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Old Sep 5, 2006 | 04:31 PM
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How do you make a bodykit?

yeah i wanna get started on a cool bodykit for the fc. i have alot of good ideas but i have no idea how you make them. i ill obviosly need the stock exterior and cutting tools but how do you give the body its shape and how do you stick everything together? PLZ PLZ help me.
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Old Sep 5, 2006 | 05:01 PM
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this is not easy........ it takes years of training.
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Old Sep 5, 2006 | 05:20 PM
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Cardboard, chicken wire and paper mache work nicely. Body work is hard, or at least nice looking body work is hard and time consuming. You'll wish you'd never started the project.
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Old Sep 5, 2006 | 09:43 PM
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im currently in a design course specializing in this area and i will tell u now that it is a very tedious process. lots of computer designing, Rhino or CADD will be ur cheapest software to buy or DL photoshop and scan sketches into it and edit them...

if ur willing to wing it get some high density foam, sand paper 50 gritish, a knife for shaping and well lots and lots of hours of work

after u get sumthing u like time to bust out the bondo and make it semitrical, let the bondo cure, spred some fleese and start fibreglassing

tbh its vert sketchy to do it this way and the odds of ur fittment lining up properly are very slim it requires alot of work and many many hours.

ur best bet is to let a pro make a kit, its very expensive to do it this way

but my opinion is get a nice lip kit and mod the stock bumper
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Old Sep 23, 2006 | 10:01 PM
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wow wtf????
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