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Painted my headlights today

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Old Sep 7, 2004 | 09:24 PM
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Yeah, sure. Shoot me an email sometime we'll hook up and I'd be more than happy to help. Which HEB? I use to go out to Naco and Anchor Marine off Green Mountian on the weekends a couple of years ago but pretty much stopped when my friends moved back to Dallas. I'm usually up in San Marcos with the GF on the weekends but if you ever want to help on your car or go cruise let me know.
theres a huge meet that happens at the HEB on Culebra @ 1604. usually gets busted by like 11...but lately the owner of 210 performance on Bandera Rd. lets us go chill there after it gets raided cause HEB is considered loitering yet the dude at 210 performance lets us hang out so its all legal.
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Old Sep 8, 2004 | 12:45 AM
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looks nice!
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Old Sep 8, 2004 | 07:28 AM
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looks really good to me. One thing you might want to remember (for future people doing this) is to leave a bit of chrome behind the cornor light so it reflects nicely and is still bright. You can do it small so it isnt really noticable yet it will be bright enough that people will see the light better.
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Old Sep 8, 2004 | 06:37 PM
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Here are two better pix. With the hood down too. It looks great. I'm so glad I did this.
Attached Thumbnails Painted my headlights today-straightonfront.jpg   Painted my headlights today-anglefront.jpg  
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Old Sep 8, 2004 | 08:09 PM
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blk headlights look so much better ona lighter colored lacner, i dont think they look good on thunder grey.
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Old Sep 8, 2004 | 08:17 PM
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looks nice... i like it a lot on yellow... i dont like the chrome look on light colors
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 07:09 AM
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well....its 9am.........im going on about 23 hours from the last time i slept and i just took off my headlights.....im taking pics of the whole process. maybe ill post a DIY w/ pics of the process.
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by biohazzard
well....its 9am.........im going on about 23 hours from the last time i slept and i just took off my headlights.....im taking pics of the whole process. maybe ill post a DIY w/ pics of the process.
have fun man, that suck, why up so late? Work? Studying for school? Let us know how they turn out.
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 04:01 PM
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have fun man, that suck, why up so late? Work? Studying for school? Let us know how they turn out.
man i got everything apart and all that stuff...put it in the oven to let the glue soften...4 minutes..glue was hard. 4 more minutes glue was kinda soft...4 more minutesa....still nuthing...so i was just like "man im tired. ill do it tommorow." so i put everytghing back together and im gonna do it tommorow


edit: i was up so late just cause i dont sleep. usually i crash out around 6 am. but i didnt. then my mom asked me to go to breakfast with her. so after that i was wide awake.
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by biohazzard
man i got everything apart and all that stuff...put it in the oven to let the glue soften...4 minutes..glue was hard. 4 more minutes glue was kinda soft...4 more minutesa....still nuthing...so i was just like "man im tired. ill do it tommorow." so i put everytghing back together and im gonna do it tommorow


edit: i was up so late just cause i dont sleep. usually i crash out around 6 am. but i didnt. then my mom asked me to go to breakfast with her. so after that i was wide awake.
Yeah the glue doesn't really melt like you would think. It turns into a silly putty type of material and you have to really tear the peices apart. Slowly though. It just takes time and patients. I think I baked mine for like 6 min. Everyones oven is different too. It's kind of like the frozen dinners where they say cooking times may vary depening on what type of microwave you have. LOL
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 07:01 PM
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you should paint that part behind your grill black(the hood latch, metal piece on top of the radiator black too. that yellow behind it relly stands ut because your grill is black. if you did that it wuld look sick.
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by twisty1251
you should paint that part behind your grill black(the hood latch, metal piece on top of the radiator black too. that yellow behind it relly stands ut because your grill is black. if you did that it wuld look sick.
Yeah, I've been meaning to do that. I've just been busy with things under the hood. When I put the hood down I realize I should have taken the grill off so I could go ahead and paint the yellow thing under it.
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 08:48 PM
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That looks great. If I had ***** I would do it... plus I think my mom would be wondering what the hell I was cooking in the oven... "Oh it's nothing mom... just my headlights..." yeah, that doesn't sound so good.

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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 08:50 PM
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id ditch those orange reflectors if your doin an all black look
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Handmemyarms
id ditch those orange reflectors if your doin an all black look
saving for a body kit now so I'm not really going to worry about those.
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