how do people change the orange parts of the taillights to red to go with the rest of them

 

Use Testor's Candy Apple Red transparent paint and paint to match. Otherwise. swap out your tails for the all red 98-01 stock taillights.

 

just paint over the orange?

 

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo, don't do it. I have a really nice conversion that i know most of my 97 up friends with integras would love to have but they don't want to buy 94 tail lights. First, the color is amber, not yellow, second i'll post a pic of my tail lights tomarrow night. please don't do anything until you see this pic. It cost me nothing all i did was drill a hole in the turn light housing and move the bulb from the corners into the turn signal and now it looks dope as hell.

 

98-01 tails are all red.. =D but the red is brighter red than the red in the 94-97 tails(which have the amber section to them)..

 

thats how my friend did his 96 turns out pretty nice.

 

another alternative is to get a vinyl sticker shop to cut you a piece of red clear vinyl sticker to the size n shape of the amber portion. That way its entirely removable later if u don't liek it. plus it should cost u more than 10 bucks at the very most.

 

Please do. I want to see this because I'm not sure I understand.

 

i say keep the 94-97's the way they are

 

the turn signal and tail light have the same light intensity, so they match nicely


This is what the turn signal looks like when it's flashing.


[Modified by nate007is, 1:56 AM 4/4/2003]

 

that would annoy me to all hell if i was behind you at night, like baaadly **** me off

 

eh? You removed the smallest bulb on the far ends, and put them in the signal part? please explain better.......

Lucky me, i got ukdm tail lights which have clear signals...but shine orange because i have an orange bulb in there. When i had the 94-97 tail lights, use the testers candy apple red spray.....Only problem with that is over time it fades, and looks gay IMO! Just leave it orange...you can tell people its "JDM" lol

 

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I could understand you getting pissed off if the image were true to real life but it's not really bright. My camera is really shitty, but to give you an idea of how bright it is, turn on your parking lights look at your tail lights and your turn signals would be 2/3 as bright.

 

Maybe a little OT.

Why does the US cars want to use red turn signals? I am just curious. I think most of other countries use yellow. If in a situation where a red turn signal car is half blocked by another car, and you see a red light is blinking, how do you distinguish if he tap frequently on the brakes or want to change lane? Why not just to make it more easy for people to distinguish?

 

Its not nessesarily that U.S. wants them red. Just people's opinion. Study have showed that turn signal color other than red causes less chance of accidents as well. I like my 94 tail lights.

 

Simply form over function. Looks cleaner (cant argue w/ that), but sacrifices teh visibility and effectiveness.

 

The amber looks so much better at night and in the day, no question. And if anyone here ever say JDM, the law in japan requires that all cars have amber turn signals.