/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1237103
Make the meal you wish to cut an inch longer than you need. Place in position and place a 1inch wheel with a pencil in the center against the side and scribe a line that follows the contours. Cut for a perfect fit.

>>1237103
>place a 1inch wheel with a pencil in the center against the side and scribe a line

oh lawdy you lost me there. more details pls.

Use cardboard for a stencil. Trim, check, trim, check, rinse and repeat....

>>1237103
please don't do anything to that poor Mazda.

>>1237107

That's a great suggestion, but unfortunately it's not enough in this situation. It's not a smooth rounded surface the fin should fit onto, but from the front edge it should also meld onto the rear pillar between the rear window and rear door.

>>1237111

This is the only way I can think of too, but it will take days and even then it's success is uncertain. I got the current measurements with cardboard stencils, but with flexible cardboard and no points to ancor it on the results have been mostly useless.

>>1237118
OP, have you considered cutting the car itself?
Sure, it sounds drastic, but consider this:
cut quarter panel parallel to fin, about 1" inside future fin location
bend up to match fin wall
rivet car metal to inside of fin

The rear pillar part would be more complicated, but similar.

>>1237129
Oh, and cover rivets & seam with bondo.

>>1237129
Haha Jesus christ don't do this.

>>1237103
Just stick it on as it is now and then fill the gaps with putty and sand

>>1237135
sand it with sandpaper to be clear. Don't fill it with sand

>>1237129

Cutting the supporting structures is illegal, to a ridiculous degree. According to the vehicle inspection, you can't even cut pieces off the fenders or the hood, which doesn't even make sense from a structural viewpoint, but it's the Finnish law and why this car has been more difficult to work with than I expected.

>>1237135

It doesn't even fit where it's supposed to now, and that would be a ridiculous amount of putty anyway.

They look fucking terrible so why bother?

If you're determined to ruin another car that doesn't deserve it, get the dimensions as close as possible and then fill the interface with the body with filler.

Expect the parts to flutter and crack the surrounding paint (assuming you can afford a respray for this section you are ruining), spend the rest of the days enjoying your shit fins on a car that doesn't deserve them.

this really
>>1237113

>>1237103
this is what you want senpai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExKahDk4WFI
You want something that can scribe to the contours of the car and duplicate it to another surface.

>>1237107
>meal you wish to cut an inch longer than you need
>>1237107
>place a 1inch wheel with a pencil in the center against the side and scribe a line that follows the contours
So now the metal is only 1/2" longer than you need.
>the center of a one inch wheel is one-half inch from it's edge

>>1237113
>>1237200
>>1237267

Why shouldn't you add fins to Mazda? Fins look great, and the original rear end of Mazda is just a bland round blob. It can't be anything but an improvement in my opinion.

>>1237103
1. design and cut approximately as best as you can
2. weld in place
3. bondo
4. bondo
5. bondo
6. paint
7. ???
8. profit

Would playdough work for making a model of the car's shape? It should be easy to press against the car if it holds its shape afterwards.

>>1237618
Use sculpting clay and saran wrap.

>>1237619

What's the saran wrap for?

>>1237334
>Fins looks great.
Shut the fuck up Pablo you're an evil and masochistic car rapist.

>>1237731
So it doesn't stick to the car

it'll look like shit anyway
just bolt something on

Please don't do this. If you want to pimp your car just get new good tires. It will make your car safer faster and look nice.

I couldn't get the playdough today, so I finished the rear end of the fin instead. It takes some smoothing, but once its painted it should look good.

I've been planning to raise the suspension and put on larger tires, but I don't know yet how the rest of the car is going to turn out. I originally planned to do a mad max -style car, but with the strict Finnish vehicle laws there was almost nothing I could have done in that style. So, at the moment I'm aiming for the same style as the great old american cars.

>>1238145
nice welds lol

>>1238145

Lol nice fuckin welds. Are you even certain what type of metal the car is? You can't weld dissimilar metals you fucking tard. Not to mention most cars are seam welded now cause they're so fucking thin. So unless you have a tig machine with the right filler rods (which you fucking don't) and the skill to do so (which you fucking don't) you're just gonna burn holes in your god damn car. Just duct tape it like the red neck peice of shit you are and call it a day. Then in a year when you realize what a terrible mistake you made with the fins, you can peel them off. Fins are like Jean jackets and 70's clothing. There's a reason we developed better taste over the years. Cause that shit looks gay. Learn from mistakes don't be one.

>>1238175
Or just use the same kind to double sided tape used for mounting interior pannels in your car.

>>1238175
>turns out the body isn't even steel but plastics

>>1237731
>What's the saran wrap for?

>>1238178
That probably would make it for your purposes anyways. I'm a welder so I don't know much about plastics or moulding but I'm assuming it would be easier to shape form and cut and you could just epoxy it onto your car without having to worry about damaging it. I would just recommend when you get tired of it and want to take it off your use a chisel or something sharp to cut it off rather than pulling it off and tearing a hole in the back of your car. For resale purposes of course.

>>1237731
It keeps the clay fresh and from drying out.

>>1238178

OP here, the car is definitely metal. It's a 1996 Mazda 323, they didn't make cars out of plastic those days.

>>1238176

I really don't think tape or glue or anything like that would hold, especially in Finnish conditions.

>>1237618
It doesn't hold it's shape.
It also shrinks as it's drying.

>>1238361
>they didn't make cars out of plastic those days.

Think again buddy

>>1239306

At least the Mazda rusts, which is quite a telltale sign of metal.

>>1237103
Sheet metal screw a flat bar to the car. Cut as close as u can or use cardvoard for contor a flat plate to it. Start 500 tack welds.

>>1237136
>he doesnt carry 4 tons of sand in the trunk of his Mazda...

>>1238145
Kek. Meanwhile they let any swinging dick jump in a feed truck with shit bailing wired to it rocket down the highway at 75mph. Im still gonna mad max the limo man. Ran in to some financial hell and broke for a bit.

>>1238175
This retard is beyond asblasted and bew cars look like fucking shit anon. Its his car do u wanna watch him dick it up and laugh with us? Anything to contribute besides

>muh butthurt.

No, then get the fuck off of my scandanavian rock trading board and fuckoff back to /b newfaggot

>>1237103
You make mock ups in cardboard. Vcut to fit and then use cardboard as template.

>>1244068

I do, but fitting the cardboard itself onto the car was difficult. I'm now using playdoh as an intermediary model between the car and the cardbord, and its working great.

The fin is pretty much ready, but there's one more thing I could use some help with. How can I make sure the fins come in straight line with the car, so they wont yaw inwards or outwards?

