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I can assure you two sets of hands will be needed to easily pull the headlights apart. 1 person literally pulling it apart, other person prying at a corner with a couple flat head, once there's leverage the thing comes apart like an oreo :)

I can assist with this, masking, painting, headlight assembling. which should be the bulk of the difficult parts

http://hvstatic4.hypervocal.com/wp-c..._gang_bang.jpg

oh, oven mitts or mechanic thermal gloves are necessary! You WILL get adhesive on them and they will get ruined lol. The lights as well as the adhesive residue will be HOTTTTT

So that right there is a 3 man team.. The Nissan mechanic can guide the process of removing and reinstalling the bumper... the head lights, we can use tape & a sharpee to mark whos headlights are whos and the color of paint wanted to be applied.

We will have to buy new silicone sealant, correct?

I know for a fact I dont have any of those.

I read Caravan's DIY and it said you can reuse the old sealant by heating it up first and then sealing the lens. He did add some new silicone around the outside for added protection. We should try and get silicone sealant that isn't permanent....

The biggest fear with doing this is the potential condensation that could occur, Im personally not gonna chance it, I'd much rather remove the old sealant and reapply new sealant, thats just me though.

I consider this a one shot deal, and I wanna do it right, I dont wanna have to go back and fix something, you know.

Removing the old sealant will add time to the install.....but if you want to do it then it's fine. Make sure to get something that isn't permanent so that if anyone ever has to open it back up, they can.

yes this is what I do with all of the lights I open up WITH THE ADDITION of 1 bead of silicone after the fact.

So when you're ready to put it back together, press it back as best as possible. throw it in the oven for about 10 minutes to reactivate the old sealant, and you'll be surprise how tight you can get it back together. let it cool off, add a bead of clear silicone for insurance and you're set!

this is almost a full proof system, essentially you'll have double the amount of sealant now

i did this modification on my g37 before, its not something hard but rather time consuming. i used the heat gun method to open up a corner of headlight and used thin metal part to keep them from closing while i worked on opening them. i dont believe you can do 5-6 cars in a day, i say 2-3 cars when you work fast. im sure the oven method can be faster than heatgun. but that is just an estimate of time by parting out the lens, and preparing them for paint, drying(i guess you can use the fast healing paint. 1 thin coat every 15min of drying time), sealing back up.

anyway, good luck with this modification. i will be doing my z headlight in chrome black this time around.

this was my car headlight @ first attempt
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/a...37/photo21.jpg

^^ very sexy love those wheels

Looks great man! This is going to take longer than I initially expected, but with this many people working together, hopefully we can get it done quicker.

I think we'll be able to get it done. I believe whats gonna happen is, we're gonna end up getting all the bumpers off and the headlights out, and that second team will be over running the 1st team doing the actual lights. Which is fine, thats where the heat gun can come into play if anyone has one.

Nice ride man!:tup:

oh yeah, and use nissan rubber butyl instead of the silicon sealant. first time sealing was done with black silicon sealant, and end up opening the headlight twice because of the condensation and water leaking after carwash. second time round was with the rubber butyl and had better luck. but be very careful with this product cuz it gets so messsssy

thanks, out of all the wheels i had i think that was the best one


thanks for the compliment. i no longer has this ride :wtc:

thanks i dearly miss it

Not trying to be a ballbuster here but offer advice. Might want to start a consumables list so no one is running to Lowes for this and that. For example, if messing with sealant maybe a good idea to pick up a box of rubber gloves?

Thats actually a good idea, the original poster compile a list.. would you please?

he hasn't even been posting and probably have 10+ pages of catching up to do lol

you guys also need to figure out what color you want your housings. IN my opinion I think semi gloss black looks the best. flat black or matte black looks good until the sun hits it and it almost gives it a grayish hue

My Z is black, Im going with what you recommend Khoi, semi gloss black it is.

They used Krylon Fusion satin black in all the DIYs.

yeah I personally think the flat black looks best but again when the sun hits it, flat black has that chalkish texture/look to it so when the sun hits it, it looks almost gray.. i dont really know how to explain it. My friend's g37 was originally done in flat black then we reopened it to do semi black just because he hated the way it looked during the day

the semi black takes all that away and isn't super glossy either

this is matte black housing with gloss shroud
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/a...37/photo14.jpg
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/a...g37/photo6.jpg

just like Khoi said, it does have this grayish hue when the sun hits directly and it looks cheap.

I was thinking of doing mine in gun metal to match my future wheel color.

Im following your lead Khoi... black car, semi gloss black!:tup:

hope you never change your wheel color! lol
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Yup, me too.

Wait until we start drinking.

We can share the paint if you want, we should have more than enough.

Actually, I'll buy the paint, you buy the rubber butyl... deal?

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1 can should be able to do at least 2 sets of lights easily

It'd be a bit of a drive but id love to get in on this. Been wanting to paint mine black since I got it.

Feel free to join the PA caravan.

It consists of me...and well...thats about it haha

That's what is making me rethink this. If I do black, it will at least go with the blacked out fangs.

BTW, found the paint in Walmart for $4.34 per can.

Thats what I was thinking too. I can should be good for 2 sets of headlights, with 3 coats of paint for each set.

Post up the link please sir, so I know what Im looking for, you found the semi gloss black?

No link, I went in the store and found it. It's not semi gloss black, it's called satin black. It's the same paint used in the headlight blacking out DIY's on this forum. It's like 75% gloss I think. Krylon Fusion Satin Black. I posted a pic of it earlier in this thread.

1. tonybui
2. eastwest2300
3. Khoi@AAMComp
4. b1adesofcha0s
5. MyKindaGuise
6. dmhenderson
7. t3h r0nz
8.

Went through 14 pages and got this list so far. Am I missing anyone??

What do you guys need me to buy? let me know

Ahh ok, cool.. thanks man.

Hey Tony, I think Khoi is pretty much guiding us through this process, Im not sure if he's actually doing his, his might already be done..and honestly, I'd say 8 is enough, what do you guys think?