Stance noob GTO build

[saturnstance]

Taillights are my favorite.

[GTOguy]

Dude wow those taillights make all the difference.

Taillights are my favorite.

thanks guys! They are one of my favorite parts I have ever purchased. At this point they are one of only 2 sets in the country and are something the majority of the GTO community is against.

[GTOguy]

Brandon McDow shot my car sunday in Ocean City and just finished editing the majority of the shots.











here is Brandon's Flickr account he has some awesome shots from H2oi and FCF on there: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brandonmcdow/

[fackinsteve]

Joaquin in full effect during these shots

[GTOguy]

Joaquin in full effect during these shots

Hell yes they were. Lol Good weather would make this show season so solid.

[GTOguy]

So a few updates for everyone because I miss posting them.

I have been trying to learn how to shoot proper photos with full manual on a camera. There were a few issues with my brother's Canon 20d so as opposed to selling it for nearly nothing when he bought a 5d he decided to give me a chance to learn to shoot with it. Partially so I can shoot stuff I see at the shows he doesn't attend and so I can capture things I find cool with a proper camera. So here are some of the things I have shot.











So car updates. As a whole the car is pretty similar to where it was at h2oi just cleaned up nicely for the start of the season. I did buy underglow so here are some photos I took. I love some of them.













I'll also include some pictures from my buddy Austin who shoots for several groups as well as StanceWars

[GTOguy]

My buddy who did the shoot of our cars on the waterfront just put everything up on flickr so here is a high res shot of the last photo.



then some of just my car and me playing with the underglow

[Earl]

Happen to have a link to his Flickr?

[GTOguy]

Happen to have a link to his Flickr?

Yep and the link is a picture of your car! Nice to meet you man!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/131194340@N07/25930119773/in/dateposted/

[Earl]

It was nice meeting you too=) Pictures do not do your car justice. It looks so insanely good in person!

[Earl]

How in the world can I save that picture? Lol

[Throttle]

Love yer GTO.

[GTOguy]

It was nice meeting you too=) Pictures do not do your car justice. It looks so insanely good in person!

How in the world can I save that picture? Lol

I'll post it here: flickr can be confusing...

Love yer GTO.

thankssss

[GTOguy]

I have a few exciting things coming soon as well as a few things that have happened recently.

So my buddy made this awesome video of my car and a few friends.



Otherwise I went to European Experience in Savannah for a week. It was a good time. I didn't make it to the show unfortunately which left me questioning why I went because otherwise it just made for a very nice vacation with friends. It also left me feeling excited for H2oi mostly just because there wasn't much cruising and I missed seeing nearly any of my out of town friends.



My friend took this before we left dinner one night:



A small update that really does nothing for aesthetics but helps quality greatly is replacing the door handles with Cadillac Catera handles. They are made of steel and just feel 100 times better.

Sooooo what updates are coming.

I am now the owner of a new front bumper which is the only one that has ever been imported to my knowledge. I am currently trying to figure out getting it to me as it is in LA. Here is just a random photo of another car with this bumper. I need to order headlights to fit it. I am planning to use 5" led bars in the stock fog light location and make a custom grill to fit them. I also am planning to get a vauxhall badge for it in order to get into euro shows as that is a large reason for the conversion.



The next plan is the interior. The car came factory with all red interior which I still think is gorgeous except for the split drivers seat. So I am going to try to find a set of 996 GT3 recaro's or a set of replicas. I have always loved these seats as we have had them in our track cars and even on road trips they are pretty comfortable and they won't be like other fixed back buckets where larger individuals won't fit. I am going to probably experiment with color matched seat dye as I have been researching it. If it ruins the leather I will have them reupholstered to match the red. The next step will be color matching all of the factory silver interior trim as it has grown to annoy me that it is a different silver color. I also am planning to color match the seat backs how Porsche's are often optioned.

stock interior for reference:



these are the seats I'm planning to try to find.



here is a set with color matched backs for a red car to show off that idea:

[fackinsteve]

I love the interiors of GTOs but I feel the Recaros are more than a suitable replacement. I kind of like the GTO bumper though so I'm curious as to how the Monaro bumper will look