Illusion Body Kit

Illusive! Part 1

Article by Koops

This document describes the whole process from ordering the ‘Illusion Body kit’, till the completed installation, somewhere in the next few weeks. If you have any questions, you can contact email: koops@pacbell.net

Let’s start from the beginning.

Around December 17 2000 a reckless driver hit me from behind. I was parked in a parking spot but he still managed to hit me driving backwards. My bumper and left rear driving light was damaged. (Hardtop15, hardtop16, hardtop17).

Therefore, when I came back from my Christmas holiday in The Netherlands, I went looking for another body kit. Pretty soon I saw the Illusion Body kit, and tried to find someone who sold it. As it turned out after quite some communications with the SpyderShopper suppliers, nobody carried it. Therefore I contacted the Japanese firm, making the kit. They told me that Bozz Performance, a shop in Fremont, CA, could sell the kit.

Since I also live in Fremont, I immediately went there. BTW, now you can order the Kit, after a lot of effort from Ken and me from both Bozz Performance and MG Racing. Thanks Ken !!

A couple of days later, I ordered it from the manager Kenric, on 25 January 2001. It arrived on March 2^nd 2001. I picked it up on March the 3^rd.

	Illusion001 shows the box containing the side skirts.
	Illusion002 shows the two boxes next to the white ones. These huge ones contain the front and rear bumper
	Illusion003 shows them from a different angle.
	Illusion004 shows the front bumper removed from the box. As you can see the boxes are twice the size of the bumper. That’s because so the stuff won’t get damaged.
	Illusion005 shows both the front and rear bumper clear of their boxes.
	Illusion006 – Illusion009 shows all the installation packages. I will post the installation description the next time. Installation is very easy, but the papers are in Japanese, so I can only look at the pictures !
	Illusion010: the rear wing in my living room.
	Illusion011 and Illusion12 show the Mercedes ML320 of a colleague (the Spyder is my only car) which was just large enough to transport all the parts. Who says that a Spyder is small J

Well, now I’m going to look after a good body shop. Hopefully I can get it painted next week, after my car is back from a general maintenance, since my rear hatch doesn’t want to open, and, of course, that’s needed for the install of the rear bumper.

Look for the next article in this series in an upcoming month on SpyderMagazine!