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Shading is for girls, just use a Magnum 44 and make it all black and white with no gray! Just kidding, I think that is pretty good mike, I'm glad more people are jumping in on this thread, it's been pretty fun and I was worried it was winding down. We've almost gotten it as long as the aerodynamics threads...there are still a few people I know can draw that are holding out, and I"m sure many others. I saw Driftn280zx chime in earlier, but no pictures...I'm willing to bet Iskone likes to draw given his graffitti avatar. Maybe if we do some graffitti themed paint jobs, we could entice some new faces. New challenge: OTM and whoever, should you choose to accept it, I will be producing a graffitti theme S30 picture tomorrow at work, and challenge you all to see what the rest of you can come up with.

huh, learn something new every day. Kind of like how we used to call the fake punk rockers "toys" back in the day...I don't know this girl outside of the photos, but I dig the fake six guns that are printed on her chaps... *edit* Squid Compact Car used to feature some decent cars, but in a bizarre twist of fate and staff changes, it has been eclipsed by it's rival Super Skeet (which while featuring some interesting cars, has possibly the MOST inane writing to go along with it I've ever come across...) So unless I'm in desperate need of some T(eeth?) and A(rms?) I pretty much stick to Grassroots Motorsports and Retro Car these days

Akira fans, sit up and take note: http://www.matus1976.com/akira_bike/welcome.htm pretty soon we'll all be able to bust some clowns wearing our red pill jackets...(hopefully this will work better than the Alaskan Giant Robot Suit does...)

huh...must be a screw type.

this term "squid"...I'm not too familiar with it...feels like i'm missing something.

I did a bit of digging, and it seems the sprinter trueno is one model, and the levin is the other. Levin has fixed headlights, trueno has the flips.

we had a yellow p1800 wagon when I was a kid, and I used to love that car...I lost my Sgt. Slaughter GI joe in the back seat, and he was never heard from again...My mom still says it was her favorite car, and I used to think about putting one together for her as a gift. I just never had the resources to do it properly.

Zspeed280, that is a great rendering! It's good to see some others are joing in the fun, left to our own devices Olderthanme and I were starting to get a little slap-happy in here... Hey OTM, I like your rally car too, but the blower is on the wrong side. You could probably do that with a 4-barrell manifold, in fact, i'm pretty sure somebody here has done it and has a picture as their avatar, just can't think of the name. Also, Operation: camo zzzap came to a screeching halt when it began to rain again, however, I did put my time to good use by making my camo stencils, so that when i finally do get some dry weather, i'll be able to bang it out pretty quickly.

alright, you asked for it, so here it is:

Anybody see that Gforce tranny that allows you to mount a Honda B series twin cam as a rear wheel drive configuration? Now you can finally have that B16a v-tec swap you've always wanted without the embarrasment of being FWD...

You ought to pick up a sketch book, just stay away from the recycled paper if you want the pages to be white. Those are always a bit beige or even yellow. I'll probably start a new thread for the paint job. I'm working on a group b rally monster s30 drawing right now at work, I'll scan it when I get home. Think: Pike's Peak Escudo, and cower in fear of total desert runner rally raid domination...

are you going to put the little flap on it too? that would be too much... Also, for any interested parties, Operation: Camo ZZZap starts today...stay tuned for pics. Another exhaust idea I had was to siamese two pipes to make a double barrel shotgun style sidepipe. I got as far as cutting the pipes, but never welded them together because the cut was a little raggedy, and i'm not good enough at welding to make them look decent.

notice the machine gun on the hood, the star shaped turn signals, and the camo netting on the dash board...this guy took it to the NEXT level... I always thought it would be cool to have a roots blower sticking up out of the hood with a small gatling gun barrel detail on the end of the pulley so it would look like a chain gun. Maybe some nose art on the fenders...

I think it's a ken & mary skyline 4door...

No, that Starion is Dope! that's just how a zero would have been painted! There is a guy in our local drift scene that has a first gen miata that he's vinyled up in street camo. Let me see if I can find a picture real quick....did find these: Well, I never did find it...I might have a friend with a picture of it, I know he has video...All these pics came from www.drifting.com, they have a camo paint job thread as well. I may join once i paint my car just to post on that thread...

I believe the trueno does NOT have the flip headlights, but the sprinter does? Both are carollas, that's the biggest difference I've seen in those old models but I don't remember which is which. By the way, I heard mention of a 72 skyline, but they never actually showed it in the garage scene. Must be nice to get paid $4000 just to have your car talked about on screen...

I thought 3 fast 3 furious was pretty good, definitely better than the other two. My wife even cried when Han died in that raggedy RX-huh? thing he was driving...I'm not too sure how I felt about Bow Wow's Hulkmobile...the graphic was hard but the fists and hands popping out of the panels was a little iffy. And what exactly was throwing sparks from the bottom of that mustang in the final scene? It's not like it was lowered or anything...Oh well, it was part of the FNF franchise, so you can't be too critical of things like racing in the dirt on NASCAR style slicks, or people driving special adamantium edition cars that don't damage when crashed until it's funny for them to do so...I think the live action Initial D from China was a better movie all around. At least nobody's floorboards fell out from using too much nitrous in this one.

http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/custom-carshot-rods/swapping-cadillacs-northstar-v8-into-compact-racers-120001.php yeah it's real. Also that car was featured in one of the import mags once, probably sports compact car...

Might be something like this too, a northstar v-8...

Yeah, I've seen it lately, but it's expensive, maybe twice what a normal can of spray paint would cost. I think you can get it at NAPA now, but don't quote me on that. Also there is a self-etching primer that is olive drab that was available at Advance Auto Parts when I was working there, but it's not so good to leave a car in bare primer in Florida...As for the Exhaust dump idea, I was thinking of mounting up my turbo so that the downpipe goes towards the front of the car, and then route the pipe around to the passenger side and up into the fender. Then it would mate up to a box that had six turn-downs coming out of it near the top of the fender, like in the first camo-drawing... here is the way I was wanting to paint it after it was finished, pearl white on the bottom, gloss black on the top. that little diagram is a top view of what I was talking about with the exhaust plumbing

I was pioneering the use of olive drab on my z years ago! Or rather I would have been, if it had been available...instead, I had to settle for a really crappy shade of Wal-Mart green...anyway, imagine this: exhaust and all! OTM,I can see that you are clearly not ready for my vehicle paint scheme jack-assery...I think you are almost there, perhaps with more shaolin training you will be able to think outside the bun on my level...(those are all jokes, by the way!)

Well, the weather was good, but I got caught up in 3 fast 3 furious fever, and my buddy pulled my wife and I out to go see that, and we ended up spending our day with him and his brother...I'm thinking that I'll try and get that paint on there sometime this week though. In the meantime, i've got some more random paint ideas (i could do these all day {and usually do!}): this one is supposed to look like a zero fighter plane...