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CarbonIS · 04-25-2010, 08:50 PM

Just figured I'd throw these up here since I'm pretty proud of how they came out. Just painted and baked a set of EVO X headlights for a friend. Sorry for the crappy pics, but you get the idea. Involved a lot of taping, removal of the amber lense and a lot of concentration.

Enjoy.

As you can see, there are some rock chips on the lense, i'll be sanding them down and buffing them tomorrow to remove as much of that as possible.

Thanks for looking!

Erik · 04-25-2010, 08:52 PM

does it degrade the quality or brightness of the lights? THey look pretty good though none the less

JDMTyler3326 · 04-25-2010, 08:54 PM

They should look very mean looking on the car.

CarbonIS · 04-25-2010, 08:55 PM

it depends. This guy wanted everything black, which included one of the reflectors.
It won't really be a big deal bc the HID is a projector and doesn't use reflectors to diffuse it's beam,
so in this case, no light would be degraded. If I was doing a car that didn't have projectors, I wouldn't paint the relectors.

james_ls · 04-25-2010, 09:00 PM

Would look sinister with some LED highlights.

Sublime1304 · 04-25-2010, 09:05 PM

really nice job. looks a lot better

**Got Insulin?** · 04-25-2010, 09:10 PM

Looks awesome. You ought to start doing HID retros and get a little side-gig going on, Bill.

Erik · 04-25-2010, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarbonIS

it depends. This guy wanted everything black, which included one of the reflectors.
It won't really be a big deal bc the HID is a projector and doesn't use reflectors to diffuse it's beam,
so in this case, no light would be degraded. If I was doing a car that didn't have projectors, I wouldn't paint the relectors.

Thats what i figured. Looks good. definitely will work well with certain cars

CarbonIS · 04-26-2010, 09:30 AM

thanks guys, i'm about to take them over to the shop and buff out some of the rock chips.

TalonTsi97 · 04-26-2010, 11:26 AM

They are my buddies EvoX headlights. I can't wait to see them on the car. Good work!

g0dzuki · 04-26-2010, 11:34 AM

Nice job man!

I did my set on the tC, its not easy per se but its not hard either. Fun and tedious project.

jpalamar · 04-26-2010, 11:42 AM

Looks good.

Hold_Fast · 04-26-2010, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by g0dzuki

Nice job man!

I did my set on the tC, its not easy per se but its not hard either. Fun and tedious project.

Same with my wrx headlights. Tedious work but definitely worth it in the end.

nhanxsolo · 04-26-2010, 02:43 PM

VW kids do this a lot, it's called the Joey mod. Painting reflectors are a bad idea unless you have projectors like Carbonis said.

DPancoast · 04-26-2010, 03:29 PM

wow thats pretty cool

Kill-Bill · 04-26-2010, 04:44 PM

Been there as well,fun,fun...looks great!

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g0dzuki Tri-State Addict Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: NY/NJ Member #15544 My Ride: Scion tC iTrader: (0)	Nice job man! I did my set on the tC, its not easy per se but its not hard either. Fun and tedious project. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 signatures. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 signatures.

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