Newest project: Exterior 3.0 Options

[KAMiX]

Yeah when I said easy, I just mean't that it looked easy enough for me to do, And I have done some fibreglassing before making surfboards..

Btw, having trouble getting your pics to work now, but probably because I don't have an imagestation account?

[NEVERSTOP]

[NEVERSTOP]

Here are new photos of what I got done yesterday on the celi...

Got the driver sideskirt about as far done as I can until the temp raises some and I can start fiberglassing, put small screws in it to hold the skirt so no more clamps

Am going to start on the passanger side next weekend.. hopefully I can get that one to the same level as the driverside in just a day now that I know exactly what has to be done. Once both the sides are positioned then I can start workin on the front <-----CAN'T WAIT

Put one of my new seats in the car yesterday.... and I don't like it at all But think one of my buddies is gonna pick them up them from me so thats cool... there a pic of it below.

Also did a little work on the rear... kinda just mounted it with clamps, sticks. etc to get kind of an idea - gonna play around with photoshop a little this week and if I come up with something good I will post it.

Newayz.. on with the pics

not really nediffernt but the side without the clamps


Up close of the scoop/cut


Part of the area I will need to fiberglass in... I will fill this with clay leavin it about 1/8 and inch too low and then fiberglass it in


Ugly seat


Rear shot... I will prolly only end up using about half of this.. right now it looks really big and sticks out too far but you kinda get an idea of what it will look like


closer shot of rear

[doGGy]

Pics arent working Neverstop Just leting ya know.

[NEVERSTOP]

[pbgcelica]

Hey, this has been stated way back in the conv. but I guess I don't see where the big prob with the supra light conv. is... I mean all you have to do is find out where to hold the light onto the frame, cut a hood out and just use your supra body kit, right? if not that, then what else???

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[pbgcelica]

Aight, I know I should prob stop where i am and start a new discussion, but the real person I want to ask is you neverstop, b/c you just seem experienced in this field, I would like to try and do a supra conversion (no matter how much people will think it looks like crap and goes against the celica look) and I was wondering if I bought the front end strut to put the lights on, the necessary light, a supra hood, and a supra bumper, if it would be "easy" enough where I can do the work myself and not send it to a shop... I know how to weld, I can def. learn how to cut a hood (if I have to), and I can line a bumper up and make custom holes... will it be possible if I just buy a supra hood, if it will fit the car and bumper? I have about 1,200 to work with on cash and I would like to make this my own project

This post has been edited by pbgcelica: Feb 11, 2004 - 12:47 AM

[NEVERSTOP]

pbgcelica - I think that it is a good idea that you want to try and do a supra front end conversion, and good luck to you if you try but there are a few things I would like to point out to you.

The 1st problem you will have is trying to do this with only 1200$. I'm not saying that it can't be done for that price.. It can, but you might suffer a little on quality, and I would strongly recommend having a body shop do this for you if you don't have alot of experince with doing stuff like this.

The 2nd problem you will have is the hood, It is going to very hard and expensive to make the supra hood work on the celica. To do this correctly you will need the supra sideskirts... which brings us to problem number 3

#3... The distance between the back of the fender (where it meets the front of the door) and to the center of the wheel is quite a bit bigger than the same distance on the celica... what that means is you can't just put the fenders on the celica and have them line up (wheel is in the wrong place).. you will need to get fiberglass fenders and trim off at least 4-6 inches... that also means that the hood will need to be trimmed the same amount, which will be EXTREMLY hard to do.. even for a good body shop.


as you can see the supra front is going to be very expensive to pull off, not to mention almost impossible to do and have everything functional and look good.

so here are your alternatives:

1 - Get the whole supra front end and trim the fenders and hood down to allow the wheels to be in the correct place (keep in mind that this still might not fit). Take all these parts and graft them into one big piece... bassically a removeable front clip.

The prob with this is there is no garuntee that it will fit correctly and it will be a very heavy piece to remove to work on the motor, and it might not look very good or kinda funny at best.

