i want to black house my lights, does ne one have step by step instructions that they have seen on a website or ne one got ne tips ne feed back would be dope thanks!

 

ask VXCL, he seems to know what he's doing

 

my one tip would be cut the bottom clips of the headlight because if you need to take them out for any reason its easier to take out when u dont gotta take out the bumper.

 

http://www.acura-cl.com/forums/showt...=black+housing

do a search net time

"BTW- This is NOT as hard of a mod as it seems. All it takes to get to the headlights is taking out 2 screws in each wheel well, 4 on the front (behind the bumper lights, take those out with the screw on the side). Then take out the lights. Preheat oven to 250F, pop em in for about 5-10 minutes. Remove and pry open. Remove front chrome piece. Spray flat black high temp paint. Let dry. Put back in. Stick lights together and coat the seam with silicone or some form of sealant. Installation is the reverse of removal." -97Cl22-


http://www.acura-cl.com/forums/searc...der=descending

 

Do I need to remove the light bulbs and all the other stuff on the headlights before I bake them?

 

Yes...i believe so...

 

Wow someone quoted me! lol

 

i have not done this but read most every thread about it...when you bake them remove everything! the bulbs, the locking rings, etc. also remove the little black hose things that are on the back of the headlight. You don't want them to melt.

 

I am just going to make a how to:

1. Take off your front bumper (if you don’t know how to do a search or by a helm manual. you should buy one anyways)

2. Unbolt the headlamps. (6 bolts each, impossible to do without taking the bumper off)

3. Remove all bulbs from headlamps.

4. Use a heat gun or bake the headlamps in the oven. Work on only one headlamp at a time! I found 250 degrees is a good temp. I left one in there for 15 minutes to see what would happen and it was fine. If you don’t think your oven temp is accurate 200 is good. Bake them for 8-10 minutes. Make sure you put foil on the baking sheet if you use one! The housing on the bare metal will probably melt. Don't worry about the small black venting tubes. Just make sure none fall if into the oven. I would take them off anyways because you will have to reglue them most likely after baking the headlamp.

5. While baking or before heating place a soft cloth or towel down on your work area. This is so you don't scratch headlamp when you’re working on it with the clear lense face down.

6. If you baked them use an over mitt on your secondary hand to hold the headlamp from moving. The metal parts are going to be red hot! I find that a medium flat head screw driver works best. Make sure you don’t crack the grey plastic clips that help hold the lense to the housing. If it seems hard to pry apart then the sealant isn't hot enough yet! You will just end up bending the housing up all along the edge and this does not help when you reseal them.

6. When you do pull the lense off and you get strings of grey oem sealant don’t push it back into the housing! You'll just end up making it hard to push completely back together again. As long as you put enough new sealant in you'll be fine. I recommend Permatex Ultra Black sealant. Good to 500 degrees, perfect for custom xenon setups. Squeeze a good bead in the housing. Make sure you heat the housing back up first if you don't have a heat gun. Then just push the lense on. The black sealant will glob out. DO NOT SMEAR IT OR WIPE IT!!! LET IT DRY!!!! When it does you can pull it right off with no damage to the lense. Never ever use Goo Gone to clean up any silicone sealant!! You will make a huge mess and ruin the housing. It just smears the silicone everywhere.

7. If you are going to paint the housings black make sure you pre-bake them or heat them. Most high temp paints will change color and release chemicals. This will make your headlamps foggy inside or make a rainbow like film inside.

If you need more information than pm me. That’s it for now. I'll make a webpage with pics when I do another xenon projector conversion.
If you want to do a real xenon or projector conversion pm me for parts.

 

yay i just got done doing my black housing for my car it really look good :-D VXCL my car kinda look like urs but without da bmw projectors :-D

 

can someone move vxcl's how-to to "extremely useful topics" section?

 

if u find any mistakes or something i missed plz let me know. that way this how to becomes 100% dummy friendly. i may have missed things cuz its common to me. let me know if you got confused anywhere when u did this.

 

i didnt have an oven i found out a cheap propane tourch does the trick, it heats up the silicon but leaves it there so i just use the same silicon to reseal them pretty easy. but its pretty damn easy so do it!!!

 

grrr..VXCL...where were those instructions when i did my black housings....

 

i was prob doing massive amount of school work. i had some spare time a couple days agao and i was sick of writing it over and over again.

 

what do u use for the black (for the "black housing")? sorry I'm pretty dumb -_-

 

probably black paint... heh..

 

i found better sealant and fyi permatex comes in grey also

anyway heres a butyl rubber sealant like the oem grey tacky stuff.
its just black.

nissan part #b6553-89915

 

Anyone have pics of these black housings on there car. I looked a bit and didn't see any. I think this would look really nice with hid's.... Hmmmmm, Thanks in advance. Chris

 

theres pics in my avatar but since u asked





and heres outlaws

 

VXCL.. how do u keep your headlights so shiny? what do u use?

 

lego's in that pic??lol

 

brand new headlamps from ACURA

 

dang.. i thought u use some sort of special wax...

 

F**king perfect paint..... mine looks like shit.

 

the secret to that is new hood, new bumper, new paint, but since all that i stay far from other traffic on the highway and i only drive at certain times. my car is taking a beating in this pa snow crazy weather thought.