6GC Style Body For Ariel Atom, Custom ??? (dont get too excited) Options

[Flyinghumanoid]

I recently figured why waste tons of time and money now, when I could really enjoy it in the future. Anyway, After college I hope to be able to afford a decent 50k-60k car, the Ariel Atom. Street legal but not really a daily driver. So if I get measurements and start now I could have a pretty cool body for a really fast car by the time i could afford it. So heres my first question... Would a fully custom fiberglass body be legal as long as I use all DOT approved parts for lights, the windshield and such? If so, then there really isn't anything keeping me from it. EXCEPT the Honda engine. Maybe if I inquire for detailed measurements all the time I can get one made with a 4A-GZE or 3S-GTE since they are custom built to begin with.

[94gts]

super charged type R I think, fast little car but nothing more than a toy. If you've seen the Top Gear episode, the only car at the time it couldn't beat around there track was the Enzo, so why would you want to swap engines? I'm not a honda fan either but i don't see the point in spending all that money to try to swap just so you can run a toyota, it's more car than you'll ever need as far as speed goes (on a tight track that is not much of a top speed car).

Building a body would be slightly more difficult than getting a few measurments and slapping one together, you'ld actually have to have the car to even attempt to make something that wouldn't fit like crap. Besides it takes more than a fiberglass to make a safe body that isn't going to mangle you if you were ever in an accident, you'ld have to rework alot of the car to make someting worth putting on there, which would kinda defeat what the atom is all about.

Anything is posible, but is this project realistic? Thats a whole lot of money you don't even have yet, and a mess of problems no one can answer unless you actually had the car to start planning and building off of. Can it be done... Sure but if your serious then just focus on getting the car first then worry about everything else.