Wide Arch Celica Options

[JapFan]

Hi guys, i have been working on this for some time now, almost three years, but finally the car is finished. Heres some photos of the car, opinions welcome. Im planning on putting the kit into production soon, so hopefully you guys like it!





you can see more of it here: Wide Arch Celica

[doGGy]

Not digging the front at all - it looks like a fish or somthing... But rear looks kinda intresting.

Btw - if headlight gets busted - how are ya planing to remove it from there ?

Nice work...

[JapFan]

This is only the plug, thats why its all smoothed together, In the kits it will all be seperate sections. so in case of a busted light you will remove the bumper as you would on an original one.

[BigAl_UK]

I rather like that - very race car

Dread to think what the cost will be but PM me when you know

[GT202]

that looks awesome!

[BloodyStupidDave...]

Not keen on the bit in front of the front wheels. I'd prefer a more fluid, rounded look to the whole of the front. The rear isn't extreme enough for me (I want it to be obvious to everyone when looking at the rear from any angle that it has a widebody kit) and I have PM'd the original poster with a suggestion on that last count.

Other than those minor dislikes, I think it looks damn sexy. Other than one firm in Japan this will be the first widebody kit in production if it happens so I am sure it will sell well as long as the fit quality is there.


This post has been edited by BloodyStupidDavey: Jun 16, 2007 - 11:48 AM

[mneal2_92788]

i like it, i have always wanted to put a widekit on my car, and theres one. i just dont like the little bit that kicks out in front of teh front wheels. at teh very bottom. other than that its awesome, let me know a price when available

[NGHTKD]

it looks pretty nice, although the front isnt my thing. i would prefer to just buy the rear fenders.

[m0dd3d1]

I think it looks really nice. The front is a bit too out there for me, I tend to like smoother and sleeker lines. But the only question I have is (like any widebody "kit"), how exactly do you sell the parts for the rear quarter panels? My understanding is that you would have to get it welded on, it's not exactly a "bolt-on" job. And welding isn't cheap, at least from my experience. Really great idea though! Nice work! Where are you located?

-Triscuit

[azian_advanced]

same opinions as the ones above.
the rear is nice and it's subtle yet not too wide or over-done.
the front is another story.

but this is great news nonetheless! will there be a kit for the gt-four owners?

[OrbitalGT95]

im diggin it, nice work!

[goferris]

do you have any rear end shots? otherwise i think it looks pretty good.

[DSToyo]

^check out his link

i like it, other than the front fenders i guess, it is rare to ever see a widebody 6gc, only a few have done it... mad props and great work

[x_itchy_b_x]

the rear looks amazing

[playr158]

only good part about that car is the rear quarter panels...those are nice shapes

[6gc94celi]

Your car looks amazing man. Keep up the good work!

[supradog1]

dont listen to some of the people on here. your celica is HOTTTTTT!!! your going to have some haters because your celica is the first one and they don't have the skills,money, or the time to be the first!!!!!!!
and that make you #1. keep up the good work and i'll be lookin foward to see what's next from you....

[slvr_celica_GT_8...]

looks nice, good job on that custom kit

[DSToyo]

Nampetch has my favorite widebody , but like i said not many people have attempted this and you did a great job, more people should respect the effort that you put into this thing

This post has been edited by DSToyo: Apr 25, 2007 - 4:51 PM

[super13jew]

what is price on this kit?

[Davesceli]

Pretty sweet but the front end just doesn't fit...but i guess if youre gonna sell it in separate pieces, it could be tweeked a bit. Rear end is awesome.

[j0e_p3t]

pretty hott. any way you can just flare out the front fenders and rear quarter panels without changing the bumpers?

[97lestyousay]

Mad props on the custom work, very unique. Always nice to see people trying
new things.

[6gc_driven]

hmm..interesting..any price range yet??

[JapFan]

Thanks for the input guys, its all appreciated, even the negative ones. I can use it for our next one.

The main thing at this stage seems to be the way the front flares out, and to be fair fron the pic i have there it looks like it flares out more than it actually does, I will try to get a video of the car and post it, this may help people get a better view of everything.

Also regarding the width, its hard to tell there but the arches are widened by approx 60mm each side.

As for prices, at this stage i'm not 100% sure but we are aiming to sell the kit for under £1000 sterling which works out approximately under $2000.

