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Unsafe At Any Speed MAR 06, 07:11 PM
I'm still undecided on the hood vent I want. I know I made a post about this earlier, but I think I have it pretty much narrowed down to a few options that I like.
There's the Fie Ro style vent as seen here on his and Yellowstone's cars:





The Warber style vent, seen here (not sure who's cars):



GTRWidebody/creator's vent as seen on the orange widebody:





And then there's the Driven Vison's vent as seen here on TroyBoy's and Motorhead's Fieros:




Any thoughts or other ideas? All four have their pros and cons. I'm having a hard time deciding which style vent would look best on my car and flow with the other mods well. If anyone is willing to whip up some photoshops, that would be great.

Also, if anyone has a problem with me using pictures of their cars, let me know.

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My Build Thread

Unsafe At Any Speed MAR 09, 05:15 AM
A couple Photoshops I tried.

Driven Visions:
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Orange Widebody style:
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Newbfiero MAR 10, 10:10 AM
This is nice This images is larger than 102400 bytes. Click to view. I kind of like it ..Rob
Unsafe At Any Speed MAR 20, 01:14 AM
Okay. Made some progress over Spring Break.

The pictures aren't the best and don't show everything being that the batteries in the camera kept dying.

Anyway, last week the first thing I went to work on was the decklid vent. This mod has been documented plenty of times so no real need to go into much detail.
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Mounting the vent itself was alittle frustrating being that it was alittle bowed and the bolts aren't in the same place on both sides. I got it on though. Looks good I think. I plan to glass it in as well as add a slimline fan to the bottom to force the air out.
Sorry the pics are so dark.
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Unsafe At Any Speed MAR 21, 02:36 AM
After the decklid vent, I moved onto the doors. I already had the poppers and solonoids hooked up like I've said before, but I finally got around to running the wires. Thus far only the driver's side door will open via the remote. I'm going to wait until the new alarm is installed before I get them both working. I've never seen remote doors in person before. It's kinda cool.
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You can see the solonoids in the lower latch side of the doors. Pretty easy install.

After those were hooked up and I could actually get into the car with door handles, I put the shaved door panels on. The driver's side door had better fitament. There's a slight gap between the window and door on the passenger's side where the panel bows out slightly. Also, the hardware mounting points didn't line up as well on this side either and required more modifications to the door than the driver's side. Still I'm happy with the results.
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[This message has been edited by Unsafe At Any Speed (edited 03-21-2007).]

Unsafe At Any Speed MAR 21, 11:31 PM
Next up was the rear fascia. I'll admit I was a little intimidated by this project being how large and how expensive of a piece it was.

First I obviously had to remove the tails and the old fascia.
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Then I hung the fascia with no fasteners to see how it fit.
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I ended up having to remove all the honeycomb support underneath as well as that thing laying on the ground in one of the pictures. A big issue I noticed is that the license plate cutout is about two inches too skinny and an inch short. That problem I haven't figured out yet. Also, the bottom mounting tab on the fascia hit the bottom of the trunk. Its hard to see, but here's a picture of what I'm talking about.
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Unsafe At Any Speed MAR 21, 11:40 PM
To remedy this last problem, I took out the cutting saw ($10 at Harbor Freight ) and went to work on my $1200+ piece of fiberglass. This is about where the camera I was using went dead. I cut off the obtructing tab and made a brace out of metal across the remaining piece to help distribute the force. Then I fabbed up a couple L shaped brackets to mount the brace to the bottom of the trunk. Worked out pretty well and is completely out of sight. Also, this method requires none of those damn rivets the stock fascia is secured with, so future removal is less of a pain. These brackets combined with the lip up in the taillight region alone secured the fascia in place pretty tightly. Still, I made another brace across the top lip and secured it to the rear clip/frame using two stock mounting points. None of this is visible once the taillight panel is in place. I still haven't attached the wheel well liners yet, but they seem to line up well. I need to find some of those nylon rivet type things that the liner bolts can screw into.

Sorry that I don't have any pictures of the fascia mounted on with the taillights in place. In my opinion it looks pretty good.
Unsafe At Any Speed MAR 23, 08:12 PM
I'm seriously thinking about a targa top.
wingless MAR 23, 09:00 PM
Have you figured out the rear license plate mount? Any room behind rear fascia? Any potential for automation behind the rear fascia? Get more pics
Unsafe At Any Speed MAR 30, 12:34 PM

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Originally posted by wingless:

Have you figured out the rear license plate mount? Any room behind rear fascia? Any potential for automation behind the rear fascia? Get more pics



I haven't really done much in regards to the rear plate mount yet. There is plenty of room behind I believe, so what I may end up doing is take a mold of the stock plate area, cut the fascia and glass the mold in. That is once I get some practice with fiberglass first though. As for automation, thats something I may look into.

Also, I have my car up here at school for the first time. That said, I'm going to take some pictures this weekend, so if you want pictures of anything or angles in particular let me know.