>>1245158

Take it to a wind tunnel, and mount them with one vertical bolt at the front edge but loose enough for them to rotate like a weather vane, then find the angle of least wind resistance.

Pls post lots of photos as you make progress anon.

>>1245167
>wind tunnel

>>1245199
pic didnt attach

>>1237107
You mean I need to eat a THIRTEEN inch hot dog? Aww maaaaan.

>>1245158
How is it even possible to be this bad at welding?

>>1242667

Glad to hear someone is still doing the mad max tuning. Sorry I could't deliver it myself.

>>1245671

I forgot to wipe off the storage grease that the new sheets are always covered in.

I started doing the right fin too, and forgot to wipe it from that too. Anyway, here's pictures of how the fin is shaped, in case anyone else wants to try it. Here's a triangle shaped piece of metal being bent around a pipe.

>>1245752

Turns out the pictures are too large for 4chan, I'll post them when I get a chance to resize them.

>>1245758
>when I get a chance to resize them
jesus christ americans are retarded

>>1245785
How ironic.

>>1237103
Let me learn you some good shit, OP.

You need to use CAD.

No not CAD like the computer stuff that only engineer's use. CAD the Cardboard Aided Design tool.

Get a bunch of cardboard or paper, and use it to fabricate a template four your vehicle. What do I mean by this? Start with just a sheet, this sheet is representative of a sheet of steel you will use for fabrication. Cut and bend this sheet into your desired shape. The idea is to keep it one solid piece, but for curves you may find cutting small sections/wedges can be used to form curves nicely when taped together. The entire sheet of cardboard (with all the cuts and such) becomes the template which you will use to cut your sheet steel. Once you cut it, apply the same bends, and you will have successfully fabricated the part you were interested.

>>1237103

>>1237158
>Finnish
>a finn wants fins on his car
well huh

>>1245752

Okay, now here's the first step of bending the fins. Make a metal arrow, clamp it onto a pipe, and bend. 0,7mm sheets were thin enough to bend with bare hands for the most part, but the tip and the end of the arrow needed some hammering.

>>1246653

Here it is bent. The top of the wing is thinner than the bottom, so I left the rear bottom edges 50mm apart.

I guess some people enjoy getting laughed at

>>1246654

Here's the rear edge of the fin, bent around the same pipe from one end and around a 50mm pipe from the other. It doesn't need to be a full cone, as it's simply cut in half to fit against the empty side of the main piece.

>>1246656

The small part at the end of the arrow-shaped piece makes the top for the end piece, so then simply use snips and pliers to cut and bend its edges to fit onto the part below it.

>>1246658

Before you start welding, remember to wipe the storage grease off the pieces or the result will look like this. Now I'm off to start smoothing the seams with a dremel.

>>1246659
your doing it wrong

>>1246659
Cosmoline isn't the reason you are bad at welding. Are you using a guide for your heat and wire speed settings? Or are you just guessing? What type and brand of wire? What machine? I know you said it doesn't take gas.

>>1246693

I'm using a Kemppi Minarc. I don't know what a guide is, but I did set the material thickness to 0.7mm. Don't remember the wire speed setting, but the main problem with welding thin metal like this is that if you weld too long in one spot it will melt a hole in the sheet.

bad welders arent called welders theyre called grinders

>>1237618
Best bet for this route is probably oil clay or wax, you can get either in any decent sized art supply store

>>1245158
>adding a steel vertical fin to what is probably a polymer body car

all youre doing is increasing weight and adding drag without actually creating more stability because your fin is way too thick to not just make a shitload of turbulence

>>1247952
grind on me daddy

>>1247967
Fins are for style.
Speaking of which, why do so many people complain that fins don't 'belong' on mazda? They make any car look better, so obviously a mazda with fins looks better than the same car without them.

>>1237103
>This thread.

Just lay some paper mache or something similar down, then let it dry, then remove it. Then put your new perfect copy of the contour up to your fin's base and draw a line across it. Then fill in *those* gaps with bondo/whatnot.

Modeling clay, seriously guys?

>>1248965
>Modeling clay, seriously guys?

>>1247286
This machine does use gas. You're welding without gas on a gas setting

>>1248263
>why do so many people complain that fins don't 'belong' on mazda?

because you are like the only person in the world that never left the 50's

>>1247286
Why the fuck do you have a $1.5k welder but are trying to put shit fins on a shitbox car?

>>1247286
>mig
guess we know why you're shit at welding

>>1247286
Have you tried a thinner wire

Yeah I'd definitely roll with .03 wire. Double check you've got the wiring correct (gas-less usually has your ground clamp on the positive terminal, or at least in my experience).
I won't hate on your opinion for putting fins on the mazda. Mainly because you seem determined to do it no matter what logic anyone has to not do it. So fuck em, don't forget the underglow.
Sand down the paint, cut a slit just a hair wider than the metal fin width for the length you wish to run them. Tape off 6"+ around the hole to protect the rest of the paint.Tack passively, as it'll likely burn through quick. grind smooth-ish and re-level with your chosen filler (bondo, jb weld, whatever) and make it smooth with a ball wrapped in high grade sandpaper so the transition is bump-less. Double check by spraying primer over your working area and lightly sand, you'll see the dips and pits that need smoothing further or require more filler and another resanding to level once again.

Then prime, paint that shit and enjoy your creation.

>>1249335
Nah he should just drive around with it primed. Will look more authentic this way.

I had to take a few days break from making fins for a mandatory fix of some holes on the bottom of the car, but I should get back on track now.

>>1249335

Thanks! Speaking of fillers and such, how exactly can I fix small holes and indentations that are too small to weld? I've heard the white goo used for fixing dents and such doesn't actually hold that well, and I'd hate to finish painting the car only to have pieces of it fall off.

I've also heard of soldering, but I have found very little information about how that's done in a way that sticks.

>>1250437
Grind the area down, make lead ingots with a weed burner amd some angle iron. Small propane torch mels some lead on, WEARING A GLOVE just quickly rake it off with the side of your hand. Buff it down. If divets hit it again or two more times.

#leadslead.

>>1249335
Just because you can do something dosent mean that you should

What in fiberglass hell anon. That poo corvette

>>1249335
If small areas i suggest sandable primer. It builds up more to fill tiby piss and divets. Sprays nice and thick also. Not a pro but i have had good luck with it. Bondoglassing plastic shit to pcs and the like.

