Post-Apocalyptic Car Tuning

>>1151084
replace all body panels with scraps

the more patchwork the better, ideally the whole thing is just niggerwelded together with zero original panels

i imagine touching any of the actual mechanics would be no good if you are going for cosmetics

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>>1151084
Well if your going for form over function dont forget foam and latex can look sharp and pointy.

>>1151090

>the more patchwork the better, ideally the whole thing is just niggerwelded together with zero original panels

This is what I'm planning too. Patching the existing shape of the body (and making sure the edges of the welded plates are smooth enough) shouldn't be too hard to get accepted.

>i imagine touching any of the actual mechanics would be no good if you are going for cosmetics

Indeed. That's why I bought a relatively reliable car. It would be nice to install extra dashboard gauges though, if I had a clue how to do it.

>>1151117

I've thought about foam and latex too, but I think it's better to make everything out of hard enough materials that they feel solid when touched.

Thanks for the feedback! Keep the ideas coming.

>>1151084
>Especially in Finland where the vehicle inspections are notoriously anal about anything unusual in general.
what the fuck is a vehicle inspection?

move to a country that doesn't regulate your behicles

>>1151084
FUCK YESS 100%

Fake hoot pipes, cut up an old lawnmower hood for a hood scoop and put light bar in it. Junk ass old steel wheeks that are wide. Flat black spray paint. Tint the windows. If theyre are rock wuarries around u can get junk metak screen Nd replace your grill and shit. Countlass thousands of other ideas. Im fucking doing the same one day soon. Post progress.

>>1151117
True. Op look up silicone nokd making so u can bild faks axes and shit to it

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>>1151135
Easy af. What guages u need. Or oeder a triple guage cluster. Populer in america here. Hell i may have one but shipoing would kill u. They cheap. I got like 4 cars with them cause factory guages in a 43 year old csr shit out and its easier to bold 3 new ones in than replace them. My samefagging mad max project

Ride eternal, die historic, OP. Would love to this myself one day. Sucks being a poor fag.

>>1151084
This seems like a good time to ask this question. If I wanted to make a Varg-mobile would stripping the back seats out of an old car make it light enough to be substantially faster.

if you want to pass EU Inspections, build bullbars and other protruding parts out of PVC pipe.

Use spray on bedliner for texture.
For heavy rust texture, mix "red oxide" primer with sand. Then paint other colors over it by hand.

For actual surface rust, just hit steel with a wire brush on an angle grinder, wait for the area to rust, then apply 80:20 Linseed oil and Paint thinner with a paintbrush to seal the rust.


I'm not sure you can add anything to the windows though and the 323 has big looking glass. It might end up looking extremely forced.
Ask the inspection guy first before doing anything.

>>1151289
A back seat weighs maybe 30kgs. It won't make a noticeable difference.

gotta have a roo bar and floodlights for that authenticity.

>>1151289
yes they typically use cranes to get them in

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>>1151584
And out. Shit OP. I'm tempted to follow suite with my blazer like pic related. Or if i can find a volkswagon body. I got one without a title. Obviously metal spiles would be fake or pointed elsewhere

>>1151584
Its a production line - everything is moved by cranes.

>>1151589
Does it have Hydraulic or Pneumatic suspension?

>>1151084

If you want details like armor plates/hatches covering windows, but worry about inspections, maybe you can make the sections modular and removable.
Some plastic (for light weight) worked over with paint and detailing could be held flush to a nice intact side window with magnets/careful placement. Or add some hinges below the windowframe and make a removable hatch that can flip up (unto the rolled-down window frame) or flip out so you can wave menacing clubs/ whatever. This could be steel/wood/plastic as needed for design.

This could even be for the front windscreen.
Not to be used while on the road for blatant safety reasons, but you have the benefit of keeping the rain and snow out/heating or cooling in when you want.

Having a hard time finding the definitive image of a 323, not familiar with a mazda sold under that name.

>>1151674
Pretty sure its 4 coil springs. Just put a new motor and hydraulic shocks on it tho.

>>1151674
The blazer i mean. The vw has a giant coil spring i dont understand in front and hydraulic shocks. I think just air shocks in back. Mayn springs too? Been a few years since i looked at it.

