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We're going for quickness but efficient here!!

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Originally Posted by eastwest2300 (Post 1862534)

I can answer this for Khoi, YES!! Alcohol removes fingerprints, grease and dirt.. I have some, but not a lot.

Good job fellas getting everything organized! I do have the tools to do this install but not 8 sets of tools, soo everyone should bring the following:

A butter knife (to pry the head lights open)
Rubbing Alcohol
Flat head screw driver
10mm socket and ratchet

We will need painters tape, I'd say 2 to 3 rolls of it, and newspaper to cover parts and pieces so theres no overspray.

A heat gun, someone PLEASE bring a Heat gun!!!

I have almost a full bottle of alcohol. As a nerd who is always ripping apart his PC products removing TIM constantly I always have a fresh supply on hand (=

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Originally Posted by Khoi@AAMComp (Post 1862490)

i agree with this whole statement. I always believed that being half the fun in being a car enthusiast was actually getting your hands dirty! these install meets are always fun but what i've noticed in the last few years is that these install meets = 2-3 people working on the cars, the other 10+ people sit on their butts, eat, drink lol

As to this I am probably going to be the minority. Im pretty noobish. Ive never owned a car I was interested in until I bought the Z. I also never took interest from any of my family members. I am always up for learning I just need someone to instruct me. I wish we could get some more instructional meets to where the seasoned vet's can show us noobies what to do.

I love working on the Z, and the S2000, I'll show you a thing or two, dude Im gonna knock out these cars in BEAST mode... watch me! The Z is an amazing machine, its a whole nother animal when you take the undershroud off, its beautiful. Its truly a piece of art.

the outside of the lens can be cleaned with pretty much anything, don't worry about getting adhesive on it, simple plastix or any kind of paint cleaner will take care of that. I think we used bug and tar remover on mine lol

The inside is another story. assuming it's clean already I would just leave it inside the house or somewhere it will not be affected by dust or debris. Cleaning the inside of the lens sounds smart but the smarter route is not to clean it at all if it doesn't need cleaning! Why clean something when it's not dirty haha I say this becuase a lot of time, doesn't matter what you use, it will leave smudge marks, you might not see it but I can assure you once everything is back on, you probably have missed a spot and now it's too late to undo it!

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Originally Posted by falconfixer (Post 1862515)

btw Khoi you've done this before. Would it be be a good idea to have isopropyl alchohol, preferable in a spray bottle, with some cheese cloth/rags so the inside of the lenses are clean right before spraying them? Newspaper to lay the lights on?

the lens itself if you happen to get finger prints on it (oil) while maybe masking some of it off, or whatever it might be, you can clean it with windex, that's what we did. More or less you want to get the oils from your fingerprint off, your lens should already be clean.

maybe everyone wear rubber gloves?? lol fingerprint issue solved

Not everyone needs to bring their own socket and wrench. I think one or two will be enough :p

So who's manning up and bringing the hookers and blow?

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Originally Posted by falconfixer (Post 1862631)

So who's manning up and bringing the hookers and blow?

:facepalm:

damn, i might not be able to do this, i have work at 3pm, i don't wanna be a douche bag getting my headlight done and then leave without staying to help for the rest of the day.

You don't have to stay for the whole thing. 8 people can't work on 2 cars. As long as you pitch in before you have to go, it's fine.

I can *probably* borrow a heat gun from our service lab at work. The service manager is a short timer anyway so he will likely let me borrow one.

We need to set a date for this though!

Saturday september 15th?

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Originally Posted by dmhenderson (Post 1862915)

I can *probably* borrow a heat gun from our service lab at work. The service manager is a short timer anyway so he will likely let me borrow one.

Please if you can get one, that would be awesome.

That'd work for me, as far as date, what about the others?

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Originally Posted by eastwest2300 (Post 1862946)

Please if you can get one, that would be awesome.

I borrowed one for my front emblem de-badge on my '09. Those things are serious business. I ended up with a tiny bit of paint damage because holy **** those things get hot.

Settle on a date and I'll ask work if I can borrow it. If it gets broken, ya'll are chipping in to replace though (I have no idea what they cost).