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Old 09-12-2012, 10:48 AM
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^^ That was the biggest selling point for me was the black interior housings. Since it seems to be such a pain in the *** and risky to tear about the stock housing to paint the inside black, then reseal them without any leaking and then paint the outside lens trim black, I figured why not go with something I won't have to even tear open.

After seeing the picture of that black one with the halo lights, I decided they actually look pretty good when they are on and off and for the price you couldn't go wrong. Especially considering the condition that my current lights are in right now. I never was one for the headlight washers anyways, and like NeverSatisfied, I have mine capped off because they make such a mess.


I'll post 6 million pictures when I get them in, installed and working in different settings.
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One of the guys here in San Antonio did it to his V2. And it was very cool.
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Originally Posted by tmonttt
^^ That was the biggest selling point for me was the black interior housings. Since it seems to be such a pain in the *** and risky to tear about the stock housing to paint the inside black, then reseal them without any leaking and then paint the outside lens trim black, I figured why not go with something I won't have to even tear open.

After seeing the picture of that black one with the halo lights, I decided they actually look pretty good when they are on and off and for the price you couldn't go wrong. Especially considering the condition that my current lights are in right now. I never was one for the headlight washers anyways, and like NeverSatisfied, I have mine capped off because they make such a mess.


I'll post 6 million pictures when I get them in, installed and working in different settings.
how do you cap them off? I know.
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Originally Posted by JayBirdWs6
how do you cap them off? I know.
small plastic dowel and small hose clamp
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Originally Posted by tmonttt
^^ That was the biggest selling point for me was the black interior housings. Since it seems to be such a pain in the *** and risky to tear about the stock housing to paint the inside black, then reseal them without any leaking and then paint the outside lens trim black, I figured why not go with something I won't have to even tear open.

After seeing the picture of that black one with the halo lights, I decided they actually look pretty good when they are on and off and for the price you couldn't go wrong. Especially considering the condition that my current lights are in right now. I never was one for the headlight washers anyways, and like NeverSatisfied, I have mine capped off because they make such a mess.


I'll post 6 million pictures when I get them in, installed and working in different settings.
Where did you order these from? The headlights that is.
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Originally Posted by soulja
Where did you order these from? The headlights that is.
ebay cts headlights $550 for the set
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Originally Posted by soulja
Where did you order these from? The headlights that is.
You mean the Forgestar F14 headlights?
Old 09-12-2012, 01:32 PM
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Wow, Forgestar is really broadening their product line lol.
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Originally Posted by AAIIIC
You mean the Forgestar F14 headlights?
Good point. This dual halo headlight discussion is totally off-topic and should probably be moved to a separate thread (or the Cadillac Forums, which contains 10+ pages of discussion already).
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Lulz... Sorry for getting this page long discussion of off topic headlight nonsense. Regardless, I got them with a set of HID's for $300 shipped.

If Forgestar gets it together and can have a set of piano blacks ready to ship out, I'll get in that line.

MOAR pictures, Fuzzy! Preferably a full side shot.
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Working on it. Need to get my headlights and foglamps wired all the way up, which means that I'm yanking the bumper on Friday afternoon and probably won't have the car back together until Sunday. If my 4.0" HPS silicon intake tube, Mike Norris catch can, and SRP pedals don't arrive by then, I might be able to get done a little sooner.
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Im in for more pics. Really hesitant to spend the money of the piano black 19's but i may sell both my sets and just buy em if i like em enough.
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Mine looks to have a little bit of positive camber after putting the F14's on. Anyone else notice this?
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Originally Posted by omeara7
Mine looks to have a little bit of positive camber after putting the F14's on. Anyone else notice this?
I didn't really notice until one of my friends pointed it out.

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Originally Posted by dudesweet
I didn't realty notice until one of my friends pointed it out.
Ha same exact thing happened to me. I hadn't noticed until he pointed it out and I was like "oh yea, there is a little isn't there?". It's minimal so I think I'm just gonna let it go.
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Originally Posted by omeara7
Mine looks to have a little bit of positive camber after putting the F14's on. Anyone else notice this?
I'm guessing it looked to have a little bit of positive camber before putting the F14s on, too.
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Negative camber back and front here.
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Thinking about throwing in an order for these, I'm confused though the website makes it sound like a forged wheel, but fuzzys original post says cast. Whats the case here? thanks guys
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Actually, they're neither. They're flow formed. Neither cast nor forged. Cast < Flow Formed < Forged.

http://www.forgestar.com/v2/technology.php
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Originally Posted by FuzzyLog1c
Negative camber back and front here.
Actually, mine is negative too. I thought it was positive based off memory but it's definitely negative. Just a little though so I'm just gonna let it go for now.



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