Hey everyone, i'm new here. I've had my Z for about 3 months its an 05 SB and I finally decided to take apart my headlights and paint it flat black. It came out awesome, but I justed wanted to warn anyone that is planning on doing this mod, once you take off the plastic lens and black out the chrome pieces, be aware that they will never go back the same as they were stock. there's a small gap between the hood lines and the headlights. Other than that, it should have came from the factory black! Lataz everyone..

 

welcome, but please post pics. it would add so much to the post, plus I really want to see them on a SB.

 

Yeah definately post pics, and if you could share your method, and the paint you used that would help too. All the mods on my lemans sunset are black, and i think that may look pretty cool if i did the headlights.

 

Pics or BAN!

 

for the paint, make sure you buy the heat-resistant paint (the one i've used before was called HOT PAINT). Otherwise, the heat of the lightbulb might mess up the paint in the long run.

 

picture!!!!

 

pics dammit!

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haha, thanks for the welcome! I took pictures of the headlights, but I don't know how to post pics online! I got so pissed at myself about how they dont sit flush anymore that I took out the headlights and disassembled the housing and re-doing the whoe mod... good thing is that i'm a pro at taking off my bumper and headlights in like 2 minutes
well...brb, got my headlight baking in the oven! haha

 

a few pics during the process, ill post pics with the headlights on tonight

 

**** that looks nice!!

Looks like very nicely done paintjob as well, looks like stock black plastic!

/Roger

 

thanks so much for the kind words! i really appreciate it! it looks so bad a** right now!!! I finally got the headlights to align just like stock! took some work, but well worth it! I'll take soem shots in the morning so that way you can get a better picture of what it looks like!

 

Great work! and yes... more shots during the day! Can you try to grab one from far away to see how this headlight mod sets off the rest of the car?

 

That is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet as. Very nice and I too would love to see some daytime pics.

 

Sorry about taking so long to post pics, I work until midnight, so it leaves me very little time to do anything... well here goes, let me know what you think

 

Why did you leave the yellow strip in? Looks HOT

 

thanks! i like the amber strip, I couldn't justify paying 50 bucks for the clear strips I wasn't feeling the clear strip look as much though..

 

Looks good, nice job on making it look stock

 

i got a few questions..

-how long did it take?
-how much did materials cost?
-what part of LA are you located at? (I'm from Torrance, South Bay Area)