everything i used... some flat heads, some philips heads, 10mm, rachet, gloss black paint, charcoal metalic gloss paint, box knife (im a terrorist), silicon, and rubber gloves.


shiot! where did my bumper go?


nevermind


finally took the lights off (after pizza of course)


after baking at 215 degrees for like 10 minutes, and a lot of swearing, i got the lights apart


oh damn! these things look nice after 3 coats of gloss black, then another 3 coats of charcoal metalic. w00t~


after drying (and more pizza) i pealed off the masking tape and put the reflectors back in. niiiice....


put everything back together, baked for another 10 minutes at 215 to get the glue soft again, i pushed the 2 sections back together. then got down to business, put the gloves on, and rubbed a bunch of silicon between the gaps so i wont get any condensation.


all done. SOO nice, totally changed the way the car looks. wait till tomorrow and i'll take some better pictures of it.


whatchu fools think?

 

sweet!

 

I think I'll do that tonight!

nice pics

Edit- look at you and you BRAND new towels...geez...jk


[Modified by Emerica, 7:23 PM 1/24/2003]

 

i say you guys try the DUPLICOLOR GRAPHITE gunmetal color, ive seen it done like that too, looks a bit nicer in my opinion.

looks nice, you need a lip


[Modified by JaeOne3345, 7:25 PM 1/24/2003]

 

i love the way the charcoal metalic looks, it has little peices of metal in it (or plastic, who knows who cares) and it bling blings. the pictures don't do the paint justice, but it rules (and it should, at 5 bucks for that little *** can)

thanks for the comments everybody


[Modified by Spoon Hybrid, 3:28 AM 1/25/2003]

 

nice now do the grill

 

nice i realy like it

 

looks great

 

haha, don't hate a brother cuz he got $$$, werd.

 

i think it looks better than the CTR head lights.

 

why thank you sir. my hours of careful work have paid off

 

good job man.

someone has to start a webpage with all the HT appearence forum how-to's

 

Nice!!!
i second that one!

 

lol, i third that, but seriously this mod is so strait forward, the only hard part was putting masking tape on the turn signal area.... grrr i still have nightmares! it took like 45 minutes EACH

 

I third that. Let's tell the moderators to create a forum for it. I think it would be a huge success.
-kev

 

they look nice but i would have painted over the orange reflectors.

 

i love amber (except in my god damn tailights! it only pisses me off because i have the WRONG taillights!!!)

 

beautiful

 

good job man..looks dope...i baked my headlights as well..i used flat black though for the houseing..

 

im planning to do this whenever i get a 6th gen civic. i bug the people i know that have them to do it just because it looks that good.
infact, i just pulled a totino's canadian bacon pizza out the oven, and after seeing this post im thinking about painting it graphite grey.

 

That's badass. I love it.

 

that's pretty sweet! DIY

 

yep.......looks good mang!!

 

hey would this technique work basically teh same for the 96-98 lights?? anyone has any info on that?

 

yes, do the same thing.