TequiLa

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The past 3 days I dedicated my life to blacking out my headlights. I was excited because I haven't seen any pictures of 02/03 AM's with blacked out headlights (Color-matched, I've seen). I also blacked out the silver edge of the lense to make it more like the A-Spec headlights. Well here's my pictures...

P.S. I'll probably take more pictures after I wash my car :P

I took off the rubber stuff and wetsanded the silver paint on the edge of the lense.




I Blacked them out...


Took me 2 hours to wetsand each of these beezies...




No more retarded looking silver edges, yayyy.


After Washing the front end...


... phew.


6000K low beams, HID fogs to match, kind of.


Umm... might need to get some LED's.

jjashaa

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dam... beat me to it..

good shit tho.

LacViet

Great job! but looks like your headlight aim little too high? The headlight beam are up to half of the garage door.

TequiLa

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hahaha u were gonna do it too?

if you want it to be perfect, paint under the foam on the top of the lense and the area where the side rubber stuff sticks to, things I haven't done xD

daNNiebOixDD

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wOOt. Im thinking about doing the same thing. Only i need a DIY. Any chance you'll be able to produce a lengthy procedure list for me to follow!? any pictures wit the headlights during the day?!

Looks the the AMs are finally coming out!

02type-s

Looks good, any daytime pics?

SLAKERZ

Mind posting some daytime shots from different angles (up, down, straight on) Thanks man. Great work!

TequiLa

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yeah for sure, I just finished last night around 10pm so I couldn't get daytime pictures. I'll take some pictures today after I wash my car.

Yeah I fucked with the headlight aim on my right headlights on accident :P gotta fix that >_<

I'll post more pix of what I did, and shouldn't have done :P

TequiLa

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Okay these are something's that happened to me so be careful.

Don't touch this... Leave it unless your headlight aim is messed up.


If you want your headlights to be perfectly black, take off the foam and rubber padding on the lense (while the headlight is ripped open), wetsand all the silver paint off that you can see (rememebr to tape off the areas that may get unwanted paint on) and apply the paint about 2 or 3 times then the finish (read the paint info on the picture with the spray paints I used)


The inner silver that you see is the reflection of the top silver line, so don't worry about painting on the inside of the lense, just wetsand really, really well (I did 600, 1000, 2000 grit, and lense polish in that order).


I'm sure all of you have your own preferences about paint application, but this is what I did mostly (and should've done) and came out fine. Remember to let the finished product dry for like a day, I didn't and it kind of scraped the paint on an edge when I put the painted piece back into the lense piece.


For those of you who want to leave chrome in the blinker housing (practical, even though some people go for the looks and black it out, which I would've done if I had LED blinkers) use blue Scotch 3M painter's tape ONLY, and make sure there are no holes that the paint can get through to the chrome. To keep the tape from blocking areas you want to paint, use an XACTO knife or a razor to, again, CAREFULLY sut the tape, you might cut some chrome off so just let the razor move on it's on (if it's a new blade, it'll cut through the tape like a hot knife through butter if you just push lightly). TAPE OFF THE BULB INSERT IN THE BACK AS WELL. And rememer to CAREFULLY remove the tape once your done.


If you have any questions just ask away, I'm sure one of the people who have blacked out their headlights can answer them

I'll post daylight pictures in a few hours.

NoLimitDeC

i wanna do this sooo bad.. just not by myself lol great job though!! you actually got the silver strip blacked out = perfection.

srtorelli

WOW! Looks really good man!

TequiLa

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Here's some day time pictures after I washed and waxed it xD











Hopefully I take some sick pictures later this weekend

VoLLy

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Looks good.

02type-s

I think you should have not painted the whole lower parking light, but they turned out really good.

I need to man up and do mine

JCharged

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That's great.

caligirl2k

Sweet..

grip

the corner's look weird unpainted while the lower corner(where the orange reflector used to be) is painted....you should have left the reflector area unpainted, or painted the corner area.

looks awesome though.

i will be doing mine soon, i just want my hi and low beam reflectors to remain chrome.

TequiLa

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mmm but i don't like how the blinker chrome and corner bulb chrome don't match up in width so I chose to do this. Everyone has their own preference.

JDM Inspired

Same here i tend to dislike how our cars looks when the complete amber is gone, it doesnt look attractive as much.....i dont know it just doesnt give that look to me, but great job on the lights, they came out pretty dam good, im waiting to buy brand new headlights then do my black housing.....My hi-beam will be yellow though, and the rest the same as the ASPEC....

death

Looks really good, nice job.

TequiLa

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thanks for the comments

...if im going to put the amber reflector in, im smoking it and killing the corner bulb >_> and i dont currr wut u guys say about that xD

tycamry94

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how might one avoid the 3m tape messing up the reflective areas?
just take it off slowly and carefully

TequiLa

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damn, my thread revived after 2 years untouched lol.

Make sure the tape seals all around to prevent any leaking, but at the same time don't press too hard into the reflective material.

03tLsNBP

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damn TequiLa this is a great thread. im glad it was bumped. im gonna be using this soon.

VQPower37

headlights look fresh

ken_o

can some one tell me how 2 post a pic 15 days and i still cant post

mugenspire

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wow that is one sexy tl man! nice job