>>1249199
Why not? I got a yard full of mowers and will likely be rich soon. The wufe asked me wtf i will do with mysekf when that say is here. Aside from all the obviously normal help people and shit, retire. But anon what will you do when you retire. Nothing. For the first time in my life i wont work overtime and when i want to eat lunch i wilk go wherever the fuck i want, eat wtf ever i want, and be gone for a fucking hour or 2 with my phone off ig i want.

You think 2 15 minute breaks and a 39 minute lunch is shit. Try working 19-14 hours 7 days a week with neither...

When i do feel active i will just be cutting up crotch rockets and sand rails insteas of bicycles and mowers.

>>1249178
I was born in 85 and i would kill for a big il boat car caddy with a 500 and giant ass fins

>>1248965
Get a toaster oven and spray bottle of water to work the ckay easier.

Modeling ckay is a step in every single mahor car company's new models tho.

Kek

>>1247967
Meh, its a shitbox mazda. I doubt he cares

>>1246655
Sure do anon. 0 fucks given.

>>1245785
>americans are retarded.

A spam filled asiamoot has a 4mb pic limit and 2mb on /b.

But we are the retards... k

>>1245752
Its cool. Cucked government fault not yours man. If you keep ot uo with the fins and fenders and hoodscoops and shit it all becomes a wekded part of the body. Loophole?

LOL jesus christ op wtf are you doing ruining your car with fins. I hope you already have a wife or a girlfriend, because once you do this.. you're never getting laid

>>1238018
Yeah just bolt something on. Itll be more stable too

>>1238145
I myself have done some bad welding in my short 2 decades on this earth. But this is impressively bad. The wind will tear it apart. And the rust... Ooohhhh ther ruuusttt

>>1246659
>Before you start welding
You shouldn't have welded it at all.
You should have made it fit pic related.

>>1248991
>Nothing but expensive factories.

This is DIY not NASA. We have to do what works *cheaply*.

Get comfortable with the idea of repainting your car. Bolt the fin on however you want, cover over the join with polyester putty and sculpt to your preference.

>>1245204
>reference to OP regularly eating 13 inch dick goes here

Nigga why the fuck do you even wanna do that? there is no practical benefit and it's gonna look like shit anyway.

Let's see some progress. These fins are gonna be dope. Super excited.

>>1251128

Those would indeed have been perfect, but unfortunately placing the rear lights in a different location from original would require a lot of paperwork. The Finnish vehicle laws are ridiculously tight.

Speaking of laws, I just tried to get my Mazda inspected, and aside from one worn ball joint it would have passed. I'll have to fix that in the coming days, but other than that my welding skills are now officially acceptable.

>>1251961

I just got both fins cut and ready to be welded. I'll still have to find out more information about how to fix the small holes and dents from the fintips before starting the welding. I haven't found much information about using lead nor tin, but from a quick youtube video they'd seem pretty similar.

>>1252931

Here's a closeup of the holes I'm talking about. I have tried welding this several times, but grinding it round tends to open new pits like that every time so I need to find some other way to smooth them.

>>1252937
bondo or if you are old-skool, lead.

>>1253040

Bondo would definitely be easier, but I've heard that it tends to deteriorate and fall off. I still can't find lead in any Finnish car stores so tin is definitely the local material of choice for whatever reason, but apparently the primer used to it is very dangerous as it makes the paint peel and metal rust if there's even a little of it left before painting.

How reliable is bondo, anyway? It sounds strange that such a common substance would be so bad.

>>1253056
Bondo has a bad reputation because people do dumb shit with it like fill giant rust holes, fill entire crumpled panels, or put it in a cars frame that they then paint to cover up rot when selling the vehicle. It's perfectly fine for your use case. Also, you find lead in fishing tackle suppliers.

>>1252937
>grinding it round tends to open new pits like that every time so I need to find some other way to smooth them.

Your welding is poor

>>1253137
That might be true, but unavoidable.

Anyway, I've been trying to look for instructions on using tin and lead, and they appear to use the exact same technique. However, while I've heard that you should wash the surfaces with cold water either at the end or some other point, I haven't found that from any instructions or youtube videos I've watched. When should I do it, since as mentioned, the material used to prime the metal for tinning is a severe rust hazard.

He is Finnish so he is putting on fins!!!

Hur hurhur, look mom, a Car with fins full of fine in Finland.

Nice find anon.

>>1253922
Kek. Frig off randy its his car let the kid rice it out.

>>1253906
I know a guy used to do lead for a living

Wet cotton glove. Torch or dump som lead, use your hand in on motion and swipe it away do it a few times to build uo a layer to sand down. Bout to do it myself

>>1253113
Yap.


Bro wins car shows. Tell him i dont wanna bondo. Points to welded uo tailgate, rollpan, and Cadillac tail lights.

>anon my whole ass end os bondo for 29 years now.

Stay under 1/4" inch and prep is key.

Bondoglass if u really worried.

Kek

>>1254081
>Wet cotton glove
enjoy your steamed hand

>>1254129
Fuck. Well nomex then? Sry oo find the right glove or dont use your hand.
Lead should only be 700 degrees tho and if u quick and dunk it.... i dunno

I've never seen anyone go to so much trouble to make a piece of shit car look like a fucking clown wagon. ...This world is full of some serious dipshits

>>1254178
>Well nomex then?
It's not the fabric, it's the water. Anything wet placed on melted lead will steam the moisture out of whatever it is.
>wet cardboard, wet cotton, wet fiberglass, wet anything

>>1254081
>Wet cotton glove
He was trying to get you to hurt yourself.
body leading is done with a torch to melt the lead and a maple stick to spread/smooth it.

>>1254199
>>1254129
Not the other anon but 100% cotton is pretty resistant to heat and with it being wet the leidenfrost effect would come into play. He would be fine as long as they were actually thick cotton gloves.

>>1254199

OMG enough with this ghetto shit already! It's been over a month.

>>1253113
Can also find lead at tire repair stores where they pop off the old weights. There are non-lead weights now so I dunno about where you are.

>>1254208
No. The moisture in the cotton transfers the heat almost instantly.

>>1254208
>He would be fine as long as they were actually thick cotton gloves.
This would make a wonderful educational YouTube video.
Why don't you make one and post a link.
I promise to watch it ten times and send the link to ten friends and encourage them to do the same.
>all those views

>>1254247
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect

>>1254365
>>1254247
>>1254208
ive done firefighter training and learned two things relevant to this bullshit conversation

1. older fire suits are literally just made out of cotton. thick cotton, probably rubberized as well, but still just cotton at the end of the day. cotton chars slowly rather than bursting into flame. wool is similar.

