dur..... yea well i sound realy realy dum

If this were true then I'd care what kind of paint you think I should paint the car.

So you have never known anyone that was very proud of the way a car they owned and modded looked and enjoyed looking at there own car? Half the people on here stroke themselves to their own cars. Your not on a car enthusiast site if thats not the case. My car will be parked in a spot outside my house where I will be able to admire it from my bedroom window. :mspank:

I need the extension. Its so small!
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/8...cap0143oy5.jpg

So what is a car like this if I were a girl? A Clit Extension?

Like mentioned before, the owner of the body shop has told me that if anything of that sort ever happens he will fix it for free. Besides, the body work has been baked to temperatures that the sun on a black car probably won't be able to achieve so I'm not worried about these potential issues at all.


LoL! Are you recommending a Mercedes black if I stay with a black?

Drunk that night? :)

Prototype LED FTP solution:
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/2...ototypezn1.jpg

3 High Intensity LED spotlights. Have yet to test them on a car, but they might be a little better than a set of fog lights. Might cram 4 in there.

no shit! i want links and MANY pics on how you did that!! (FTP's) that is....

http://www.oznium.com/high-intensity-led-spotlight $14.99 each, available in 6 colors.

I didn't bother taking pics of the install. Theres really not much to it. Just measure where you want the lights to be and cut\dremel a hole in the back of the FTPs just large enough to slide the LED lights all the way in till the base touches the back of the FTP. Then glue them in place. These LEDs are completley waterproof so they should last forever in there even if some moisture gets in the FTP.

The spotlights have a 25 degree viewing angle so they should work pretty well for this application.

any pics lit?
**Edit**
so is that 3 LED's in the 1 FTP or......

No lit pics at the moment. Yep 3 LED's in the one FTP. They aren't exactly cheap, but the intensity and beam focus make them worth it. I made the mistake of hooking one up to power while I was looking right at it. I was seeing spots in my vision for at least 10 minutes.

Just whipped these up.

LED FTP action pic & vid:

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/6420/ledftpsxp6.jpg

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1. Well you should my opinion is obviously more important than yours, obv.
2. Yeah I have known lots of those people, including myself, those guys are idiots, you as well.
3. extension schmeshension.
4. good to have a body shop that backs up their work.

Honestly in all fairness I just dont like black for showing off nice cars, it just doesnt show everything as well as paint that has color in it, although I am sure you are going to love the car once its painted if black is your hearts desire, that earlier lambo paint you showed was sick, just wonder if it will look as good on the whole car.

Ftp's I can't really tell how far that is, or how bright how far. How far was that wall from where the light was sitting on your desk ?


Yes Clit extension, if I could post pron links I would have just there but suffice to say.....ahem yeah.

The FTPs are 6 FT away from the ceiling. Camera sucks ass in low light conditions. :( Can't focus worth a shit.

The pics of the lambo paint look OK, but in person its another story. A picture just can't quite capture what this color really looks like.

im really linking the FTP's, i fool around with led's alot myself. honestly i would cram 4 in there...i think it would make it look a little more complete

15 feet night time shot:
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8...etnightpq5.jpg

24 feet night time shot:
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6...etnightjs8.jpg
^Camera sucks in low light at distance. :( I think it was lit a bit better than that in person.


Beam Pattern:
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8...patternpt3.jpg

Vid of FTP 24 Feet away from the garage door on the ground:
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Yeah, I'm gonna cram 4 in there. Theres just enough space to fit 4.

Yeah thats 120.00 worth of Ftp lenses lol

Anyone have any pics of the light output of JDM FTP lenses?

Used good condition JDM FTP's go for ~$100. I think Corksport can get brand new JDM FTPs for ~$120. I'm pretty sure these LED setups will annihilate the JDM FTPs in light output. Now the people in front of me might actually SEE my FTPs when I flash them!

i know you have herd this before like 1000 times over but dam what a car!!! its everything a car should be. just wondering (and sorry if you already answered this in a previous post) but is this just a track toy or you planning on tearing up the streets with this bad girl every now and then too? i also really admire your attention to every small detail. What body shop is this? it seems like they are doing an awesome job. The lip for example. did they decide to fix it themselves or did you have to bring it to there attention? just asking cause i have previous experience with body shops, and while theyre really good at painting, theyre not that good at the small/somtimes big details....

