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Best mod I've ever done!!

Old 02-07-12, 08:54 PM
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Got asked for a further pic of the cutoff width... This was at about 40 feet, was a little wider than I could get. It was raining so kinda hard to capture the crispness.
Old 02-07-12, 09:15 PM
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Perfect! So did you only have to cut the housing of the headlights (reflecting bowl on the low beam portion) or did you have to actually cut the back of the headlight out? If so, how did you seal it all up to get the bulb or gain access to it all?
Old 02-07-12, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by ihazabonar
Perfect! So did you only have to cut the housing of the headlights (reflecting bowl on the low beam portion) or did you have to actually cut the back of the headlight out? If so, how did you seal it all up to get the bulb or gain access to it all?
There's no reflecting bowl on the low beams, just projectors. You just remove the projectors and make your own mounting system for the TSX projectors. You have to cut off the inside corner of the TSX projector to fit. You have to cut out a hole in the back, I wrote about it in one of the previous pages with what I used to seal it. Washed my car and it rained today and no leakage.
Old 02-07-12, 09:44 PM
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ahhh, gotcha. Took me a minute. Guess this is what I have to do

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...eadlights.html


He said he use the rubber grommets from an Acura Integra. They are pretty much standard rubber seals on all Honda headlights. They will seal off the back perfectly without any leakage.

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It would be hard to get a good seal with that because where you need cut is angled. Maybe tho, only one way to find out I guess haha
Old 02-07-12, 10:08 PM
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Great job.... Very Clean, Me Likey......
Old 02-09-12, 11:57 AM
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any more pics of your car? Front end looks money!
Old 02-09-12, 12:02 PM
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Great job man....
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Originally Posted by ihazabonar
any more pics of your car? Front end looks money!
Not really any good ones, just waiting to get my rear lip then I will do a real photoshoot. Heres a couple crappy ones.

And this is before the headlights and fog lights were painted...
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oh dear sweet baby Jesus' mothers sisters friend! That is sexy. Can't wait for a shoot. Specs on the wheels and drop
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Hahaha thanks, I'm on Megan ez coilovers and 19x8.5 & 19x10 et35 lc818s
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did you have to roll the rears?
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Man I am so jealous of ur rims, I tried to order the same ones from Wheeldude but they don't carry the black chrome no more and thats the best color. They had Hyper black which were sick kinda like a gunmetalish oem color that i have on my stocky 18's
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Originally Posted by ms2619
Man I am so jealous of ur rims, I tried to order the same ones from Wheeldude but they don't carry the black chrome no more and thats the best color. They had Hyper black which were sick kinda like a gunmetalish oem color that i have on my stocky 18's
hyper black is closer to black chrome than it is gunmetal.
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Thank you! Yeah I got really lucky, I actually bought them from a member in your own state about 2 months ago! You could've got them for a steal since I had to ship the across the country. I had just bought a set of g35 19s and as soon as I put them on these wheels popped up. I had 4 sets for a bit haha

No I didn't have to roll my fenders, 245 width tire slightly stretched and camber from lowering (-2 degrees) has it clearing by about 1mm haha

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