2. getting your suit wet is bad because it gets hotter quicker but you dont get cooked alive by steam. if that were a thing you wouldn't use water in fighting fires because then as soon as anyone did anything with a hose everyone would be killed

trying to smooth solder with your fucking hand is still a dumb idea though. even if you dont injure yourself or damage your glubs, that doesnt sound like a precise or clean way to manage a blob of hot metal. even doing that with cold glue is asking for a shitty joint and a gummy hand. you'd probably want some kind of hard and smooth trowel-like device

>>1254365
>>1254373
Do yourself a favor, next time you're taking your tendies out of the oven use a wet cotton towel.

>>1254373
>relevant to this bullshit conversation
Trying to keep someone from cooking their hand is now bullshit?
I do plumbing.
I sweat copper pipe.
Sometimes I use a dry rag to wipe excess solder off.
If the rag has a wet spot that touches the solder or the hot pipe IT. WILL. IMMEDIATELY. STEAM YOUR. HAND.

Being in 700 degree air is not the same as having your damp suit pressed against molten lead.

>>1254199
No, seriously. A dude at work said glove. No idea wtf kind but when he shows uo i will ask.

I dont want anyone hurt. Especially madmax bro

>>1254233
OMG enough with your life its bee. 13 YEARS!

Stop bitching and/or neck yourself tryhard faggot

>>1254241
Some states b& lead. Just melt them all and scoop out the steel ones. Also chexk scrap yards. They sell here for $1 a pound. In fear of it drying up i am hoarding litteral tons.

Also go to al plumbing and home improvement stores that will let you habg a flyer. Lots of us still have shit lead pipes

>>1254373
Kek. Mfw bro works at a foundry. Just wears thick cotton unisuit and face shield.

He not around liquid metal much but says small bits splash all over the fucking place. Just beads up and rolls off

>>1254543
Post pictures of literal tons of lead, or leave diy forever.

>>1254934
Said i am hoarding not have hoarded.

Lead is in dads pole barn.

Had to make 2 trips with my half ton truck.

I would guess well over 1 ton and i trade tire shops near me 25% of lead into wtf ever sinkers they want. I keep the rest.

Its comming in pretty fast amd weather doesnt hurt it. Just gonna make a fucking pile and stack ingots on the weekends.

Been considering building something from them to trade for lead or cash to buy even more.

I have 4 5 gallon buckets full at home (150lb each?) And well over 10 times that stashed.

Been looking into selling sheets even. Kinda like this but not shit 3rd world teir.

>mixing sand by hand instead of a muller >sprinting with 2 people, a board, and razor knives instead of a teacked plate with carbide cuttibg teeth that smoothes shit and cuts upon return
>not using a water cooled aluminum table instead of sand fagotry.
>using water based green sand at all, ever...>
>Floating sand instead of overhead hydraulic press.
>etc...

https://youtu.be/YxywudfRvTE

If nothing else i can start reloading and stockpile litteral millions of rounds.

>>1255210
Why so much lead? What's important about it

Bump

I have finally fitted the right fin on the car as well, although not as perfectly because I had to prioritize on getting it in the same angle as the left one. I'm going to weld them this weekend, so the next part is cutting off small strips from the trunk to make room for the fins.

>>1257277
Bitchin!

>>1257277
Hell yeah, I'm excited to see how this looks when it's done

>>1237103
cut the matching angle into the fin, it will now fit.
dont weld it, just use ductape and bondo.

what a fucking loser...why in fucks sake do you want to be laughed at retardo?

>>1258503
Because ratroding is fun and we give 0 fucks what some bus riding faggot thinks.

Creative input or fuckoff back to /b with your shitposting FAGGOT!

>>1258543
not him. how many fucks do you give about destroying an irreplaceable antique vehicle that could have been restored?

>>1257277
Everything about this entire thread is shit.
Shit car
Shit project
Shit materials
Shit skills

It will look like shit when you weld them, it will look like shit when you paint them, it will look like shit when you drive it.

Either the haters are insecure fucks that can't afford a car of their own (highly likely, this is 4chan), or losers who have burnt themselves out doing menial shit just to get by all their lives and take everything way too seriously.

Seems like a fun project, OP. Can we get a picture of the whole side of the car? I'd like to see how the fins change the profile.

>>1258735
Could have been restored?
WTF?
I can dump 5-10 grand into it and make a ratrod or it can sit in bubbas backyard and finish rotting.
No one is going to drop 25-30 grand on restoring a car from the 40s unless its something rare or sentimental. I would rather raise a beast than let the metal rot away.

>>1258800
learn to weld and replace the rotting bits.
I see faggots cut up vintage honda bikes all day to make these dumb shit cafe racers, its sickening to see how much stuff gets destroyed to live a meme.
yea, some stuff is a bit beyond saving but my question was how do you feel about the destruction of a irreplaceable antique. I didnt ask how you feel about repurposing a lost cause.

If something can easily be brought back to restorable condition, how do you feel about people throwing it away to larp mad max?

>>1258735
>how many fucks do you give about destroying an irreplaceable antique vehicle that could have been restored?

Precisely dick...

>define "destroy"
>"irreplaceable"
"No"
>got tons of local guys into ratrods as well as custom shit and car shows. Have buddies that make a living slinging paint and doing custom body work.

It's just 2 cars welded together and i am going to buld a 4x4 show limbo half again as long soon.

>restored.

True, but at 50,000 miles there is nothing to "restore" not one dent besides the buckled hood and I'm getting a fiberglass one anyway. Honestly it just needs paint and some slight interior repairs.

But why fix up a trailer queen we can't have fun in when we can put around in a fake armored vehicle with a raised roof deck to watch ballgames on and carry coolers?

I drove this bitch out of the junkyard anon. It was nearly stripped for parts. If anything i saved a classic i will enjoy until i die and if the price gets batshit insane for them? Well, torch off all the bullshit, paint it, and do the interior. Done.

>>1258799
I like you anon.

>>1258806
Meh, not him but its fine with me. Its not mt shit amd it mekes em even more rare and cool

>>1258806
How many people have the money and time to do a resto?
People with the time dont have the money.
People with the money buy already restored.

A bad restoration costs time and money and doesnt end.

Welding to fix rot is not restoring. Fabricating new and welding it in is restoring.

>68 Corvette restored
>76 Corvette modded
>47 Buick Super restoring

>>1258806
If it's that important why can't I give away my 77 Honda bike project? Literally, no one will even take it away other than niggers wanting to scrap it. For free.

>>1258984
what type is it?
I cant recall the generation switch off for the late 70s, but I fucking love the 50s - late 70s honda bikes

>>1258832
>moded

What u do to it mane?

>>1258984
Does it run?

If not then that is why.
Even fewer people restore bikes sadly.

