Conceptual design question:

[Markos]

Found this, thought of your thread...

 

[rsporsche]

looks reasonably tasteful, but i prefer them stock body - i miss the belt trim

 

[Stevehose]

and the chrome/stainless trim

i miss the belt trim

 

[02m2]

thanks...

This looks to be the same car with different wheels. Closer to the direction I want to go but still a little too racer boy. My goal would be to keep the flares to minimum to accommodate the new chassis and wider wheels. I could tub it and that would help but I don't want to lose the back seat.

Found this, thought of your thread...

 

[Stan]

a radical departure

How about plopping the E9 body on a relatively new M5?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbki13RIDkY

 

[02m2]

Been done

It has been done and there are a number of things I don't like about the car that was done. Building a new chassis to accommodate the m5 drivetrain will retain more of the iconic e9 DNA

How about plopping the E9 body on a relatively new M5?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbki13RIDkY

 

[John Buchtenkirch]

Regarding the silver coupe (post #41 & #44) I think the wide body conversion would look better if the radius at the top of the puffed out quarters and fenders were quite a bit softer overall and faded out as it joined back into the stock body panel flow. Being it doesn’t have the bat wing to balance the looks in my mind the roof hoop appears too high, I’d cut it down and bring it closer to the body so it doesn’t look quite so obnoxious. While I don’t miss the front bumper because of the spoiler the rear of the car really needs a rear one to break up the look of the panels. I like the trunk lid spoiler….. wish I had one. My 2 cents worth, other’s ideas will vary and that’s okay too :grin:. ~ John Buchtenkirch

 

[02m2]

Thanks

Agree on the fender flares...a softer edge may look better. This was another flare version that was rejected but have a design to incorporate the m5 lower valance.....

Regarding the silver coupe (post #41 & #44) I think the wide body conversion would look better if the radius at the top of the puffed out quarters and fenders were quite a bit softer overall and faded out as it joined back into the stock body panel flow. Being it doesn’t have the bat wing to balance the looks in my mind the roof hoop appears too high, I’d cut it down and bring it closer to the body so it doesn’t look quite so obnoxious. While I don’t miss the front bumper because of the spoiler the rear of the car really needs one to break up the look of the panels. I like the trunk lid spoiler….. wish I had one. My 2 cents worth, other’s ideas will vary and that’s okay too :grin:. ~ John Buchtenkirch

 

[John Buchtenkirch]

02M2, I think you’ve gotten away with removing the rear bumper on your green coupe (where to me it just doesn’t work on the silver coupe) because you’ve made the taillights proportionally taller than stock and the detail work on the lower pan breaks up the panel a bit and makes it look interesting. The frenched taillights is also a nice California custom touch.

I don’t think the wheel flairs like you have illustrated could work on a street car, they swing inward too quickly from the wheel opening and the outside edge of the tire would hit them severely limiting wheel travel. Also I find the straight line at the top of the rear wheel opening a bit odd, I think one of the E9 signatures is the more or less round wheel openings front & rear.

Finally, being that you have removed the deck lid emblems I’d certainly continue the body side moldings (which you seem to have toned down in width) across the deck lid edge and possibly top it with a small spoiler like is on the silver coupe. While overall I love my coupe’s styling the tail leaves me with somewhat mixed emotions……. I wish BMW would have let the stylist that stretched the nose for the 6 cylinder update the tail too. The rear bumper looks great but the taillights are too narrow (in height) and too low on the panel. I’d have larger taillights that swing the corner a bit (which would eliminate side marker lights) and a sunken trim panel with the gas filler behind the plate (Bavaria style). Why BMW stylists left the body molding off the deck lid bothers me, if they really felt it was necessary they should have ended the quarter moldings in maybe a spear tip before they swung the rear corners, the way they did it looks like the deck lid molding fell off the car IMO. ~ John Buchtenkirch

 

[02m2]

Thanks John !!
These are very rough and just testing the design details. Not happy with the flares yet either. The 3d model was purchased and off from the actual car so I am having it revised to be more accurate. Plan on using the stock beltline trim or something close that we fabricate. I am also not totally happy with the rear end yet. It was a first pass as recognition of the 08 m5 underpinnings. Front end, functional side vents still on the drawing board. I will post the iterations as we work on them for comments. All just a design exercise until we actually determine the track and tire widths we want to run.
Marc

02M2, I think you’ve gotten away with removing the rear bumper on your green coupe (where to me it just doesn’t work on the silver coupe) because you’ve made the taillights proportionally taller than stock and the detail work on the lower pan breaks up the panel a bit and makes it look interesting. The frenched taillights is also a nice California custom touch.

I don’t think the wheel flairs like you have illustrated could work on a street car, they swing inward too quickly from the wheel opening and the outside edge of the tire would hit them severely limiting wheel travel. Also I find the straight line at the top of the rear wheel opening a bit odd, I think one of the E9 signatures is the more or less round wheel openings front & rear.

Finally, being that you have removed the deck lid emblems I’d certainly continue the body side moldings (which you seem to have toned down in width) across the deck lid edge and possibly top it with a small spoiler like is on the silver coupe. While overall I love my coupe’s styling the tail leaves me with somewhat mixed emotions……. I wish BMW would have let the stylist that stretched the nose for the 6 cylinder update the tail too. The rear bumper looks great but the taillights are too narrow (in height) and too low on the panel. I’d have larger taillights that swing the corner a bit (which would eliminate side marker lights) and a sunken trim panel with the gas filler behind the plate (Bavaria style). Why BMW stylists left the body molding off the deck lid bothers me, if they really felt it was necessary they should have ended the quarter moldings in maybe a spear tip before they swung the rear corners, the way they did it looks like the deck lid molding fell off the car IMO. ~ John Buchtenkirch

 

[02m2]

functional side vent detail

working on adding a "functional" side vent detail that picks up an element of the 08 M5.

 

[Markos]

Another box flared E9. This one is for sale for $17K.

http://auto.bazos.cz/inzerat/51058430/BMW-2800-CS.php

 

[restart]

Check out this thread!

http://www.e9coupe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9144&highlight=remus

Sweet

 

[restart]

Oh yeah, uhhum

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