AMT eclipse FAST AND THE FURIOUS STYLE!

Ill let the pics talk: It will be made to replica the one from the movie, with the diamond plate interior, and cf hood etc.....




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Good luck! It will take a lot to try to replicate the movie car...

1. roll cage
2. no back seat in real car
3. ice
4. correct position of NOS tanks
5. pillar mounted gauges
6. Sparco milano seats (not the ones with the kit)
7. Sparco shifter/pedals, etc.

And thats just the interior problems ;)


Engine is all wrong (belive me, I tried to fix it :rolleyes: ) Wing is all wrong, roof scoop is shaped wrong, gas cap is wrong, disc brakes are a JOKE (they are supposed to be BREMBO GT big brake kit)

I can help you with research material, as I thought about making the movie car, but figured out that I would be better off not to even try it...

(By the way the movie car had different hood pins)

GOOD LUCK!!! and I will keep coming back to this thread often to check your progress!

Go For It!!

You have alota work on your hands, you should've just gotten the Revell metal body, seeing as it is comepletely right, nothing on it wrong except the mirrors and the sound system it has.

Looking forward to seeing the progress on this one, im gonna replicate the 2F2F Lancer Evo 7 after i finish my Altezza and Supra.

more pics... painted Tamiya Light green(spray can)....


looks really nice i htink

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the interior is being fixed to movie standards... (no seats) and im making a laptop to sit on the passenger seat!

great paint, lookin great.

nice shine.

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I do believe the car had a passenger seat.

Yep, It had a passanger seat (both seats are Sparco Torinos or Milan)

The two NOS tanks are located behind the passanger seats and the rear package shelf is full of amps.

Looks good so far! I like the color!

Yep, It had a passanger seat (both seats are Sparco Torinos or Milan)

The two NOS tanks are located behind the passanger seats and the rear package shelf is full of amps.

Looks good so far! I like the color!
Sparco Torino's.

oh i know it had a passenger seat , i just set that one in..

the whole thing has to be sanded, and then painted black, with flocking and diamond plate feet ... things

more progress...
check the shine, NO polishin or compoundin yet.... "ME LIKEY"!!!!


anwyas.. the dash: i kinda made it My way.. didn't really cehck out the movie much for it(got a little more to detail + computer).... I gotta make the shiftknob soon!!!

stay tuned and by all means POST!!!

and... the muffler is made but needs to be 2-4 mm lower..

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nice. One ? though, why are your gauge faces lying on the dash?

why shouldn't they be.. they came with thekit!

That's not how they should be. You should be able to see them alot better than that. Picture this, your pushing 165mph in a parking lot on litely modded turbo 4g63 in 5th gear, you can't see your gauges, something decides to go wrong, your electronic boost controller decides to go haywire (cause your too cheap to buy a good one, so you buy a second hand one that's been remanufactured. You end up chucking a piston because your boost flies up, this all coulda been prevented if you coulda seen the damn gauges. (I've never dealt with turbo motors before, so this story might be off, but you get the idea.)

yea ur right.. almost all true


but if ur boost controller goes haywier, Theres nothing u can do.. It will Detenate (too much boost, backfire i belive)... andU can definently FEEL it.... so what ud never get into 4-5 gear because ud feel it as soon as the turbos spool and ..... GO!!...

my bros car detenates on 93 octane.. It needs 94! at 15Psi...

Well, as I said I've never dealt with turbo cars, only superchargers, constant boost 2500rpm and up, that's the way I like it.

thats chill...

anyways.. back to the model.. any other suggestions!??!?!?!?!?!!?!

are you doing the sparco pedals? Oh yeah, how about some Takata racing harnesses? walmart sells this thin ribbon , already green, just print the logos and superglue them on there. I assume this car has a tach built in the dash? Did you make the cage yet, you know it's gotta be green.