>be me
>dump about $8,000 getting nickle and dimed restoring a 1,000cc 79 ironhead. (And do not fucking ree at me Harley made a 1,000cc paint shaker for 2 years.
Fucking google it.)
> $1,000 good buddy deal paint job.
>pics don't do it justice. My buddy did all kinds of airbrush skulls and shit on it.
>can't ever keep up with everyone else
>always breaking down
>7 trips out of town and it made it home under its own power 1 fucking time and it cost me 650 bucks in clutch work.

That fucking bike was top to bottom brand new besides the frame and wheels.

Try to start it one day, starter explodes.

Get fed up. Spend 2 years tryna sell it.

Dude bought it for $2,000.

Try and tell him we need to push start it and make sure its good to go. It sat for 2 years.

>nahh im good.

Okay anon. But i tried. If you drive it 20 miles and it blows up it's your problem.

>its all good man.

Alrighty good luck to ya.

>calls the next day
>made it 18 miles and blew it up...

Best advice i ever got about restoration was from my dad.

He said "anon, i was around when "blank" came out new. Why the fuck would anyone want to spend 40 grand to have a a 45 year outdated shitbox?"

Sure you can update them and make them better.

But I'm not restoring fuckall besides my square body until i am rich. And thats only because it's sentimental and i primised my wife i would restore it for her soon.

>>1258799

Here's a sideview of the car. I just sawed off strips from the sides of the trunk so it can finally be closed with the fins in place.

I love this thread

>>1259150
>Why the fuck would anyone want to spend 40 grand to have a a 45 year outdated shitbox?"
because back then cars wernt made from melted down patio furniture?
They lasted more than 5 years without rusting through?

>>1259252
well, I cant say that it looks worse, so great job anon! be sure to seal up the fin, and maybe leave a drain hole on the lowest portion of the fin so it doesnt turn into a rusty fish tank

>>1259276
Did they really though I think you are looking at it from rose colored glasses anon. No cars built before the 90's were even built to run over 100,000 miles. Now cars are built faster, lighter, more efficient and to go further with less maintenance. These are facts not a matter of opinion. Is there anything wrong with wanting to drive a classic and putting in the time and effort to properly take care of it, absolutely not. As far as rusting goes, I think that's an issue of local environment.

>>1259289
>I think that's an issue of local environment.
It is, and my local environment is toxic.
everything rots through, but it seems that older stuff takes alot longer than new stuff.
Im about to replace the subframe on a car that is only 7 years old.
the thin sheet metal of the "frame" of my 20 year old car only just now gave out, and may still easily be repairable.
A few years before that and cars had actual frames on them and wernt made of nothing but sheet metal, thats what I envy, a real frame.

what good is a transmission designed for 300,00 miles if the stuff keeping it held to the car give out in 50,000?

>>1259300
>Im about to replace the subframe on a car that is only 7 years old.
Blame your local government for salting the roads. The old stuff seems to last longer because it was properly cared for, or simply not used for extended periods. Here in Texas, anything can go twenty years without a speck of rust simply due to the climate and lack of salt. Wash the undercarriage properly (LET YOUR BRAKES COOL FIRST) or get a winter beater and you can extend the life of your daily twofold or more.

>>1259324
Its normal to have a foot of snow on the ground in winter here, salting the roads is a must.
You cant blame salt for everything, auto companies cheaping out on cheese steel plays a huge factor.

>>1259330
>auto companies cheaping out
Yes, this. Auto companies should spare no expense so I can pay out the ass so you can have a car that lasts longer.
Hey, commie! Have your car treated to resist rust and salt corrosion or move.

>>1259349
>commie
fuckin LOL
commies are the ones that stamp out this type of garbage.
People want old made in america tools for the same reason. I bet youre the same type of retard that buys all of your tools from the hazard fraught.

Progress report: first fin welded and bondoed? Bondaged? Anyway, I'n waiting for it to dry before smoothing it, and then its time to start painting.

>>1259330
Yes, I can. Salt plays absolute hell with anything that has any less rustproofing than cletus' 8" lifted mud rig with a .75" thick coat of POR15 across the entire undercarriage. It tore older vehicles apart just as badly as the newer ones. Super-quality steel is gonna go almost as quickly as cheap chinesium in that sort of standing brine environment, it's just too damn harsh. There are alternatives to road salt but governments just default to it because it's the cheap and easy route.

>>1260106
I was supposed to do one fin in a day, but grinding away that bondo took the entire yesterday afternoon. Today I finished the other fin to the same condition in a couple of hours, and now I'm struggling to get both fins bondo smooth so I'd get to paint the fins before they rust from the ambient moisture.

The paintjob isn't easy either. Turns out the paint in this car has some glass beads in it, so painting the fins with similar paint requires using a dark undercoat. I did buy a grey undercoat, but there seems to be two separate layers underneath the topmost paint. Do I need another paint too, or what should I do?

>>1260616
>but grinding away that bondo took the entire yesterday afternoon.
wtf, did you do it by hand?

>>1238175
i 100% agree, but the others are either op or whiney butthurt faggots

>>1260961
Yes, and trying to fix the holes left in bondo and grinding them took entire yesterday too. And I just added another layer of bondo and grinding it is just making things worse again! I must be doing something wrong, and I'm about to give up since I'm never going to make it look any better.

>>1259276
Good call. You arent wrong. I have a 44 year old daily driver. I think he meant that the 72 chevelle he bought new was ike $3,000 and now $40,000 is pretty common for a stock car.

I don't know. Some companies are stamping new steel bodies and fixing the old school rust and buckle points. Shit is still expensive tho

>>1259300
Shit. So ocean or Northern. That sucks.

>subframe.

I woukd be rocking some body on frame crown vics yo

>>1260116
Can confirm. Little known fact. Kansas and Oklahoma have millions of gallons of saltwater. It's just underground.

Pulling wells, salt water and oil cover everying. Salt does play hell and if its on the road chances are yiu camt wash it for a few days cause ice

>>1260975
No me
I for one encourage rat rodding. Its about the most fun u can have for so little money. Case if beer and a welder and my ass will be sporting a Daytona wing soon.

Beer
Wire
Electricity
Total: like $50 for a day of 4 of us laughing our ass off.

Might even be able to coble one together amd just rivet sheet aluminum
on.

>>1261098
Bondo is a bitch by hand. I say hit it with 80 grit and get some flat black rust prohibitive primer and hit it. Go ob the the next thing. If you ever get it where you want it sling some paint. Supposed to be fun bro. If it pisses you off judt postpone the rust and it can fuckoff a bit. Not ashamed to say my door lock holes and a few cancer holes in my roof have silicone because i didnt feel like draging out the welder.

