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doge.. I did those exact same photoshops before

well I froze my butt off for about five hours today taking a mold of the driverside skirt, etc... about cried cutting into the side of my car but got a little bit done on the side and some other stuff.. heres a few photos, I plan on working on it agian tomorrow for a few hours. I need to drop the skirt about 1/4 of an inch to make it fit a little more but I had busted my last grinding disc so I couldnt take it any lower today.

well heres the photos.. and thanx to my G/F for lettin me come up here so late so I could post these for you guys

this is the side I was working on today.. you can see that it has to be lowered slightly to make the door open and to make the bodyline match with the front of the sideskirt


another one of the side I was working on.. this one shows why I have to graft in the celica front headlights and cant do a supra headlight conversion


will post more when I have something to show

edit: removed photos view later page for current photos

This post has been edited by NEVERSTOP: Feb 10, 2004 - 12:16 PM

that is looking sweet. keep going.open, open open.

This post has been edited by hostile43: Jan 26, 2004 - 2:44 AM

well worked on it agian a little bit today.. gonna take some of the other photos down so it doesnt clutter up this topic with a buncha pics but here ya go

got the side lowered to the correct hieght and had to cut out a little more. also had to make a break in the scoop to make the top fit a little more flush






This post has been edited by NEVERSTOP: Jan 27, 2004 - 1:09 PM

It's lookin awesome. How much cash is this project running you just about now??

I really would want that front bumper on my celica, will you make a mold of it and sell it ?

for just this project? I have 740 plus 6.99(plus tax) for cutting discs.
for the car total, counting the folding mirrors and supra turnsignals I just got: $34,480.24 (thats stuff I have reciepts for)

It would prolly be quicker and about the same cost for you to just get a replica, to make it work with the celica though you will need another aftermarket front to graft with.. I wouldnt recommend using the stock front as polyureathane doesnt like to mix with fiberglass very well

This post has been edited by NEVERSTOP: Jan 27, 2004 - 12:44 PM

Hey Neverstop, I was browsing Autotrader and came across this. I thought you'd definately be intersted...

Autotrader Link

I'd be curious to see more pics of it though...it looks to me like it started as a Coupe too...

Regarding the Supra conversion:
I have seen somewhere on this forum a Supra conversion of a h/b and it looked really awfull. That was a crappy job though and i dont think its the one at auto trader seen in the previous post. You are doing an excellent job though. keep it up. I hope it turns out beatifully in the end.

Regarding the opening: Opening looks great. If in the end seems a bit too much, then you can use a same color mesh grill or something and it will turn out great.

Its times like this i wish i knew how to work with molds and fiberglass.

edit: guess I was a little hard on that guys car before... I personally don't care for it.. would look better w/o the black flame things but do have to give him a little respect for doing a project like that

Thanks man as for doing fiberglass work its not too hard.. just need patiences and common sense and at least a basic plan.. if want some info about how I do stuff with fiberglass hit me up

This post has been edited by NEVERSTOP: Jan 28, 2004 - 11:48 AM

I would love to learn to graft the bumpers together, I've been following this discussion in awe. Have you had troubles with the sides not lining up, or will you have to cut some of your fenders off? Keep posting man. It's gonna look awesome, and maybe you should put how you grafted the bumpers together when it comes to it.

thanks man

As for the sides not lining up... well there not perfect but not really that far off either, There is two main problems with it lining up. (1) The sideskirt isn't quite long enuf, at first I thought this to be only about a 1/2 inch difference but it is actually about 2 inches as you can see in the newest photos of the sideskirt (the open section on the back of the sideskirt, behind the scoop). (2) the angle of the scoop is slightly off.. the front top of the scoop section wants to point off away from the car instead of resting flush. A 3rd but minor problem was that on the front of the sideskirt it came over the door, If you compare the photo of just the sideskirt on either page 1 or 2 of this topic to the photos I posted last, you will see that there is some missing where the front of the door is, took about 3mins to fix this with a dremel diamond cutting disc.

here is how I am currently addressing the 1st two problems:

(1) as you can see from the photos I had to cut the sideskirt and move it over some, unseen in any of these photos is a mold I made prior to cutting of that section of the sideskirt. This way I will be able to make a 3 inch wide replica of that section that will be trimmed down and fitted into the open part and then glassed in and smoothed out so it appears like it never was cut. I orgionally thought to cut the sideskirt in the center, but decided against this as I wanted to keep the skirt as straight as possible and knew I would have to do alot of work already around the scoop section so figured I would do it there, I also wanted the scoop as far foward as possible.. closest to the front of the vehicle as I could, cutting behind the scoop allows me to do that, where cutting the center of the sideskirt would of moved the scoop farther back and in my opinion would of looked funny.

