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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 02:20 PM
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I'm trying to decide whether to do the headlight mod on my car. I love the way it looks on NBM. Just don't know how it would look with my other mods. So here's my options.

1. Leave it alone
2. Paint the headlight's and the billet grille black.
3. Paint just the headlights.
4. I wild idea that popped in my head. Paint the inside of the headlight's NBM.

You guys know best thanks for the help.

EDIT: Here's some pics Top one is most up to date.




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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by skewba98z28
I'm trying to decide whether to do the headlight mod on my car. I love the way it looks on NBM. Just don't know how it would look with my other mods. So here's my options.

1. Leave it alone
2. Paint the headlight's and the billet grille black.
3. Paint just the headlights.
4. I wild idea that popped in my head. Paint the inside of the headlight's NBM.

You guys know best thanks for the help.

oh wow do the NBM, that would be original, and hot :O
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 03:12 PM
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Damn dude, I think that they would all look good in the end. Thats a tough choice
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 03:22 PM
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I know I can't decide. I don't want to do something and get pissed if it doesn't look good.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 05:03 PM
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I think option 4 would look sweet.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 05:17 PM
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Paint them NBM, that would look awesome.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 05:29 PM
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Don't do NBM. Someone on here with a SOM car painted the headlights to match and it didn't look so great in my opinion, because they blended in too much with the car and looked almost washed out.

With your car having chrome rims, stripes & a chrome grill, to leave the lights chrome seems to be the right thing to do.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 07:09 PM
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Leave those headlight alone.
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i think they look good any way, but id just leave it. halos would look badass, but thats more money
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 08:58 PM
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I liked the mod on my car:

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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 09:53 PM
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Oh yeah. If my car was red silver white or black. There would be now question about doing it.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 09:59 PM
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Alright heres is what I decided. Leave it alone. I would put on some halo's and just leave it alone. I have the chrome halo's on my car right now, I really like the way that it looks (I have NBM as well)
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 10:09 PM
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On dark cars(NBM or black) it looks the best. I wouldn't paint them body color.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 10:28 PM
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Be different, be original. Number 4 will look great, trust me. Post pics when done though.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 11:28 PM
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I have been thinking about getting these for my NBM.

http://www.procarparts.com/store-det...=onlinestoreDB
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