We Build a Perfect Union (Page 35/309)
Steven Snyder SEP 09, 03:59 AM

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Originally posted by fourpoint9:

Here's my tweek to the wing.
Also added a little to the bottom of the rockers and lower sides of the dam.


Lowered the rear for you XzotikGT




That looks 100% better. Nice photoshop work there. I hope something gets done about the taillights, they don't look quite right with the widebody rear.. some 355 style lights would probably look nice on this car.
tjm4fun SEP 09, 04:05 AM
ok, I know you didn't want to shave it, but:


hmmm, not sure about that either.... reminds me of another car.....maybe not.

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XzotikGT SEP 09, 04:34 AM
now thats what I was talking about!!!! nice and evn all the way around. nice job 4.9

also, now that you fixed all the lower parts of the car ie, the chin skirts and rear bumper, it is ready.

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FieroRush88 SEP 10, 11:40 PM
The shaving helps a lot.

next to do somehting with those doors.

i know the problem right now. the more you try to modernize it, the more any piece from the original fiero starts to look bad on it.
Blackeco SEP 11, 12:58 AM
Shaving helps a lot, this car is absolutely sick, great work and thanks for all the progress updates.
XzotikGT SEP 13, 01:25 AM
this is perfeect to me.....not too much more work just a few tweaks. shaving it made the doors look like a lot of negative space.

quote
Originally posted by Steven Snyder:


That looks 100% better. Nice photoshop work there. I hope something gets done about the taillights, they don't look quite right with the widebody rear.. some 355 style lights would probably look nice on this car.
XzotikGT SEP 13, 01:26 AM
this one i mean

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Originally posted by fourpoint9:

Here's my tweek to the wing.
Also added a little to the bottom of the rockers and lower sides of the dam.


Lowered the rear for you XzotikGT
Archie SEP 13, 11:16 AM
I think it's time that we have a little talk about the practicality & common sense that has to be considered when building a car.

Some have advocated that we lower the car to where the fenders hang over the rubber. That's not practical.

We went to a lot of trouble getting 13" wide tires mounted onto this car without sticking outside the lip of the wheel well. Now we would have to make the tires about 2" narrower to make them fit up inside the bodywork if it was lowered to get the look they are advocating.

You can look at hot roding type magazine & find pictures of cars that are slammed down over the tires/wheels. You'll notice on everyone of those cars that the tires are well inside the wheel wells & THAT'S NOT the look we are looking for.

THIS is the look we are looking for.......





We want the tires to be as wide as posible without exceeding the width of the body.



Let's be practical, this car is going to be driven on the streets of New York. So we may even have to raise the car a bit to clear the chuckholes without banging on the bodywork.

If someone was to lower the car as much as has been advocated, then the narrower tires will also begin to rub on the tops of the wheel well liners. If you want to slam your car down to where the tires are narrower & rub whenever you hit a chuckhole, then you go right ahead. But it will take away from the driveability.

As for the side molding. IMHO, I've not seen a trimless Fiero yet that was as practical as we want this car to be. For several reasons.......

1) Troy wants to retain the stock outside door handle. Removing the trim & leaving the stock door handle is going to be pretty hard to make look correct.

2) Removing the trim makes it so that you cannot remove the door panel without damaging the bodywork & paint.

3) This is the most important reason...... This IMSA body needs the parting line provided by the side trim to make it look right. You need something to define the side of the car & to define the angle of attack & the molding does just that.





So we are still having discussions on the side molding, but heavily leaning towards leaving it on & slamming the car is out of the question.

We will show you some pictures of the car when it's finished.

Thanks

Archie
XzotikGT SEP 13, 05:08 PM
its kinda funny that you are worried about chuckholes withe the rim/tire combo you guys chose. I Just think the car would look good if it were level. So if you were against lowereing the rear, then raise the front. Other than that I feel ya on the side trim part. Without it it does take away from the profile of the car.
Philphine SEP 13, 06:29 PM
sorry i'm never able to post a pic, but on mine whoever smoothed out the trim either ground the doorhandle down more flush to the body and put a metal plate over it, or it's a flat handle from some other car. matches up ok with the trim gone though.