View Full Version : has anyone done an angry-look hood extension on an xB? pics


mynameisphunk
03-02-2005, 11:31 PM
coming from VW's, one of the meaner looking mods that a lot of mk4 ('99-up body style) and some mk3 ('93-'98 ) owners do is a "boser" hood.

what the boser is is a welded-on hood extension to come down over part of the grille and lights in a way to make the car look mad.

i'd be curious to see how this looks on an xB. i think it could be pulled off, i just want to see pics before i dropped the money to get a body shop to fab this.

http://www.hostdub.com/albums/GTIUPVR6/DSC_0022_jpg_bw_small_001.jpg
http://www.ohiovw.com/cars/nick/boser/smaller/DSC_0014.jpg
http://www.ohiovw.com/cars/nick/boser/smaller/DSC_0011.jpg
http://home.mchsi.com/~robert_cook/jetta2.jpg
http://www.hostdub.com/albums/GTIUPVR6/DSC_0182.sized.jpg
http://www.hostdub.com/albums/GTIUPVR6/DSC_0185bw.sized.jpg
http://www.section8skatepark.com/steev/6.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/wetoddimage.wtdr/wNzU1OTg5NnM0MTNkZmQzMXk1NDE%3D.jpg


so i'm lookin for pics of something like this on an xB. anything similar, not looking for some tacky bolt-on or stick-on eyelids.

chipzxb
03-02-2005, 11:37 PM
I was thinking the same. I had that on my 96 jetta. I love the look.

HammerHead
03-02-2005, 11:43 PM
That's would look good on an xB.

ugly_duck
03-03-2005, 11:30 PM
seems like a lot of work, wont the nish one piece grill/eyelid achieve a similar look. It looks goo though

TheScionicMan
03-04-2005, 12:00 AM
That's got a lot of potential.

C'mon, just bite the bullet and show us how it's done. Somebody's gotta step up to the plate and since it's your idea...

Max2k
03-04-2005, 12:12 AM
Topline Front Face Finisher.

uncompiled
03-04-2005, 01:05 AM
It looks like this:

http://www.kk-topline.co.jp/catalog/toyota/car_i/bb01_img.jpg

Not quite as "angry", but I'm looking for one.. so. :P

ShredSled
03-04-2005, 04:54 AM
I'm new here, and I was just wondering. Since that piece is molded to the hood, and sits over the head lights, when you close the hood, it doesn't hit the headlights, or scratch them? Or is there enough clearence? Thanks.

TheIcon
03-04-2005, 11:47 AM
It looks like this:

http://www.kk-topline.co.jp/catalog/toyota/car_i/bb01_img.jpg

Not quite as "angry", but I'm looking for one.. so. :P

What bodykits are those? Those are hotter than Pamela Anderson without hepatitis.

Maicca
03-04-2005, 02:38 PM
uHHMMM.......... Topline, perhaps?

Fujiz_xb
03-04-2005, 02:51 PM
yeah those body kits on them bb are the shizzzniitt..

and yeah eyelids will give it an agressive look..

but the top pics looks like my intentions with the xb.. i want it to look aggressive.

TheIcon
03-04-2005, 03:13 PM
uHHMMM.......... Topline, perhaps?

Yea no shyt lol. But do they have certain names.

Is it possible to fit these to the XB you think? I know the license plate is on the bumper and would need glassed over but other than that are there significant size differences that would make the fit really bad?

uncompiled
03-04-2005, 05:11 PM
I think one is called the Topline bB Type S or something like that... that's the funkier looking kit on the white one. The black one is more my style. I don't think I've seen anyone stateside with this kit... so you could be the first. :P

squirrel
03-04-2005, 05:14 PM
The opr8r made his own version of the FFF before he got his Open deck grille. There are various peeps that have eyelids also. I have a set of prototype bBist.com eyelids.

Fujiz_xb
03-04-2005, 06:27 PM
the white one almost compares the trf kit.

orataro is making the eyelids on the both xb's pitured above. hope he makes a good group buy..if so ..imma have to get the front bb emblem as well.

ugly_duck
03-04-2005, 07:51 PM
uHHMMM.......... Topline, perhaps?

Yea no shyt lol. But do they have certain names.

