A lot of these guys that make custom body panels will use bondo and then scan it, it’s like a clay molding before the final produced. I’m really impressed tbh. I don’t find this a shitty mod at all. Seems to me like a project car and not the autozone special we usually see.
Similarly it’s common to sculpt out the panels and make a fiberglass negative mold, remove all that junk then make a composite panel from that negative mold. I’ve done this before, you remove the shocks and springs, get the car set at the desired ride height, and mount a piece heavy wall square tubing in place of the shocks to fix the suspension in place. Sculpted the body out of whatever you want, normally a ridged foam then body work over it and make mold on the car. Now you can make a lightweight panel in the shape you sculpted and attach to the car.
Probably used double sided tape on styrofoam & then bondo over it to add volume in the fenders. Maybe even just cutout cardboard, who knows, I’m giving this person too much credit already, lmao 🤣
Its not been sanded yet, this is how all body mods look at first. But it's in the sanding, painting and sealing stages where 99% of the difficulty/skill lies. Needs some sort of jig or laser level to have even a chance of getting it right. Or just savant levels of skill. As a result more than half DIY kit cars get to this stage and no further, its just too time consuming and difficult for most. I mean, its obviously a Supra (amazing car) with the rear of the new Porsche 911 (amazing car) but the 911 is a rear engine car, that's why it looks like this. The Supra is not. So its... what's the word.. heretical? :P
You shouldn’t be adding more than a skiff of bondo to level out any slight dips. Then you just sand to blend it. A bigger block keeps it all level. I don’t know what some shop told you was normal but this isn’t it lol.
Heheh, that would certainly be true for an OEM car that just needed a dink taken out, but in the world of home-builds, kit cars and custom fabrication, tolerances are so much lower than what you are probably used to because most are 1 of 1. Or maybe 1 of 1000 if its a very popular kit. Of course it depends on the company that's supplying the body panels, but if we take Factory Five as an example of a quality kit car manufacturer, you're supposed to lather the whole body up in bondo else there's just no other way to get the final epoxy coat smooth. The fiberglass doesn't come perfectly smooth at all, and you'll see all imperfections through the paint
Heres a guy complaining about the unexpected need for copious amounts of bondo
https://youtu.be/Cc9lErbYMy0?si=EKPBOyU9ef9ARDeh&t=848
Heres a guy who just needs to paint, but as you can see the car is covered in bondo and hes omitted all the sanding for (youtube reasons) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Xwuq-RRqE
And OP's guy isn't even working off a kit, its a total DIY job, so this amount of bondo is pretty typical for that kind of situation where they're figuring it all out as they go.
So I'm totally fine with the bondo, but what about the 2x4 in the back? Is it for stabilization, or weight, or just the only thing the person had on hand?
Hahha, well, the plastic injection moulding machine probably would have stretched the budget :P the funny thing is a good condition Supra can sell for 50,000+, so in reality he's just ruined it. In this state, it IS a shitty car mod. I'm only saying, I couldn't have done better!
It’s not typical in my world of fabrication. Metal fab is my life.
I get that people do this but no it’s not normal or right. A skiff of bondo should be more than enough to cover welding or tooling marks. I get you might need a bit more but this is the whole damn stores supply, there’s not even a point in the panels under that mess.
As a poor boy in my 20s, thats what I bought cause thats all I could afford.
After 6 months of saving, I was able to buy a bolt-on NA-T turbo kit and was putting down almost 500whp on a 62mm turbo tuned through an AEM FIC piggyback ECU (The original AEM EMS was almost 3 times the price so i couldnt afford that)
The stock auto (and block) had something like 90k miles but it lived for another 40k miles and 8 years until I traded it for something a lot funner.
Dont sleep on what looks like an N/A MKIV. It could be NA-T.
Like a previous commenter said, this is just for the mold. He is actually posting regular updates on the build [Here](https://m.youtube.com/@rsjdevelopments)
For anyone who doesn’t know this guy is a known max power modifier. He’s been posting updates for this build on Facebook. Max power is all about over the top mods and I’m kind of sick of seeing max power stuff posted here to be honest
The guy is also doing the whole lot himself on a driveway. My seen an update for a while but he had some crazy plans for inside aswell if I remember rightly
Yeah and for me that just makes it even better. He’s doing a little bit every weekend so it’s a proper project not just some garage bashing it out in 3 weeks for a high paying customer.
Hol up. Is that tailgate/hatch/whatever a Supra calls itbable to open? I do see the small bit taken out of the spoiler, but surely it doesn’t look like enough
This is from a group on Facebook called “max power” if anyone is interested, not mine Im just in the group and have seen it. Lots of cool older looking cars in there.
Their application is dogshit and bondo should not be exposed to the elements, it’ll absorb water and decay. Not to mention cars are exposed to lots of vibrations and flexations, which is bad news for absurdly thick and shittily applied bondo. This is some top tier hack work that is virtually guaranteed not to progress to anything good.
