StreetHunter Designs Went From a YouTuber's Garage to a Widebody Catalog Spanning Six Platforms

StreetHunter Designs started the way a lot of aftermarket brands don't: with someone who had no formal background in it, bolting other companies' body kits onto his own cars in a garage. TJ Hunt, better known to a large YouTube audience for building and modifying his own project cars, had run enough other kits by 2019 to have a running list of what he liked about each one and what he'd have done differently. StreetHunter — built with his friend Calvin, both of them largely self-taught — was Hunt's answer to that list, starting with a widebody kit for the C8 Corvette.

The brand's highest-profile release is its BRZ/GR86 widebody kit, developed in partnership with designer Jon Sibal and Dylan Coleman and based on a time-attack-inspired shape Sibal sketched in early 2021. It's the most aggressive kit StreetHunter has put out, and it turned the company from "YouTuber who mods cars" into a body kit maker taken seriously enough to be paired with a joint venture, StreetFighter LA, and stocked by aftermarket retailers alongside established players.

What sets the production side apart from a typical small-batch tuner shop is the tooling: StreetHunter uses 3D scanning, 3D printing, and CNC milling to develop and refine its molds before parts ever get laid up in fiberglass or carbon fiber, rather than hand-shaping a one-off buck and eyeballing symmetry. That process is the same one a growing number of individual builders have started using at home, on a much smaller scale, to make their own custom flares and kits — StreetHunter's own origin story is a case of that exact workflow scaling from one guy's garage into a real catalog.

The lineup has grown well past the GR86/BRZ and the original Corvette kit since 2019: StreetHunter now makes widebody kits and aero for the Toyota GR Supra (A90/A91), the Nissan Z, first-generation FR-S/BRZ/86, and the C8 Corvette, plus GT wings and other individual aero pieces sold separately. For a brand that started as one guy modifying his own daily driver because he didn't love anyone else's kit enough, that's a fairly complete answer to the original complaint.