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Jacks we'll need for the lowered cars, but we shouldn't need any jack stands.

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Originally Posted by falconfixer (Post 1860714)

Sounds like y'all have a place to do this but in the future if you need a lot of space I'm at 43595 John B Thompson Rd Hollywood MD (google map it). Only bitch is it's a hike for some of you guys and the road coming in is gravel. Road hasn't ****** my car up but I know some folks don't like to drive on it.

If no one has yanked a bumper off yet I might be able to swing by depending on the day and lend a hand. Had mine off when I installed the cooler.

I've taken mine off a couple times, so we should be ok. Feel free to stop by anyway though :tup:

Sounds good blades. Was trying to catch up and didn't see if there was someone that has done it before.

I'd say for the people that just wanna stop by the house, park away from the house so people that are doing the installs have a spot to park..

Just an idea with all the bumpers coming off. Might want to pick up a couple of extra button clips. I would be really surpised if 10 bumpers came off and not one clip gets broken.

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Originally Posted by eastwest2300 (Post 1860721)

I'd say for the people that just wanna stop by the house, park away from the house so people that are doing the installs have a spot to park..

Copy :tiphat:

Bumper clips? where do you get those at? I've never taken off the bumper.

I call them button clips. DIGI calls them pop rivets http://www.the370z.com/diy-section-d...r-removal.html

Dealership, courtesypart, hell Z1 might stock them

I'd be more concerned about losing them. I've never broken any, but I have lost a couple :p

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Originally Posted by b1adesofcha0s (Post 1860496)

Also I'll put it out there that we should do this on a Saturday since Sundays will be reserved for football.

Oh hey GOOD call.

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Originally Posted by b1adesofcha0s (Post 1860745)

I'd be more concerned about losing them. I've never broken any, but I have lost a couple :p

Haven't lost/broke any yet but am missing 2 10mm screws that secure the undershroud.

Actually, you can get them on eBay, I've seen them on there.

About $7 for 30 of them, BUT from China.

I just ordered 40 of those clips, I'd rather have more than enough, than not enough.

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Originally Posted by eastwest2300 (Post 1860697)

I got a service jack, jack stands, and all the tools that we should need. My oven will only fit a set of headlights at a time, soo... if we have 2 teams, one team will be removing bumpers, the other team, will be disassembling the headlights, we'll use tape to mark whos who, and go from there.

how big is your oven?! typical residential ovens will probably only fit 1 headlight. but i might be wrong!

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Originally Posted by b1adesofcha0s (Post 1860700)

Nah we should do more than one at a time. I think 2-3 sounds good. We will be spending some time waiting for paint to dry so we might as well make the best of that time. Make sure to reserve parking spots for us that day :icon17:

opening headlights is very time consuming. factor in the time wasted for it to bake, take apart all the stuff inside the headlight, mask whatever off, paint (at least 2-3 coats) assuming you wait 15-20 min each coat, all this multiplied by the number of headlights.

On a fast pace, if we were to work on 1 car at a time, it would take a solid 3-4 hours from beginning to end. but with multiple cars in the mix we can make this work out very efficiently