Oh, talked to lead car repair anon. He said they all used a thin rubber glove like you do dishes with. Melt lead, dunk hand in water, swipe over it.

Said you can get the bigger industrial rubber if you afraid or want a little more time to pack it in. I need some thick ass repair so big rubber gloves for me i guess

>>1260616
You ARE doing it wrong. Bondo needs to be applied as close to the desired surface finish as you can get it. Apply thinner layers if you have to. But applying it in lumpy layers like in >>1260106 only results in more work.

Also avoid working in really low grits if you don't know what you're doing as they tend to take chunks out of bondo that then need to be refilled.

Get yourself a spray can of filler primer and in between coats of bondo, but after sanding it until it's as close to perfect you can get, hit it liberally with the spray to fill up smaller pinholes and imperfections. Sand very lightly with a high grit before applying bondo again.

Remember also that bondo is brittle and using it along a joint like that may end up with it cracking.

>>1261098
they make really fine grit flap discs for grinders.
Im just some idiot on the internet with a love for my angle grinder, so what the fuck do I know. Personally, Id find some over 100 grid flap disc and give them a try. I would have broken out the grinder within 5 minutes of sanding that stuff.

I was hoping there'd be a payoff after reading this thread...

Man, what a ride tho

I don't know if I could have grinded it better, but I just couldn't stand trying and retrying that anymore. Besides, the car needs to be finished before Saturday so I gave up on trying to make it perfect and just went ahead to start painting. Here's the car with first two layers of paint finished.

>>1261779
hahahahhaha omg this world

>>1237103
Not only does anon put these stupid fins on his shitty whip he does a half ass job of it..KYS FAGGOT

>>1237103
Lay on some fiberglass resin just to get the mold and the add the fins with some kind of foam, shape them as needed and add some more fiber glass

>>1261792
Assmad bus rider detected.

Stay mad cuck

>>1261098
Spot and glazing putty. Look it up. It's for a final finish later over Bondo. Trust me, I'm a redneck.

>>1261842
Whats next?
Plastidipping the car flat black to show the world how cool and unique you are?

>>1261842
kek...sensitive and a retard

Just finished the second two layers. If all goes well I should get the final layers of paint painted tomorrow.

>>1261792

"Done" is more important than "perfect". Customizations are still always an improvement over how the bland stock car looked like. And if someone else tries their hand at customizing cars I'm always more than happy to see it. People just don't tend to dare try their hand at anything at all, so at this rate I'm soon going to have the coolest Mazda in the country just by trying.

>>1262096
This is the same logic every single teenager has with his first car.
It makes your car stick out like a sore thumb saying "I'm 16 years old"

>>1262096
>those drips

JUST WHEN I THINK IT COULDN'T GET ANY WORSE

>>1262096

that is really coming together man. I cannot wait to see the final pics. If you have a youtube channel please post videos of your first drive and show the reactions from your friends and the girls who want to ride.

>>1261902
Plastidip can look damned good tho

>>1261892
A fellow redneck apears! Hello anon!

>le current year
>not having a shitmobile

>>1262096
>inb4 it hasn't occurred to OP that there's going to be a jarring transition between all those layers of spray paint and the car's original finish when he pulls off that tape.

There's ways he can feather it out, but nothing he has demonstrated so far implies that effort is on the horizon.

>>1262281
Hey buddy.

>>1262305
he will skim coat the whole car in bondo

>>1262280
>Plastidip can look damned good tho

It looks almost good for about 2 days, and in the end you spend as much as just vinyl wrapping your car

>>1262305
Dont scare off the OP, I want to see the horrorshow when its "finished"

>>1262096
I think this is the most effort I've ever seen anyone put into making a joke for the sole purpose of posting it on 4chan.

>>1262586
I'd say dick farmer has him beat based on how long he has stuck with it.
This guy is admirable for the effort invested, shared with us and results in such a short time.

>>1262305

This is exactly where I am now, and I have no idea what to do. How do I do the feathering?

>>1262689

Forgot the picture.

>>1262691
looks tite

>>1262691
You're obviously not going to perfectly match the color of the car with spray paint, so best bet would be to fade to a different color for the fins.
First you would have to sand the black primer flush with the original finish, then using super fine grit sandpaper (like 2000 grit) scuff the original finish a few inches FURTHER than you'll be laying down paint. Try not to sand the finish entirely off, you're just aiming for light stuffing to get paint to adhere to the surface.
Only tape off the windows.

Following this guide, you may be able to get a half assed fade going.
https://youtu.be/elFKLXVQNzQ

In his example, his base color was yellow. Your base color will be the car's original finish, working your way back to the ends of the fin.

When done with that, hit the whole thing with light layers of clear coat, not worrying about spraying further than the original finish. In theory, the clear coat should fill in the light scuffing in the original finish and create a much softer physical transition. The color fade will create a softer visual transition.

After sanding and before painting, it is advised you clean all surfaces that may be painted with mineral spirits or some other solvent.
If you get any undesired paint spatter on other parts of the car, it should clean up with an automotive clay bar after it has dried.

This will not look particularly good, it's just one way to do it with the minimum of specialized tools.

Nothing will make this look good

don't

>>1262677
I like you anon. Have a you. And i coukd have had shit going a lot quicker but it has been an extremely difficult 2 years. Building a new and proper foundry and forge after christmas. Have 2 stage forge press nearly complete. Have shredder plans finalized to mor efficiently handle radiators, car bodies, and cans. Slowly comming together a bit at a time. Short of another life ruining tragedy i shoukd be in full prroduction mode by late winter / early spring.

I have now smoothed the dark grey base paint, and since tomorrow is the last day of the year with +6° temperatures, I'll HAVE to finish painting the car that day while the sun is up.

Base is finished and I have the top paint ready, but do I need to use some kind of wax/varnish to protect the apparently extremely sensitive paintwork? I have pic related in stock, but I've heard it might not be suitable for cars.

>>1262909

Here's the fin with the paint properly feathered, waiting for the final layers of paint tomorrow.

How necessary/urgent is it to wax the fresh paint? I'd like to go to movies this weekef with it, as long as the paintwork won'r get damaged from drivig with it unprotected.

>>1262966
more bondo more sanding Leroy that looks like shit...dont get lazy now

>>1262966
>How necessary/urgent is it to wax the fresh paint? I'd like to go to movies this weekef with it, as long as the paintwork won'r get damaged from drivig with it unprotected.


this guy is a fucking genius. hemmingway level.

love.

>>1262966
You don't wax or polish new paint ever.

