Here are some pics of the mods I did today ...

Installed CF eyelids from Evo-r
www.evo-r.net

Titanium Strakes from RX9 Strakes:
http://www.rx8strakes.com/

Foglight rewire thanks to DIY thread:
Foglight Rewire

Replaced headlights with Sylvania Silverstars
Silverstars

Replaced sidemarker and parking lights with Polarg 194Hyper White Light Bulbs

 

 

 

few more....

 

Sounds great! You had one busy day. How long did all of this take you?

 

Including the carwash about 4-5 hours...

 

Well, it looks great man. How'd you paint the calipers? I'm sure you did it, but where did you go to lift it?

 

thanks...


I used jack stands...

 

OK, I was waiting for a Titanium Gray owner to get the eyelids to see what they looked like. I like them

 

it'll go well with your spoiler

 

looks good. those evo-r eyelids aren't half bad.

 

almost forgot, I also replaced the turn front and rear signals with silver bulbs....




This new not being able to edit your post thing sucks!!!

 

WHaaaaaa...I never knew about these, finally...at a reasonable price!!!!

Thanks for the link...and by the way, your RX8 is looking pretty dang good!

I actually found the standard hologen lights to be pretty white, so I'm actually switched my concentration to the little bolbs in the inner corner. I'm getting LED's for them which are ALOT whiter and last basically forever (so the seller tells us). Also, they will come with LED corner lights.

I'm not getting into major mods at this time but with your link I'm going to get those soon I hope.

 

Well, I had led's on and they went out that is why I had to replace them. I didn't like the leds for the turn signals, they are very hard to see, it is kinda unsafe... Look it up on the forum and you'll see. I went with polarg superwhites and they color matches pretty good to the headlights. I got my leds from autolumination.com, had some problems and finally the leds went out. It is a pain to change that inner bulb on the passenger side, so make sure that you get some good bulbs...

 

What is the actual quality of those strakes? What material are they made from?

 

where did you get the tap for the wires (home depot or auto parts store)?

 

they are plastic.

 

Thanks for the heads up, hopefully these are much better than the ones you tried. Let me know what you think...

http://www.flrx8club.net/modules.php...iewtopic&t=257

 

I got them at the autoparts store but home depot carries them as well.

Wannahave:

The problem with using leds as turn signals is that they don't hit the reflectors at all. Therefore you can't even see your turn signals. I went with the silver bulbs for this reason.

 

I see....well, at least I'll have the corner lights looking really white instead of yellowish...