2 - Get just the supra front bumper, headlights and support bar to mount the headlights on. This is going to be the easier of the two idea... it means dropping the supra hood idea... you could possible trim the sides of the supra hood to make it fit but I really dont think it would look good or match the body lines.

The prob with this idea is the same reason that I am not doing this to my car... for one I dont want to modify my hood... cutting it doesn't bug me but I dont want to try and flatten out the bulges from the celica headlights... you could make eyebrows and fiberglass on them to make the bulges smooth out a little down onto the headlights but that kinda defeats the purpose of doing the conversion. The second prob is how the front end will look... basically with the supra front it will look alot like a car with a full kit minus the front... which looks goofy.. if you think a car with just a front airdam looks bad try and image what it would look like the other way around

You will also have to cut the fenders some.. I would recomnd getting fiberglass ones for the celica.

I will say I have seen the supra headlight conversion done before and it doesn't look the best.. I really believe that I could prolly do better than what I have seen but really don't think its worth it.

If you still want to do this I will help you... no I wont do it for you but I will point you in the right direction, but I spent well over a month debating weither or not to do this to my car.. calculated cost and weighed every little issue, pro, con etc and desided it would not be benifical to do this.. both in look, performance and money.. If I where you I would spend the money on projectors and be done with it.

But I wish the best of luck to you on this if you still want to try to pull it off and like I said above will help you out on it.

[NEVERSTOP]

On another subject here is a photoshop image of one idea for the rear of the celica.. keep in mind that it is kinda ruff but you get the general idea.. please post opinions on what you guys think.. if you have a better idea feel free to photo shop your own things or just explain in your post.

well nevermind.. right after I uploaded the photo onto imagestation it shut down so they could fix it.. im gonna load in into my profile and the post it here.

thanks
NEVERSTOP

[NEVERSTOP]

here is the pic... keep in mind its a quick photoshop image and the rear wont stick out nearly as far as it does in this photo.. gonna try and line it up with how far the wing sticks out



This post has been edited by NEVERSTOP: Feb 12, 2004 - 12:13 PM

[NEVERSTOP]

update: desided that the seats I had purchased a couple weeks ago are just not what I want for my car.. hoping that my friend is gonna get em - otherwise I will have a set of seats for sale on here for REALLY CHEAP@!

newayz just got a set of these for my car today



heard mention of brackets for the 6gc for aftermarket seats but haven't been able to locate ne.. if anyone knows where to get em let me know.. also know that the 7gc brackets work with slight modification - ne one know what all has to be done??

one last thing I need some feedback on the photoshopped image in the post above this - Tell me what you think, good or bad or whatever = thanks

This post has been edited by NEVERSTOP: Feb 14, 2004 - 1:28 PM

[Uppitycracker]

NOt my style man, but its gonna look bad ass when its done, props for the vision!

[NEVERSTOP]

[Uppitycracker]

[NEVERSTOP]

I actually agree with that on the spoiler but it was an aniversary gift from my G/F so its kinda gotta stay ... otherwise it would be spoilerless

edit: I have given some thought to pickin up a two more trunk lids and leave one spoilerless and then get a differnt spoiler setup strictly for downforce for the track.. that way I got 3 different looks to interchage but who knows thats alot of cash to drop for something I don't really need to do

This post has been edited by NEVERSTOP: Feb 14, 2004 - 3:41 PM

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[NEVERSTOP]

[Stipt]

XNEVERSTOPX you talk more than I do! But anyways to get serious, lookin good man and ya know if ya need help hit mah numba! Oh anyways, the spoiler isn't too shabby, its kinda iffy iffy but once he gets the kit done and it painted looking the same color it will be pretty cool. As for me, I get the freedom to be SPOILERLESS! w00t! LoL!

Oh dude, I think I also found us a tire guy Might be somefin good startin up!

This post has been edited by Stipt: Feb 15, 2004 - 2:09 AM

[NEVERSTOP]