Who the hell stances out a Dodge Omni?

[frink84]

now even more people will assume its a euro hatch!

[TruTaing]

wow. that looks really good.

[pejsa]

looking great!

[M.Doban]

This looks so super BA. I love it. And the fitment is on point.

Now I want one.

[Yonkers320is]

some shots of the new and improved grill:

I had one, and I always thought of them as the "poor man's Delta Integrale"

[dart165]

I had one, and I always thought of them as the "poor man's Delta Integrale"

Right on, those cars are gangster as hell. There was a time when I considered doing that type of wide body on mine. There was a few Conquests at the local scrap yard that woulda donated their fender flare sheet metal to the cause. In the end, I found that I liked how large the stock flares are on my car. (plus it would been a whole lot bigger/more $$ project if i decided to graft em on )

[dart165]

Fitting up the shortened bumpers and front air dam:

[dart165]

[Earl]

That looks excellent=)

[Bronzit]

This thread is too good.

[dart165]

Thanks

Got the bumpers mounted up, but since they are so much tighter to the body, it required some modification to the plastic bumper corners.

How it was before:








Hopefully you can see the difference in the distance from the wheel well to the end of the bumper. I had to cut a solid 2.5" out of the length of the corners and re angle the back side cut to match the angle of the wheel flare:




I wish that I had some pics looking down from above the bumper before and after so you could see the distance that the stock bumpers sat from the car. You could drop a beer can through the gap and not hit anything...

[Chuckdee]

Looks really, REALLY good man! So what's next??

[km670909]

MOAR!! I need moar of this build!!!

[Earl]

I drop my jaw every time you update=)

[dart165]

Looks really, REALLY good man! So what's next??

After the body was all finished up, it was time to buckle down and attack the oil issue. I'd clean the motor and 2 days later it'd be covered in a mist of oil residue.... plus I could smell it after drivng the car.
I started to fear that it was the turbo since A.) thats where the general area that I was finding the most residue, and B.) This car and I have had a love h@te relationship...everything has broken at least once...except for the turbo. It'd make sense that the gods would piss on my parade.

Well it turned out to be a host of things; bad rear main seal, a few other seals, and a cracked rear crank case seal. While we had it all apart, I decided to relocate the battery in the spare tire well, and run a kill switch on the back panel.




Because I'm a silly designer, I cant just be fine with a random on/off switch... so I designed a graphic to go with it.