DIY: VIDEO!! Baking 370z Headlights for Paint, LED's etc

The Wizrad · 10-30-2016, 02:03 PM

Used this thread to do my headlights. Did a couple of things differently.
-225 F for 15 minutes in the oven
-sanded housing with 1000 grit and primed using rustoleum primer for plastic
-used dupli-color gun metal
-installed 5% smoked clear boomerang reflectors from Klearz

Overall the process was pretty straight forward, just getting the guts to do it is the hard part. I'm really happy with the turnout.

Nizmo.Man · 11-06-2016, 05:07 PM

Wanted some feedback on the ones I painted. Not sure if I should keep them like this or paint all black. What y'all think?

///maestro · 11-07-2016, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Nizmo.Man

Wanted some feedback on the ones I painted. Not sure if I should keep them like this or paint all black. What y'all think?

I hate amber, so I would paint the ambers a different color (black or silver) and then take a look at it. I like the idea though.

Face · 04-03-2017, 05:46 PM

I finally got around to doing this to mine. Love the look. Thanks to all who contributed to this DIY, it really made this easy.

I went with satin black with color matched accents and CF on the boomerang reflector.

10-30-2016, 02:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
The Wizrad Base Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: TX Posts: 27 Drives: 2013 370Z Nismo PW Rep Power: 10	Used this thread to do my headlights. Did a couple of things differently. -225 F for 15 minutes in the oven -sanded housing with 1000 grit and primed using rustoleum primer for plastic -used dupli-color gun metal -installed 5% smoked clear boomerang reflectors from Klearz Overall the process was pretty straight forward, just getting the guts to do it is the hard part. I'm really happy with the turnout. carlitos_370z and Smashley like this.

04-03-2017, 05:46 PM	#4 (permalink)
Face Base Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Bellevue, WA Posts: 109 Drives: 09 370Z PG M6 S/T Rep Power: 14	I finally got around to doing this to mine. Love the look. Thanks to all who contributed to this DIY, it really made this easy. I went with satin black with color matched accents and CF on the boomerang reflector. carlitos_370z likes this.

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