Widebody kit

The plans to rebuild the car with a widebody kit were there since before the car was bought. The bodykit was sculptured and ready to be put on the car, but then the hurricane Gudrun struck Sweden. It caused a lot of devestation to our property, which caused us to push on the car project. We did however build the backspoiler and frontspoiler. The winter 2005 and summer 2006 we finnished the job, much thanks to the fact that Hagmans Kemi AB and Svempas Lack joined the project. Hagmans provided us with really good putty, and Svempas later lay the paintjob on the car.

Like the pieces of the frontspoiler, the whole kit is made from cellplastic that we formed with the help of some pretty crued tools. Below you can see a picture of what the bodykit looked like on the car when we had only put it there with the help of tape

When we had a shape of the pieces that we found acceptable, we pluttied the pieces to the car. From our experiences from the frontspoiler, we just puttied the pieces to the car, then started to add glassfiber plutty to them. When we did the front spoiler we noticed that it took twice as long time to putty the pieces of the car, and then add them to the car, since there was a lot of job to adapt the pieces when they were on the car. Below you can see some pictures when the pieces had been puttied with glassfiber on the car. The putty was applied like normal putty, and all strings and missshapes were then removed before a new layer of putty was applied and so on. Since the glassfiber is so hard to shape, we just tried to get the surface as good as possible, all dents and misshapes were later removed with fine putty

After the pieces had been puttied onto the car, it looked quite horrible, the main shapes were there, but the glassfiber putty is very hard to shape, so next we began fixing the shapes by applying fine putty. We added fine putty, then removed dents and other with sandpaper, then added a new layer with putty and so on. At the end we had a very nice result, which we then sprayed with fluid putty. The fine putty we used is called Hagmans Micro, and it's a two componant putty with some really good attributes. First of, when it starts to harden, it hardens quickly, so you can go at it with the sandpaper, removing a lot of dead time were you just have to stand around and wait. Secondly the putty is very easy to work with, both applying and removing with sandpaper. Below you can see some pictures when I was still applying it to the car. Since each little dent would show very well through the paint, this part of the process took the most time. I spent more or less all my free time in the garage puttying the car with fineputty in two months time. For a professional this would have gone a lot faster, but I am an amateur so it had to take its time in order to get a good result.

When all the pieces had been puttied with the fine putty, the whole kit was sprayed with fluid putty. This made the surface even better, and the whole kit got the same color. We later found out from the paintshop that we should have sprayed the car with regular paint first, then removed the paint with sandpaper. Where there was still color after this was done, one would have had to add more putty, then paint the pieces again and remove the paint with sandpaper and so on. The paintshop did however say that we had done a really good job anyways. Below you can see a picture when we have sprayed the kit, and rolled the car out of the garage for the first time. In this picture you can also se the other modifications done to the front spoiler of the car. I chosed to do them for two reasons. The first reason was to get a more agressive look to the front of the car. I had all along thought it looked a bit soft. Secondly because I wanted my own frontspoiler. I doubt you will find it on any other car anytime soon.

Next it was off to Svempas lack in Tostared. The guys made a terrific job with the car. They first fixed all the remaining dents and other flaws that I had been unable to remove. When we presented the car to them, we gave them a picture that we had manufactored in the computer. From that the paint was chosen, by them, and they also found a guy from Stockholm who came and put the motive on the car. Below you can see some pictures taken when the car was at the paintshop, also there is a pic when the motive was being added to the car.

When the car was returned to me, it was returned in pieces, so we had to assemble it all. I am however very happy with the results, and got nothing but good cooments about it. When people hear that I have built it all myself, they all react the same. First they look in chock at me, and then they smile and say, very good job. The whole thing took a lot of time, but in the end it was worth it. Car isn't done yet, the whole interior remains, but the outside of the car is almost complete.

To the right I have added some before and after pictures, and also the computer generated picture that we gave to the paintshop. From the picture the paint was chosen, and the motive was painted from it as well.

The bodykit when it was still not puttied, and just ducktaped to the car.

Bodykit puttied with glassfiber putty to the car. The cellplastic has also been covered with putty.

The bodykit plasted on the car with both glassfiber putty and fine putty

Pieces sprayed with fluid putty, and frontspoiler modified.

The picture to the lower right shows what the motive looked like when the yellow coat of paint had been put in. A red coat was added above this one to add shadows and other.

On the left the computer generated image, to the right the real deal!

To the left, what the car looked like the first day I owned it. To the right, what the car looks like today.