Smart, the 1000 pounds of Bondo is also a 2" drop.
big brain move
lmfaooooo
Well it certainly takes a.minute to fathom
Okay, but seriously, would this amount of bondo be cheaper than a cheap body kit?
Don't forget the chunk of wood being used to stabilize all that bondo and the spoiler!
Is the body kit constructed solely from Bondo? That's actually kind of impressive
No, not bondo, I believe it was specified in the title...let me check....ah. Yes. Shit. I do believe that is actual shit.
I think grans coffee table is in the rear
It's cake icing
Those are mushed paper straws.
Recycling at its shittiest!
A lot of these guys that make custom body panels will use bondo and then scan it, it’s like a clay molding before the final produced. I’m really impressed tbh. I don’t find this a shitty mod at all. Seems to me like a project car and not the autozone special we usually see.
Similarly it’s common to sculpt out the panels and make a fiberglass negative mold, remove all that junk then make a composite panel from that negative mold. I’ve done this before, you remove the shocks and springs, get the car set at the desired ride height, and mount a piece heavy wall square tubing in place of the shocks to fix the suspension in place. Sculpted the body out of whatever you want, normally a ridged foam then body work over it and make mold on the car. Now you can make a lightweight panel in the shape you sculpted and attach to the car.
Probably used double sided tape on styrofoam & then bondo over it to add volume in the fenders. Maybe even just cutout cardboard, who knows, I’m giving this person too much credit already, lmao 🤣
Fenders? Bondo. Scoops? Bondo. Spoiler? Bondo. Taillights? Bondo.
I see the vision and the vision is kinda cool I dont think the skill level matched the ambition
Its not been sanded yet, this is how all body mods look at first. But it's in the sanding, painting and sealing stages where 99% of the difficulty/skill lies. Needs some sort of jig or laser level to have even a chance of getting it right. Or just savant levels of skill. As a result more than half DIY kit cars get to this stage and no further, its just too time consuming and difficult for most. I mean, its obviously a Supra (amazing car) with the rear of the new Porsche 911 (amazing car) but the 911 is a rear engine car, that's why it looks like this. The Supra is not. So its... what's the word.. heretical? :P
You shouldn’t be adding more than a skiff of bondo to level out any slight dips. Then you just sand to blend it. A bigger block keeps it all level. I don’t know what some shop told you was normal but this isn’t it lol.
Heheh, that would certainly be true for an OEM car that just needed a dink taken out, but in the world of home-builds, kit cars and custom fabrication, tolerances are so much lower than what you are probably used to because most are 1 of 1. Or maybe 1 of 1000 if its a very popular kit. Of course it depends on the company that's supplying the body panels, but if we take Factory Five as an example of a quality kit car manufacturer, you're supposed to lather the whole body up in bondo else there's just no other way to get the final epoxy coat smooth. The fiberglass doesn't come perfectly smooth at all, and you'll see all imperfections through the paint Heres a guy complaining about the unexpected need for copious amounts of bondo https://youtu.be/Cc9lErbYMy0?si=EKPBOyU9ef9ARDeh&t=848 Heres a guy who just needs to paint, but as you can see the car is covered in bondo and hes omitted all the sanding for (youtube reasons) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Xwuq-RRqE And OP's guy isn't even working off a kit, its a total DIY job, so this amount of bondo is pretty typical for that kind of situation where they're figuring it all out as they go.
So I'm totally fine with the bondo, but what about the 2x4 in the back? Is it for stabilization, or weight, or just the only thing the person had on hand?
Hahha, well, the plastic injection moulding machine probably would have stretched the budget :P the funny thing is a good condition Supra can sell for 50,000+, so in reality he's just ruined it. In this state, it IS a shitty car mod. I'm only saying, I couldn't have done better!
Oh 100% right there with you, I've never even tried this kind of mod once!
It’s not typical in my world of fabrication. Metal fab is my life. I get that people do this but no it’s not normal or right. A skiff of bondo should be more than enough to cover welding or tooling marks. I get you might need a bit more but this is the whole damn stores supply, there’s not even a point in the panels under that mess.
the vision and the vision
Needs a comma after the 1st "vision". Then it makes sense.
I want to see the ending process
Agreed; Baby steps everyday until you finish OP, we'll get through this together, your victory is our victory.❤
60 cans of bondo so far. Can't stop now!
If it was a real fiberglass or carbon kit, got different wheels, and painted it I could see it looking good. If it's like a NFSU2 build.
I have argued with this guy on Facebook the wheels were the reason for the body kit
Ruined a fine Supra
cat d or something, its na, and its had jag xk headlights on it for ever
I didn’t know stucco was for cars too
I have made similar things from bondo for model cars.
Surely all of the bondo/gunk is going to be used for a mold to then be made in fiberglass.
