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Every finished build has a story — donor car, brief, the compromises, the things that took twice as long as we expected. Written up honestly, one project at a time.

Ferrari 296 GT3 conversion — front view in the NorthSea Dynamics studio
Case Study · 01 · May 2024

Ferrari 296 GT3 — Racing on Sundays, Everyday on Weekdays

A private client's 296 GTB arrived with 8,400 km and one instruction: give it the GT3 silhouette, without touching the powertrain.

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Porsche 911 on a scissor lift being fitted with 935/78 bodywork at the NorthSea Dynamics atelier
Case Study · 02 · March 2025

Porsche 935/78 — Rebodying a Modern 911 in the Language of Moby Dick

The 935/78 'Moby Dick' is one of the most photographed silhouettes in motorsport. Translating it onto a 992-generation 911, without losing what the original meant, took most of a year.

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White Audi R8 GT2 with lime-green accents parked in the NorthSea Dynamics shop
Case Study · 03 · November 2024

Audi R8 GT2 — Building a Club Racer That Passes Scrutineering Anywhere

A German amateur-series driver came to us for a full GT2 conversion — with the caveat that it had to pass tech at both the Nürburgring and a British club series.

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White Toyota Yaris GR in mid-build with rally-optimized fender flares
Case Study · 04 · January 2025

Toyota Yaris GR — A Gravel-Spec Widebody for the Nordic Stages

A Finnish rally team asked for a gravel-spec widebody that survived a season. We built it with three ideas in mind: repairability, sight-lines, and mud clearance.

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Dark green Bentley Continental GT with GT3 diffuser being aligned in the workshop
Case Study · 05 · September 2024

Bentley Continental GT3 — An Endurance Silhouette on a Grand Tourer

A private owner in Zurich wanted his Continental GT to look like the endurance racer it never quite became. The hard part was making it lap-stable without touching the chassis.

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Orange Lamborghini Huracan on a lift with Super Trofeo bodywork and carbon rear wing
Case Study · 06 · July 2024

Huracán Super Trofeo — A Race-Ready Stance Without the Racing Licence

The Super Trofeo silhouette is one of the most aggressive shapes Lamborghini has ever put on a road car. Making a customer's road-registered Huracán wear it — legally — was a two-part problem.

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Nissan GT-R R35 with GT500-style bodywork — front view in the NorthSea Dynamics studio
Case Study · 07 · October 2024

GT-R GT500 — Reinterpreting a Super GT Silhouette on a Road Car

A customer in Osaka commissioned a GT500 conversion on an R35 he'd already owned for eight years. The car had a history. The kit had to earn its place in it.

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