Painted 3rd Gen SC2 Headlight housing

[Plastic Fury]

I keep forgetting to put up pics of the light I did for Jon. After seeing Red4Coupe's pics of the Ion lights today I figured I would put these up.

I remember seeing pics of a black 3rd gen with painted lights that looked great but we wanted to go farther and just leave the reflectors (as these Ion guys did).

Jon wanted to go with a metallic color to match a scheme we are working on for his car so this was the prototype. It had a bad seal and the lens was fogged real bad and the chrome pitted, so it was a good test bunny.

We like the look and will do this to the good lights now and it does not affect the lighting of the vehicle at night (only when looking at the car, it does look a little different, I need to snap a pic of that).





What do you guys think??

[tek]

tight!

[xthekoreanx]

i like em.

Jason

[Plastic Fury]

tight!

Hey Tek, your black Vue's headlights would look nice with the housings painted black man!

We need to paint those thangs.

[dream36realms]

freekin awesome! I thought of doing that to compencate the HID conversion I did which is way to bright.

[detroitbass]

Gotta see em on the car

[Plastic Fury]

Gotta see em on the car

When I get them done and installed, I'll post 'em up.

[conflict325]

Wow nice going

[Silent Bob]

I've been wanting to do something like this with the headlights and taillights on my truck. Let me know how hard it is to get the lens to reseal properly. That's my only concern. Don't need moisture getting in there

[Darthn3ss]

looks nice.

[detroitbass]

I've been wanting to do something like this with the headlights and taillights on my truck. Let me know how hard it is to get the lens to reseal properly. That's my only concern. Don't need moisture getting in there

I just did this same thing on my Focus, and getting them to reseal def was the hard part!

[xupthree60]

it looks better if u paint the chrome peice too, i think

[hellix2484]

Hmmm I'm liking that. I have a Yellow 3rg gen. Should I paint them black or Yellow? I am also getting a ton of condensation in my headlights. So I might fix that as well.

Can't wait to see them in the car.

[xupthree60]

Hmmm I'm liking that. I have a Yellow 3rg gen. Should I paint them black or Yellow? I am also getting a ton of condensation in my headlights. So I might fix that as well.

Can't wait to see them in the car.

go with yellow, it looks best on the yellow corvettes compaired to the other colors, i think lol

[slowion2]

it looks better if u paint the chrome peice too, i think

by doing that you're altering the reflection points and probably causing output to go way down. I've seen it before on 2nd gen eclipses and they had almost no light output once done, had to rely on aftermarket driving lights. I think it would be a bad idea and wouldn't look any better.