This will not end well but will end with hilarity.
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In Loving Memory of Phil Martin December 14 2005
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#1: you might as well have attached a parachute to the back end of your car, cause that thing is going to cause so much wind resistance it's not even funny.
#2: fiberglass + plastic bumpers = bad idea. it's not the same material, so it's not going to stick for long. just hope that when (not if, when) it breaks off it doesn't cause damage to another car on the road.
#3: you're gonna spend hundreds of hours trying to sand that sucker smooth. have fun.
#4: if your goal was cheap/inexpensive, you could have bought a used body kit for less than the cost of trying to make your own. you'll soon find out that your creation is going to cost a lot more than you anticipated.
if u plan to not drive the car at all. and it just sits where it is forever! it won't crack!
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imo; i just threw up in my mouth. nice glass skillz paul walker(end sarcasm). on a side note, quit while your ahead. thats going to crack into a million pieces the second time u drive with it installed, then ur gonna look like a bigger douche then u do now.
I thank everyone for thier comments and have taken a lot of it in and will be posting some of the updates made to the rear and side skirts.
I have posted the pics of the front for now and will be doing some more work on the kit this week when I get some some more fiberglass and body filler.
Also I will be adding some more depth and shape to the rear bumper and side skirts.
For now check out the front and rear as of now
My kit as is
http//www.umods.org/drift.html
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Well i cant bash you cause i made the same mistake. I did a front and rear of my car and it came out good, but it wasnt strong. and now i have to do it all over again. so you are going to learn just as i did, everybody told me not to do it and i did it anyway. I won a couple of trophies but in the long run the car is sitting in the yard looking a hot mess. just pay attention and learn from others mistakes.....
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speed is only for those who use it, smoke or get smoked!!!
Your car may do 13 sec @ 103 mph, but my car does 146db @ 35 hz.
Updated the pics of the kit:
Everyone brings it up still so I bumped the post and did some more work on it cuz everyone seems to think that the fiberglass is just that jacked.
Here our some check the rest at my photobucket account
http://s953.photobucket.com/albums/ae15/dazingaz/
Started on the rear a little bit so you can see the diffrence the body filler makes
http//www.umods.org/drift.html
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It may be the @!#$ty picture quality. But that looks like bubblegum.
^^^^LOL.....Nothing you have done matches the lines of the car at all. It just looks like you added some peices on without any thought into making it match the car. Im sorry dude but it looks terrible. I dont know where your going with it but stop......for your own sake. Your just wasting your time.
"Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers"-Colin McRae
Everyone is right about the fiberglass to plastic thing. (On a side note: The ends seem to justify the means on this site. I've seen fiberglass molded to urethane, but the final results looked good and not 1 person said anything about the fiberglass.) Anyway, now that you have your shape, you should remove the fiberglass from the plastic and make a lip kit. You need a little more shape, because it just straight and stiff like posterboard taped to the car. Your front piece needs a sharp point in the center to match the shape of the bumper; though you might would be able to add more to the space in between the center and the bumper to unify it, but its hard to tell from the pictures. It looks like you have the basics down and have a bit of control over shaping the fiberglass. I just don't think you should accept this as your final product, and push yourself even more and try to get some more shape out of it. I know it seems that there are a lot of a$$hole comments on here, but some of it might be what people are saying but won't tell you. (even though some of it is just unneeded and pointless.) If you can get past that, there is actually some good advice. A lot of these people have a great deal of experience and knowledge in different areas of modding, including fiberglass.
Brad (flatblackfire) wrote:I'm going to thoroughly enjoy the "my front lip came off and wrecked the entire underside of my car. What do i do?" post when it happens.
HEHEHE..... OOOHHHH
See that patch of fiberglass on the rear bumper?
hehe.....ya it happened last month.
Trust me I learnt my lesson on that one and wont do it again (maybe...)
But thats cuz I removed the front bumper and re did the lip by cutting and making a a few parts to the sides and making everything come flush with the stock
bumper, then I made a diffuser out of some sheet metal laying around that closed off the opening to force the air to the radiator. Bolted everything down with about 10 screws and fiberglassed everything down.
2 days laters scrapped it on a few speed bumps at the local stores, on the way home BAM!
The down force of highway speeds and a few screws rippped out made me happy!
So I think I'll buy a aftermarket front end or wait till I finish the rest of the kit and then use some foam and do a lip kit that looks like the streetfighter/RK fronts.
The rest of the kit looks alot better now I did a full coat of body filler and shaped the kit more to clean up the lines. Filled in the holes I cut to make room for the muffler tips. I also added another layer of filler to the hood scoops to give a better flowing look and fill the cracks forming around the edges of the main scoop.
Next is some more molding, I want to give the rear skirt/bumper some more lines and curves like the guy in the media section did to the wide body kit.
I also bought some a pair of driving lights that I will mock up and install on the front, thinking about cutting holes, or maybe sticking them inside the nose grill area.
I'll post the pictures in the morning.
http//www.umods.org/drift.html
umods@live.com/ddiaz@umods.org
Cover that bondo with some primer. Go to a PPG or Dupont store though, don't cheap out on that because bondo soaks up water like a sponge. Once bondo has been wet after it was applied, it should pretty much be redone because it may cause trouble down the road. That and the obvious effects of water on bare metal...
the rear bumper just has no shape really. it doesnt help with the cars look, its just made it look freaking huge, the side skirt design isn't that bad, but nothing on it is a straight line, its wavy as hell. you need to get the line straight and shape looking good before you even bother sanding it smooth. i guess you dont plan on lowering the car? because with a drop that rear end is going to catch on any bump or pothole or curb or driveway you go up.
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Yeah its still gpt some work to go before I'm close to done, I plan on doing some flares on the rear bumper and fender flares to flush in the look before I sand it down some more.
Im just trying to get a good base for everything before continuing the work.
And No I don't plan on lowering the car at all maybe if I do it will be small really small a little more in the front then the rear. But the area I live in is really rural and has alot of dirt roads that will eat your car alive!
Thats the problem I had with the front end, as low as it was it kept scraping everything, go figure but the reason the the rest of the kit is so low to the ground was to match the front and now thats gone!
So I might shave it up a little higher to make it flush, maybe take some of the end pieces up more all and all I will do the J-Body justice!!!
http//www.umods.org/drift.html
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Sand what you've done, it'll look better that way if only by a small margin.
You'll lower it sooner or later. I said the same thing with the roads around me, I'm now dropped 1.75" and haven't had any problems, just been a bit more careful
I just noticed this, but you should really take those hub caps off, they look incredibly cheesy. Also, does the car drive crappy in the rain with the filter being waterlogged?
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