Smoked my tails **UPDATE MORE PICS ON PAGE 2 with lights on!**
 

Some may like it... some may not. Personally... with the colour scheme I'm going with, it suits my car.
Anyways, for those that want to know how I did this... I can write up a DIY later. Also... ontop of smoking them, I went the extra step and took it to a paint shop and had them hit it with a couple shots of clear to give it that bit of shine/wet look.
Here they are... let me know what you think.

http://img135.exs.cx/img135/12/tails1hf.jpg
http://img135.exs.cx/img135/5682/tails12kv.jpg
http://img135.exs.cx/img135/2096/tails29ur.jpg
http://img135.exs.cx/img135/4677/tails36qs.jpg
http://img135.exs.cx/img135/4521/tails49ff.jpg

And now my car back in summer mode... Mugen lip on it's way
http://img135.exs.cx/img135/8350/side9yc.jpg
:)

Edit: My buddy is starting a detailing business so I got him to clean my engine bay which was completely filthy.

Here's my engine bay after the winter time...
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...Picture001.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...Picture003.jpg

Here it is now....
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...Picture006.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...Picture007.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...Picture005.jpg

the clear coat def makes it look better and more "OEM"

looks great :)

Awesome.

looks good

rofl @ you staring at the camera for the picture on the grass :rofl:

looking good

Nice work..I love the silver and black scheme.. When you get your mugen lip are you going to leave it in black or are you going to paint it to match the car?

Actually thats me driving his car, lol.....I was driving it so he could see what the new wheels looked like while they are in motion ;)

I think the Mugen lip is going to be painted black

I like the shine to the tails. Good job.

Looks sexy! good job!

Thanks guys...

lol... ya that's Big driving my car... and yes, the Mugen lip will be painted black.

Hahahaha @ the creepy guy in the car.

Can you take a shot of those tail lights with the brakes in use? I am interested in seeing how useful they will be to indicating if you are braking.

^^ Ya I can. I'll do that later today.

BTW... I'll also be switching the bulbs from the factory ones to Hyper Whites in a couple of days. They should make them a bit brighter.

Looks good. The silver engine cover fits well. Is it just painted?...looks like aluminum.
What method did you use to clean your engine bay. I love it.

Nice looking, are you planning to put on some side skirts too?

Nice clean engine bay :tup:
Looks like someone else I know needs a sedan rad cover though :)

looks hott

were u scared u were goin to mess up ur stock tails when you did it?

i think you did them too dark..

looks sweet :sweet: good job! Not a bad Idea, contimplated having a shop hit mine w/ a coat or too aswell... :)

:tup:

I'd also like to see some night and day pics of them in use.

The valve cover is just painted. I used a high temp gloss silver paint and it turned out pretty good... it almost does look like aluminum.

As for sides... I think I'm just gonna stick with the front lip for now... I might later on get sides and rear.

The tails look darker then they are only cause I took the pics in the shade... they're really not all that dark. I sprayed 4 layers and I've seen people use upto 6.

I'll take some pics tonight and tomorrow morning of the tail lights on for you guys.

Thanks for the comments

really like the smoked taillights on the silver

nice, i gotta get some tezzas and smoke those, dont want to mess up my 04's. very good job :tup:

DAMN....engine bay looks great. def, need to do that myself.

what kinda rims are those? look like te-37 knockoffs?

a shop? you can do it in like 1.5hrs no big deal :shrug:

NEW PICS OF THE LIGHTS ON.
Ok now... before I get swamped with questions... let me just tell you guys that I did the reverse tail light DIY... Where I relocated my brake light to where my turn signals are and moved my turn signals to where my brake lights used to be. I like this look better because I'm not riding around at night with the horseshoes lit up.

NIGHT SHOTS
Ok... here they are at night with the headlights on....
http://img186.exs.cx/img186/9969/lightsonnight8mq.jpg

Pic of my tails when I hit the brakes...
http://img167.exs.cx/img167/3809/bra...tsnight2fr.jpg

Turn signals on (I had the 4 ways going)...
http://img167.exs.cx/img167/5480/turnsignalnight5ay.jpg

The day time shots didn't turn out as well on camera. I'll post pics anyways but trust me, you can see them in day.

Lights on in the day...
http://img167.exs.cx/img167/5316/lightsonday7gg.jpg

Brake lights on....
http://img167.exs.cx/img167/4514/brakelightsday1sd.jpg

Turn signals on....
http://img167.exs.cx/img167/3766/turnsignalday1lq.jpg

They're advanti's.... yup... te-37 replicas.