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i gota make the roll cage, thanks for remindin me..

anwyas muffler done, (might raise up a litle bit more actully)


cechk out the wheels\... they are bigger but not hte fand f ones... they look fairly similar so ill keep them. BUt i have to trim down the rear ones cause they are way to wide!

noooo, put the fat ones in front. Looks good, I'd pic up the muffler a lil bit

did the car have a roll cage, i cna't seem to find good pics of the interior

tegram, I have some pics of a 10pt cage, not in the car, but I can scan em for ya if ya want em.

Lookin good so far, if you wanna replicate the rims use the Yokohama model 7's kinda look like the ones from the movie. better than the ones you have on now.

lookin good, the rims are a bit larger for my liking, but im lovin the paint, what code is it? i think you should put the muffler up a bit aswell

Looks good. Put some lower profile tires on them wheels, angle the exhaust upward more and tilt it a tad and it should look nice

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paint is tamiya Light green, sorry not sure exact TS--??...

anyways ive taken the weheels and made them thinner and lower profile.... looks way better! thanks camber

86sr5: the pictures would be amazing! thankyou


heres some more pics
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im all out of ITR mufflers (used for nitrous), and i only have 1 decal.so im just goin with the single tank of NAAAAASSSSS!

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NOTHING's glued on the interior really..
and chck out the diamond plate (thanks to subway's thread)

Ok Tegra, just so we're clear, the pictures (more like diagrams, show the 8, 10 ,12, and 14 pt. roll cages. What I do is recreate an 8pt cage, then add the points from the ten, and you have a cage for your car.

Start with making a 4pt bar:
http://www.rankmyride.com/data//4/2/2721//.large/4.jpg
Then add tube to make it an 8pt cage:
http://www.rankmyride.com/data//4/2/2721//.large/8.jpg
Then add more to make it a 10pt cage:
http://www.rankmyride.com/data//4/2/2721//.large/810.jpg

thanks bro, but in the movie.. i can't seem to see it...
are they're any reference shots anyywhere~~~!~

In the movie, the car had an oval can muffler with a single chrome tip no blue on it, it was a trust extreme exhaust.

Nice shine...

86 SR5- You scare me, you know too much about the cars in the fast and the furious movies :eek:

no, I just pick shit like that out, at one time I had an eclipse, and wanted that exhaust.

Im sorry dude, but ive watched that movie a ton of times and NEVER saw a rollcage, and the last time i knew, that fart can was a apexi...


Josh

No, the car didn't have a cage, but the show car did, and it was a trust exhaust.

How does it go whit this car???

I have ordert it now, just waiting to get it...And put my fingers on it..

One thing. Hobbylinc are selling NOS-tanks, so if you want double NOS, Go and order a "NOS-kit"

The rims, are they in the kit similar to the real one?? or have you got som others?

The kit is OK, not every part fits well.. especially the windows (current project)


DECALS will be on by today and soon i will b finished... This will be the last progress pics until complettion...

also.. U can't really see in these quick photos.. but theres some headlights (real working) installed!
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this has very bad fitting parts..

anyways...

hers more updates..

ALMOST DONE!

Day:http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/41793eclispe1-med.JPG

NIGHT: http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/41793eclipse2-med.JPG

Looks awesome dude, cant wait to see more progress..

Nice!!

wow, i just started this kit two days ago. Im not going for the F&F flavor though, but seeing yours is really making me think about it....

sorry to double post, but you mentioned a thread about the diamond plate, i cant seem to find it in the how to section :(

WOW, Love the working lights. You made a turd look really great Congrats on the work!
Chris

sorry to double post, but you mentioned a thread about the diamond plate, i cant seem to find it in the how to section :(


thnks for al the kind words...

anyways...
diamond plate was in SUBWAYS orange car.. thread.. sory i don't have the exac t thread..

wow you just inspired me to make a nice golf




or maybe even an eclipse



or maybe those 2 kits combined or something..? i need naws

how do you get the decal looking so nice and smooth without the outline?

WoW. That's some great work. I have the same kit at home - never opened. What tips would you give about it?