Tonight i took out one of my headlights and was going to black house it. When i got the damn thing finally apart, i found out that there isn't any housing to paint black therefore i wasted about 3 hours doing everything and being careful. I thought i was going to be a pioneer but i guess not, so don't try cuz your wasting your time, just don't make the same mistake i did. Later

 

thx chief
might as well buy black housing projectors and try what you did with clear corners

 

i'm prolly going to get the black housed projectors but i am going to amber my clears

 

which car was this on? because i had an idea for my CRX headlights, but never thought about there not being any housings to even paint

 

thanks for the advice. i was just thinking about doing this the other day.

 

I thought it was obvious that there was no housing to paint, first civics with headlight housings are the ej/ek. did you consider using a transparent paint to give the headlights a gunmetal finish? I guess its worth a try if you dont mind possibly ruining your headlights.

 

or how about buying projectors, baking and seperating them, and taking the housing to a body shop to get painted to match your body color.

 

Yeah paint the inside of the housing to match the body, sort of like 360 Modenas.

 

I have a 89 civic hatch, i'm not sure if the headlights are the same or similar to the CRX.

 

you should just leave you stock headlights alone. do they not work well or what?

 

crx and civic hatch lights should be the same just different for 88-89 and 90-91

 

It's not that they don't work but i wanted to be different and i like the way black housed headlights look, it's that what tuning cars is all about, what you like and to be different.

 

But when everyone(or so it seems) is doing it its not different anymore. Ex. Altezza's and clear lights

 

Don't black out your headlights. You will not be able to see anything when its dark. I bout my hatch and the previous owner thought it would be a great idea. Here is a pic:

 

it looks tight but you can't see good. man that sucks we ef's can't do it like the eg/ek.

 

correct... sort of... i believe 88-91 civic/crx headlights are all the same. the only difference between the 88-89 and 90-91 headlights are the brackets that hold the headlights.

correct me if i'm wrong...?

 

Correct. I tried this too.

 

Well guys, I'm now on a mission. I'm gonna figure this out, just give me some time.