Hey guys so after having loonatix14's stock red tails...
I finally grew a pair of steel ones & just said F-it.
I figured it would take me all weekend to do it right & I am trying to follow the limited number of threads regarding this MOD

SO HERE WE GO!

I started with a hot knife to open the red tails : IT CUTS LIKE BUTTER!




Here is the cutting:



1 side



2nd side:


WILL TRY TO UPDATE ASAP. Have to take a break to eat.
HA HA!

 

nice









set of steel ones

 

done by next meet?

 

oh dude ive been wanting to to this mod to my car for fackin ever!! Its just I wana buy it from somewhere rather than actually do it!! lol

 

^^^I know... last week I learned the hard way that they are not supposed to go in the oven!

 

i wanted to do the otherway around.....blacken them out.....seriously i have been wanting to do this since more than a year

great job

 

These will totally transform your rear... a mod you will get compliments on forever. THe difficulty level makes it more exclusive.. you'll be so glad you decided to do it!

 

HOLY CRAP! ::::: FAIL

So before I mess up my type S lights I was trying to practice getting all the pieces out of the RED TAILS & SNAP!

BROKE EM ::: mother trucker!

Well... not a total fail. It just means I learned what NOT to do on the TYPE S TAILS.

SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME THOUGH....










NO WORRIES THOUGH. I AM STILL MOVING FORWARD. Going to spend double the time on the type S TAILS tonight. might only get one finished though.

 

Its totally harder than i originally figured!

 

somebody's getting ready for all-cali.. haha

 

OK ONE THINGS FOR SHURE.... DONT USE A HOT KNIFE!

if you go too deep... it welds the internal pieces together.
PART 1 OF MY 5 STEP : "DON'T F-IT UP PROGRAM"

 

YAY! all calli!!

 

Why don't you just lay film over them?

 

when and where is the all cali meet?

 

They are sitting in my living room since 4 weeks....I got the stealth type film and I thought it would cut them as I need em and put it on .....

 

are those legal? i remember clear taillights back in the day; those were illegal

 

All you need is red reflectors in the rear to be completely legit; You can either leave the red reflector in at the bottom of each tail light, or just add some aftermarket reflectors somewhere on the bumper (kinda like the TSX has)

I'm sure many cops dont even know to look for this....they focus more on brake lights and turn signals. You'll get pulled over for everything else waaay before proper rear reflectors.

TRIOD,
I think you need to use a dremel with a cutoff wheel man! Just gotta be real carefull. I'll be doing this soon. Keep us posted!

 

sweet cant wait to see em

 

Fresno Ca, Woodward Park

 

when? how far is fresno from sacramento?

 

whoa, not to threadjack, but i thought the location was settled to some park in pismo

 

That was last year this FRESNO

 

165 miles straight down the 99

 

Very nice...good luck with the finish....you'll be reeeeaaaaaallly happy

 

Exactly! I love mine. They took forever and were a lot of work, but sooooo worth it.


Use a Dremel with a small cutting wheel.

 

Definately need to dremel them using a hot knife will fuse the seperate peaces together, making seperation difficult at best.

ezlock dremel plastic cutting wheels are the best.

start at the corners on the side that is visible when the trunk is open
when both corners are cut draw a line from corner cut to corner cut on the trunk visible side. This is the most importnat cut. It must be as deep as possible to get to the inside of the light. The rest is just cutting around the edge like in my DIY.

Trust what I say ive done 11 pairs.

 

Raj has been beating this idea into my head so much it gave me a headache. Nonetheless, his persistence has paid off. I will attempt this on my own as soon as I can pick up a set of Type-S tails.

I think clear with a little tint will set of the rear nicely

 

Hey, no copying






Just kidding

 

some tinting spray the inside peaces.

 

Any one have any questions about how to do this mod PM me.

 

hey man if youre succesful with them tail lights would you mind doing an extra pair?

 

thinking of doing mine now after the winter is gone

 

OK UPDATE TIME.....

sorry guys my phone took a dump & I havnt been able to get the pics up, but so far I have my 4 tails apart, now I just got to seal them back together... So much personal stuff got in the way.

I planned to have them finished by sunday. But life happens I guess.
I get my new phone tommorow, so I should have pics p soon.

 

If you need a hand let me know, i have done the light upgrades on the RSX definately painstaking but you will get the one of a kind look ,

 

Thanks for the motivation Triod; I've been marinating on this mos for months. Finally got started this weekend.

I currently have my stock, smoked tails installed right now, so I started by tearing appart my 's' tails. It took me around 2-2.5 hrs to take both lights appart. I used a dremel with a EZlock cutoff wheel. This project is tedious, requiring some care & patience, but it's nothing complicated or difficult. For shits and giggles, I decided to run a quick trial on smoking the red innards of the 's' tails, for anyone who is wondering what it would look like. I just did a mock up, I didn't put them back together or anything. Sorry for the crappy pics, since it was night and I had my finger prints all over the place .





I think this looks better than just smoking lenses from the outside, but I'm still gonna go with tearing appart the stock tails and smoking the clear lenses. Wish me luck.

 

NIIIICE... anyone do this on a WDP? If so, got any pics? I definitely want to see this, and I think I wanna try this. I have some Type S tails but how much are they nowadays (for an extra set?), is there some kind of replica? Or anyone got a bigger picture of their tail lights from the angle in my avatar? I'll try a photo chop... Maybe JaZeusTL05? thx..

 

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...312&highlight=

 

Thank you... that looks DOPE!

 

^It does look good doesn't it? But I only like that on WDP. It looks good cuz it matches the sidemarkers.

 

the ghost mod looks great on any color TL... IMO honda should have done this form the beginning.