Hey everyone I had an idea to change the look of the front end of the camaro but I ran into a problem. Take a look at the nose of a thidgen, how the pockets end behind the nose. If I cut the nose up, would the engine and components sit behind the pockets or are they pushed in the nose passed the pockets? I have no way to figure it out since I'm not taking off my body panels. Basically is their empty space behind the nose like their is empty space from the headlight pockets? thanks

Not sure if i understand what your saying but... theres nothing really behind the area where the camaro emblem is on the nose. you can pop off the cover by the hood latch to see whats there

What kind of mod are you trying to do?

Do not mod the front of your car. The vast majority of these custom mod ideas end up going terribly wrong.

The nicest thirdgens are the clean stock examples, or the tastefully enhanced.

I agree. Tastefully enhanced ftw.

Failing at doing something is better than not doing anything at all.

That all depends on the value of what it is you are trying to do.

It's your car, do what you want.

But, you might regret it, and it might hurt the car's value. The regret is especially true if you are a younger guy.

I'm not gonna do it to my car lol.

What are you trying to do? Like what are you trying to mod?

Give more details of what u want to do, it may be something cool but nobody gets it. Later.

Basically I wanted to cut out the nose and make the front look more old school with the lights being flush with the body and not being interrupted by the nose. check out my PAINT sketch..lol



http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...onewsketch.jpg
(If IMG didn't work)

Anyways I really like it, but what do you guys think? Of course it looks like crap but if someone could photoshop it, we could see if it would look good.

what do you think? The headlights could also be square, I used the round ones like the 60s Z28.

Check out this one:



I need photoshop lol.

i for one, think it has the potential to look amazing, under 1 or 2 conditions.

I think it would look horrible if it was a hack job.

I think it would look horrible if you used billet, You'd need to use some kind of grill like on the old school camaro or the new camaro (same reason i kept my louvered grill, because of all the new retro cars, its starting to make the louvered grill look more modern (in a retro.... kind of way), to me atleast)

If you do it right, itll still be love/hate with people. But its ur car and whatever looks good to you is what you should go with, if i was you i would practice on a damages nose, before you go cutting up your own. Would hate to get 3/4th way not and not be able to go back, and not be able to get it the way you wanted in the first place.





Heres a quick mockup i did for you


Used jeckyls car, hope he dont mind.



Edit: Second mockup with grill


Like i said, it could look amazing. Because the above looks pretty damn good to me

Wow that's awesome.

Yeah I know what you mean by billet, I hate it too. I was thinking of the oldschool camaro grille when I was doing it, but PAINT has it's limitations. lol.

maybe something kind of like this?

that looks alright too, i was thinking maybe of having the plastic behind the grille open to let cool air into the engine bay but i don't know about that.

Another idea is to put a large 1 piece blackout over the empty space so during the day it'll look stock, then you can take if off and have that custom look.

I don't know, I just got thinking and I made up a lot of ideas, Some hits and misses. I'm trying to keep them muscle-y, not tunerish.

Peace

Lexan..... Heat it up, comform it to the shape of the opening, mount it into the nose with some L brackets maybe? then tint it.... that would look pretty good if done right

Ok, I get it now. Those photochop look pretty good, well if u plan out and do some good fab it should be excellent. Check out the '81 Celica front end. Later.

I'm talking to a guy who is big into custom work etc. He lives down the street from me and has some cool cars.

Actually that isn't bad at all.

sort of looks like this -

i think it might look pretty good but if your planning on cutting the top of the nose flush with the head lights and making like a "shelf" there then i think you will have to relocate the hood latch and modify the head light bar

Yeah I p lanned on making it like a shelf not up in front of the car lol.

It is a cool idea, and will look good if done right