will take quite a bit of trimming and shaping to get to fit right. The rear actually fit like a glove, thats the one good thing to come out of this kit. The pictures of my car with black 19s are after I modified the kit (front and rear) to fit and look the way I wanted after my sponsorship deal was over.

This is the fit I am talking about. Maybe this is ok compared to alot of body kits out there, but I wasn't happy with it at all, looked incomplete.

Slightly old thread, but I figured I'd throw in my $.02 anyway...

There is a reason for that overhang. If anyone remembers when this kit was first being designed (I believe there was actually a progress thread in P&M at the time), it was originally designed with flares. The bumper as you see it here would have lined up with those flares. However, without the flares, you need to do something like John did. Maybe they redesigned the front since, but if not, this is something you will definitely have to deal with.

Also worthy of note, be prepared to do work to any fiberglass kit to get it to fit completely proper. Even the best ones need a little work for a perfect fit. All the cars you see with sh!tty lines are due to people just buying a kit, painting it, and slapping it on their car. You just can't do it. Ever. Take the time to get everything lined up as best you can, and then be prepared to spend some time sanding, and maybe even adding some glass yourself, to get a real good, clean fit.

I really like that kit too. And if i'm not mistaken there was a kit floating around ebay with the same picture but they called there kit the nv2 or something around that.

I found it on ebay for less $$$. Link bellow 1/2 way down page.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/95-96-97-98-99-00-01-02-SUNFIRE-DRIFT-BODY-KITS-W-MESH_W0QQitemZ200241877572QQihZ010QQcategoryZ36475QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

that is one nice looking sunfire you got there john



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