J Replace Rep Metal S13 Fenders

[AKADriver]

Originally Posted by Thursday7

What, are Silvia ones too magical or something? Sure, finding a mint base to replicate is a bit harder, but if they just came out with these for 180sx, the process for Silvia is hardly different.

Because as mentioned above "J Replace" didn't just start making this fender, it's been something that a contract manufacturer in Taiwan had the tooling for already ages ago. If you go to the King Auto Parts link Alex posted towards the top of the thread they have tons of replacement body parts for tons of cars including fenders, bumpers, and hoods for the 240SX. But they don't have anything for the S13 Silvia. They weirdly do have a front bumper for the kouki S12, that's the only thing they have listed as a Silvia part.

Taking an OEM panel and making molds for a plastic part is relatively easy/something a low volume manufacturer can do, making stampings for a metal panel is way more expensive and they'd have to be able to sell them at scale (1000s) to be worth it.