I once tried to get a pic of Oun's FD with Lambo black but I ran'd out of batteries as soon as I tried to take the pic. The gold flakeness was hawt.

Only if you angle them UP they will, people dont give two shits about us, first thing you learn driving an Rx7.

Twice this week my best friend AND my wife have had the shit scared out of them when someone tried to run us into the wall or off the road on the freeway when they came over into our lane without even looking, in the middle of rush hour, only my cat like driving reflexes saved us :P


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LoL, Thanks! I'll be driving the car to work occasionally. I plan to take it to a few road courses and a few shows. Who knows. I just mainly want to drive it. If I can DD it I might do so. :) The body shop is M&V Auto Body in Schiller Park Illinois. The lip fix was my suggestion, and to be honest, I had not noticed it until the car was up on the lift. My suggestion was a little different for that area but after mulling it over with the shop owner and listening to his suggestions we came out with what it is now. Same thing goes with the upper bumper duct inner lip. I had requested 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch. When the shop owner was working on that he decided to make it a full inch because it would look better, and it does. The shop owner also wants to make a change to the fender arches to make the lines more smooth, since the rest of the lines on the car are now smooth and flowing, so he's gonna do that too. So, yeah they are proactive in the little detail area, but they will usually call me and ask me first. :D The majority of the ideas implemented on this car are all mine though.



The FTPs are just laying on the ground in that pic. I'm sure the angle once mounted in a bumper will be better, the lights can also be reaimed pretty easily.



Gonna see if I can stop by the shop today. Should have some pics later tonight.

Sweet. To be honest just my opinion but JDM USM BFM FUM or whomever I have always hated the FTP lenses actually, its not that the FTP's are bad or what not its actually the opposite, the TURN signal area is SHIT man Im serious SHIT SHIT SHIT, the FTP is a beautiful shape nicely mounted in a nice area but that one two three Holes in the bumper is nasty, nasty nasty nasty, on the last show car I did I removed the turns and integrated the turn wiring into an AMBer set of high powered led's into the Ftp along with some white for fTP, and removed the fender ambers, I was only after legal and pretty not that functional although the high pow amber was functional in the end more so than stock and the bumer was clean clean.

Let me illustrate: next post picture.


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New Front Bumper
 

And god knows I dont want to give you ANYTHING else to hold up this car but I would be remiss to not mention it so here it is:


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Hmm nice.

no turn signals would look better with the molding still inplace otherwise it looks to plain

It does look nice, however dont you kinda need turn signals to be street legal anywhere you go?

Hence me saying putting hi power ambers on the last pod of the ftp and hooking that up to the turn wires, easy.

i think it would look weird not turns or molding. how about 93spec front turns molded in?

Don't really like the look with the turns removed. I have a nice LED setup for the turns anyway so I'm not gonna change that.

Update:
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/1...primer2el3.jpg
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/3...lprimerkb1.jpg

Lines gone over again, after these pics were taken this morning they primered the body again for the last time. We're on track for paint on Friday.

I've also ordered a different color white LED spotlight to try out in the FTPs.

Lookin good. What do you have planned for the tailights where they meet the fenders?

What do you mean? The end of the tail lights sit flush with the fenders. The fenders aren't stupid wide in the tail light area like the RE-Amemiya kits.

Well thats because your a dumbass. I mean personal taste only goes so far right, Beauty in the eye..etc etc.

