nostalgia85

1.grill = 1hour waiting black+gun metal
2.headlight <--took so long gunmetal housing + black eyes

i had no time to take pictures of everything but i took some. enjoy.

1. took off bumper





2. took off headlight




3. baking broil Hi temp 6 minutes (took out wires and converter)



4.disasambling



5.sanding and primering



6.painting



7. housing (more like metalllic gray)


8. headlight black eye housing + some metallic part of eye


9.grill


10. side


11. front


12. close up


13. front bird view


well im lazy to cover my plate.

Triple_X

iTrader: (3)

that looks dope! I wish I knew how to do cool mods myself


I am such a noob that I never knew the term 'baking' meant to literally bake it LOL

Blackjack

iTrader: (3)

Nice job! Wish i had the ***** to do it myself. I just hear nightmares about it not sealing back up again that well.

KAHBOOM

iTrader: (4)

Nice.. love the gunmetal selection. I was thinking about going all black but now I am reconsidering

G37Sam

Man props to you for manning up and doing the headlights on your own. What sealant did you use to seal it back? And on a scale of 10 (10 being hardest), how hard would you rate the headlight job to be for someone with zero expertise in that field?

Gamedog

iTrader: (9)

Clean work.

nostalgia85

re to g37 Sam if you never had that kinda work. it will be hard thing to do
risky thing is u can break it when u open the cover(factory silica is damn tighten, so it dodsne't get fully losen with baking) n u need lil painting skill as well. comparing to other mod i have donee. exhaust and intake. it's 2x maybe lilmore harder.

and i go to home depot and looked for silicon with water proof and heat resistance and clear color

nogoodname

iTrader: (3)

what primer did you use?? did you do a lot of sanding??

G37Sam

I might go to the junkyard and try it out on a set of used headlights for fun.

kame_sanjo

iTrader: (1)

Looks nice! Even though it looked like your house was a chop shop for a second

nostalgia85

any primer for plastic should be fine (has to be water proof and heat resistance) but u get to sand it till the silver (chrome) part is gone. if you dont sand it. paint will get cracked when it's TOO hot

Raizon

iTrader: (7)

How you put the headlight back together without getting any moisture inside? I was thinking about baking my headlights just to remove the amber marker but I'm afraid of messing up my headlights.

ONEighty

iTrader: (15)

Last thing you should do is use silicone to seal up the headlight, you'll probably end up ruining it, I've seen several headlight company's make that mistake.

nostalgia85

okay heres the top for not getting moisture inside.

go to home depot and get moisture remover solid product. but clear one. grind it and put it inside of headlight. remove all the original silicon as much as you can. then put new water proof silicon. get like 6 wrenches and tight them up for like 1~2 days after that i put crazy glue over it since it's waterish it will get into small vapor spot that is made when silicon is dried. remover solid product will be disappear as time goes by...
i tested it before i did it so should be fine if you do properly.

ONEighty

iTrader: (15)

Good luck getting that headlight apart if you ever need to. lol