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My Car had a little plastic surgery
As some of you know, my car has been under the knife for the past several weeks… Auto Explosion has done a tremendous job changing up parts of my car pretty much spot on to what I told them I wanted – I couldn’t ask for a more accommodating shop & they are full of talent!
SouthbayGsedan/Darren, caskyline/Randy and rookie/Viet; thanks a million for all your help, advice and support!:biggthumpup: I know I’ve been a pita at times, but I really appreciate the help you have given me!!! All of the body work is done and the car has been painted – the shop is wet sanding and putting finishing pieces back together… it might be a while before I have photos of the completed project… but Darren and I took pics of the progress as it happened – I thought some of you might be interested in checking it out… Fenders: One of my biggest pet-peeves about current new vehicles are the flat fender edges… some think its to help strengthen the thin aluminum, others think its to help get the extra 1 mpg that the government is pressuring manufactures to do, some say its just manufacturers following what someone originated… all I know is its f-ing UGLY!!! And for some reason Nissan made the flat area real big (as compared to many other makes). So a little of this: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...0Flare/030.jpg And some of this: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...0Flare/040.jpg Sprinkled with this: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...0Flare/023.jpg Results in no more flat fender edges! http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...lare/010-1.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...lare/010-4.jpg And of course the nemesis of all sedan owners, the dreaded door moldings Gotta ditch them! http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...oors/012-1.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...0doors/022.jpg A Kurookie bumper is nothing without rookie’s side skirts – I had mine molded into the fender and quarter panels – also, had the front and rear slightly curved to follow shape of wheel well (bottom edge of front bumper wheel well was curved back as well): http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...s/DSC01634.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...s/DSC01631.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...0Flare/002.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...lare/010-2.jpg And of course to flow with the Nisrookie/Rookismo (whatever the name is gonna be) sides, I had to find something for the rear bumper… I had a piece molded in: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...alance/012.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...alance/013.jpg No lines FTW!!! http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...ance/007-1.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...alance/009.jpg Those that know me, know I don’t like the “cat ear” turn signals on the 03-06 sedans… so a while back I did a first by omitting the top blinker and making the LEDs blink (the taillight/brake light)… but it didn’t look quite right – so I figured make the top look like its part of the quarter panel – and might as well mold the trunk lip to flow across the taillight/quarter panel: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...s/100_1405.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...s/100_1403.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...s/100_1400.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...s/100_1397.jpg WTF is he doing???: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...l/DSC01639.jpg Oh, I see… it’s a hood cowl: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...l/DSC01637.jpg Quite a while back I had cams & headers installed… even though the headers are Jet Hot coated, they still create a tremendous amount of heat! I’ve data logged intake temps on street and track and they are stupid hot… I’ve tried a number of things to get it under control and nothing has really helped much – so I figured venting the hood would help… I don’t really think hood “vents” look right for my style/theme – so a hood cowl was molded in… there are only 3 cut outs in the hood and the aren’t real big… plus the cowl is only 1” high – so I’m not sure how much this will help, but I’m hopeful… http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...Cowl/014-3.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...Cowl/017-2.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...Cowl/015-3.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...Cowl/003-1.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...Cowl/005-1.jpg So… some funny things happened while the car was going through this transformation… it kinda took on a life of its own… I really didn’t intend to do all these things – there was a small delay and the car was sitting – so caskyline worked his magic making things disappear and I had the shop weld empty holes and mold some things in... I’ll post engine bay pics later – its another little project that will be done soon, in the mean time here are pics of the body work: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...y/100_1396.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...y/100_1392.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...y/100_1389.jpg Also, during the car’s down time I had Master Interior Wizard, Chuy take out my headliner, and A,B,C pillars to wrap in black suede (fixing another part of the car I never liked, tan upper interior with black lower)… Also having him fix the crappy plastic armrests by making them padded leather… I’ll post pics of that later... but for now here's my custom interior :eek: http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...CG35/015-4.jpg http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...CG35/014-4.jpg http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...CG35/013-4.jpg So all that was done and mid last week the car was prepped for paint: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...aint/003-2.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...aint/001-1.jpg So that’s my car’s little project – I hope you like it (or at least find it interesting)… I’ll update this thread with final painted pics later… Edit: Okay - sorry this post ended up being so long, but I figured it's better to post finished pics here than later in the thread that might get buried... Most ppl hav seen these pics in other threads already Photos by Calvin: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/95f52aa9.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/f7fef978.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/5ed2d29d.jpg Photos by Grant aka gdup35Sedan (gp.photography) http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...IMG_9112_1.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/IMG_9294.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/IMG_9298.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/IMG_9325.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/IMG_9242.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/IMG_9147.jpg http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/IMG_9191.jpg there some other less quality pics in "my garage" crappy cell phone pics of interior can be found here: https://g35driver.com/forums/4662107-post152.html |
Holy Shiet! You have done some amazing things with your car before, but now... you are a god... Congrats Mike... I cant wait to see the finished project... I envy you so much. You do the un-thinkable and bring it to life!
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thats aweome man! tons of work there
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car looks sick bro....keep it up....definatly different!
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Wow, that is utterly amazing.
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very nice...
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Alot of work Mike (and time/$!). But your mods always look good. Hope to see the finished pics. I assume you took the opportunity to change up the color also?
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can't wait to see the final product...looks good..
tails? TSX or TL??? and i like how u just left your VOLKS to get all dusty and worked on in the shop like they were blackies/stockies.LOL |
BADASS!!! Can't wait to see more.
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omg i can't wait till it's done, gonna look amazing!
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that rear end is just gonna be OFFFFFFFFF THEEEEEEE HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKK
molded is the new flush. LOL! love it! yeah and your interior is in good hands ;) |
So, did you just have the lips eliminated or did you have the fenders flared out?
If flared, does that mean new wheels with bigger lipage are on their way? |
Wow thats nuts
Hate to see what the bill looks like |
WOW. Looks damn good. Be nice to see the finished product. What color are you going to paint it?
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Wow, you did a complete overhaul.
Looking good. |
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