pics please

 

You could just do a skyline tailight conversion... very original. No Rice There.

 

My car is at the shop, ill get it back next week and post pics, cause I still havent put up any pics since i got the car...lol

If you go to his site and click the show room, you can see examples of his film on differnt cars

 

we sell the smoke film enough for both taillight $20/sheet cheaper than Lamin-x $50

Call Neogen Graphics 619-200-7903

 

hmmmm . . . . I think the best thing would be probably to take them out and use the old painting trick - I know friends who did it to their Celicas back when the Celica had orange/reds instead of all reds.

As far as the corners - NO I will not change them. I like my car looking close to stock at the moment, especially since it can keep up with my friends' z06, Supra, and STi.

Perhaps in the spring when I debadge, put on the MS front and the RB decklid spoiler (so clean, so slick, rice free, and macaroni free too) I'll consider the clear corners . . . but I still associate clear corners with what all those FWD JDM B18C5 DC2 ITR people do, and I don't want any association with that crowd.

Grit free is the way to be.

 

Well its not just FWD JDM B18C DC2 ITR people... all RX-8s come factory standard with clear corners... except in the USofA

 

I promised myself i would not type in this thread, i hate it when people start trash talking someone that wants to make there car "their own".

but i lost to myself.


I have mixed feelings about this thread.

on one hand I say leave the guy alone, let him do what he want. and i do stand behind my thoughts. as i have stated many many times in the past, the "mods" you do to your car is what makes it YOUR car, and not just another RX-8

on the other hand I am a little pissed that he would say that they are crap! i mean come on, just because they are clear tail lights this makes them "altezza" lihts, or "rice"..... dude, you need to take a better look at how much they make the car! you really think that 2 big *** red splotches in the back of your car would look better then nice clear lights with some desighn? hell I did the opposite and replaced the orange bulbs with silver ones to help get some of the orange color out of the lights. (as seen below)

i am with the guy that said something like leave the man alone and let him do what he wants, but at the same time you really could be a little less rude about it. and as for my two cents, the red lights would look plain, stock, boring, and would kill the look of the RX-8 in the rear.


but if you are still wanting to make your tail lights unique, then just go to a body shop and ask them to spray candy red over the lights. any Candy is a transparent color.

 

i was lookin for those silver bulbs.. which ones did you get speedy? and where? and how much? and do you wanna sponsor me?

 

Stealth bulbs

www.mazdaparts.com has them for cheap

 

Not saying your stuff isnt good, or anything but :

Lamin-X is 50 for the pre-cut kit. Their bulk sheets are cheaper than that.

What size are the sheets of film you sell for 20, who makes the film, how many mill thick is it?

 

Ok well I'm going back to my suggestion and I am willing to try it if I can get an extra taillight in case I blow it

To give you an idea I attached a image of MX-3 tail light of kind of what I could be shooting for...

the only thing I'm worried about is the lack of definition in the center where there is a lot of chrome/shiny/altezza style that would be painted and nothing else...that is where a stealth bulb as the center might save it otherwise I'll keep my LEDs

Just so you know if this does work and I like it on my car (sunlight silver, nice contrast) I will be blacking out the chrome emblems (with the same color as the tailight paint job)

Remember to do this you bake in oven, seperate the lense from the rest of the housing, paint and reattach with epoxy

 

that would look freakin AWESOME on my car . . . .

I would love it if my lights were more integrated with the black of car, so that only the little round red bits showed.

maybe paint them black?

 

yes I was thinking a matte black...gloss black may be tacky

 

those lights SCREAM ricer Civic to me.

 

well it is on

I won an ebay auction for two...I was going to get one but hey why not two

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=8007540325

 

Try the Honda S2000, those lights are identical without the strakes in side. Don't know if they will fit in the 8 body.

Also try Miata's, the may be an exact fit.

 

they wont fit without modification^^^^

 

I'm in the process of spray painting my tails red(as soon as I successfully obtain a spare set). I'm planning to cover most of the light candy red but will mask off the main brake lamp. Any suggestions as to what shape I should use for the reverse? Or just red out the whole thing?

 

An 8, of course :P

 

I think it's gonna be pretty hard to try and wrap a lamin-x sheet around our tail lights. I was also thinking of doing the same thing, so if you have a cut-out or a picture, that would be very helpful.

 

Only two shapes on the car - 1) Rotor 2 ) Round

 

So has anyone actually tried the painting yet? Pictures?

I did this to my Celica when I had it too...worked perfectly. The color matched up flawless and it was easy...that's why I'm pretty confident doing it for the 8. Only worry is that on the celica it was yellow to red vs clear to red on the 8. I'm worried that the yellow plastic might be part of the reason why it worked so well. I've already practiced on a plastic watter bottle and it came out okay...kinda pinkish at first.

 

What type of paint are you using?

I used toy model paint, Testor Transparent Candy Red on my old EG Civic taillight to give it the EK Si look. I had a set of all clear, and I painted the top half. It came out okay. I went with one or two layers too many and it looked caked on. On the clear part, it did look too pink and that's why I kept adding layers. Lost it's luster/glossiness after a while.

 

I was planning on using the same candy red spray paint too but I've changed my mind recently after a few more practice sprays on glass and clear plastics that were closer to the material of our lights.

I did a little web searching and found out that Krylon stained glass spray might actually be a better choice. Unlike the testor paint it's pretty much designed to go from clear to tranparent red and it holds it gloss much better apparently. I'm planning to pick up a can this weekend and do some practice sprays to compare with the Testor Candy Red. If it looks decent I'm doing the lights ASAP. Will post pictures as soon as I do.

 

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