G5.R

[Dropspeed]

Originally Posted by Dyk-NO

Point taken but why make it in the first place then? they should've just kept it a flat surface or just engineered the lights to be flushed in the bumper not this fake looking vents its just really obvious that it's meant for actual vents and ducts.

makes me want the ducts even more! hehe

Heritage! The gen 5 has round driving lights (and the gills in the rear 1/4s) for that reason.

[Moreno1]

Originally Posted by 1sick_eg

I miss my racepak. They're awesome

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Racepak is definitely top shelf!


Spend a good portion of the day gutting the hood and modifying the hood vent insert more (sorry no pics)

This was a little nerve racking as this is a $3200 one off dry carbon hood. Which we had been waiting for a long time. We had the hood latch omitted along with some unnecessary holes for our project.










We are also going to make the hole on the top side larger and remove the mounting points for the vent. You'll need to stay tune for the rest of the story.....




Katech made us a set of one off covers. here is our original covers.

We had them

• Omit the nut certs for the coil brackets.
• Omit the filler cap a we are dry sump
• Relocate the vacuum line fittings to the rear of the covers.
• They sent us the billet caps and we gave them the same treatment as the rest of our engine parts.

Looks much cleaner. They still need to be sanded, clear coated to build us a base and finally one last coat of satin clear to give them a matted look.








One off cooling plate. Since we aren't using the hood latch, need to have the hole.

[Doc]

NATHAN!! You aren't done yet? Have you started polishing the polish? Smoothing the smooth lol? If you don't hurry up, the 6th gen will be here and you'll have to start all over again! Although... I HIGHLY recommend you start with a body-in-white this time; it will be much cheaper and less traumatic!

[hrpiii]

I would rather see this car at Camarofest than the 6Gen. There is "new", and then there is "art and perfection".... and the G5.R is all that.

[Synner]

Curious on your reasoning for removing all the hood bracing. Seems like you're saving a lb but risking cracking earlier in the part life whether its dry carbon or not.

[Moreno1]

Originally Posted by Doc

NATHAN!! You aren't done yet? Have you started polishing the polish? Smoothing the smooth lol? If you don't hurry up, the 6th gen will be here and you'll have to start all over again! Although... I HIGHLY recommend you start with a body-in-white this time; it will be much cheaper and less traumatic! [IMG]file:///C:\Users\ALIANW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\ 01\clip_image001.gif[/IMG]

LOL, hey Doc!!!Great to hear from you and glad things are going well! Body in white would have definitely been the way to go. The way we are going the 7th Gen might be here before we are done.

Originally Posted by hrpiii

I would rather see this car at Camarofest than the 6Gen. There is "new", and then there is "art and perfection".... and the G5.R is all that.

Thank for the props.....

Originally Posted by ZL575BumbleBee

looking great and sooner or later I am going to fly out there and look at this car in person.

God willing we make SEMA this year and you can knock two birds with one stone, LOL

Originally Posted by Synner

Curious on your reasoning for removing all the hood bracing. Seems like you're saving a lb but risking cracking earlier in the part life whether its dry carbon or not.

Most of these hood are sold to racers and they guts them out. As far as cracking, I don’t think it will be a problem. It’s amazing how strong this stuff if. When cutting the carbon, if I don’t make a clean cut and just leave a one strand off fiber uncut, you can pull on it as hard as you want, that thing isn’t coming off! It’s just crazy strong.

BTW, we did lose a few lbs...lol



Here an idea we played with.... not sure




Working on the interior. We were going to go with a COPO radio delete pod but we figured we do something cooler.






The idea was to clean up the face plate and give it a floating effect. to give it that effect, we cut the lower portion of the plate off so no visible mount points will be view.




Next, we had to prep the plate in on both sides by cutting off and smooth out any extrusions








Made a template from cardboard.





Glass the backside and did some rough sanding.





Prep the dash for the floating effect by cutting off the mounting points








And here you go.








Think we will do some switch... still deciding on which to use, but this will give you an idea.




To finish the floating effect, we cut off the side bars from the dash sub structure.




Also remove the pieces on the side of the trans tunnel. Now we will be able to finish off the flooring material all the way to the fire wall which I think will give it a much nicer look.




additional benefit.... lost another few more lbs.

[PwrAdikt]

This build is unreal... I've always been more of make it fast and not caring about pretty but this actually makes me want to revisit things on my car and clean them up. The ONLY build thread i started reading and literally went all the way thru looking at every page. Im from louisiana but working in nor cal this makes me wanna drive down and look at this thing. Not the fanboy type but this is genuinely inspiring.

[Pushrod Pete]

This thread is amazing and very refreshing. We don't see enough weight reduction builds on this forum.

I plan to do something similar on a much smaller scale. I want to shed a couple hundred pounds from my 1le.

[forklord]

If you could shed a few hundred pounds youd probly be in moreno territory. One can dream...

[newb]

Any updates?


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[Moreno1]

Originally Posted by newb

Any updates?


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The 6 Gen is almost around the corner so with figured we scrap it as there's still too much work left and build G6.R instead. G5.R is old news already.....











JK

[Stitch]

Dude, don't scare us like that.

Not cool.

[TommyTheCat]

Originally Posted by Nathan Moreno

The 6 Gen is almost around the corner so with figured we scrap it as there's still too much work left and build G6.R instead. G5.R is old news already.....

Originally Posted by Nathan Moreno

JK

Seriously though you'll need to start on G6.R and work on both at the same time way this is going

[forklord]

I would take your car over a gen6 z/28 anyday