Lip kit and my exhaust question

Sykora · Post by **Sykora** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 4:00 pm

I am going to pick up and install my freshly painted lip kit next friday, and I've been wondering what I'll do for the rear lip exactly. The exhaust I have on my car currently is a little larger than the stock r/t or srt mufflers, so will it fit? I heard that the kit comes with like cutouts for the mufflers, but will it fit mine? Or will I have to cut it out myself?

Like here are the two examples...

Cutout: (ps- I know that's not a mopar kit, just an example.)

And whatever Ryan did to his, I've seen a bunch of people do this:

Here's a closeup of one of the pipes. see it's a little bulkier than the stock srt exhaust.

2005.Neon.SXT · Post by **2005.Neon.SXT** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:07 pm

On the inside of the rear lip piece, you'll see an indention for how to make the cutouts for the muffler tips. This is exactly where you want to cut if you want to fit the R/T or ACR Muffler (I myself have an '02 ACR Rear section). You don't have to follow these lines if you are running a different exhaust setup. So that being said, you make the decision on where you'll need to cut. A simple dremel tool will do the trick (that's what I did to mine) and it's easy as piss to soften the edges out. Cutting up my rear lip piece was my very first time using my dremel tool lol. You'll just have to do some measuring with your exhaust setup and cut the lip piece accordingly so it'll fit nicely.

fearingdark · Post by **fearingdark** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:19 pm

i've already installed the lip without cutting it, does anyone know if the lip comes off easily or if i'll just have to do the cutouts on the car?

sorry for the hi-jack

Tam · Post by **Tam** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:28 pm

2005.Neon.SXT wrote:On the inside of the rear lip piece, you'll see an indention for how to make the cutouts for the muffler tips. This is exactly where you want to cut if you want to fit the R/T or ACR Muffler (I myself have an '02 ACR Rear section). You don't have to follow these lines if you are running a different exhaust setup. So that being said, you make the decision on where you'll need to cut. A simple dremel tool will do the trick (that's what I did to mine) and it's easy as piss to soften the edges out. Cutting up my rear lip piece was my very first time using my dremel tool lol. You'll just have to do some measuring with your exhaust setup and cut the lip piece accordingly so it'll fit nicely.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Just use a dremel tool to cut out the parts you need. You dont really have to follow the lines if you have a different exhaust. I used a knife at first, but it was tiring and it looked bad. So I went and get a dremel and did it in 2 minutes. lol

Sykora · Post by **Sykora** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:28 pm

awesome thanks guys!

2005.Neon.SXT · Post by **2005.Neon.SXT** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:37 pm

fearingdark wrote:i've already installed the lip without cutting it, does anyone know if the lip comes off easily or if i'll just have to do the cutouts on the car?

sorry for the hi-jack

Well if you already installed it, you should know if it's easy to take off. Or did you not do the installing yourself? If you used the 3M tape, you might have to get a new way to tape it to the bumper. Other than that... No, it's not hard to remove the lip piece from the bumper. What is hard, however, is removing the bumper from the car

I didn't have a long enough extension for those bolts so I was doing like 1/8th turns for almost all the bolts... took forever lol.

fearingdark · Post by **fearingdark** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:59 pm

me too^^
and i put it on myself i just don't want to redo the tape...guess i'll have to though

2005.Neon.SXT · Post by **2005.Neon.SXT** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:21 pm

fearingdark wrote:me too^^
and i put it on myself i just don't want to redo the tape...guess i'll have to though

Why don't you just take the whole bumper off? I know it'll be a PITA, but at least you could dremel the lip piece while it's still on the bumper and save yourself from having to remove the tape. Just a thought.

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:41 pm

2005.Neon.SXT wrote:
fearingdark wrote:i've already installed the lip without cutting it, does anyone know if the lip comes off easily or if i'll just have to do the cutouts on the car?

sorry for the hi-jack
Well if you already installed it, you should know if it's easy to take off. Or did you not do the installing yourself? If you used the 3M tape, you might have to get a new way to tape it to the bumper. Other than that... No, it's not hard to remove the lip piece from the bumper. What is hard, however, is removing the bumper from the car I didn't have a long enough extension for those bolts so I was doing like 1/8th turns for almost all the bolts... took forever lol.

quoted for truth! I did the same exact thing on all four corners when I installed mine last year. I was getting so pissed haha.

Sykora, the mystery thing I did to mine was paint the indentation satin black. that's all haha. I'd imagine your exhaust should fit in the cutouts, but you'll know soon enough by holding the lip kit up to it and seeing if it matches.

glasswars · Post by **glasswars** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:28 pm

if you dont have access to a dremel tool, i used a box cutter to take out my cutouts.

