Homemade Black Housing Headlights

Homemade Black Housing Headlights

Ok I'll see if i can answer all the questions now.........first i used this DIY www.thewrongway.com.........yes, i primered and sanded.........i used FLAT black high heat engine paint.

Here's the pics

damn hotnesss...good job rolla S ...i woulda liked the amber piece tho

you shoulda seen him wearin the pink aprin and oven mits when he had to put them in the oven. what ever happened to those pictures anyways? fag.

thanks
the amber piece doesn't go to well w/ a red car, plus it was already destroyed. I could definitely picture the amber on a black or moonshadow car though

Good job man. Looks clean. I may have to do that one myself in the future here.

damn nate those came out really good

HOLY CRAP! ART?!

I haven't seen you on IM in forever, you need to hit me up sometime.

How long did it take?

it actually didn't take very long to do. maybe like an hour and a half of actual work, however you have to let the paint dry over night. i started one night, and finished the next morning.

yea man...waiting for the paint to dry sucks.too long..but the finished product is worth it...saved liek $100+ instead of buying those so called "JDM" headlights with city holes which i dont like

awesome man, ive been thinking about doing that for the longest time since i got gunmetal wheels...and you pushed me over the edge, i'll tackle it next week. Question though, was the pink apron essential to the process...I'm still debating whether or not i should pick one up :?

Definitely get the apron

hahaha, ohhh boy

how hard was it to pull the cover off the light when you got it out of the oven? Was the piece tacky at all? easy to leave fingerprints?

it's VERY tacky..........it'll take 2 trips to the oven before you'll get em apart.

I am looking at the light right now and wondering if you took it apart at all before sticking it in the oven? Where on the light are the seems that you are pulling apart? Sorry for all the questions but I am wanting to try this this week.

just dont bother trying to clean the inside part of the clear lense, it shouldnt need it anyway..... you'll leave streakage.

you're pulling the clear plastic cover away from the light gray backing.

cool thats what I figured. Sounds like a good project for the weekend

How did you get that amber piece out?. I've popped the hood and unscrewed the first two visible screws of the headlight unit, but realized that the glass was somewhat superglued to the chrome housing. How do you get in there? I have xenons evertwhere including the signals, but the amber is still there.

finalmix47, check out the DIY section. It has one for removing the headlight and that amber piece.

Nice job, it's looks like a original Black Head light, I want to do this in the new Projector Head lights.

Now some sites say to cook them at 200 for 10 min is the 300 and turn off method what everyone else used?

that's what i used

did mine this wkd....and yes, the pink apron was key.

looks great bzzan great job