Is it possible to fit these to the XB you think? I know the license plate is on the bumper and would need glassed over but other than that are there significant size differences that would make the fit really bad?
:rofl:

mynameisphunk
03-05-2005, 12:51 AM
those grille/eyelid kits are exactly what i'm talking about when i say i don't want a cheap bolt-on looking piece. as far as clearance over the headlights, since you're custom fabricating a hood extension, you can make it come out and and down as much as you see fit. it's a lot of work. basically a nicely fitting piece of metal needs to be fabbed to extend the hood out and down, then welded, smoothed, and painted until it looks like a factory piece.

i wish they made a hood w/ this already done...but then i guess everyone would do it.

windowtint
03-05-2005, 01:32 AM
I have a hood in the shop that's been re-fabbed and prepped (haven't bothered to paint it yet), would be an interesting change - but, the only thing is, how in the hell would I reach up under the extension to grab the hood release latch. I'd have to fab an extension onto that too....


that... and I don't know if the xB body lines really lend themselves aesthetically to that mod. The lines don't flow as well into a center point like they do on the Golf/Jetta bodies. It might look/work OK - but I think it's a much nicer looking mod on the VW's

mynameisphunk
03-05-2005, 04:50 AM
but, the only thing is, how in the hell would I reach up under the extension to grab the hood release latch. I'd have to fab an extension onto that too....




you got it, that becomes something you have to do something about as well. you might be able to rig a cable release somewhere farther down in the grille/core support area that you can reach, or might be able to slip a finger up there still once the hood latch is popped.

i don't think a boser would look good on a stock xB, nor do i think it would look good on a stock golf. gotta be low and have a mean stance already, and then i think the xB will look just as good with the boser hood as a lowered VW would.

looking forward to seeing it. i know i won't be the first to do it- i just don't have the funds to put that kind of money into this car purely for the sake of looks.

Chimmy3
03-05-2005, 12:33 PM
umm might be able to work if the hood extension took the place of the front grill

xAlex
03-05-2005, 01:32 PM
does anyone know if they make that for an xA? that looks hot as hell, i'd definitely do that

J_A_Trevino
03-06-2005, 12:23 AM
looks like a cool mod

windowtint
03-06-2005, 12:23 AM
does anyone know if they make that for an xA? that looks hot as hell, i'd definitely do that

Anyone MAKE ??? uhh... well.. NO. The whole thread is about this design being CUSTOM ONE-OFF's Each hood is individually made for or by the vehicle owner.

These are not off the shelf items. (which by the way is a lot better IMHO than some crappy design that everyone and their mother gets and thinks that they're original with their 1 of 1,000,000 part)

...if you want it on an xA - you're gonna have to make it.

firesquare
03-06-2005, 06:56 AM
It looks like this:

http://www.kk-topline.co.jp/catalog/toyota/car_i/bb01_img.jpg

Not quite as "angry", but I'm looking for one.. so. :P

What bodykits are those? Those are hotter than Pamela Anderson without hepatitis.

now thats the eyelids im talkin about :bow: :bow: :bow:

firesquare
03-06-2005, 07:01 AM
coming from VW's, one of the meaner looking mods that a lot of mk4 ('99-up body style) and some mk3 ('93-'98 ) owners do is a "boser" hood.

what the boser is is a welded-on hood extension to come down over part of the grille and lights in a way to make the car look mad.

i'd be curious to see how this looks on an xB. i think it could be pulled off, i just want to see pics before i dropped the money to get a body shop to fab this.

http://www.hostdub.com/albums/GTIUPVR6/DSC_0022_jpg_bw_small_001.jpg
http://www.hostdub.com/albums/GTIUPVR6/DSC_0182.sized.jpg
http://www.hostdub.com/albums/GTIUPVR6/DSC_0185bw.sized.jpg

so i'm lookin for pics of something like this on an xB. anything similar, not looking for some tacky bolt-on or stick-on eyelids.

if someone isnt busy. please photochop this look on a xB woth Haloes. this will be so sick. it would look hot for an xA too maybe

sarcasmkillsme
07-31-2005, 04:58 AM
Here are two that i did real fast.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v477/Sarcasmkillsme/bbb_fcopy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v477/Sarcasmkillsme/515178-2edit.jpg

xBino
07-31-2005, 07:26 AM
wow, the red one looks owesome sporting the boser hood

kauaibb
07-31-2005, 10:06 AM
that looks really really good....future mod in the thinking process now

firesquare
07-31-2005, 11:58 AM
that is awesome. ill buy the hood extensons to do that mod. F ynal!

MacMaster
07-31-2005, 01:18 PM
nice photoshop skills, those look cool as hell, that would be one unique box

essvid
07-31-2005, 10:23 PM
Pulling off a Boser Blick hood with the xB is going to be a huge pain, due to how everything lines up. Remember that on many cars (like the Golf and Jetta), the headlamps are inset slightly, giving room for the extension. No room = no boser, unless, of course, you MAKE room.
The xB has no room, as the lamps are flush with, and in the case of the turn signals, extend past the body. To deal with this you'd have to weld the metal to the front of the hood, rather than along the leading edge. Not anything too hard in itself, but then you have the finishing work. You'll have to take body filler to smooth out and hide the bump in the hood for the new metal... THEN you'll have to figure out how to work the front fenders where they meet the hood in front. On top of that it won't really look right because you'll be starting 1-2 inches past the outer edge of the light.

sensez
07-31-2005, 11:31 PM
thats hott...

makes me scrunch my face and want to fight someone.

seriously.

that does look good though.

sen.