Front Bumper Conversion

Dude, is that an Eclipse front bumper? This is probably the number one question I get regarding the car.

Back in the early 2000's era, big car shows like NOPI had categories, such as Street, Custom, Mild, or Wild. If you wanted to get the Wild or higher end categories you had to have more than just a body kit and wheels to get into these categories. I remember the most common custom mod at the time for the MX-6 was the Supra taillight conversion, which I almost did. Instead I wanted to try something I had never seen or something no one else would think of. So I went for a front end conversion. I placed the Eclipse bumper over my stock bumper and said to myself, "I can make this work."

I stretched to fit the eclipse bumper the best way I could and pop riveted it to the fenders.

I cut to fit the OE Mazda bumper to fender well piece to fill the gap were the eclipse bumper does not go back far enough.
Sanded off all of the paint
Bonded and molded it.

This build is 100% eclipse bumper and 15% original factory mazda bumper. I cut out and used part of the Mazda bumper from around the headlight to fill the gaps. Also I cut out and used the ends of the OEM to fill the fender gap. 4 separate had to be bonded to the eclipse bumper in total.

You will need to fill the gap around the headlights

I cut to fit the OE Mazda bumper to fill the gap were the eclipse bumper does not meet the headlights.
Sanded off all of the paint
Bonded and molded it.

The Green stuff you see is the 8115 Adhesive. Someone at the body shop told me that this is some really strong adhesive that does not run as much as the first stuff. This adhesive is very hard when it dry’s and not easy to sand at all so do not go overboard with this like i did. If I had to do this again I would probably would just choose one kind of Adhesive as the 8217 or this one. Mixing both is not necessary

The Green stuff you see is the 8115 Adhesive.

White mesh is Plastic repair reinforcing tape.