UPDATED: Daylight pix taken this morning...









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yeah, thats how my car sits right now, outside my house, in the rain.

The garage has been transformed into a paint booth. I'm ricing out my headlights... just waiting for the paint to dry at this point.





Modified by mucter at 1:38 PM 4/19/2007


Modified by mucter at 1:39 PM 4/19/2007


Modified by mucter at 4:50 PM 4/19/2007

 

are they stock headlights or aftermarket?....but cool

 

OEM

 

which headligts are those?

 

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lol, you went all out on the "booth", i didn't do any of that when i sprayed my headlights and they came out mint.

 

believe it or not, that "booth" took me 5 minutes and $4 to setup... piece o' cake... and totally worth it since it kept me from having to do -any- clean up afterwards.

 

In for pics when they're put back on, for sure.

 

im lookin to do the same set up one i get my front and rear bumpers and my hybrid mirros.....lights should look just as decent......

 

why did u paint the whole headlight housing? looks like your gonna get poor visibility. its shiny near the bulb for a reason.

 

oh ****, haha, i just noticed that. damn that sucks. your going to have no visibility now.

 

oh... hahai noticed that as well.. what you going to do about that now??? did you mis read a guide they usually say Remove the housing and paint that only.....

 

no, I masked off the reflective portions of the housings... I just painted the ribbed portions of the housings to get more black in there. There are mirror like portions of the reflector and ribbed sections of the reflector, I've preserved all of the mirror like portions.

I've done this same process to my RSX with good results. If it does turn out to be bad on the visibility side of things, I will let you guys know and I will man up and get new lights... LOL

I'll be re-assembling these biatches tonight and I'll keep you all posted.

 

^oh, that's good. couldn't see from the bad quality photos posted.

 

yeah, stupid cell phone picture...

 

gotta be careful when removing the masking tape. The chrome part peels off extremely easily.

 

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ha. i didnt see that

 

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yeah, I figured that out the hard way.. I've got a couple trouble spots... blah, should have the lights put back together shortly.

the stupid thing about this is that I had no issues with the chrome peeling off on the RSX's lights, and I used a much heavier tape on those, the adhesive on that tape was ludicrously brutal, and no problems. Honda has really let me down on the quality side of things with these lights, yeah I know they were never meant to be messed with like this, but what happened to over engineering everything like the good ol days.

 

Here's what they look like without the lenses...

 

came out nice!

 

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x2!!

 

looks good

 

definatly looking forward to pics once everything is back together

 

hey i dont no if you guys have seen um yet or not but they have the blacked out headlights on ebay and not those crappy halos im thinking of ordering me a set ill post sum pics if i do

 

i must say. those came out clean as hell. good job i still havnt done mine yet. did you wet sand or regular sand the chrome housing when you removed it so the paint would have a better surface to stick too?