Thanks to my friend Pablo over at Tandem Automotive. His muffler flew off while we were going down I-20 to the Park n Ride meet and ran straight into my lower valance and front bumper. So he paid to have my front bumper repainted, and I had the idea of trying a 280z lip on my 280zx, so I had him order me a s30 lip for me to see if it would fit. I like the aftermarket lips for the s30s better than I do for the s130s so I figured I'd give it a try. Well the ZX i found out the hard way is 8" wider than the 280z. So i had to cut the lip straight down the middle and extend it. Thankfully the lip was fiberglass, so I just added some aluminum strips to make it rigid, and added fiberglass sheets to it, and filled the small gaps with a touch of bondo. I'm fairly pleased with the way it turned out, the only spot you can tell there was fiberglass work done is the top part of the area i extended. I kept finding air pockets in the fiberglass when I was sanding it down to smooth it out, so its kinda patchy with bondo, but other than that, its flush everywhere else.

Sorry for the crap cell phone pics. I know I could've done a little better with the body work, but considering I have absolutely no body work experience and this was my first go around, I think I did a decent job

 

awsome! did you need to modify the sides or did it just bolt on?

 

I had to drill a hole for it to match up with the existing hole on the fender, and then what I did was use a speed clip to hold the two together and run a 10mm bolt through it to keep it tight. The existing holes were pretty close on the s30 lip, I did have to make quite a few of my own though lol.

 

looks awesome

 

If I don't swap my drivetrain into a 240,260, or 280z I will do what you did but not just the lip I'll do the hood, head lights, and bumpers. I like the the look of the s130's but I love the look of an s30.

 

Has anyone put a s30 front end on a s130 ive bin looking for pictures with no luck im curious