I spent today installing clear headlight reflector strips from ricks s2k and clear reflector led's for the bumper modified by ARES with 30 Led's. I (foolishly) thought I would also get to some of my audio install but holy crap these headlights took awhile (that and my nismo wing showed up today so I ran it up to the bodyshop).

Anyway, the whole thing looks so amazing. I didn't get any good daytime pics as I was just wrapping things up at dark but I couldn't be happier. The Daytona Blue with the cleared front rocks. The led's are awesome too. I had a set from Ares on my last z but sold them when I totalled. I was happy to see him still making them.

Anyway, here was a parts list:
Clear reflector strip from ricks signature customs
30 LED clear reflectors from ARES
2 silver coated turn signal bulbs (ebay - not sure if i'm satisifed with light output yet)
4 silver coated hyperwhite bulbs (ebay)

The bumper reflectors were wired to the parking lights and it looks mean as hell with just that on. =) OEM HID's ruin the party when they warm up haha.

Anyway, here's some pics.

stock: (like you've never seen it before...)


taking off the bumper and headlights wasn't the end of the world



this part scared the crap out of me. I wanted to leave the door open and watch like a little girl for something to start melting so I could yank it. It turns out it wouldn't heat enough. Finally I grew some ***** and took out the wet cardboard, put the headlights right side up on a cooking sheet and closed the door. 225 for 12 minutes worked like a charm (hey! just like the directions say! )

 

FYI - feel free to begin mocking the grossness of my oven (like i cook!)


here's the headlight in peices


This is with the new clear strip in


side by side

 

installed, with the silver bulbs and all... looks cleeeeeeean!




here's just the parking lights on. The camera doesn't do it justice.

 

the reflector

this is how the turns look at night


and this is the money shot!



That's all, just wanted to share and say how thrilled I am with the outcome!

 

Looks good!!!!

 

Thanks, I actually thought of something bugging me. I put black silicon around the headlight to try to seal out water and although you can't see it when the hood's closed, when the hood is open it looks like ****. I'm going to have to play.

 

I have the same problem and still didn't get a good seal.

 

nice .

Bat™

 

We ran into this same problem when doing this on MKIV Supras. It is almost impossible to reseal the headlights enough to prevent condensation. So I guess you have to decide what's worse, having the orange strip OR having your headlights fog up on a regular basis.

 

I blacked out my first set and destroyed them with condensation costing me 900 to rectify, second time I used oven to pull them apart, and heat gun and lots of time to reseal, I also used a very strong compound the second time as there is not enough of the original material to seal and silicone flakes off over time. I was able to to do a great job second time around with this method, but took a full weekend. Also I too had the looking like crap problem first time around, second time looked good, with heat gun you can mold it a lot easier.

 

well, knock on wood, the lights have passed a car wash/hose test as well as two rains (one very heavy). No condensation!