My work - pictures of the cars I work on

I design and build cars..... pretty simple job actually a tad more complicated than that here's an example a 1990 honda CRX ..... what do you guys think? all comments are ok.

Thats Pretty sweet looking actually.

The front looks like it's trying to be a 360 Modena knock-off.

the car was designed for show and competition. It is a 20 yr old design that we tried to make it look a bit more modern. The front end does ressemble the 360 modena......
the whole body is a one piece, if you try to see where the bumpers are separated from the wing you'll notice. It was desgined and built from scratch. Every part of the car was modified including the roof, whether built from clay and other stuff and then perfected until we could take a mould and build the bodywork from fibreglass. The best thing about it is that even if build from nothing it still has a tolerence level of 1 mm, meaning the sides are identical to the nearest mm of each other etc... it did win the Max Power Magazine best extreme bodystyling award in the XLR8 car competition in Malta..

here is a pic of a crx in standard trim.

I'm not saying anything about your work, your talent is obvious. I just can't stand phukin "high-rev tuners". The spoiler is a joke, down force my ass. Style is one thing but most of the crap they put on those cars has no purpose and it winds up looking tacky as hell. If you're going to spend that much money on something, pimp out an already pimp ride like an Escalade (can't stand that shit either but I do kinda understand it) or put that engine technology into a car that has a REAL engine in it already for phuck sake!

Good job though.

I like it. It looks good. Did you do a 5 lug conversion on it?...I even like the wing...although it probably isn't very functional...but if you wanna go technical..almost no street car REALLY needs a spoiler on it....or a set of dubs...but each to their own.

GOOD job.:thumbup

Show us more!

Crap. All show no go. I hate that flashy look at me in my $800 car look. There is nothing functional on the car. My little sister's car would suck the headlights out of that pile every day of the week and twice on Sunday. The good thing is that it's not like you ruined a perfectly good car. You started with a beater. To each his own, but you couldn't pay me to drive something like that, unless it was out the back of an airborne C-130 and I was wearing a parachute.

Wait a sec... so you made a full-size clay model (like a design studio might do) so you could make fiberglass molds for the bodywork? If you were going to go to all that effort, why in the hell did you choose a 1990 crx? What, were there no Yugos available for the task? Damn, if I were going to spend all that time and money I would have done something like a Shelby Cobra or something with a little style. In my eyes this is akin to the mid-80's fad of building a "Ferrari" on a VW chassis, a complete waste of time and money. But whatever, to each his own, I'm sure people laugh at my jet-powered Chevy truck...

Not a big fan of the genre. I like the performance upgrades part of the import scene but not the wings, decals, etc. But I like the car minus the wing and decals. BlueSS, I remember those pontiac fieros with ferrari body kits. But its pretty easy to see that there are a lot more CRXs roaming around as opposed to shelby cobras. Plus the CRX Si is actually a fun little car. All most of the older models need is some engine work (rebuilt or new, better engine), interior and exterior reworking. Then you would have a fairly cheap, fun car. Of course with that being said I would rather spend the money on some mods for the duc.

Cool. Let's see more!

Jager, I see what you are saying about availability and whatnot, but what I meant was that if you're going to go to all the trouble and expense of building a custom mold that you've shaped from clay and made all that effort, why not do something with a little more class? The Cobra was an extreme, hell a Chevy Citation would have been more unique than a CRX. They are fun to drive though, a friend had one: two seats, no power steering, five speeds and a rev-happy engine, it was a shifter cart with a stereo!!

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Er, no you don't you design and build fibreglass kits/modifications.

Designing a car involves a heck of a lot more than the outside skin, mate. Things like engines, suspension, chassis (rigidity, crash testing, internal space, maintenance access, etc.), tyres (spec'ed), noise (ie. insulation, etc.), aerodynamics, etc.

Your involvement is about 5% (or maybe only 1%) of the real effort. Stop lying about your job ... ... and be proud of what you actually do, which is modifying already designed cars.

Pete

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Er, no you don't you design and build fibreglass kits/modifications.

Designing a car involves a heck of a lot more than the outside skin, mate. Things like engines, suspension, chassis (rigidity, crash testing, internal space, maintenance access, etc.), tyres (spec'ed), noise (ie. insulation, etc.), aerodynamics, etc.

Your involvement is about 5% (or maybe only 1%) of the real effort. Stop lying about your job ... ... and be proud of what you actually do, which is modifying already designed cars.

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Alright Pete, show us the cars you built.

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Alright Pete, show us the cars you built.</TD></TR></TABLE>
I don't proclaim to designing cars as my job, I'm an IT Consultant. That was my point, not trying to say I am better than him or anything.


BUT I have built this club racer. Yes it is based on a kit, but I bought a half finished frame and redesigned/built most of the frame. I then installed a fully stressed (meaning it was part of the chassis) Alfa Sud engine where the only components remaining Alfa Romeo were block, heads, crank and rods ... the would be others, but we even made our own bellhousing. We made cams, redesigned the camshaft housing area, etc. Major $$'s but we got 200 hp out of a 1600cc 2 valve motor.

BUT Alfa Romeo still did most of the designing didn't they ... we just modified.

We fitted a Ford close ratio gearbox ... again I did not design it.

We fitted a Ford beam rear axle ... with a gear type limited slip diff. Again I did not design. I just designed the axle location and suspension links ... but also just spec'ed off the shelf shock absorbers.

I also did not design the wheels ... but I did choose the style and had them made for me.

Thus if you want to get into an argument about who designed more of a car, me or this guy ... well I think I win. Plus my car was not built for looks but instead to win on the track, which it did and I won a club series with it.

Here are some photos of the engine installation: http://alfabb.com/bb/forums/sh...unt=8

Here is a thread where I am helping out fellow Alfa enthusiasts regarding modifications we made to the Sud engine: http://alfabb.com/bb/forums/showthread.php?t=6483


Again my point was be proud and honest about what you do don't talk BS.

Again I'm an IT Consultant with a mechanical design background, and I modified and put together a space frame club racer ... I did NOT design the whole car and go on a forum and tell the world I am a car designer ... like Pininfarina or something. <FONT COLOR="red">This guy does great work ... why not just call himself a car modifier?</FONT>

Pete


Modified by PSk at 5:51 PM 5/31/2005


Modified by PSk at 6:09 PM 5/31/2005

Just trying to understand your logic Pete.

So, you can't say you built a car unless you started by mining the iron ore with hand shovel.....got it.

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So, you can't say you built a car unless you started by mining the iron ore with hand shovel.....got it.

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... okay I see where you are coming from .

This guy started out with these words: I design and build cars.....

And that is simply not true. He designs parts for cars and then builds up the modified car.

GM design and build cars, so do TVR, etc.
Pete

EDIT: Another example. When you purchase or even make a new mirror for your Ducati you don't then start saying you design and build motorcyles do you? Now you could say you design components or parts for motorcycles ... now if you do as much work as superleggera, then yeah you design and build motorcycles.


Modified by PSk at 10:57 PM 5/31/2005

Okay I've come across as a bit of an @ss in this thread, and I did not mean to sh!t on this mans parade. The point I was trying to make was/is:

This guy designs and builds car parts!

That is way cool and kicks my job for 6 ... nothing to be ashamed of and thus no need to elaborate and BS the job description. I'd love to work in the automotive design industry.

Pete

nice work just lose the bleecher seating out back
pat