>>1151696
The 323 has existed since the 70's and is now called the Mazda 3.

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>>1151696

OP here, and here's my car. I'm still making up a list of ideas so I can ask about them from a guy responsible for approving modifications, but I already shopped for some parts that ought to be safe to install. Mainly leather upholstery, in the form of used leather jackets that I'm going to skin and stitch together to make seat covers and such. I also got a piece of mesh to use to fix two missing speaker covers, and a 20 liter jerrycan to tie on the trunk.

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another vector:
Spare parts.
Check just how difficult it will be to do things like remove or replace the rear trunk lid or side doors.

You could have one "normal" piece, painted to match but not screwed with much and another that is heavily modified.

for example, one normal trunk lid. fine. and one chopped-up skeleton of a lid, perhaps with a built in rack to hold fuel cans and skulls. Perhaps a 'fake' hole cut into the surface with fake nitro tanks or fuel cans seeming to jut through it or some mounting brackets that support a tall radio-whip or techno-fetishist totem pole covered in skulls and tattered gray rags whipping in the air.

Perhaps a side door (not the driver?) replaced with a junk-yard door that has been cut down to nothing but a 'frame' that still engages with the body of the car and a bit of welded tube to keep it square. This could be filled in with a metal mesh, some bars or just an open hole.

When you need to get it inspected or the weather is a problem, reinstall the old door or trunk that has been sitting in the garage?

>>1151728
This makes me happy op. Dont stoo brother. Get this bitch on the road

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>>1151728
This makes me happy op. Dont stop brother. Get this bitch on the road. You do this and i swear i will give it my all to get the meme machine on the road and do the same shit.

>>1151772
fucking mud daubers

>>1151084
personally i feel like it would be a shame to do this to such a nice looking car
i would have looked for something with a trashed interior, ruined paint, dents, etc. because it wouldnt matter.

but shitty matte spray paint paint jobs, stencils, push bars, window grilles, roof rack and trunk rack for carrying supplies (just be careful that it doesnt hit the rear window).

i also thought about painting taillights to match car, gutting the housings, then wiring up aftermarket taillights in their place and mounting them to the outer lens of the taillight or even on the trunk lid. still legal, brake lights, turn signals, reverse, etc.

u already appear to have some foglights u could make use of, other lights that could mount to roof rack could be cool, like a light bar.

find out what size tires will squeeze in there without rubbing at full lock, cut the fenders to fit them, put some trim on the cut edges.

people also remove paint from panels, develop a patina, then stop the rusting somehow.... popular with vw guys.. look into it

>>1151728
Skin it in chunks of random sheet metal. Old appliance bodies are good hammer them into rough shapes then glue them down with silicon. The drill holes for pop rivets. This keeps them from flapping/ vibrating in the wind.
Cut the heads off bolts a weld them into holes from the back of the sheets for that bolted on diesel punk look.
You can get away with a lot with paint too. Good shading can make 3d effects.
Raw hide dog chews can be boiled soft and will dry hard, good for wrapping around things like cables, hoses or even the steering wheel.
Soda bottles cut into tubes with shrink down like shrink wrap more junkyard than zip ties.

And dont forget the junkyard dashboard bobblehead made from scrap, springs and bones.

>>1151728
Please don't ruin real leather jackets.

>>1151774
Legit... not sure if i should breed them or genocide. Mutherfuckers ruined a new CAT air breathrr the other day. Bit also each nest is full of brown recluses.

Fuckit. I decided ro try and relocat most of the cunts to a pile and duct tape my filters. Do not like spiders.

>>1151877
Autozone sells rolls of sweet metal trim. (Door edge guards.) Its a bit of a cunt to ise bit worth it.

>>1151891
Horey shit good info

>>1151891
I'm using that boild dog chew trick. Not sure for what yet.

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I took some more pictures from different angles to make it easy for people to draw their suggestions on it.

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>>1152623

Finally sending the rest, now that I got a chance to resize them to something that can be posted in 4chan.

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>>1152703

>>1151150
well you at least have penis inspections in your country, right? same sort of deal.