Honestly I could not HATE the turns more, the side markers the turns, all that bullshit, if you ever sit down and talk to OLD school japanese and even american designers all that shit is just to meet code when it at that time IS code, look at every lambo, ferrari, benz, bmw or any car worth more than the 3grand our cars are now and you will see mostly integrated turns/tail turns, signals headlights, some like the maybach and others even the head/turn/spots/driving are ALL in the same assembly, others like the audi and other supercars have rows of spots inside/justbelow the heads that function as turns and such, those old jacked up square holes that mazda made for the turns are the WORST thing on the front of the car by alot, the FTP's and the drivings are shaped and beautiful, then someone said after the fact hey cut a square hole, gotta have turns. bullshit I tell you.

Also if you look at every single aftermarket bumper almost worth two cents that is suspiciously missing.

just my 2 cents, I think if you removed them and put your turns inside your ftps you would be quite surprised at how clean the front looked, again as I said not to try to get you to hold the car up any longer, just hate to see you have the chance to make it so clean now that the side markers are gone and not take the opportunity.


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as i said beafor removing the turns compelettely would be abig mistake thrust. it would look too clean to the point of plain like 98 dodge caravan bumper. not the Series 6 turns where nicerly shaped i think those would lood good molded in there. i'll PS a pic in just alittle while

I fail to see how MORE shit makes it look good but then again Rice is one mans treasure, not mine. Look through history and you will notice one thing in common about the cars that are worth the most money, almost all of them are either monochromatic and less is more OR they are beyond the point of retardation to make some kind of point and in that case if you were showing me a Carbon Fiber complete bumper with 27 holes in it and they SERVED A PURPOSE I would be in, in this case he has a chance to make his ftps do better than any stockers ever did AND function as turns and make the front cleaner than it could be with any aftermarket bumper and not to mention make something in the front of the car unique to match the rest of the car, and juice don't chime in with that I put an extra hole for the FMIC shit here, because every ricer known to man has that hole in their front bumper, yes yes yes I commend you making it look stock and sick at the same time albeit, but still.

But hey, classy is not the look for everyone I admit, ricey is WELL liked by alot of people, not to infer that juices car is ricey but with all this work I would just like to see if it HAS to be black and shit, be nice and shaved and very sleek and slick all around, its so close to it already. The sides are sans marker lights, the back meets up with the nice tails already ( plans for 4" led in the tails juice ? ) and so on, I just want perfection here, I think I deserve it after this long, shit dont you ?

I should be getting paid consulting fee's as I have stated multiple times before.

:P

Looking good Juice and I'm excited to see it in color. Please e-mail me some high-res pics when you have a chance.
I see you got the cage in too. Do your seats fit with the cage in place?
The only thing you should be getting paid for is to just go away and not post stupid bs in this thread anymore.

Since when is keeping a stock function ricey?

Yeah, some people hack up their bumpers and add an extra hole. But they don't all delete the moldings and make the extra hole & trimmed out grill work look stock. I do not feel that adding one orange high intensity LED spotlight to each FTP would be sufficient for a turn signal, maybe an LED floodlight would be better. Without further testing to find out I will not be making any changes to the turn signals. I think I'd rather have 4 white LED Spotlights in there for the FTP function anyway. I do also have an idea for the FTPs to add an orange led strip near the bottom of the lense to use as turns in combination with the regular(now LED) turns(similar to the new Audii cars). But before I do ANY delting of anything such as a turn signal I would need to know for sure that what I was to replace them with is sufficient. When I do test these things out after the car is done if I feel the need to delete the turns it won't be that big of a deal to change that part of the bumper. Chances are unlikely that I will do that that though. I don't really want to delete functionality, I'd rather add to it.

I do have some ready and waiting to go. Haven't had time to finish them though. May try something different too.

You deserve a dick slap to the face and nothing more.


Will do! I haven't had a chance to try to fit the new seats yet. As soon as the car is out of the body shop the new carpeting and seats will be fitted and I'll let you know.

:hahaha:

When the rest of the car is so smoothed out like it is all clean and beautiful and some ghetto fucking jack square hole is left where it should not be because it looks out of place, because some misplaced japanese fucker in corporate decided it had to have ANOTHER hole to make code, or out of place like your dick slapping my pretty ass face would. Plus how the fuck do you "slap" someone with 2" of dick, thats more like a "poke" isn't it ?

