the third pics wheelbase is about 3 inches smaller actually... so it should handle like a lot better


its on its way... driving from NY, with say about 5mpg, it'll get there in 3 weeks and cost you $2000/hr

thats exactly what i was thinking... 3 series size body/handling, the luxo roomy interior of the TL, and the 260hp engine + comptech stuff of course... trunk space will go for audio equipment only

 

I drove an IS-300 the other day and thought, "damn I miss my old 4-door Integra GSR," that go-kart feel is kinda fun sometimes. But now that I've had the V-6 power, I could only buy something like an IS-300 or RSX if they did something major ... like 250 HP and 220 lb-ft from a small V-6?

 

The IS300 TRD pace car is ~250HP but with an added SC. Then again anything to mod the IS300 is expensive compared to ours. I was grinding my teeth when I was doing research on how much modding a civic/eclipse was. Man...$300 for headers?!

 

creative, but it's not pretty compared to the 3 series.

-briancl

 

The hood still doesn't look long enough to hold a real engine.
And something that short in the back needs to have a hatch.

But some interesting ideas there.

 

One of you Photoshop gurus should make this into a wagon. The "Cross Over" vehicle is the next SUV. Look at the Matrix and the Protge 5.

 

i'll be waiting!!~! can I pay you in monopoly money?!

 

I think it's a good BMW 3 series competitor.

 

I think it's a good BMW 3 series competitor.

 

Not nice.

 

nice work..

 

Why haven't you tried dubs or a body drop yet?

 

Just make the trunk a little longer and i think ur set.......

 

sorry, not up on my slang... what are dubs? and i wanted to see this car as a functional car, not a slammed low-rider...

 

dubs are 20" wheels aka twinkies, I figured since it had gone this far, why not give it the 100% unrealist concept car treatment. the body drop was just for fun too, you can't body drop a unibody car :p

 

Explain a body drop.

 

It's mainly only popular with slammed pickups and vans and the occasional full size car. Basically you cut out the floor of the body wherever it connects to the frame and notch it anywhere from one to over 4 inches thereby lowering the entire body in relation to the frame. Hence the impossibility of doing it on a unibody car. Ever see a lowrider truck so low that the body actually touches the ground? If so, then there's a 99% chance it had a "body drop". It's the exact opposite of the body lifts you see from time to time on big 4x4 trucks.

 

Nice job, but the car looks too small. Kinda looks like that partial BMW(318ti):yack: now MB has one
Drugs kill

Nice pics JBrown, how much did u end up spending for those rims?

 

I'm not sure which car you are talking about, the silver car isn't mine, but those are Racing Harts if you are interested. (sorry, pics of silver car are on another thread)
Mine are the Axis se7en, I paid under $2,600.00 with tires, tax and locks from a shop in Miami and they even mounted 245/35's on one wheel to let me look at it first before they mounted them all so I could pick a tire.
They are on sale at www.wheelmax.com for $1,999.99 with tires!

 

Gotcha. I'd definitely think a body raise would be alot cheaper than a body drop now that you've explained it.

 

i dunno... i think both would be equally expensive... its all custom work, not something you can just run into any shop to do, like an oil change... but i'd rather have the unibody construction on the car... much more solid