MarkSanne
23-12-2013, 10:00 PM
The idea for doing something really different to a Galant bonnet rose about a year ago, but only today I finally got around to actually start on it.
As some of you know, I've done my fair bit of customizing on our beloved Galants/Legnums. And if you're one of them, you know it's usually quite subtle. Only a handful who see our cars will spot the customizations. And that's exactly what I like best: custom stuff that looks like it could have been like that from factory or a factory option.
This time I'm doing a bonnet. The pre-facelift bonnets have a light bulge, the facelift version have a much more pronounced bulge. My idea was to invert the (PFL) bulge. I don't think it has been done before (maybe for good reason!) or at least I've never seen it. On some cars the bonnet is like that from factory, and it's not really per se something that is like super appealing, it's just a bit less common.
There are some risks ofcourse:
- the space we have is already limited so doing this inversion might prove to be not fitting at all, although I'll cut some height from the underframe but it will be very tight
- maybe the final product isn't what I envision
Okay, enough talking, here's today's progress:
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As some of you know, I've done my fair bit of customizing on our beloved Galants/Legnums. And if you're one of them, you know it's usually quite subtle. Only a handful who see our cars will spot the customizations. And that's exactly what I like best: custom stuff that looks like it could have been like that from factory or a factory option.
This time I'm doing a bonnet. The pre-facelift bonnets have a light bulge, the facelift version have a much more pronounced bulge. My idea was to invert the (PFL) bulge. I don't think it has been done before (maybe for good reason!) or at least I've never seen it. On some cars the bonnet is like that from factory, and it's not really per se something that is like super appealing, it's just a bit less common.
There are some risks ofcourse:
- the space we have is already limited so doing this inversion might prove to be not fitting at all, although I'll cut some height from the underframe but it will be very tight
- maybe the final product isn't what I envision
Okay, enough talking, here's today's progress:
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65915
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