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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 05:26 PM
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Took my headlights apart and painted them. Also have some red halos on the way and thinking about getting an hid setup while I'm at it. I'll post some pics when they are finished. The skulls are metallic silver and shimmer in person, the pics kinda suck.



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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 09:59 PM
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why skulls?
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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 10:00 PM
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I like how you left the rings chrome, nice touch.
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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by LS4_SS
why skulls?
^ what he said
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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 10:26 PM
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Why not skulls? To each his own.
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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 11:04 PM
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How easy was it to get the headlight apart? The insides of my lenses are in rough shape from all of the condensation and dust that has combined. Pretty ugly.
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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 11:06 PM
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very unique I like it
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 03:36 AM
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now this is bad ***!! Car Show material!!! All I can hear is MIA "Paper Planes" one of my favs BTW!! hehe!
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 06:49 AM
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The skulls were kind of an afterthought, I was going to do unicorns and butterflies. Seriously though, I mainly cracked them open to put the red halos in and then I had the idea and figured I could easily paint over them if they didn't turn out they way I wanted.

Buff, they weren't bad, just tedious. I used a hair dryer and a set of dental picks to separate them.

Thanks for the complements.
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 01:38 PM
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Red halos = demon eyes!

That should look neat. What type of halo are you using?


I just got mine back from AAC. Had them painted body color and install LEDs. CCFLs weren't worth a damn.









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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 03:09 PM
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those are crazy looking! i like them a lot esp the halos
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 03:11 PM
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I wish GPs had those...
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 06:56 PM
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Wow those look really nice. I'm going with the oracle ccfl's from aac. I already replaced the inverters with oracle and the seem to be a lot better quality than the crap ones that came with the lights. Plus, I just prefer the solid look of the ccfl's. Yours look great though!

JP, I bet you that aac could set you up with some if you sent them your factory lights. might be worth looking into.
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by custom95
Wow those look really nice. I'm going with the oracle ccfl's from aac. I already replaced the inverters with oracle and the seem to be a lot better quality than the crap ones that came with the lights. Plus, I just prefer the solid look of the ccfl's. Yours look great though!

JP, I bet you that aac could set you up with some if you sent them your factory lights. might be worth looking into.
hell i shot them an email and see what they say
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 07:37 PM
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Lemme know what they say, DP. I want red halos, will better match my car.
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 07:38 PM
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im off tomorrow so ill let ya know.
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 08:04 PM
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I don't guess anyone has ever tried Imp headlights on a GP?
Those both look nice BTW.
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Old Jun 28, 2010 | 10:27 AM
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Those silver headlights look excellent!!!!
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Old Jun 28, 2010 | 10:55 AM
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nice, looks clean, i dont like the skulls, not cause i wana be a dick lol but unless u have a theme of skulls on the rest of your car, i think its just going to look kind of off, thats just my opinion though, great job regardless..

and as for the silver headlights they look freshhh especially with the new leds, have any full car pics with em on??
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Old Jun 28, 2010 | 11:32 AM
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can you let me know to DP. both headlights look good and we need more pics
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