It's also going to look like shit no matter what you do, there's no way to colour match those well without doing most of the car with a proper spray gun.

>>1263266
fins on a mazda would look like shit if they were perfect

Should have made bat-fins and spray painted the whole car black.
People get excited over Batman things no matter how shittily done, but if you go rice, it just seems like a lot of effort put into shittily emulating already shitty designs.

>>1262966

need update sir

>>1263375

Just finished painting and lacquering it. Now to wait till the evening that it dries, and we'll finally see how the end result turns out.

>>1237334
Lol, you're a grade A tard.

>>1238145
Jesus fuck, that's horrific, pls no more.

>>1263375

>>1263438
Kys

Still nice to see how you can go from LOL I CAN'T WELD to finns on my Mazda, painted and all in under two months.

>>1263539
Yap.

>applause

>>1263410
Jesus dude. The paint looks like the truck bed liner I use for more bumper. You gotta chill with that paint. Other wise I like it gonna do that to my buddy's car lol

>>1263410
Spray paint takes ablot longer than "till this evening" to dry
Give it at least 24 hours, then wetsand it and give it another coat

You need to get the orange peel out of it

>>1258787
I know you're probably busy slurping down a cheese glazed penis but I hope your dad beats you when he's done spitting loads into your throat.

>>1263410
wow.

doesn't look too bad desu.
good job, OP. I laughed at you earlier but you proved me wrong.

Here's the car with the fins completed. I hadn't done anything like this before, and I hope it inspires other people to do modifications too.

Good luck with your projects!

>>1264189
Looks nice. Way better than i thought it would.
Im glad you didn't let all of the negativity get to you.

Nice going OP. I was lurking this thread for the past month laughing my ass off but I have to give it to you. You did it and it actually doesn't look awful either.

>>1264189

exceelent.

post grisl who want to ride

>>1264189

lol wut r these

>>1264189
Post better pictures instead of trying to mask how poorly you finished it.
Because
>>1263410
Looks like complete shit, and I know you are just leaving it pretending that it's ok.
It'll pass the look test from across the street maybe.(or with a poor online picture where it's out of view)

>>1263940
>>1264204
>>1264217
>>1264245
I can't tell if these are all op, or just blind anons giving you participation points.

With a small amount of prep work and forethought you could have done a much better job. Your paint looks like utter shit

>>1264248
10$ fog lights that obviously don't fit the car well
Lord knows how he actually wired these things in.

>>1264189
Absolutely disgusting. Do not come back here boy.

>>1262586
you forget six axis sexbot

>>1264189
I would personally have worked on getting rid of the cum stains on your rear door and defogged the headlights before adding any crap to the body

>>1263410
>>1264189

Brownie points for giving it a go OP but holy shit if you're going to modify the lines on a car then you probably need to have at least some sense of good design before you do it. Even ignoring the quality of the finish these look terrible.

>>1264189
I dig it man, glad I followed this thread. Would look even more badass if you fitted on the biggest all terrain tires it'll accept. Keep doing things, you'll get better at fit and finish with experience.

>>1264250
>I can't tell if these are all op, or just blind anons giving you participation points.

It's more a matter of exceeding the general expectations. Dude was originally aiming for a shitty mad max look, but his country's gay laws prevented that.
Nobody expected him to be pulling off anything in the realm of passible, but the paint really did a good job of covering up how ghetto and inexperienced the kid is.
I credit that more to the fairly accurate paint matching than anything else, because as you pointed out, he really half assed painting. A more clear picture would probably show obvious runs, but whatever.

Overall he did a pretty decent mod-job considering his lack of appropriate tools and knowledge. Who the fuck cares if it looks like shit compared to what someone else could produce? He seems happy with the results and we all shared lulz along the way.

I'm not saying don't talk shit or anything like that, because that's half the fun--just explaining why some people are saying it looks good. Peoples expectations were just so low we all expected something much more laughable. I seriously doubt OP is posting fake replies to simulate props.


Nice work, OP. I'm impressed, and hope you share some more projects.

>>1264938
Yup. Everyone starts somewhere lads.

Who knows OP could be building show cars pretty soon.

My childhood bro at 18 was gutting his pickup and kryloning the dash pieces and shit. Slowly got better. We got a tonue cover that was a foot to big and chopped it down. Stuck caddy tail kights in and welded the ass end up. Shit like that.

A few years later and now he makes a living going to car shows and slinging random shit out of his garage.

>>1264278
Suck a fat dick boringfag. Let the kid have fun

>>1264204
This.

Fuck the haters.

You inspired me to buikd a fuckibg daytona wing. Piss on it. Idgaf

>>1264189
You should krylon your wheels black op.

They even make a flat ckearcoat. Did my mazda pickup wheels and looked tons better. It looks like shiny clear coat but drys flat so dont let it freak you out like it did me.

>>1263909
AHAHAHA.

hoky shit

>>1264248

Extra lights. I think they're absolutely vital for the acars appearance, as without them the front of the car would be absolutely generic and indistinguishable from any other similar car. I'd definitely like to do more to it, but once again the rounded shape of the car makes it difficult to work with. Especially since even the edges of the hood are curved.

>>1264250

The car is currently at repairshop to get the balljoint replaced so I cant get it inspected, but here's one more pic I took before it. I also noticed that I forgot to put the chrome edges on the trunk, but I'll do that too once I get the car back.

>>1265350

I've never heard of krylon before. From what I've learned it's difficult to make car parts weatherproof, so does this fare better in outdoor conditions?

Speaking of paints, is it true that all chrome paints are unreliable? Painting the grill with chrome would be an easy and notable improvement.

>>1266070
Maybe instead of wasting time making your car look like a 16 years old first beater, you should have been learning how to replace your own ball joint.

What are you trying to accomplish?
Putting an outward appearance of being a unique car guy who loves his car and has done work to it. Yet you can't change a ball joint?

Baffling.
>speaking of paints, is it true that all chrome paints are unreliable?

Why does it matter, you've already proven you don't give a fuck about the paint

>>1266070
Wait wait wait, you did all that shit and you can't replace a ball joint? Then you tell us you've never heard off Krylon before?

Please refer to >>1264278

>>1266083
Krylon is a us name brand, probably not a burger

>>1266085
Naw. Finnish? I believe. Hence the blatantly cucked modification laws. He can't bolt sgit to hos car while i am over here street tagging my motorized cooler drift trike. Or trike anyway. Wuick change wheels for drifting off the road.

Chrome spray paint barely looks chrome. More like silver but couldnt hurt to try.

And i forgot about the harsh environment over there.