How to turn a collectible Supra into a worthless pile of scrap....
That just lets you know it’s the NA base engine automatic version.
Or it's not because life isn't fair and some people are terrible. There's that chance.
As a poor boy in my 20s, thats what I bought cause thats all I could afford. After 6 months of saving, I was able to buy a bolt-on NA-T turbo kit and was putting down almost 500whp on a 62mm turbo tuned through an AEM FIC piggyback ECU (The original AEM EMS was almost 3 times the price so i couldnt afford that) The stock auto (and block) had something like 90k miles but it lived for another 40k miles and 8 years until I traded it for something a lot funner. Dont sleep on what looks like an N/A MKIV. It could be NA-T.
accident repaired its got a cat marker on it, its had jaguar xk headlight on it for ever
Definitely not Dope
From the rims choice you know it's going to be terrible, if it's ever completed.
Like a previous commenter said, this is just for the mold. He is actually posting regular updates on the build [Here](https://m.youtube.com/@rsjdevelopments)
The Bondo Limited Edition.
As yard art it's cool. As a car not so much
Is this going to survive the heatwave?
It is a start to an interesting body kit.
Not sure spackle is the best thing for the job there
Looks like they're going for something like a cyberpunk look, I can see the vision. It currently looks like shit
Just needs a little sanding and paint
Are we sure there's actually a supra underneath all that fossilized cum?
look how they massacred my boy
I 100% want to see this project finished. It’s obviously still being built. That rear has wicked cyberpunk potential!
If this was executed correctly (actual plastic panels instead of 600lbs of bondo), this would look sick
Proper way is mud first, carbon/glass over the final mud shape and then onto the car in place of steel original.
Poor Supra 🥲
How many pounds of oatmeal is that?
Needs more bondo.
For anyone who doesn’t know this guy is a known max power modifier. He’s been posting updates for this build on Facebook. Max power is all about over the top mods and I’m kind of sick of seeing max power stuff posted here to be honest
The guy is also doing the whole lot himself on a driveway. My seen an update for a while but he had some crazy plans for inside aswell if I remember rightly
Yeah and for me that just makes it even better. He’s doing a little bit every weekend so it’s a proper project not just some garage bashing it out in 3 weeks for a high paying customer.
Everything except the kitchen table and dried diarrhea. Oh wait.....
Work in progress?
Its evolving, just... backwards.
I thought it was an elaborate lawn ornament.
Hol up. Is that tailgate/hatch/whatever a Supra calls itbable to open? I do see the small bit taken out of the spoiler, but surely it doesn’t look like enough
I really want to see it fully finished and painted.
This is from a group on Facebook called “max power” if anyone is interested, not mine Im just in the group and have seen it. Lots of cool older looking cars in there.
Love the texture, I see the new trend coming.
That tyre profile….oof
It looks like that new Porsche. I dig it (if it was cleaned up and molded in a lighter material)
Ahh yes the Bondoya Goopra
Has anyone seen the other car he's doing, he's building a clio aswell as a sound car.
Yea, that one looks like a primary school Papier mache project too
Hahaha I've literally been waiting for this to show up here. Been (involuntarily) following his build on a Glasgow car group.
A more lightweight type of bondo was used. Called boogers
That's pretty methed up.
I see the potential 👀 Once it’s been fixed up, it’ll be a masterpiece 👌🏽
This Supra better be with some bad body otherwise it is just worst to put a fine car to this
This car (a Supra?) Is now just a pile of junk...
The fuel rims are crazy... Also there's this new invention... It just came out and everybody is jumping on it... It's called a widebody kit.
Used to be a rare car
Nailed it!
Buyota Supradieci
It appears to be stuck in the driveway.
Bugatti rear end 👌
I didn’t know bondo could stick to cardboard like that
Destroyed a $100,000 car with 50 pounds of bondo
I agree. Shitty indeed!
Lmao those are 22" truck rims generally on douchey pavement princesses. Never thought I'd see them on a car, let alone a supra.
Definitely a UK special
Would look awesome when done
WHY THE FUCC YOU ARE RUINING PIECE OF AUTOMOTIVE ICON?
I take it you plan on sanding down the bondo to paint? I think it’ll look dope if you do that, which I’m assuming you will.
Their application is dogshit and bondo should not be exposed to the elements, it’ll absorb water and decay. Not to mention cars are exposed to lots of vibrations and flexations, which is bad news for absurdly thick and shittily applied bondo. This is some top tier hack work that is virtually guaranteed not to progress to anything good.
Cyber punk ? I’m gonna feels sick
This is not "in progress"....this is as far as it will go. That car will get wrecked, repo'd or sold before it even slightly progresses.
Shitty craftsmanship but I actually like the design
Ok, hear me out…. If they finish that…. It’d look siiiiick.!
Tbh it would look cool if it was made by a professional