I'm fitting my rear diffuser soon and am planning to remove the stonechip effect on the bumper, I would also like to smooth the coach line groove at the same time, don't want to replace bumper or fit a skin over the top. Just curious if anyone has attempted this and if so what were the results.

I'm fitting my rear diffuser soon and am planning to remove the stonechip effect on the bumper, I would also like to smooth the coach line groove at the same time, don't want to replace bumper or fit a skin over the top. Just curious if anyone has attempted this and if so what were the results.

 

I've seen it done and I don't like it I'm afraid. Makes the Z look like a jelly mould. The swage line, IMO, is a key integral part of the car's design and kicks the back of the car up. If you do the bumpers, you'd need to do the sides too to match and it just doesn't work IMO.

Yes thats good advice from Si :yes:

I hear you guys, it's just that as I'm fitting stillen front lip and skirts with door fillers I thought the swage line on rear bumper would look lost, will have to loose the pinstripe at the least as there will be none anywhere else. Trying to keep the look flow around the body.

Surely there'll still be a "line" of some description above the top of the lip and the skirts though? I can't imagine that Stillen of all manufacturers would do away with such an integral part of the Z32's body style...

Surely there'll still be a "line" of some description above the top of the lip and the skirts though? I can't imagine that Stillen of all manufacturers would do away with such an integral part of the Z32's body style...

 

Your dead right mate, the top of the skirts are moulded to fit snugly into the stock pinstripe recess so there will be a line along the top of the skirt once fitted, it just won't recess into the panel like stick, I was just concerned the recess on the rear bumper would just look odd with nothing to match on the sides, I like the stock lines of the body and am trying to keep it simple, that's why I went for stillen parts.

I can't imagine that Stillen of all manufacturers would do away with such an integral part of the Z32's body style...

 

Unfortunately, they did with this monstrosity. I love Stillen stuff, but their GTZ-R fascia is not one of them. It is one ugly mother of a bumper.

 

 

 

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Your dead right mate, the top of the skirts are moulded to fit snugly into the stock pinstripe recess so there will be a line along the top of the skirt once fitted, it just won't recess into the panel like stick, I was just concerned the recess on the rear bumper would just look odd with nothing to match on the sides, I like the stock lines of the body and am trying to keep it simple, that's why I went for stillen parts.

 

If you get the complete Stillen kit, then it covers the same amount of swage line front-back.

 

Thus:

 

 

Assuming you are fitting these skirts and fillers then swage line is still visable along the length of the car:

 

 

I was just concerned the recessed pinstripe groove on bumper would look odd as there would be no recess on the sides or front, maybe I'll see how it looks with skirts fitted first and just peel off bumper pinstripe. thanks chaps. :thumbup1:

IMO, I wouldn't fit 'just the skirts' as you'll make it look unbalanced. Just my 2 penneth. :)

I know what u mean si, I was thinking with front lip on stock bumper type 3 skirts and fillers, twinz rear diffuser fitted,I could leave rear bumper stock, I haven't seen much for the rear that I like to be honest, trying to keep mods subtle,maybe the bumper swage line will look fine without pinstripe once stonechip gone.