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if anything check out the first one and the night shot.

I don't think your FMIC is big enough.... hehe but seriously, looks good.

it really isnt. time to get a new one...

do something about the grill, it just makes the front end look rediculous, other than that it's pretty sweet

that and you could work on your photography skills a bit, the lighting from behind doesn't help on the frist and third pictures, and the 5th is like wtf?

am I the only one who noticed that the first pic has a cool photoshop trick making the hood see through. You can see the engine if you look close. Thats cool, I've been wanting to do that for a while now. On a side note I agree that the lighting sucks and you need to paint your grill.

what's so special about the night shot? it looks like a black image with a small orange blur off to one side

paint your grille body color or flat black. looks terrible no offense.
that photoshop of the see through hood is bad ass.

Not a fan of the exhaust or the bumper cut job, but hey, it works.

What's the night picture so special of? Do you have green neons or LED's or something?

the paint keeps falling off the grille. ive painted it about 5 times now and i cant get it to stick.

the bumper cut job wasnt by choice but by nessisity. and guess what, the intercooler still doesnt fit that great under there. its not as much space as you think.

the muffler was also not so much by choice but that it was afordable and avaible.

i thought the lighting would be a problem but didnt think much of it. i took the pics in the few seconds i had before i went to work right after washing it.

the last pic is in fact front lit. i have no problem seeing it on my laptop but on my pc its a little hard. so turn up the briteness on the screen if you have to. i thought it was cool how the endtanks look at night. extremly shiny on a dark car. i dunno, i liked it.

lastly thanks for the coments on the photoshop trick

Well, I think the bumper cut job problem comes from the fact that you had an accident, and you have less room than normal for bumper clearance. From what I've looked at, it's just a matter of bumper beam "massaging" to get the room necessary.

Exhaust, meh, I don't really like that many aftermarket looks anyways. Always to shiny, round, or whatever. There's about a dozen aftermarket exhausts that I like the look of.

im not denying that it had a little to do with it but its still not that much space.

Yea, but had you cut your bumper beam, don't you think you'd have had a little bit more room to work with?

It's all about creativity. I intend to stuff the 8" version of your intercooler underneath the front of my car, and I intend to leave, at the very least, the face of all of the black grid between the fog light spots. But I'll know for sure once the IC gets here.

i would have but the look wouldnt have been acomplished if i did.

im actualy thinking of getting a new core and taking out the bumperbeam completly, then shortening the pipes up a little bit. the bottom row of the grid will be hard to keep. you might be able to get creative enouf to keep them but that bottom row cuts it really close

I don't need it to stand out like a sore thumb that I have a front mount. I'm gonna do as best I can.

Ever look at the front of a fast car trying to find the intercooler, only to see it tucked away, or asking yourself "that an intercooler or an AC condenser?" That's the look I would rather have

id like that look too but i figuered that the car being what it is isnt gonna atract anyones attention espcialy if they roll up on me on the street. and taking last night as an example, my rfl does more for attention than my front mount does. too many fake front mounts around here to be taken seriously anyways

azn2nr wrote:the paint keeps falling off the grille. ive painted it about 5 times now and i cant get it to stick.

what kind of prep were you doing? when I painted my grille I went over it very lightly with some 600 grit sandpaper, washed it off, and hit it with about 3 coats of rustoleum flat black. didnt even prime. and its held up for a few years now. I bet if you sanded that chrome stuff the paint would stick a lot better.

206er wrote:what kind of prep were you doing? when I painted my grille I went over it very lightly with some 600 grit sandpaper, washed it off, and hit it with about 3 coats of rustoleum flat black. didnt even prime. and its held up for a few years now. I bet if you sanded that chrome stuff the paint would stick a lot better.

thats exactly how i did my grill too.... and my brothers car if you just sand it, it will stick no problem.

like this???

holy non resized photo, batman!