Clear 1st Gen GS300 Headlight Lens
11-28-09, 03:16 PM
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are you talking about clear lenses as in no orange rflector?
or clear as in, no lines on the lenses?
cause there is not a vendor that makes any that are a straight replacement without the lines on them.
and the clear reflector, well that's an easy mod to do yourself, and doens't need a lense, just need to bake them open and pull the relfector
someone does make the delined lenses, but you have to cut your lense in half and glue part of the lense onto the other part, which is VERY sketchy to do
or clear as in, no lines on the lenses?
cause there is not a vendor that makes any that are a straight replacement without the lines on them.
and the clear reflector, well that's an easy mod to do yourself, and doens't need a lense, just need to bake them open and pull the relfector
someone does make the delined lenses, but you have to cut your lense in half and glue part of the lense onto the other part, which is VERY sketchy to do
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there is only one, and even then, it's something you could make yourself, and a complete waste of money. since you have to cut a whole in your lense, and then glue thiers in it's place.
so bascially your cutting a section of your lense out where the lines are, and glueing a flat piece of plastic in it's place
so bascially your cutting a section of your lense out where the lines are, and glueing a flat piece of plastic in it's place
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there is only one, and even then, it's something you could make yourself, and a complete waste of money. since you have to cut a whole in your lense, and then glue thiers in it's place.
so bascially your cutting a section of your lense out where the lines are, and glueing a flat piece of plastic in it's place
so bascially your cutting a section of your lense out where the lines are, and glueing a flat piece of plastic in it's place
11-30-09, 06:33 PM
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i'm just about to bake my spare set apart in the next couple days to start another headligh mod, not to sure what i'm going to do, since my other set is the only set like them that anyone has ever seen. So i'm not sure what i'm doing next, but we'll see how it goes.
i'm curious as to what can be done with the high beams that you have planned
i'm curious as to what can be done with the high beams that you have planned
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i'm just about to bake my spare set apart in the next couple days to start another headligh mod, not to sure what i'm going to do, since my other set is the only set like them that anyone has ever seen. So i'm not sure what i'm doing next, but we'll see how it goes.
i'm curious as to what can be done with the high beams that you have planned
i'm curious as to what can be done with the high beams that you have planned
12-08-09, 08:56 PM
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vindereal, read my posts that i have posted in here already.
i was talking about them. other than that, noone else has come close to making another set.
I have baked my other set apart, and looked at the insides, and i REALLY don't think those can be sanded down
that would take a VERY long time, and you would be left with next to nothing left of the lense, a single small pebble would shatter whatevers left. theres not alot of plastic there, and whatever there is, is filled with lines.
it would be VERY risky(atleast in a climate like the one i live in) to do that. cause the risk of cracking one after would be to high
i was talking about them. other than that, noone else has come close to making another set.
I have baked my other set apart, and looked at the insides, and i REALLY don't think those can be sanded down
that would take a VERY long time, and you would be left with next to nothing left of the lense, a single small pebble would shatter whatevers left. theres not alot of plastic there, and whatever there is, is filled with lines.
it would be VERY risky(atleast in a climate like the one i live in) to do that. cause the risk of cracking one after would be to high
12-18-09, 01:11 AM
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we (i) spent a lot of time getting the shape right to CNC the acrylic lenses, then create some vacuum molds with seals, elongated my molding oven - and built several sets of clear lenses.
not the perfect solution, but a solution. Acrylic is very forgiving so with a bit of time edges can be rounded and polished etc.
I think the result looks pretty good on the ones we converted here because the plastic of the originals is so horribly cheap and now most are yellowed with age.
it is what it is, but not prepared at this time to make more of them. price wouldn't cover the shop time and getting the feedback we were getting - expectations are too high.
ohh and what would be sick is not the audi christmas lights but one (that's 1) LED (white or blue) only mounted bottom pointed up to give ambient light to the lense housing, and directed right on the polished alum bezels we had installed on the projector light.
not the perfect solution, but a solution. Acrylic is very forgiving so with a bit of time edges can be rounded and polished etc.
I think the result looks pretty good on the ones we converted here because the plastic of the originals is so horribly cheap and now most are yellowed with age.
it is what it is, but not prepared at this time to make more of them. price wouldn't cover the shop time and getting the feedback we were getting - expectations are too high.
ohh and what would be sick is not the audi christmas lights but one (that's 1) LED (white or blue) only mounted bottom pointed up to give ambient light to the lense housing, and directed right on the polished alum bezels we had installed on the projector light.
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