Headlight Mod Event PART DEUX: The headlightening
 

Ok so this will probably be our final shot at doing this in 2012 as it will be too cold outside soon for the sealant to cure properly.

Where: E/W's place. PM him for address or just grab it from the old thread.

When: Saturday, 9/22 ]Sunday, 9/23 SATURDAY the 22nd

Who: Bladesofchaos (+1) , dmhenderson, E/W - anyone else interested.

What:

• Dmhenderson: Cracking headlights to spray boomerangs black and retouch paint nicks. E/W, I think I left a brand new untouched can of that black satin there. I have enough to do the boomerangs and touch up the nicks right?

• Blades: Doing his headlights - will require the full treatment.

• E/W: Nothing now, his lights are fine. He forgot to plug in a wiring harness (lol)

We have room for one, potentially 2 more cars if anyone wants to come and let me tell you - we KNOW how to do this crap now without damaging anything and all in a reasonable amount of time. Please post here if you're interested.

If the weather's bad, we can push it to sunday... and I know blades is soo concerned with football, someone can bring a tv, and we can improvise.

his game is at 8:30 sunday night. if you all are still doing the headlights at that time I think watching the game should be pretty low priority. besides the ravens are going to mop the patriots up on this rebound so he wont miss anything anyway ; )

hahaha... yeah, the patriots do suck azz! haha.

Doesnt' look (now) as if weather will be an issue. Rain hits tomorrow but is gone by Wed.

My ride is currently at the dealership getting its 6 month checkup and getting the rear bumper repainted (paint flake) but I'll have it back by Wed/Thurs.

Sunday works for me - if you want to change the date, that's fine.

Sunday would be perfect for me, personally... but to be fair we can take a consensus..

Dude, it's your house and you're the one with the psychotic work schedule. Sunday it is.

Lets see what works for everybody.. we gotta couple days to decide.

If you're gonna do it on Sunday, then I'm out. Already have plans for Sunday, which include watching the Patriots whoop the Ravens just like they did back in January :tup:

Well ok can we swing saturday then?

I can also (probably) take off Fri if you want to do it then.

Edit: but I'd need to know really soon.

Friday and Sunday are the best for me !!


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Why are you guys so worried about the weather on Saturday? It's not even showing any rain. It's the only day that works for me since I can't take off Friday and I already have plans for Sunday.

Saturday or Sunday for me..

I'm not - E/W said it wasn't ideal but if he can make it work, we'll do sat. After looking at some comparison pictures, I think I'm going to just black out everything including the clear part at the bottom so long as that doesn't block my turn signal.

the light right under the boomerang is that the turn signal light or just parking/city lights?

I noticed these lights weren't very amber. Are the bulbs clear? If you switch them over to amber bulbs it will give more of an amber look to that part of the housing in case you decide to remove the amber boomerang or paint it

just a suggestion. I've always hated the look up just clear bulb turn signals, it gives that weak halogen look, amber bulbs ftw

Yeah the girlfriend and I are testing bulbs once the car gets back from the dealership on Wed. The outcome will dictate what direction I go. Boomerangs are getting painted for sure. If the clear piece doesn't house the turn signal blinkers, it's gone too.

Cool, keep us updated. I might do the same.

We'll take pictures. She was the voice of reason who said "well before you go spraypainting **** again, let's take a look at what you're blocking out"

I keep her around/she keeps me around for a reason.

She absolutely does not understand my car mod disease but supports it despite the fact that she still doesn't have a ring.

She also does not like racecars and does the slow 'doorhandle grab' thing every time I drop the hammer with her in the car. Things came to a head about a week ago coming back from National Harbor and we hit 130 racing a STI down 495 and she screams "ONLY IDIOTS RACE OTHER IDIOTS WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU" and started punching me in the shoulder, at which point I glance over at the WRX and his girlfriend is actively hitting him in the head so we both backed off.

Good news is that without the women, we'd probably be dead.

My nemesis is a guy who owns a metallic blue ZR1 with the license plate that reads "my PRIUS" and i see him all over the place.

We've nearly killed each other several times and I shake my fist at him every time we get a little crazy.

He's had that car for at least 4 years. Racing him in my '09 (and losing badly) we nearly got annihilated running the lefthand lane at 100+ because a tow truck inexplicably decided to pull crosswise into the middle of the fast lane and just sit there. He ran into the dirt and spun and I jinked sideways nearly clipping another car and sat in the 2nd lane.

He is my car nemesis

:icon17:

wowwwwwwww:wtf2:

streets closed pizza boy

So are we taking a vote on what day to do the light or sat is final?


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This was on 270 headed north towards frederick. It's also the reason Frank now has a seatbelt. He ended up bouncing off of the windshield.

:ugh2:

He has a harness that hooks into the passenger-side seatbelt so that force is distributed evenly over his body rather than yanking at his neck (weenie dogs have back issues). I have set just long enough so he can hang his head out the window but short enough that he can't hit the dash on a sudden stop.

:bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl:

whoah....:wtf2:

He's a fan of going fast. He (used to) get up on the dash the minute he heard the hammer drop and watch. Now he has to make due with the window.

:roflpuke2::roflpuke2:

So Saturday still? Damn


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Looks like it. It's the only day I can make it this weekend and next weekend is the GT-R cruise.

Yeah I'll be up on Saturday early but after E/W can get a decent night's sleep.

Dee what time you want us to be at your place? Don't want you running around with 2 hrs of sleep again. Also an FYI, we're gonna have to jack my car up to get the bumper off, but that shouldn't take too long.

Sh....you car can't be any worse than mine can it? I'm not sitting on coilovers but that nismo kit keeps it pretty low and tight.

Also for the record my name is Mark and I get confused when ya'll call me "DM" in-person.

Blame Dee (Damien aka EW) for that. He likes to call people by their forum names since he doesn't really hang out with us in person that much. I prefer to use actual names. My name is Shahid :tup: