SanJoCaF22DrAcc : 1991 Accord EX

[SanJoCaF22DrAcc]

Do'n work

These came in on Saturday. They will compliment my new headlamps well. eBay score I got em at a real decent price.



It took a while finding a match. Krylon 9024 is non-existent. I have searched and it seems like it has been discontinued. What do you guys think?



I find that a most of the character comes from placing it in the details.

[islandhopper]

Looks good to me! What did you use?

[SanJoCaF22DrAcc]

Still ended up using stained glass paint. I wasn't able to find it in any type of rattle can. I first tried mixing orange rustoleum paint with clear rustoleum paint. The results were more translucent not transparent. It did come out transparent orange, but it didn't come out clear. I also didn't like the resulting hue. I went to an independent local hobby shop and came across this stuff. I had to shoot it with an airbrush. The brand was called "Pebeo." I'll post more details later when I have a final product.

[islandhopper]

Nice.

I'll admit, im not 100% satisfied with mine (but im still very, very pleased).

I just got tired of buying paint! And you're right, Krylon only has three stained glass paint colors to choose from now. Red, Yellow and Blue.

Luckily i got it right with my last attempt, although they could be a little more transparent. I may re-do them or just get LED lights to boost output (probably the latter).

Keep us updated!

[mitsubishiv5]

Lets.cut holes in yo.fenders;

[SanJoCaF22DrAcc]

Lets.cut holes in yo.fenders;

I'm ready.

[keepinitclean]

Me next! And I believe you can use clothing dye. Just soak the reflectors in a bowl of amber overnight and it'll be all good.

[SanJoCaF22DrAcc]

Just painted now I need to wait 3 days for this stuff to cure properly and they I can assemble.

Cheap chrome from the eBay housing do not play well with enamel. They took the transparent paint really well though. Sorry for the blurry iPhone pics. I will replace them with better ones tomorrow.




Lenses came out nice though. I might have gone a little too dark but I won't know till i get some sunlight behind them tomorrow.

[Hostile]

They came out really good. Are you going to do the bumper lenses?

[SanJoCaF22DrAcc]

They came out really good. Are you going to do the bumper lenses?

Bumper lenses are done. The are just remaining black housed not getting amber lenses. I need to do another set because the bumper lenses cracked on me when I was taking em apart. I already have a pic of them up on a previous page i thought.

[SanJoCaF22DrAcc]

Corner lamp complete. I installed it just before I tore apart the front end to mock up my one piecers.









Time to get back to polishing out the clear lenses on the one piecers. I started out with 800 grit, but i am switching over to 600 to get rid of the clear coat.

[itstatcb7kid707]

Wow dude that looks great!

[keepinitclean]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh preeeeeetttttty! I like it!

[mitsubishiv5]

You are a perfectionist

[SanJoCaF22DrAcc]

Wow dude that looks great!

Thanks bro. It took lots of time and thought to achieve.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh preeeeeetttttty! I like it!

Thank you sir.

You are a perfectionist

Perfect, not quite yet. Definitely on that course though.

I never thought the look of black housed JDM headlamps with the amber corners could be replicated with USDM lighting options. Even though they will never be exact, I have managed to come close enough. It wasn't easy and I did encounter some trial and error difficulties, but I learned enough to produce a set that I can be very happy with.

The driver side corner didn't make it past the first stage. Thus the reason why there's only a picture of one. A heat gun or an oven are not the proper way of taking these apart. The plastic basically warped where I was holding it as I was trying to pry it apart. This was the first issue I came across. I will need to try a hot Exacto blade next time.

The next thing I noticed is that Euro clear corners are missing the the Clear diffuser inside the corner lamp. Depot clears have the diffuser, however I really don't like the clear reflector that they have. I ended up hitting the JY in search of just those.

Mitsubishiv5 and I came across a pair that would work. We went to 2 yards before a set was found. I took into considerations of the details in the diffuser itself. There was an outer lip that I chose to paint black. I had to wait to find a suitable paint that was going to match my side markers and most importantly remain clear/transparent not translucent. I tried a couple of products and finally ended up using some stained glass paint and an airbrush to apply it. I couldn't find any product in a rattle can. Krylon has discontinued that color from their stained glass paint. I'm actually glad about this last fact because I am very happy with the final results of the color, and I found a new product to achieve this.

I am very proud of the final results and I know the next set will be even better.

On a side note. I made a lot of progress on polishing out my JDM headlights. With a bucket of water and a sanding block, they went through 600, 800, 1000, 1500, & 2000 grit sand paper. I probably have about 7 hours into them at the moment. A few of those hours came from mitsubishiv5. Thanks again for the help bro. Updated pics of those will be up soon enough.