View Poll Results: What do you think about a Trans Am vert with a coupe wing
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Trans Ams Who would be interested in the coupe wing?
07-09-2010, 10:06 PM
#121
Why in the heck don't you guys like this???
I think that guy did a killer job. A LITTLE REFINING...
Make it slightly higher...
Make the sides blend to the front better...
MOST OF ALL shorten it (hangs over way too much)...
...and I'd say you have a killer piece. Way more cost effective as well because at the very least you can reuse your side "spoiler trim pieces".
My thoughts (until I get a good look at what Mark already has) is to do it two fold:
1) Create a new trunk that is smooth (I would just redesign the hinges instead of allowing them to recess up and into it).
2) Create spoilers (plural) for that smooth trunk (one would be a high rise and one would be "duck tail" IF I can figure out what to do with the stock "spoiler trim pieces".
We'll see. I don't have the firsthand experience Mark did with this so I don't know if this is plausible...
I think that guy did a killer job. A LITTLE REFINING...
Make it slightly higher...
Make the sides blend to the front better...
MOST OF ALL shorten it (hangs over way too much)...
...and I'd say you have a killer piece. Way more cost effective as well because at the very least you can reuse your side "spoiler trim pieces".
My thoughts (until I get a good look at what Mark already has) is to do it two fold:
1) Create a new trunk that is smooth (I would just redesign the hinges instead of allowing them to recess up and into it).
2) Create spoilers (plural) for that smooth trunk (one would be a high rise and one would be "duck tail" IF I can figure out what to do with the stock "spoiler trim pieces".
We'll see. I don't have the firsthand experience Mark did with this so I don't know if this is plausible...
07-12-2010, 03:14 PM
#124
6LE, I agree with your suggestions regarding the spoiler in those pics. It does need to be higher, more like the coupes. It looks like the guy who built that one purposely flattened it out more like the standard vert integrated spoiler. The way the one on the coupes rises up in the back give the car a more aggresive arrow-like look, especially on LT1's.
One other suggestion. Make the third brake light use the same light as the standard vert trunk. I have seen pics of people who modified their coupe spoiler to fill in the top of the brake light so the top of the spoiler is smooth and unspoiled. Besides that, there are a lot of options for buying led third brake lights for the standard trunk spoiler, but I have yet to see one for that odd high-rise spoiler light.
One other suggestion. Make the third brake light use the same light as the standard vert trunk. I have seen pics of people who modified their coupe spoiler to fill in the top of the brake light so the top of the spoiler is smooth and unspoiled. Besides that, there are a lot of options for buying led third brake lights for the standard trunk spoiler, but I have yet to see one for that odd high-rise spoiler light.
07-17-2010, 10:44 AM
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Low for show..... Come on people, quit being so picky! Low or not, it's WAY better than what we got now. Is one or two inches lower and longer than the coupe really gonna make it a deal breaker? With it low and long it fits the verts stance better than a jacked-up stub-winged one would. Did everyone forget that a convertible is not a coupe and a coupe is not a convertible? Let's get this project moving forward to completion. Heck, at the rate it has taken to come this far, I'll be an old man in a rocking chair by the time a "completely blessed" design emerges.
07-17-2010, 09:15 PM
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Sorry Guys I was suppose to Meet with 6LE this morning to turn over the project, but when I showed up to work Friday morning some POS thieves had jacked the Rims and tires on the Black car! So I had to throw a set on and get it out of there before they came back and striped it bare.
I will get it to him by next weekend for sure.
I will get it to him by next weekend for sure.
07-18-2010, 02:45 AM
#127
Sorry Guys I was suppose to Meet with 6LE this morning to turn over the project, but when I showed up to work Friday morning some POS thieves had jacked the Rims and tires on the Black car! So I had to throw a set on and get it out of there before they came back and striped it bare.
I will get it to him by next weekend for sure.
I will get it to him by next weekend for sure.
07-18-2010, 03:37 AM
#128
I talked to this guy...
...and here's what he did:
"Mark,
I had a hatchback and the vert at the same time and kept comparing the two. What I finally did was to take a vert decklid apart and trim the remaining frame or underside down to accept the skin from a hatchback that I had also taken apart. I picked one up fairly cheap as it had no window, which worked out great for me. I cut the skin that was missing, a half of an ellipse, from the vert skin and attached it to the hatchback skin and trimmed frame. I moved the spoiler back and hollowed the tips out in order to allow the hinges to hide up inside the spoiler. I don't know if the spoiler would have fit to cover the hinges in the original position, but I didn't like it there when viewing the profile under the transformation phase. I hadn't gotten to the hinges yet. I cut the spoiler tips and turned them out to meet the plastic pieces at the base of the convertible top. Also had to adjust the feet of the spoiler.
That's my story in a nutshell. It took a great deal of time - and money. I paid a body shop $1,500 for the labor to put it together and paint it. $300 or so more for the decklids from the two different body styles. Had to buy a second decklid as the first attempt didn't work out.
Take care,
John"
Really nice guy and ended up with a really nice piece IMHO. Sounds similar to the way Mark was already doing it as well...
...and here's what he did:
"Mark,
I had a hatchback and the vert at the same time and kept comparing the two. What I finally did was to take a vert decklid apart and trim the remaining frame or underside down to accept the skin from a hatchback that I had also taken apart. I picked one up fairly cheap as it had no window, which worked out great for me. I cut the skin that was missing, a half of an ellipse, from the vert skin and attached it to the hatchback skin and trimmed frame. I moved the spoiler back and hollowed the tips out in order to allow the hinges to hide up inside the spoiler. I don't know if the spoiler would have fit to cover the hinges in the original position, but I didn't like it there when viewing the profile under the transformation phase. I hadn't gotten to the hinges yet. I cut the spoiler tips and turned them out to meet the plastic pieces at the base of the convertible top. Also had to adjust the feet of the spoiler.
That's my story in a nutshell. It took a great deal of time - and money. I paid a body shop $1,500 for the labor to put it together and paint it. $300 or so more for the decklids from the two different body styles. Had to buy a second decklid as the first attempt didn't work out.
Take care,
John"
Really nice guy and ended up with a really nice piece IMHO. Sounds similar to the way Mark was already doing it as well...
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08-06-2010, 12:29 AM
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Mark feel free to coordinate with Lee about picking it up. I am moved now and out in Murrieta, I only get back for Military Drills (like this weekend).
Turns out CMS new shop is right across the street from PowerTV.
Turns out CMS new shop is right across the street from PowerTV.
03-07-2011, 09:10 AM
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6LE is busy with other projects. I live right down the street from RK sport, who is doing a lot of work for other companies now, but I do not have the finances currently to get the project done. I am working on changing that.
I would not say it is dead more like on the back burner for now.
I would not say it is dead more like on the back burner for now.
