Newest project: Exterior 3.0 Options

[NEVERSTOP]

Well... guess im redoing my exterior all over, agian Think I finally have found the right combination of body parts to get the look I have been shooting for

Heres a photo of the new front.. gotta graft it in but you get the idea





and for those that already know about this.. no Im not gonna be able to do the headlight conversion... it just wont work

This post has been edited by NEVERSTOP: Jan 21, 2004 - 1:04 PM

[NEVERSTOP]

pbgcelica - I think that it is a good idea that you want to try and do a supra front end conversion, and good luck to you if you try but there are a few things I would like to point out to you.

The 1st problem you will have is trying to do this with only 1200$. I'm not saying that it can't be done for that price.. It can, but you might suffer a little on quality, and I would strongly recommend having a body shop do this for you if you don't have alot of experince with doing stuff like this.

The 2nd problem you will have is the hood, It is going to very hard and expensive to make the supra hood work on the celica. To do this correctly you will need the supra sideskirts... which brings us to problem number 3

#3... The distance between the back of the fender (where it meets the front of the door) and to the center of the wheel is quite a bit bigger than the same distance on the celica... what that means is you can't just put the fenders on the celica and have them line up (wheel is in the wrong place).. you will need to get fiberglass fenders and trim off at least 4-6 inches... that also means that the hood will need to be trimmed the same amount, which will be EXTREMLY hard to do.. even for a good body shop.


as you can see the supra front is going to be very expensive to pull off, not to mention almost impossible to do and have everything functional and look good.

so here are your alternatives:

1 - Get the whole supra front end and trim the fenders and hood down to allow the wheels to be in the correct place (keep in mind that this still might not fit). Take all these parts and graft them into one big piece... bassically a removeable front clip.

The prob with this is there is no garuntee that it will fit correctly and it will be a very heavy piece to remove to work on the motor, and it might not look very good or kinda funny at best.

2 - Get just the supra front bumper, headlights and support bar to mount the headlights on. This is going to be the easier of the two idea... it means dropping the supra hood idea... you could possible trim the sides of the supra hood to make it fit but I really dont think it would look good or match the body lines.

The prob with this idea is the same reason that I am not doing this to my car... for one I dont want to modify my hood... cutting it doesn't bug me but I dont want to try and flatten out the bulges from the celica headlights... you could make eyebrows and fiberglass on them to make the bulges smooth out a little down onto the headlights but that kinda defeats the purpose of doing the conversion. The second prob is how the front end will look... basically with the supra front it will look alot like a car with a full kit minus the front... which looks goofy.. if you think a car with just a front airdam looks bad try and image what it would look like the other way around

You will also have to cut the fenders some.. I would recomnd getting fiberglass ones for the celica.

I will say I have seen the supra headlight conversion done before and it doesn't look the best.. I really believe that I could prolly do better than what I have seen but really don't think its worth it.

If you still want to do this I will help you... no I wont do it for you but I will point you in the right direction, but I spent well over a month debating weither or not to do this to my car.. calculated cost and weighed every little issue, pro, con etc and desided it would not be benifical to do this.. both in look, performance and money.. If I where you I would spend the money on projectors and be done with it.

But I wish the best of luck to you on this if you still want to try to pull it off and like I said above will help you out on it.