Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Another update! I just recently started test fitting the Mitsubishi GTO body onto its chassis. For sure, now it needs a bit of modification to fit properly and securely. I've taken a couple of pictures from the webcam. Yes, yes, I know. It's pretty low quality, but then again, its a webcam shaped of a baseball, so of course it's not going to be of reasonable or astounding quality. I hope you can make out the general look of the model through the pictures, though.

Here you can see the general view of the GTO model. You can see that the windsplitter (or front-spoiler, as it is commonly know as, is tilted upwards. You don't see that on real cars... Except may be on Civic or Integra ricers trying to fly. But this just won't do for a high-performance car. I will need to shave off the side splitters and use whatever's left to make some kind of body kit and then use a carbon fiber sheet to re-create an aftermarket add-on windsplitter_


Next, we have a picture of the car from the rear (click on the photo to enlarge for a better view). Here you can see the stock exhaust system on the car. I am planning to keep the rear bumper as stock looking as possible. Here you can also see my diffuser (the clear object under the car). I'll be painting it a mock carbon fiber to stimulate RE Amemiya diffusers on RX-7_


Here we have a styleshot. Just me fooling around with the camera. You can sort of see how much ride height this car is achieving. Since it'll be this high (I'm not into modifying the suspension for it to sit any lower), I'll be adding more putty (once I get some Milliput) to make a lower sitting front body kit. I will also use styrene sheets to aid in creating skirts on the side of the car_


And finally, we have a profile shot. Here you can get a pretty good idea of what I meant earlier about the windsplitter in the front. You can see as the vertical cannards tilt upwards like its trying to get airborne. I'll need to trim them off and make a better and smoother looking bodykit. As well, I'll need to create a skirt on both sides of the car to compensate for the ride height and make it look like it has a lower centre of gravity (note, don't be a ricer and do that in real life, don't just cut your springs, either. Lowering your car will also mean that you need to change your shocks (or dampers) so that your suspension isn't so soft that your car's chassis is rubbing the ground when you turn, or that you don't rub the chassis on speed bumps). In the picture you can also see how aerodynamic looking the car is. Not that it is, at the moment, since the rear wing is tilted at such an extreme angle, and tha the front spoiler is tilted up. Not a good setup to acheive any performance or handling gains_


As you can see in the first, third, and fourth pictures. My side-view mirrors aren't on the doors where they were meant to be, or in-between the A-pillar and door, like on some cars. This was merely added for style, and because many older cars, specifically the early Fairlady Z's had their side-view mirrors on the front quarter panels. But my original inspiration of putting them there came from a poster in my room with the RE Amemiya GReddy FD3S drift car. I've included a picture of the car below.

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