Project Sidewayz

[kookieboi]

i really need to stay away from radio shack! lol but now i have my drift car...



already started with the body drop and getting it prepped for paint hopefully later tonight. im going with a metallic blue.

[kookieboi]

most of the body work is done (still going to form up the front end a lil more). laid down some primer to see better what needs to be sanded more. going to finish the paint tomorrow.

laying down the mold for the front end

and filling the back end

the front being formed

and the back end being formed

here it is after primer


still more work to do but im done for tonight

[kookieboi]

finished the blue just have to put in the details.


sidewayz and her sis trackstar lookin good together

[fast tim]

how did you lower the car

[kookieboi]

Originally Posted by fast tim

how did you lower the car

this one was actually a lot of work to lower. for the front i just flipped the front clip and in the rear i cut out the rear window and made a lil spacer under the trunk to the rear clip and super glued it together. the hard part was that when i mounted it i noticed that the body sat a lil forward on the chassis making the wheels off-centered in the wheel wells, so i had to trim the bottom of the front clip completely flat and trim about 3-4mm from the front of the clip. then i cut out the top of the slot the clip slides into on the inside of the body. after that i used some plastic medal to extend the trunk area into the inside of the body to give me extra area for the rear clip to mount to. i will post the pics of all this when i get home tonight after work so this will all make a lil more sense.

[fast tim]

i lowered mine and the wheels arnt siting center in the wheel wells ill post a pic in my project thread

[kookieboi]

yeah im not sure why it did that when i lowered mine but it was kinda pain in the neck to fix

[Bananabrain]

Liking the Paint on that GTR, goes well being really smooth too.

[XMDrifter]

actually, what you should do is sand the place where the rear clip screws onto. that way you can keep the windows and still lower the rear to match the front.

[kookieboi]

the motor got in the way with the window in so i took it out

[fast tim]

it also helps keep the motor cool

[XMDrifter]

you know, you can grind stuff down...

[kookieboi]

Originally Posted by XMDrifter

you know, you can grind stuff down...

i did and there was still clearance problems so, like the rest of my cars i had to take the back window out

[kookieboi]

just a quick update....
here she is with the lil details back on (lights, grill aand exhausted painted)

[_rx7™]

whoa so low back looks really nice good job on the work u done

[winner]

loks good, but i'd suggest getting a silver sharpie and coloring in the spots behind the head/tail lights

[CFLks411]

Stuff likes this makes me wish I could afford a real car lol...kinda why I got into the hobby, until I can get the Subaru Legacy around the corner from my house...I have to settle with RCs. Looks good though man...I have a GTR that I wanna do up like yours there.