Also there are plans for a GT4 version also. Depending on how much interest we get for one.

We are drawing up a quickly growing list of names of people who are interested in a kit at the minute and it will be a first come first served basis, so anyone interested can email their name and contact details to:

info@redsmodifiedmotors.com

Thanks again for all the input guys and all opinions welcome.

Eugene

This post has been edited by JapFan: Apr 26, 2007 - 3:29 AM

[Hanyo]

Will you need to cut away the orginal rear wheel arches?

[Negative]

I really like it if in the first picture you take your hand and cover up the parts closest to front bottom of the front wheels - the part that everyone says sticks out too far. If you cover that up the car looks amazing. Seems to be everyone's opinions so far. Maybe you should listen to these guys and produce it the way it is wanted. Would probably sell better.

This post has been edited by Negative: Apr 26, 2007 - 11:07 AM

[FreddyTheOthaMea...]

Pretty sweet IMO

[rolemodel]

Not digging the front at all - it looks like a fish or somthing... But rear looks kinda intresting.

if so, I´d like to order a fish

really sweet kit, e-mail sent ; )

[JapFan]

Hi Folks,

Sorry i havent posted about this in a while but i have been busy with a few other projects including our drift car as well as shows and photoshoots of the celica.

I thought i would post a few newer pics of the car as well as the mag we got cover car of.






We are still working on getting this into production but things have been held up with all the shows etc...

[jesterwr217]

beautiful car
if i didnt already have i widebody id REALLY consider that

[mneal2_92788]

only thing i have, is that im not a big fan of the Blitz style front end. is there going to be a kit for different front ends, or will the front even matter?

[spolski07]

hey he made the cover of the magazine!
i think thats the first 6gc to do that....
congrats man
and the car looks good
but like evreyone else im not a fan of the front end

[Tapi]

Nampetch has my favorite widebody biggrin.gif , but like i said not many people have attempted this and you did a great job, more people should respect the effort that you put into this thing rolleyes.gif

this kit with namptech's front end would look good.

I like both rear bumpers - can anyone tell me what they're built up from? (presume they're normal aftermarkets, adapted)

[xs94st]

nice nice nice nice. makes it look like the celica's bigger, younger brother, the supra awesome job man i wish i had that kit fitted on mine! major props to ya! congrats on the mag cover!

[NaderG]

Certain angels look weird specially the front , the lights hardly match the new width ....

[KB-2]

waht if you only want the rear?

[block]

i LOVE it. the front flares out like a cobra snake! i'd buy one but have to find a celica

[Harold_Fastwaker]

What tire sizes are you running? They look like 7 inches just with a huge spacer added to fill the gap. I cant really tell though as the angle doesn't show off the tires.

[boosted95]

what ever happened to this? did anyone ever drop the 2 grand for the kit that they advertized?

[chacha]

yeah...i like this guy's wide kit (custom), but if you have one for the celi...by all means...go for it and make it cheap for us to buy ...make it bolt on...make it legit so we can put bigger tires and rims on it...darn it...just MAKE it! *one small opinion is the front...it's a little weird, but if you can make it more curvy and not take away the wide kit idea...it's heaven for the celestial...

[BloodyStupidDave...]

what ever happened to this? did anyone ever drop the 2 grand for the kit that they advertized?

Its vapourware. The kit still hasn't been manufactured.

[Galcobar]

Well, since it seems as if the kit's going nowhere....

Anybody know what those wheels are? Look like Konig Kolors in graphite.

[JapFan]

Hi guys,

Sorry for not updating you all on the current state of play.

As the car is the ONLY plug we have we have been using it to display at shows, do photoshoots etc during the summer and generally drum up interest in the kit before we start to produce it.

As well as this we have been busy building a drift car so we havent had as much time as we would like to update things.

So over the winter as most of the shows are over for the year we now be taking the celica back into the workshop once the drift car is rolled out to make the primary mould in order to begin producing the kit. This process will most likely damage the paintwork hence the reason it wasn't done during show season.

We will also have a look at what we can do as regards to the front bumper, perhaps developing another one so theres some choice for people.

I can only say sorry for the delay in this kit, we hadnt expected such an interest in the kit as we have got.

Thanks

Eugene

[playr158]

try rounding out the front a bit more, its a little blunt