Last weekend i had to throw my winters on just because i wasnt gonna b back to Toronto b4 the snow hits *later tonight*. So i threw my original 15s on, and noticed they are starting to pit. So i decided i was gonna paint em. So i spent maybe..20 min tonight cleanin them, then i masked off the tires and did some quick painting.



ive only got the 1 done right now cuz i started to feel sick

but while i was at it, i did sarahs hub caps because shes back on her stock 14s for the winter



But b4 i decided to do my wheels, i started on my newest project. Some custom tails for sarah's coupe. We have an extra set of OEM tails laying around the garage we pickedup from a scrap yard. So for x-mas, i decided i was gonna get her some currens, but then i relized..i dont have any $..lol So instead, i spent $30 and decided to try and make some clear tails fallen hero style.
This is what ive done so far

thats with the clear plastic over top of it right now

Im still debating on if i wanna throw the clear lens back on, or if i wanna do the whole office lighting material way

or, im also thinking of kinda doing a glazed window kinda look and make it more like a BMW style tail light.

either way, i also picked up a set of red LED bulbs to put behind the plastic.


What do you guys think?

This post has been edited by Valo666: Nov 21, 2007 - 8:43 PM

Paint on the wheels looks good hows it gonna hold up? Did you prime and all that or just a quick spray, what paint did you use?

dupicolor wheel paint. I did a the set of Borbet wheels we got with the coupe with the same paint but bronze and they hold up really well, 2 coats and its good. No chips, no problems with brake dust, or any thing

Man those look good too! No primer, just the paint, how long have you had the bronze ones on now?

looking good

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since we bought the car back in june

dang man those wheels look nice with duplicolor. imma do that to my stockies cuz im sick of nasty OEM gray

This thread has inspired me to paint my stockies, but no dice. Its already started to snow. Gotta get some winter tires. The paint looks good. Oh about the turns hows 20 + shipping? I think thats cheaper than 30 shipped.

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traitor...

lol, sorry man. I don't really need them though.

lol and i need $ so i can buy the stupid swaybar link...valo hows 19+ship sound

This post has been edited by Celicam8: Nov 22, 2007 - 3:18 AM

well..i finished 1 of the tail lights tonight...kinda. I had to put a bit more epoxy in to make a flush seal between the 2 parts. But i decided to put the tail in, take a look and some pics and see how the led bulb looked. Also i ended up just using the peice i cut out, but sanded it down with the sanding bit on my rotary tool, then used some emery cloth over top of that to give it some texture.

So stock


VCM *Valo Custom Mods..lol* tail


i also got a pic with the led bulb in and lit up. It looks pretty good. Its a bright red even though it looks amber in the pic and videos to fallow.


I also had some extream white PIAA bulbs in my old stock tails, but since im using the JDM harness, they dont fit any more, so i pulled them out and poped em into the coupes tails and WOW are they bright. Also the LED is nice because its just ON, OFF, no inbetween time, so they look really good IMO.
Reverse lights


4-ways on


Also, once i took the 4ways off, i tryed the turns individualy, when i put the turn signal on the side with the LED, it started to blink stupid fast. I couldnt figure out why. So i pulled the tail back out. The guy gave me the wrong bulbs. They were the ones for the front turn signals. So i went to go put them in the front, and 1 of the 2 grounding pegs had broken off, so im gonna go return it tomorrow and get the right ones for the back aswell.


This post has been edited by Valo666: Nov 22, 2007 - 10:49 PM

whats funny is that the blinking is random... its not a regular fast or slow blink... imo fast blink is nice

as far as the tails, it looks nice, except for the jaggy areas ^^

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the second coat of epoxy is filling them in, then i just need to clean up the excess and it will look much nicer.

its really not that bad... first time? are you going to make some hatchback usdm ones? if so I want one ^^ (too cheap for jdm)

i doubt i will be..im just doin this as a cheaper then curren way to make her coupe look a bit better. And yea, its my frist time trying something like this. I got some pretty good skills when it comes to mechanics stuff and im not bad at upholstery, but my first time screwin around with lighting. I think i might modify my JDM tails on my car next and take the amber peice out.

^^ cool... congrats dude, for a first time its AWS0ME! you should get some usdm and try to make a cheap jdm for the people who cant afford it, but want it...

bit of an update. I put the finaly layer of expoxy on the tail light on Friday afternoon. But, the temp went down about...6 degrees that night and its been below freezing for the last few days. So i brought the tail light inside and put it beside the heater in the living rooom. So the final product.


I also made some clear sidemarkers for sarahs car too.




So i now have another set of front turns in the mail right now that i should b gettin in a few days. So when they come in, the turns are gonna be done.

Valo, you should make me a pair of those turns ^^ and nice job on the rears

Bryan, why are half of your pics blurry !!!!

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Crappy camera and no flash. Im hopefully gettin a digital SLR for x-mas so all of my pics look like that one of sarahs coupe in the parkinglot.

Is that the clear plastic or did you use the office stuff? I can't tell. Looks good but I think you should cut off the extra glue and buff the clear plastic 'cause it looks faded and scratched up against the red.

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its the clear plastic that i sanded with a rotary tool with a sanding bit and some emry cloth. It was more like a fogged look than a clear look. Its my first tail light though. Im planning on making another one with some of the office lighting material. My GF kinda likes the fogged style, but we have another tail, so im gonna make 1 of both styles and see what she likes better.

Awesome work on the stockers Bryan my man. And some good innovation going on here

Not to get off-topic, sorry, but whatever happened with the roomate-from-hell debacle?

it got cleared up