Speedwells Wide Body Supra, by Sean Reid

Over the past couple of years, we have seen the speedwells wide body aero kit for the Toyota Supra gather some momentum, since we have added the aero to our website we have had lots of interest, it helps when current owners like Lawrence Duckers are out and about with his amazing Black Wide Body, which seems to look better every time we see the car across various media platforms, Iby certainly built a stunner when he put this one together and it’s good to see that Lawrence is putting his own stamp on the build, adding more power with a turbo install, and we are sure there is more to come from this particular Supra.

There is a new build happening and we have been privy too and it’s a beauty, Sean Reid is the man responsible for yet another UK build and from what we have seen so far we are excited by this one.

Sean's Black Supra before the mods

The base car he sourced was from Ireland, a beautiful black example which before he purchased had just had a fresh coat of paint and it was a stunning example, many people would be asking why cut up a perfectly good base car, but when your friend is Iby from Speedwells it all starts to make sense, let’s just say when it comes to modifying cars he is a bad influence, and Sean himself is no stranger to the modified scene, his daily driver is a lowered Murdered out Audi Avant, sitting on super wide concave wheels , so the Supra didn't stand a chance of a standard life once it come into Sean’s life, but as we always say at VAD, a stock car is a boring car.

The reason this build caught our eye was colour choice, which is a classic Grey from the Porsche colour range, its very reminiscent to the Lamborghini Grigio Telesto or the Audi Nardo Grey, which we like, especially now this colour is adorned on his wide body Supra, this is one colour that will show off all of the details that can be hidden by a darker colour.

Speedwells Supra

Speedwells Supra

Speedwells Supra

Speedwells Supra

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Sean's Build process of the Speedwells Wide Body Supra

A special build needs a special wheel and as reported in our previous email Sean has decided on our very own VAD VM1 mesh style design, its and old design now, but like all good mesh designs get them right and they are timeless, and this is one build we can wait to see fitted with our design.

Sean is a man after our own heart when it comes to colour for his wheel set up, as he is going with a matte black centre with gloss black barrels, chrome studs, in sizes 10.5x19 front and 13x19 rear, this is one beauty we just can’t wait to see all finished down the camera lens.

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Aspect GT new wheel designs

With the turn of every year we always try and update our custom forged wheel range with at least one new design and to be honest this year we were not going to look at until the middle part of the year, but with the wheels for our BMW Z4 GT3 V8 being built incorrectly especially the fronts it was time for a rethink, as AG wheels like most of the wheels companies stateside don’t stand by their mistakes, so we are left to pick up the rather large cost of replacing a set of wheels we had yet to use, we could just replace the centres, but we would rather start with a fresh clean build with another manufacturer, one that we can trust and work with long term, enter Aspect GT, a relatively new name but with a long pedigree.

VAD Forged Wheels

VAD Forged Wheels

VAD FORGED AF1 RALLY

We have looked at the mesh designs and that design along with a multi-spoke will be the usual easy choice for our build, but we want to step outside the box a little, it’s a motorsport looking car, so we want a motorsport looking design, and there is nothing that looks like what we want, so we got our heads together with our wheel partners and manufacturers that are helping us on this build and we have come up with two motorsport themed wheels, the problem is well like them both.

The first design is a take on a true motorsport classic, a little touch of the old OZ Motorsport wheel styling but with extra smaller windows, like the old school Speedline or compomotive take on the design, but this is a 3 piece wheel and will have a concave profile, with whats called super registry.

VAD FORGED WHEELS

VAD FORGED WHEELS

VAD FORGED WHEELS

VAD FORGED WHEELS AF1 RACE

the smaller windows down by the bowl can also be left out of the design for that true motorsport look and plenty of room for the graphics or CNC machined text around the bowl area of the wheel, the second take on the design is the same design but with raised spoke in-between the windows, and this is the design that we really do like the look of, this design with an aggressive offset will set the Z4 GT3 off to perfection

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BMW Z4 GT3 V8 Project update

Since our last blog post on our BMW Z4 GT3 V8 Project, its starting to move forward quite nicely, with the engine in and wiring being done, we have turned our attention to the exhaust system, with Craig putting his welding skill set to good use, this guy has some serious skills with a TIG welder in his hand, the welds are pure works of art, and the system looks absolutely brutal, full twin stainless set up, with one box in the centre, he mentioned a fruity sound last time we spoke, after seeing it up close and personal we now understand the meaning of fruity.

BMW Z4 GT3 V8

BMW Z4 GT3 V8

BMW Z4 GT3 V8

Another piece of the jigsaw landing this week was our 3 piece forged wheels from the AG factory, 10.5x19 and 13x19 AG F420 and the AGL23 both look amazing in the flesh, we think we choose extremely wisely with not only the designs, but the finish too.

Next on the long list of things to do, is the suspension and brake set up, we will report back as they hit our Z4.

Another little project we have kicked off this week, after a conversation with Steve Van Der Vorst from DLNG Designs , as we really want to run a set of his extremely cool motorsport themed race Turbo fans, we will discuss this in further detail in another blog, but Steve is as stoked to work on this project as we are having him on-board.

For any details on our Z4 V8 GT3 build, feel free to get in touch with us, we will be more than happy to assist, in any way we can.

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