Ill post before and after pics as soon as i am done. In the DIY where it says seperate plastic lens from black housing, they fail to mention that acura factory silicon is stronger than steel. Even after heating up the headlights in the oven that shit was still rubbery as hell.
Im painting the insides of the lights black. It looks pretty sick so far, im excited to see what its going to look like finally reassembled and put back on the car. wish me luck.

 

good luck!! can't wait to see the pics

 

could the brain go in the oven also or i gatta take it off?

 

I put the whole damn thing in the oven, i sure hope my headlights work when i put them back on. The DIY said nothing about taking any of that shit off.

 

here are some pictures of my progress so far. I am currently waiting on my gf to get home from work so she can drive me back to lowe's to get some sand paper so that my paint job will look good.

here is my baby:




here is the headlights before:


here is my baby with her top off:


there are the headlights minus the lens minus the housing/trim that i am painting:


here is the halfway painted housing pieces (i hope i didnt fuck up the masking on the blinkers) :


that gray shit is the factory silicon aka super glue/epoxy:

 

hahahaha, i just noticed from looking at the pictures that the pinstriping on the sides of my car dont match and looks fucked up. AWESOME!

 

yea i just did mine too last weekend, but i took my time, 2 days working on it on and off...

before:


during:


after:

 

^^ love the winter steelies

 

If it the tape kind don't even worry about it. You can easily remove it by warming it up then slowly pulling it off. Paint is another story.

At least whoever did yours didn't leave his ugly ass mark on your trunk
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=182742

 

Typestylin, black on black looks awsome I can't wait to do mine. Best of luck to you grime, I hope they work ok when you put them back together, I'm worried about that also when I do mine. Just my opinion but I think the pinstripe is a little :ghey:

 

i never know if people are serious when they say this hahaha, but look at the mountains of snow, I NEED THE STEELIES!

dont worry, i just bought new rims for summer.

 

psh.... i dont have winter wheels... LA FTMW

 

looks good guys, i would have went ahead and put in some 10K HIDS while you have everything broke down though.

now is that an exact replica of 03 headlights? whats the difference?

 

my silicon is drying as I type! mwahahaha! Daily Project my ass, this project took me 3 trips to Home Depot and countless hours of sanding painting sanding painting. Ill reassemble the car tomorrow and take some pictures, I better get a million compliments or im

 

i believe the differance other than the color between 01-02 & 03's are the way the pieces are separated....


10,000k if you don't want to see at night... go for it.

 

I'm serious... Joe5.0 has a set, but I think they look better on a black CL...

 

hahahah i said the same thing when i was doing it, i was thinking "whoever does this in a few hours must be a magician"

i found the chrome in the headlights really easy to sand off, but the grill is a different story, mine chipped already so im gonna either repaint it or just buy a colour matched one from acura...i heard that peice of grill trim is like 30$

 

DONE! So yeah, so much for a daily project. This is not for the faint of heart. but here is a before an after.

 

May I ask why you didn't paint the other part?

 

why didn't you paint that silver part there? looks weird left chrome. otherwise, good job

 

I KNOW. For some reason it slipped my mind. How embarrasing!

 

At least you cleared the corners

It looks good, and I kinda like the way it looks since it's unique. Sort of a cross between the 01/02 and 03 headlights...

 

Good work, Any fog yet? Thats my biggest concern. Looks good, got any 3/4 veiws of the whole car?

 

do you have to take the front bumper off in order to do this?

 

no, just be very liberal with the silicon when you reseal them. Also FYI when you use one of those big caulking tubes of silicon you have to cut off the tip and stick something in the hole to puncture the seal inside the tube. i didnt take a 3/4 view.

yes. you will have a big pile of bolts and clips once you get the bumber and headlights off.

 

so this is probably gonna be a big pain in the ass...but as long as it looks good its worth it haha

 

Looks much better, but as someone already pointed out you should have blacked out the rest of the headlight. I would get some chrome turn signal bulbs if i were you though

 

NIce, good job.

 

I like it