My bro SWEARS by rustoleum bedliner. Its like 12 bucks a can but it wouldnt take 2 i dont think. He's the fire cheif and uses it all over their abused equipment. Should do just fine. Here it is at $7 burgers https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003CT49B2/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1508880283&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=rust+oleum+bed+liner

In fact, if you get a gallon and some rollers and keep it stirred up good you can do your entire care when you are done modding if u want. Solves your sanding priblems also. Just hit it with 89 grit and maybe 120 if u want and primer your mods. Then get sanding sponges and wetsand the shiny paint on your car until it looks "foggy."

Shit will outlive you probably if you hit the bottom also.

Water, salt, and rust BTFO

>>1266070
>Painting the grill with chrome would be an easy and notable improvement
To get the 'chrome' look use a jet black base coat.

>>1266211
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuJ8JKWFg8Y

>>1266070
This car wouldn't pass inspection in Connecticut

>>1266267
Please explain

>>1266070

This really turned out nicely OP, and the new paint looks professional.

The fins look very cool from this angle.

>>1266267
Why? Its welded on they can fuckoff

>>1266218
HOLY SHIT ANON.

mfw chrome my whole shitbox.

>>1267215

Beware though, at least in all the Finnish forums people unanimously complain that chrome paint doesn't last in outdoor conditions, and often get blurry just from lacquering it.

In any case, please send pictures if you try it!

>>1266218
alot of debris in that paint job...FAIL

OP at least now you dont have to worry about anyone stealing that POS
Hell you could leave the keys in it for that matter
I wouldn't be caught dead in that thing...unreal ignorance in people these days

>>1266070
Damn, I actually like this.

>>1268926
>you are STILL this asspained.

Wewlad

>>1249178
Fuck off, guy. Cars had style then. Not like the tungsten colored jelly beans on the road now.

>>1270300
They also had quality workmanship

>>1269440
Just wait till op turns 17, he is going to regret it like everyone always does

>>1270312
>They also had quality workmanship

But the technology was so primitive that by 1965 a ten year old car was considered worthless. Consider a ten or twenty year old car today.

When I was a kid in 1969 my neighbor drove a 1949 vehicle and he was considered to be eccentric for this, as it was amazing that he could keep it maintained. Nowadays if you drive a 20 year old car nobody notices.

>>1262123
Oh u!

>>1263410
You're making me so angry, why didn't you address the drips before painting? Why didn't you take more time to smooth out the bondo? Why are you even doing this shit?

wtf mang?

>>1270406
>why didn't you address the drips before painting

people keep calling them drips. THEY ARE RUNS.

>>1270410
>AUTISM SPEAKS!

>>1270402
Mfw never even owned a vehicle in the 1990 or newer.

Found 2002 crown vic 2 years ago for $2,000. Old lady had since new. Meh, air conditioning would be nice. Suppose it is high time I learn fuel injection.

Mfw 16 year old car has only had a leaky air bag vut newfags MUST have a new car every year.

Mfw they pay more than i did for my house.

Mfw thry punching a clock and i am cutting up new ford raptors for parts.

>make investments
>learn
>extramoney.jpg
>repeat
>lower living expenses percentage whike giving yourself anual raise above inflation
>hire wageslaves to babysit it

>>1270315
I cut a $3,000 lawnmower in half yesterday.

0 regrets.

Some people just hate fun.

The kid has like 8 bucks and some time in his batmobile. Everyone starts somewhere.

>>1267116
Its a "sharp protruding point"
Those are technically outlawed. That's why Hood ornaments can't stick out

>>1270463
>I cut a $3,000 lawnmower in half yesterday.

You also dont have to drive around in public in that cut in half lawnmower every day do you?

>>1270875
>have to
No

>going to
You bet your ass anon. Street legal cooler scooter drift trike when! Drifting not legal, making a quick change set and a mount somehwere for 2 sets of back tires

>>1270875
Dat sweet hydrostatic drive with reverse.

Gonna be yuge.

this thread is 63 days and 14 hours old

>>1259289
>No cars built before the 90's were even built to run over 100,000 miles. Now cars are built faster, lighter, more efficient and to go further with less maintenance.
lol no

>>1272091
Cars typically didn't get six digit odometers until the mid 80s. Many still had five digit odometers in the early 90s.
When I was young it was a really big deal for a car to last long enough for the odometer to 'turn over' (revert to 00000|0). The junkyards were full of cars with less than 100,000 actual miles on them.
Plugs, points, and condensers were usually worn out at 20,000 miles. Oil change recommendation was for 1,000 miles. I spent many weekends working on my car so I could drive it during the week.
Computer control of the engine and fuel injection (along with better manufacturing practices) has dramatically increased longevity of modern engines.
My current vehicle has been 276,000 miles and likely has many miles left.

https://youtu.be/T1-e4sY_n5g

What a thread

https://youtu.be/WXv2hWgfSPU

>>1262586
What about that /sp stalker thread?

This is up there but.

Epic thread. Op is absolutely having his way and fuck off any other opinion.

>>1237103
Do the fins make the car go faster op? I drive a 2012 sierra 2500. Would also like fins on my ride

>>1273506
They won't do anything other than help stop your back end from sliding left or right if they are aligned properly.
They have always just been a cosmetic thing that serves very little real purpose wich is why they were dropped in late 50s early 60s

This thread gave me brain cancer. I'm going to die now, OP.

>>1237103
What I would do is get a sheet of EPS foam and use a surform to sculpt the fin exactly how it should fit. After you have a good fit just slide that piece of metal over the top of the foam model and use a marker to mark where you need to cut the metal away.

>>1274239
Bump to trigger the shitlords

>>1272811
Dude wtf that pic

>>1272811
I do not recall that episode of Psycho Pass.

This guy is ahead of the curve. Car manufacturers will be including these in stock models soon

>>1237103
Blue book value just went to $100 lol

>>1237103

>>1272115
you may be right
but consider this:
my 1969 VW Beetle is X99999 km tho, as is my 1984 VWT3
and i can keep them going with spit and duck tape
meanwhile, my father's 2012 car has 60 000 km and asks for regular garage maintenance right on the dashboard and you can't DIY shit
i'm also not sure it'll still be around and running 30 years from now
ask /o/, easy maintenance is where it's at

>>1264288
#neverforget

>>1264189
noice
flatblak that shit nao op

>>1237158
>living in an inspection state

>>1275730
Yap. Hence the 43 year old shitbox i drive.

5 cars. Only 1 fuel injected

>>1248991
>implying OP has thousands of dollars of clay to make a 1:1 replica of his shitbox mazda

>>1237334
>people like this actually exist