And here we go,

My first car was a KE55 coupe and I've alway's like the shape of them. It took me about a year to find a decent one for a resonable price and here she is

 

 

the body is near perfect, the young lady i bought it off of had a small accident damaging the left fender. The steering is a bit sloppy not too sure if the crash caused it, or old age.

 

Anyway, nearly a year later, the door cards are done. the front below, the back are straight black

 

 

The car is up and I'm reconditioning the steering and suspension. By the end of christmas the front will be finished. All New ball jounts, rubbers, bearings and lowered springs

 

 

Then it will be onto either the diff and rear suspension, or Boot lining and interior. Depends what I feel like .

Man those door pods look sweet as,

 

Do you have any engine plans ?

Not as yet, Still tossing up whether to keep and work the 4K already in the old girl, or, upgrade to a newer engine.

 

Your thoughts??

What do you want out of the car ?

 

Do you want it to kill 6 cylinders or just cruise around with a little bit of power ?

 

If it was mine i would like to put a 3SGTE in it to get some real power happening or make a fully worked 5K to keep it as original as possible but still have some balls.

 

Cheers Des. :wink: :)

Well it's been a bloody long time but back again. A bit of an update, I've added some fibreglass, a Lip, Bobtail Wing and Flares. here's the process.

 

The Lip and Bobtail was from an RA Celica. The Lip was the easiest to add, simple cut to shape and fit

 

The wing on the otherhand took a while. I had to cut it to pieces and re-built it so the angles would match the boot

 

The biggest problem was how to fabricate the ends. after shaping the front and back I taped down some packing wrap on the outside and glassed the inside. the ends turned out perfect after a bit of bog

 

I had to extend the back so i used a similar approach. I taped packing wrap to the back of the boot, fitted the wing and glassed over it. The wing now is shaped to the the boot

 

And that is that, both are sanded and ready for priming, hopefully next week

WoW. Hey would you be willing to maybe have that rear one molded and reproduced?? Cause I'd like that on my Hardtop.

 

The front looks cool too. :P

That's the type of lip I want done on my sedan once I get around to that area. Looking Good.

 

What did you use to make it in the first place?

I'd wanna see what that lip looks like with a bumper attached.

As for the Flares, they are from a KE2x and they have taken the better part of 4 months to get to a stage where i can take molds. The process is just labour intensive.

 

First i had to cut and open the arch to fit the larger guards. Glassed it all up and bogged the cuts

 

The ends had to be lengthened, for this i used some urethane foam cut to shape the guard and flare, epoxied in, bogged and shaped. A fair bit of time taken up fiddling around.

 

All primed just have to sand and take some molds (hopefully next week) off of them to a make thicker, stronger set.

 

See you all later

WoW. Hey would you be willing to maybe have that rear one molded and reproduced?? Cause I'd like that on my Hardtop.

 

The front looks cool too. :P

 

 

HI JiP, I wasn't planning on making a mold of the wing but anything is possible. We'll see how i go

That's the type of lip I want done on my sedan once I get around to that area. Looking Good.

 

What did you use to make it in the first place?

 

All items were bought from ebay - B&J Vintage Retro Shop. postage time wasn't too bad either

I'd wanna see what that lip looks like with a bumper attached.

 

 

Good point JiP, i hadn't thought of that. I'll take some pics and post tomorrow

YEah, I currently have a splitter in my garage set aside for my hardtop. Its the one that can be found on Xany's car and Murderess's hardtop.

Daamn, Looks like this one is gonna be a killer. Don't really like The new door cards, not my style but everything else is looking tight. How are you going to lower it? The RA lip looks great to!

 

Grtz

Edited January 8, 200917 yr by Jonas dc

HI JiP, I wasn't planning on making a mold of the wing but anything is possible. We'll see how i go

Lots of people would be interested in this. You could possibly do the whole kit. Lip, spoiler, flares and all!

 

Will look tough when it's finished! Well done on the work

Edited January 9, 200917 yr by seabiscuit