Are you planning on keeping it street legal? Trafi decides obviously what the lever of street legality there is but the cops and inspectioners have their own "opinions" and they do not always know what is legal and what isn't. So I'd ask around from the nearest katsastus if you are looking for heavy modding, and trafi also. trafi has the final word but the inspection office can refuse to accept the car how ridiculously wrong they might be. The car is a -95 so it needs to obey the laws from -95, not of today. It depends on the date of registration. Obviously road safety laws are overruling.

Where are you building this? If the pics are recent you need to be far up north as in the soutwest we have already almost summer :).

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do what I did and make your car a street shark haha, the amount of smiles I get from people would surprise you even the ocassional holden purist gets a laugh. it's clutch pressure plate fingers welded together. on my holden wb ute 1982

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>>1153124

>>1153123
I actually have the grill out of my limo for teeth right now anon.

>>1153142
I ended up taking the plastic grill out of the surround and only used the surround welded to a frame.

>>1153154
Cool. Not sure how to go about mine but i need a screen to protect the radiator first.

>>1151589
Nigger that's a cherokee

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>>1153096

Kokkola, middle Finland.

I'll post some ideas that have come up this far...

Since replacing the hood ought to be one of the safest modifications to do, I've thought about making a larger, boxy hood that looks like there's a larger than intended engine beneath it. Since the original hood is so steep this wouldn't block the visibility, although this design would make it harder to also fit in a scoop.

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>>1154457

Pipes over the roof and down the back would definitely help make the car look more angular and give the rear some more detail. It would also make it easier to transport stuff on the roof so it would be practical too.

A friend also noted that the roof could be covered by a taut tarp, looking like it was used to cover whatever leaking holes in the metal itself.

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>>1154459

Covering the bumper with skinned car tires ought to be a safe enough modification, but I'll still ask about it beforehand just to be safe. A wilder idea is to make fenderflares out of car tires too, although that would be a bit more dangerous suggestion.

Another thing I'll have to ask is whether some kind of spoiler under the bumper is really mandatory, since pretty much any car looks more badass without it.

>>1151289
drag racers routinely guy the interior of their cars, but that really only ever nerd them a few tenths of a second. it makes since if you are spending thousands on a hobby, but will do nothing for you if you aren't a competitor.

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I have a 323 as well. Rooting for you OP.

>>1151084
Make sure the radiator still gets airflow and that the weight doesn't make it run hot. I don't know anything about cars but I've watched enough about organized crime and Mythbusters to know that you can't arbitrarily add weight and alter airflow without the engine getting angry. Bulletproofing and structural modifications imply heavier structural components and things can cascade in modern cars without a /diy/ engine bay.

>>1151084
Where will you source your fishnet stockings or rolerderby body armor?

>>1153833
Yeah, but i have a blazer. Dodge cucks btfo eternaly.

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>>1152006

Why not? They're the cheapest source of leather, and I found some cheap fur too.

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>>1156244

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>>1156245

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>>1156247

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>>1156251
Don't give up on your dreams!

>>1156247
Shackled up wagon with offroad lights /10

Thats it.

Fuck the memes and fuck the haters. Im madmaxing the limbo

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>>1151084
I think something like this should be easy enough to get you started.
Antique them and make them look rusted, perhaps.
No law against them there, right?

>>1156853
also >>1152703
definitely needs a minor lift and larger tires

>>1156853
YES! Or hit up a rock quarry. They have all sorts of rusty old cool looking parts and screens and shit. Probably hand picl a piclup load. Bonus points for a scale on site and scrap price

>>1151877
It's an mazda from -95. Probably with quite a few hundred thousand km on it. So no worries on that part.

Here is another max max project, also from the country of glory and heroes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rj3U7YmhCQ

>>1156133
You can get these sheep furs from ikea. Afew blacksmith friends made a bellows with those, as it is the cheapest leather you can find (new).

>>1151084
I'm assuming you go to post apocalyptic events? If so you want to make sure spikes and such can be removed if you plan on going to Wasteland Weekend or something because California has laws against threatening vehicles.

>>1157297
Okay there. Any problems with reading comprehension?
>Especially in Finland
>Kokkola, middle Finland.


"I from murika! Methinks everibodi from murika!"

>>1154457
Tunnistettu niin maan perkeleesti