You come down to texas and Ill show you why they say everything is bigger, slap you with 9" of limp dick and then youll obey me and shave those holes you bitch.

lol

The "adding" fucntionality is what I am after actually, making your ftp's bright AND be turns would be sick, admit it , it would be a one off and nothing else would look like it and to be honest if you really REALLY wanted it to be one off you could just straight drill a row of amber high intensity flat led's right under the ftps, shave the stock fuckhole square crap, and leave your 4 superbrights in the ftp's and get the best of both worlds.

Here is what I am on about:


See R8 Pic:

Also what is the idea for the rears, I have had my tails apart for 3 months now trying to figure out what I want to do with them, stupid truck 4" led lights don't look as good, I really WANT a round 2 circle "Halo" tail led type inside the tail but I dont know without building a custom round board and led's how to go about such an animal, unless you just "turn off / desolder" a bunch of the leds in the inner circle, dunno, thoughts ?

And dont EVEN bother telling me that the R8 doesnt have THE SICKEST fucking headlight/turn/ftp/drivelight front end combo light EVER, because it does.

Trust7,
Congratulations, you are my new favorite, i.e., "THE SICKEST" dumbass on this site, and there are more dumbasses here than not.
Keep up the good work.

Its just a saying I am actually quite intelligent and to be honest you being all serious and shit when you KNOW I have been joking with Juice the whole time is a little bit of a downer, why dont you take your old ass and jump off a bridge ? Nobody is attacking or for that matter even TALKING to you.

I am talking to Juice about his car, which I quite like, and would like to see be the best it can be, and yes that would be my opinion of best, but without giving it he might not ever get an idea that didn't occur to him. Its just a fun process and jesus dude, re-fucking-lax.

Crap! ALl i care about is the engine/chassi setup. I read 10 pages of body work.. waiting for the next bit of info on the engine. Did you need new housings?

someone else used did that, he just used (i think it was) liquid electrical tape to cover the center leds to make the halo effect.

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k...limitbreak.jpg

I dont quite like the look, i think its missing something. Its still a really nice picture though, i got it as my desktop right now.

EDIT: heres the link to how he did it. http://forum.teamfc3s.org/showthread.php?t=58120&page=2

LoL, sorry junito1. As soon as the body shop is done the engine goes back in. Don't worry, there will be another 10 pages of all engine and chassis setup. :D


Watch it motherfucker! I'll "poke" your eye out!

The R8 headlight setup is cool... But the front end of the FC is nothing like that. Drilling holes for LEDs under the FTPs to try to mimic the R8 headlights will come out looking pretty crappy I think. The angles are totally different. If anything the extra LEDs i put in will be inside the FTP lens.

Damn, you beat me to it. Yup, liquid electrical tape. Some of those 4 inch truck lights cannot have the LEDs in the center be disabled without breaking the whole thing. So covering the LEDs with the liquid electrical tape is about the best you can do if that's the look your going for.




I saw the car earlier today. It's been reprimered. They were starting the prep for paint. :D

I demand pics of a wheel mock up to the rear!

The pic of the rear fender in my sig has the wheel mounted.

:rolleyes: 3/4's view man... can't see jack other than the fact the lip/tire is quite flush.

If I can, next week after paint I'll bring the tires back to the shop and throw them on. I'll grab some pics for you. I'm pretty sure I posted some youtube video of the wheels mocked up before.

Alright, i'll check your video history then.

That looks nice, the picture is kind of far away but looks nice, I would like more of a halo I think but, what do you think juice what kind of tail work could we do to make the rear really nice ?

yeah, like i said, its missing something... i cant put my finger on it but it just doesnt have the right look. maybe the leds are to far apart? or maybe it is the halo being to big.

Dont know, but something can be done better on it!

your seven looks awesome!