Bought some stock tails for $5 on eBay (gotta love love teh eBay) a while back and I just put them on the car to work on the other modified set I have. I'm gonna redo the modded ones and I'm looking to get some ideas of what other people have done. Thnx!
my buddy just smoked mine...sanded, sprayed with some weight mixture, cleared...wet sanded and buffed...thats all he told me...but any painter should be about to replicate this.
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OLD tailights on the old 'lude. Left the reflector up top and just above the turn/reverse lights. Also repainted the insides w/ good 'ole chrome spray paint
my buddy just smoked mine...sanded, sprayed with some weight mixture, cleared...wet sanded and buffed...thats all he told me...but any painter should be about to replicate this.
Very nice, probably the only thing i'd ever do to my factory tails.
I used the lenses from my old Alteezas and painted the housings black then used amber bulbs.
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I love those tailights. I thought about repainting my car to black but that frost white looks good too. (my lude is frost white too but has alot of hail damage)
my buddy just smoked mine...sanded, sprayed with some weight mixture, cleared...wet sanded and buffed...thats all he told me...but any painter should be about to replicate this.
Nice clean car but is it just the picture or are the wheels (esp the rear ones) too much inside the wheel wells?
I posted a question a while back asking if anyone knew anything about smoking the tails since I wanted to try it on my '92 Si, but everyone said it wasn't cool and would look terrible. They must have pictured something different from what I was thinking of.
A lot of the Euro tuners use smoked lenses and I've seen VW aftermarket lenses sold already smoked, and I thought the look would carry over nicely to the Prelude. I know there are groups out there that would never think of taking anything from "those F&@%#^g Euros" or vice versa, but I can appreciate a nicely modded ride whether its from Japan, the US or Europe.
When I posted my question I was also looking for info on how to actually do the smoking, and the best way to take apart the lenses- like the backing of the taillights- and reattach them, and the materials needed to do the job.
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my buddy just smoked mine...sanded, sprayed with some weight mixture, cleared...wet sanded and buffed...thats all he told me...but any painter should be about to replicate this.
The smoked tails add just enough of a change to notice it's different without going overboard. Good Job!
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Sebring Silver Metallic w/ black pinstriping, paint-matched Enkei rims
Way too many mods to list here
"SILVER BULLET"
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Bought some stock tails for $5 on eBay (gotta love love teh eBay) a while back and I just put them on the car to work on the other modified set I have. I'm gonna redo the modded ones and I'm looking to get some ideas of what other people have done. Thnx!
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crappy picture but got some carbon fiber altezza's baked em open and painted them black. Then cut em up a bit and fitted some 56 LED clusters from a semi in there.
I don't normally like the CF Altezzas, but they look nice with the black color. Can I ask how you baked open the taillights? Oven temp., approximate time, etc.? I'm thinking of doing something with my stock tails- but I don't want them to end up as a pile of red and gray mush.
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92 Prelude Si
Sebring Silver Metallic w/ black pinstriping, paint-matched Enkei rims
Way too many mods to list here
"SILVER BULLET"
hmm I dont remember exactly I did this years ago I believe it was about 400 degrees and checked them often. also I painted the inside of the taillights black, the carbon fiber would have looked horrible heh
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