well, i finally got around to doing this mod. took us one day working at a very leisurely pace, and i love how it turned out! props to one mr. chad larson without whom this project wouldn't have happened. we painted the interior housing gloss black except for the chrome rings and tinted the turn signals.

oh yeah, it's been raining for the last 3 days.

 

Tight Ride!!

 

Awesome!!!!!

 

new grill? I thought you always had the mugen?

What grill is that then?

BTW, the headlights look awesome!

 

nice I have always loved the way your car looked. I especially like the rims.

 

yeah, i've always had the mugen. we just added black mesh in the lower bumper openings to match.

 

Wow, the car looks fantastic!

 

Nice Headlights

 

 

 

I love the headlights!!

How hard were they? If can you give me a play by play of how you did them that would be great. Thanx.

 

Any rear shots?

(left it wide open for you guys)

 

now thats a clean ride.

 

Love the grilles and wire mesh! I was thinking of doing it to my car

 

o god thats hot...love the lights.

 

Awesome car, i love the headlights!!!!

 

Your ride looks phat....Supa clean

I like the mesh grill on the bottom. Very interesting. If I put some in place of the foglight covers, then more air can get to the CAI intake

Where did you get the mesh grill?

 

man, that car is lookin sexy! Good work with the headlights. You've officially convinced me to get the mugen grille. For some reason, it looks better on darker cars than it does with lighter cars.

 

you have any engine mods bond?

 

Who's Not

 

Write up on how you did it???

 

I don't get it.

 

Get it now?

 

 

why'd you go for the gloss black on the housings? its hard to tell what effect it had in the pics.

 

i'm about to start working on my write up. i've got about 8 hours free here at work tonight, so i should have it posted in a bit.

 

We started by removing the bumper. There are a few threads that show how to take it off, but we kinda just started unbolting stuff and popping out clips. Also check out moda_ways’s cardomain page. It took about 5 - 10 minutes to take it off. You have to remove several bolts and pop clips from underneath the front, and screws in the wheel well.

Once we got the bumper off, Chad took the dremel to the back of the bumper, and cut off the plastic piece that was in front of the radiator. Then we cut out a piece of mesh and zip tied it to the back of the bumper in 5 places. We didn’t cut anything out of the side grills. Chad cut the mesh to fit back in the holes, and zip tied them into place. Bumper done.

The headlights were really easy. Pop a headlight in the oven at 200 degrees for about 10 minutes. Take it out and pry on it with a flathead or whatever. Put it back in for another 5 minutes, and you should be able to pull it apart. The black plastic piece and the turn signal just pull right out. There are two bolts that you have to unscrew to get the chrome housing out. One of them is fairly obvious; the other one is hidden under a gray plastic piece. Once you get the bolts undone, you just have to pull at the chrome piece to get it to come out. It slides into the outer housing at two points. It’s not actually attached by anything, but it’s in there good. Once you get the chrome part separated from the rest of the headlight, everything else is pretty easy. Just tape off the parts you don’t want to paint and go crazy.

Putting them back together is simple, too. Just reseal the headlights with some silicon and your good. Three days of rain and no condensation for me.

We used gloss black paint because that’s what we had lying around at the time. Chad did the actual tinting of the turn signals, and I’m not really sure what his method was.

I’m getting the whole database error thing as I write this, so if there are any questions I missed, I’ll get back to ya.

 

I usually call these mods RICE. But you're an exception, the mod looks HOT!!

 

I thought you were going to sell your car.

 

Is there a way to not allow people to quote log strings of pictures? You don't have to quote them, we've seen them already.

 

finally...sometimes it takes awhile. a few to many you know..

 

Dayum, that's tight! I actually don't know what's better... that diy or jdm...

 

nice ride

 

Can you explain to us what grill that is? Isnt the Mugen grill have a gap on the bumper?

 

yeah, it's the mugen. i think the fitment is fine.

i was trying to sell my car, but that didn't work out too well. i guess i'm just going to hang on to it for awhile.

 

awesome awesome.... me and memphis are gunna do that too... looks excellent

also, wat kinda rims are those....TIGHTT

 

You guys are retarded.....

Bond girl I thought you sold your car...

 

i love the mesh grill to the bottom 3 openings. btw, how exactly do you "zip tie"?

-KC

 

Nice ride gurl..... like the grill and the rims...... car looks great sittin' on those~

 

can you find out how you tinted the signals. Seems easy for the most part and the look is sick.. Hook it up