Sykora · Post by **Sykora** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:37 pm

^^
Ryan: lol awesome! you won't get mad if I decide to steal your idea right?

Glasswars: ahh yes that'd work

thanks

2005.Neon.SXT · Post by **2005.Neon.SXT** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 11:50 pm

Sykora wrote:^^
Ryan: lol awesome! you won't get mad if I decide to steal your idea right?

Glasswars: ahh yes that'd work thanks

If you read the Mopar Instructions, it actually suggests that you paint that section black... so you wouldn't be stealing anyone's idea as far as members who have painted that section black.

Sykora · Post by **Sykora** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:56 am

2005.Neon.SXT wrote:
Sykora wrote:^^
Ryan: lol awesome! you won't get mad if I decide to steal your idea right?

Glasswars: ahh yes that'd work thanks
If you read the Mopar Instructions, it actually suggests that you paint that section black... so you wouldn't be stealing anyone's idea as far as members who have painted that section black.

YES! I can avoid car plagiarism

I've actually seen some people cut them out though.

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:47 am

haha yeah. I wasn't the first to do it. A few other people here have it. I saw it done on that yellow sxt that they use in the ads to promote the lip kit/SRT spoiler/Mopar rice lights. I like how it looks. I think it goes well with my cudas

lilnicko11 · Post by **lilnicko11** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:53 am

damn that yellow neon is sick in that first picture in my opinion

Tam · Post by **Tam** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:35 am

Yeah I rememberd reading my instructions suggesting to paint that area flat black too.

It looks really good, better than one color IMO.

Sykora, did you get the whole lip painted blue, or did you paint the middle black?

Post by **occasional demons** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:25 pm

Sykora wrote:I am going to pick up and install my freshly painted lip kit next friday,

I guess my question is, why didn't you check this out before you had it painted?

Not that it is that big of a deal, but then all the edges would be painted, and the black could have been done too.

Sykora · Post by **Sykora** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:36 pm

occasional demons wrote:
Sykora wrote:I am going to pick up and install my freshly painted lip kit next friday,
I guess my question is, why didn't you check this out before you had it painted?

Not that it is that big of a deal, but then all the edges would be painted, and the black could have been done too.

yeah I see that now. truth is, I never saw the kit before it has been painted. I bought it and had it shipped directly so I wouldn't have to resend it. It's not a big deal I guess. It'll be blue for now

2005.Neon.SXT · Post by **2005.Neon.SXT** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:10 pm

I didn't bother much with painting it black cause my car's a dark ish color anyway. I forgot his member name, but there's someone here with a nice looking blue with the lip piece in the back painted black. Looks real good against the blue. You should definitely get it done sometime

When you installing the lip kit?

Sykora · Post by **Sykora** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:42 am

^^ thanks

I'm driving out to Columbus friday

Tam · Post by **Tam** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:24 am

2005.Neon.SXT wrote:I forgot his member name, but there's someone here with a nice looking blue with the lip piece in the back painted black. Looks real good against the blue. You should definitely get it done sometime

Are you talking about this car? or another 03+ car?

This gives you an idea of it being black against a darkish blue color. Your car is a brighter blue so it'll stand out more and look awesome.

Perhaps you could mask it off and just spray it with spray paint from Autozone? Or would that peel / fade off? Considering it's at the bottom and it won't be exposed to much sunlight.

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:50 am

2005.Neon.SXT wrote:I didn't bother much with painting it black cause my car's a dark ish color anyway. I forgot his member name, but there's someone here with a nice looking blue with the lip piece in the back painted black. Looks real good against the blue. You should definitely get it done sometime

When you installing the lip kit?

lolelectricbluesxt and hudson_neon both have it done.

Sykora · Post by **Sykora** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:35 pm

Mat666 wrote:
2005.Neon.SXT wrote:I forgot his member name, but there's someone here with a nice looking blue with the lip piece in the back painted black. Looks real good against the blue. You should definitely get it done sometime
Are you talking about this car? or another 03+ car?

This gives you an idea of it being black against a darkish blue color. Your car is a brighter blue so it'll stand out more and look awesome.

Perhaps you could mask it off and just spray it with spray paint from Autozone? Or would that peel / fade off? Considering it's at the bottom and it won't be exposed to much sunlight.

Thanks guys. I'll definately have to do that. Eventually I want to get an SRT-D front bumper and paint the Dodge cross black, so that'll look cool together if I do that

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