(2) This is the harder of the two problems I have, I have to break the fiber glass to make it work here by cutting the scoop in places so It can bend to the shape of the car and fit flush, if you look at the top photo of the last 3 I posted you will see one of these breaks. Once I can move the top section around to make it sit as flush as possible I will tape/adheare it down and do small amounts of fiberglass on the outside to keep it in place, once that has hardened I will fiberglass the inside (unseen) part of the sideskirt for strength and will smooth down the outside to make it look smooth and show no signs of breaks.

as for cutting of the fenders:

I wont have to cut the fenders for any of this but am really leaning towards cutting the front of the fenders when I install the front. I want my front to remain modular (can be easily removed). I want to hook fastners to the inside of the fenders so you can just reach up there and unhook the sides of the front bumper and will do simialar things under the hood so the front can be removed in a matter of mins in case I need to tow the car or get it up a really steep incline

as for the front grafting:

Ya I will post on that when it comes to that.. doing the sides first so I can get the hieght of everything.. the sides dont really have alot of room for moving up and down and I want to get the kit as close to the same height all around as possible, and the best way to do that is to do the sides 1st and then match up the front and rear as I have more room to play on them. I also think the sides are going to be the hardest of the whole projects so... I'll get them outta the way 1st

got my JDM folding mirrors yesterday from Neipas09 Thanks!

Newayz heres a couple pics of them.. Think they might be a little bigger than stock but ohwell there gonna be kick a$$!.. want to try and hook them up so when I shut off the car they automatically fold in and when I start the car they automatically fold out.. and I want to still retain the push button function, will figure all that out when the time comes though.

I will install them sunday and work on the kit a little more and will let you guys know how that turns out but heres the pics for now

edit: removed photos so topic wouldn't be cluttered.. scroll down for photos

I didnt even know these things existed for the 6gc until I saw them for sale on here.. knew about the 5gc ones and almost got a set a year or so ago.. im glad now I didn't

Edit: Getting really excited now.. after almost 2 years of this teardown of my car its finally all starting to come together I should be getting my supra turnsignals either today or next week also

This post has been edited by NEVERSTOP: Feb 2, 2004 - 3:13 PM

One word: WOW.

Neverstop!

I have a set of the 5th gen JDM mirrors and have been trying for the same thing. When you figure it out please PM me how the hell you did it.

If your talking wiring.. well I don't have a clue how im gonna do it .. was thinking about doing something with the power anntenna motor as it "powers" down after the car is turned off but not sure, right now it's kinda low on my priority list

I am going to install the mirrors today.. at least mount them (not gonna deal with the wiring) I will post some photos along with my new supra turnsignals

So the are electric folding mirrors? I am sure with a switch or relay attached to an ignition line & a 12v line you could power them as you turn the ignition off.

Btw I like the choice in kit.. and seeing some updated pics of your car. The sideskirts look pretty easy to do, but how are you going to do the top half of the front bumper? Are you going to chop a stock celi bumper up or what?
PS. You have to take some shots of the air vent hole in the rear 1/4 next time you take the clamps off I just wanna see a big hole lol.

This post has been edited by KAMiX: Feb 2, 2004 - 5:34 AM

Thanks man

Yea there the folding mirrors.. and there is a button already for them as for the hole.. yea I am sure I will be taking a photo of it here sometime.. just haven't yet. don't really wanna think about that huge hole I had to make in the side of my car:( also.. while the sideskirts arnt "hard" to do there not exactly easy either.. the photos show only the basic work.. there has been alot more done inbetween steps and stuff not shown on the photos but over all there really just more of a pain than hard, and I hope to have them completed here in a few weeks with not too many problems.. but on the same hand I wouldnt recommend a project like this to anyone who has little or no experince with fiberglass etc

as for the front.. I am going to use a vis invader front for the top half.. the stock one is made of a polyureathane material and it doesnt take to fiber glass very well and would make this project almost pointless to try with the stock front.

Well heres a few more photos I took yesterday... gonna take some of the photos down from the earlier post on the folding mirrors to free up space.

here are two photos of the mirrors in both the out and folded position. there is also a pic of the supra turnsignals installed... well at least one of them.. dont have time to post all the pics right now but got both of the turn signals installed

edit: removed photos for space... view later page for recent photos

This post has been edited by NEVERSTOP: Feb 10, 2004 - 12:19 PM

damn dude you could get alot more done if you had a shop and weren't outside

LOL I prolly would.. I basically have a two car garage to work in but my G/F's civic is in there along with a 69 GTO and I have enuf stuff in boxes for the celica to basically take up half the garage also so I kinda have to work outside right now.. but its cool cuz my G/F got me these kick@ss Carhart bibs that keep my really warm so I can work out there for hours and not get cold

Here are some other photos I didn't have time to load the other day

Not really has to do with the exterior but figured it wasnt worth startin a new topic over...

Got my new seats today.. gonna reupoylster (SP?) them but for 214$ shipped to my door for both and sliders you can't beat them

Yea I know that the vynil looks kinda like crap and not the best job but I like the shape and size.. not to mention price

edit: photo removed for space go to next page to view the ugly seat

This post has been edited by NEVERSTOP: Feb 10, 2004 - 12:20 PM