My new headlight project - DONE!! (pics)

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Thu May 05, 2005 3:07 am

AcingTeam wrote:
daewooluvr wrote:Just wait until you guys see my headlight project :twisted:
oh my.... I feel we're going to see lots of blue!!

Actually no, white and maybe some blue LEDs... but that's nothing compared to what else is going in there...

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:19 am

Will begin my project tomorrow... and have one question:

Is there any types of techniques with using spray paint to paint over the covers? (I want a clean look)

Thanks

FaWEeToO · Post by **FaWEeToO** » Mon May 09, 2005 1:39 pm

I painted mine last summer and they still look great.

you just need to spray from a distance (30 cm) from an angile.

here are some bad pix :P

Good luck

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Mon May 09, 2005 2:51 pm

FaWEeToO wrote:I painted mine last summer and they still look great.

you just need to spray from a distance (30 cm) from an angile.

Thanks, will try that.

pehN · Post by **pehN** » Mon May 09, 2005 4:50 pm

I think even if u fu** it up, nobody will see anything cause of the glass!

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Mon May 09, 2005 5:18 pm

pehN, I think you're right lol.

Have started the project already. Already painted one of the covers, so far everything's going great.

Will have a dilemma on mounting the angel eyes...

pehN · Post by **pehN** » Mon May 09, 2005 6:15 pm

Which u the best for getting it finished (and good looking

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AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Mon May 09, 2005 8:03 pm

EVERYTHING's DONE!!!!

Wow, looks hot... I will post pics later. Don't have time now, have to go to work.

AWESOME!!

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:07 am

Ok, the paint that I got matches my car's paint perfectly (candy red). Everything is done, except I didn't have time to actually hook up my angel eyes to the parking/ground wires. Will do it tomorrow morning. Here are the pics, tell me what you think:

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:11 am

wow... NICE.

i want someone to paint mine for me

i'm too chicken to bake em and paint em myself... plus it's my only car!

lanos2001 · Post by **lanos2001** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:18 am

so how'd you end up mounting the halo's and how long did it take you to do just them? if it didn't take that long then i'll do them this weekend too. i'll just have to buy a heat gun to take the lights apart so i don't have to bake them. oh and they look hot!

now are the blickers still bright?

nick

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:24 am

lanos2001 wrote:so how'd you end up mounting the halo's and how long did it take you to do just them? if it didn't take that long then i'll do them this weekend too. i'll just have to buy a heat gun to take the lights apart so i don't have to bake them. oh and they look hot! now are the blickers still bright?

nick

I ended up taping the bottom of the halos to the very bottom of the headlight, which is pretty clean (hides all the wires, you can't see anything). And I super-glued the top of the halos to the reflector part of the headlight as seen in pics. Pretty easy... just tidious.
To open up a headlight took me about 15mins, then installing the halos is about 5 mins, closing it back up is about 15 mins. So about 35 mins for each headlight if you just want the halos (that's not including time to take out the headlight, strip it down before heating it up etc).

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:28 am

i have the headlight covers (eyelids) for the lanos... does anyone know if the glue on those seperates when you bake the lights? i don't want thoes to fall off!

lanos2001 · Post by **lanos2001** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:33 am

i have the headlight covers (eyelids) for the lanos... does anyone know if the glue on those seperates when you bake the lights? i don't want thoes to fall off!

i have the covers too. thats why i'm just gonna use a heat gun. i'm afraid of the heat on the paint job on it. i can just take my covers off if i wanted too but i'm still afraid of the oven

and yeah the glue on them would melt too.

igor you need to take pics of the halos on. whta color did you get?
nick

FaWEeToO · Post by **FaWEeToO** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:04 am

i didnt put it in the oven, i just opend them by sliding a screw driver all around it . it took time though but it wasnt risky