Black angel eyes

[SHADY-NINJA]

the bumper has to come off

 

[lilmarc]

ok thanks m8 i will see if i can change them myself when they come

 

[RobDon]

Well the lights are back in and everything works, the LED sidelights and xenons look awesome, even in the daytime! I went up to Star to get a hand removing the front bumper and me and Brian hooked up the lights - we all stood back and went WOW!

Pics later tonight.

 

[RobDon]

Here are the night pics, it was almost dark when I took these.

Sidelights only:

Sidelights and xenons warming up, shortly after switching on:

Straight on fully warmed up:

I'll do better shots tomorrow night, going to drive somewhere and do the beam alignment and take some more distant shots while I'm at it.

Big thanks to Brian and Star for the help today - I am VERY pleased with these lights.

 

[vern]

Fekin awesome effort ROB well done matey, deffo worth the effort

 

[sportbilly]

Rob, out of interest what camera do you use, you always seem to get pretty decent shots, very clear.

 

[lilmarc]

nice one rob they look fantastic

 

[RobDon]

My camera is a Canon Powershot A300, 3.2 mpixels - I've had Canon cameras for years and they are always good.

 

[aebli]

Hats off! An other one buys a 1000£-Cam - without comparable results...........

 

[SHADY-NINJA]

this is bloody awesome and tasty

im jeolous. i'll try to do one without melting the headlamp in the oven

 

[Ruddmeister]

Rob

They look very good indeed, unless I am mistaken we haven;t seen a daytime shot with lights off??? just how the car looks with the black angel eyes in?.

looks very good though mate.

If I were you I'd buy five sets of each of the lights, now you know what you are doing and modify them and flog them for muchos £££.......... although i'm sure after the hard work you put in you want a unique car for a while.

One other question though, you baked in the oven, softened the glue and pulled them apart......how did you reseal? Heat the seal with a hot air gun ?? new seal ??

Steve

 

[RobDon]

I taped up the lights as tight as I could then ran a heatgun round the seals to soften them up, once cold I ran a thin bead of black silicone round the outside edge just to make sure. You only need to warm them up, not get them boiling hot to do this stuff.

I got alot of inspiration from a guy called 'haknslash' on the SRT-4 forums in the USA, in the 'lighting modification' section.

http://www.srtforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148552

 

[RobDon]

Difficult to see, but here's daytime shots of the sidelights and then the xenons:

 

[Fishy]

Even in daylight they look good.

Fish

 

[Ruddmeister]

Still don;t know if I prefer the Black or Silver.

Love what Rodbon has done to the lights since, and obviously the same could be done to either??

Decisions decisions

 

[RobDon]

I can't help feeling that much of the lighting effect will be lost in the chrome ones due to the amount of reflected light bouncing around inside the headlight. Would still look cool though, may look better on a lighter car such as silver.

 

[Mr Roboto]

Still don;t know if I prefer the Black or Silver.

Love what Rodbon has done to the lights since, and obviously the same could be done to either??

Decisions decisions

Well if you can wait I'm getting black angel eyes fitted to my black Cupra R so you'll be able to see then.

 

[Ruddmeister]

Yes waiting IS an option lack of cash has never stopped me before though

I will wait for a while, pictures would be appreciated

 

[SoLiDSnK]

Waiting pics of a black leon with black angel eyes.....

 

[Mr Roboto]

Cars booked in Next Saturday morning (as I am unable to drive at the moment) I will post some pics up once it's done.