Green Supra project with 19" Rims

[86_SR5]

Originally Posted by SuperStreet reader

not bad maybe you could mod the engine air intake to make it functional


sort of

Ram Air, on a Supra???? That's crazy,......so crazy, it just might work.

[Verminator]

Holy crap!! Where do you get your ideas, is there a new glue on the market we should all know about? lol

Await further progress

[SonyMobile]

Originally Posted by Hiroboy

A bit more done for now. Opinions on the bonnet mods ?

No, Does not look good, ( to me) The supra has very organic flowing lines, and the scoop has... a blocky style, definatly a (to me)
Maybe if you lowered the scoop down a bit, and made it flow more with the car or added sumthing like this http://www.ridejudge.com/featured/Ju...rontDriver.jpg
or just the two openings without the cowl down the center,
Just my , but I like the way you did the body, very cool, hope to see more of this project soon

[Veyron]

Looking good, but I can't handle that hood scoop, looks too muscle car-ish IMO.

[ratdat]

Wow...it almost looks like it could have some fat drag slicks tucked under the rear and some skinny fronts, pro-street style! I like the technique for widening the rear arches..very nice

The scoop looks to tall to me now but I guarantee when it's done it'll look spot on

[ratdat]

Originally Posted by Hiroboy

The paint is mixed at a local Automotive parts outlet in the UK called Halfords

Steve, is it just normal automotive mettalic base coat they mix for you? I didn't realise you could get such a small amount mixed. What do you ask for... is it a special thing they do for paint touch-up on cars?

[zerrocool]

i like the hoodscoop

[SchuberT]

i think the hood scoop looks badass myself... keep it, but paint it green while having the rest of the hood CF like SR5 said

[86_SR5]

Originally Posted by SchuberT

i think the hood scoop looks badass myself... keep it, but paint it green while having the rest of the hood CF like SR5 said

yeah, yeah, green scoop, Yashio Factory S15 inspired hood, body colored scoop, CF hood.

[willimo]

Usually I try not to weigh in on style (unless I really like it) because to each his own, and it's not my place, but since you asked for comments....

I think it's too big; too wide and too high, and too square. Like SonyMobile said, the Supra is very organic and it looks sort of out of place. More than that, the Supra is pretty much defined by how it orders its negative space. While the car is generally round, there are a few places that tuck back in a little bit, and this is what makes the car so dramatic. For example, the contour (looked at in profile) of the front bumper and air dam is concave, the intakes on the sides fold back and recede into the quarter panels, and the upturned rear and spoiler makes a nice little indentation right before the trailing edge like the small of a pretty girl's back. These are all negative spaces. That's why the holes in the hood of the Supra in that movie and in the hood FOTW sells work and look good, because they do not extend beyond the curvature of the car, but recede into it. You could make a scoop extend out into positive space like that but you have to be careful, it would have to not overpower the shapes on the car, but instead accentuate them, like if you slightly hightened the curvature of the hood and added a scoop like that. Another option would be to set a scoop into the hoop, like the single turbo drag set up are known to do, or even like how a JGTC Supra does. While I know that's not terribly original, it would work with the Supras shape a lot better in my opinion.

Anyway, that's supposed to be constructive, I sure hope it comes off as such.

[SchuberT]

very well worded...

[Bloodhound]

It's a nice mod, but it needs to be less bulky, So i recommend cutting down the height to about 2/3's and then slicing the front of the scoop back on the same angle as the hood, and making it a little less abrupt by making it's sides on more of an angle towards the hood. just my 2 cents but it still is your car.

[D[X]P]

Originally Posted by Veyron

Looking good, but I can't handle that hood scoop, looks too muscle car-ish IMO.

amen

[Hiroboy]

Originally Posted by willimo

Usually I try not to weigh in on style (unless I really like it) because to each his own, and it's not my place, but since you asked for comments....
I think it's too big; too wide and too high, and too square. ..............................................be to set a scoop into the hoop, like the single turbo drag set up are known to do, or even like how a JGTC Supra does. While I know that's not terribly original, it would work with the Supras shape a lot better in my opinion.
Anyway, that's supposed to be constructive, I sure hope it comes off as such.

Thanks
I think your right, maybe it'll have two hoods if I can find another spare it'll redo it.

[fujimituner235]

doesnt look right on a supra... do a top secret c/f hood