A buddy of mine has some experience baking/cracking open headlights and offered to paint mine for me. Bought a can of flat dark gray spray paint from Advance (I believe it's called bumper paint or something similar). I took the headlights out, stripped the light harnesses and ballasts, and gave the empty housings to him. He had the lights taken apart, primered, painted, cured, and re-sealed in one weekend! I think they turned out pretty awesome. The dark gray almost looks like a satin black which is what I was hoping for. I also told him that since I don't use my high beams much to go ahead and paint around them and only leave the chrome strip where the HID bulbs are. Gonna have to bust out the dSLR and get some better pictures, but here is one from my phone..

 

Looks great man, can't wait for more photos.

 

sick

 

Nice.

 

More pics...looks nice.

 

nice! more pics..

 

wow, that actually looks really good.
more pics please.

 

It's raining here right now, if the weather isn't terrible I will try to get some tomorrow. Thanks

 

Nice man, cant wait to see the close-ups

 

wow, nice.

 

Thought it wasnt gonna look good with the color choice but it actually looks better than the flat black. good job

 

I know you just got them done but have you noticed a difference with the output at night. Been thinking of painting my 04 lights also. Dont want to spend the coin for 06 lights

 

Oh super sexy!

 

Updated original post with some new pictures!!

I think the light output at night is just fine. The high beams don't function properly anymore, but I rarely used them anyway.

 

wow, that looks really good. i have done something like this when i had my maxima but afraid doing it on the z.

 

Very Nice. Now I want to do it to my G

 

muy bonito

 

SICK! and original man.

 

very nice man. Nice clean and simple Z too btw. tasteful mods FTW

 

I like it a lot