Dallas Nissan Enthusiasts Taillight Mod
05-13-2003, 09:28 AM
#1
Dallas Nissan Enthusiasts Taillight Mod
hey guys... been procrastinating about showing this. It is a "smoked" diamond clear a$$.
This is my buddy with a 99 GLE.
My 95 is the car on the right and the middle car is a 99 SE-L.
Some REAL pretty ***** for a really cheap price. We thought we'd share our find.
Thanks to dtholman for this awesome idea!
BlueBOB
This is my buddy with a 99 GLE.
My 95 is the car on the right and the middle car is a 99 SE-L.
Some REAL pretty ***** for a really cheap price. We thought we'd share our find.
Thanks to dtholman for this awesome idea!
BlueBOB
05-13-2003, 09:36 AM
#2
Re: Dallas Nissan Enthusiasts Taillight Mod
Originally posted by BlueBOB
hey guys... been procrastinating about showing this. It is a "smoked" diamond clear a$$.
This is my buddy with a 99 GLE.
My 95 is the car on the right and the middle car is a 99 SE-L.
Some REAL pretty ***** for a really cheap price. We thought we'd share our find.
Thanks to dtholman for this awesome idea!
BlueBOB
hey guys... been procrastinating about showing this. It is a "smoked" diamond clear a$$.
This is my buddy with a 99 GLE.
My 95 is the car on the right and the middle car is a 99 SE-L.
Some REAL pretty ***** for a really cheap price. We thought we'd share our find.
Thanks to dtholman for this awesome idea!
BlueBOB
That looks awesome! I like very much.
05-13-2003, 12:17 PM
#10
Originally posted by njmaxseltd
Links? Instructions? How to's? Where to? GET THEM???
Bet they would look hot on my color.
Links? Instructions? How to's? Where to? GET THEM???
Bet they would look hot on my color.
bty why is in called Dallas Nissan Enthusiasts Taillight Mod?
05-14-2003, 03:04 AM
#21
damn i need red clears really bad... ahha.. 96 tails are kinda foogly..what do you guys think of the 95-95 tails with red out on the amber. think im a do that until i can afford red/clears. ohh... much props on the smoke.. get that write up done.
05-14-2003, 06:45 AM
#23
Yeah... I'll go ahead and do a write up. It's a cake walk!
I got lucky and got my all clear tails from a member here that wanted to do the skyline tails with altezzas, so I bought his all clears and made the DTM (Dallas Taillight Mod).
This exact procedure has not been discussed from what I could find before the search was removed. The reason it's called the Dallas Nissan Enthusiasts Taillight Mod is because we have a large Nissan group here in Nissan and one of our members came up with the idea. There are 5 Maxima's with this mod. 2 Black, 1 Sterling Mist, 1 Pearl White (about to be 2), and my Blue 95.
Yes, that car in the middle is a sterling mist.
As far as the red piece removed, that was a choice darrick made to keep. The other black max with the mod took his out and with a normal halogen peanut bulb it looks kinda fugly IMO.
To better explain the process, it's VERY similar to the diamond tail mod. After doing this mod on these Max's, I could never understand why anyone would put anything back in the tails.
Quick Instructions:
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1) Take apart turn signal taillight and remove amber plastic.
2) Spray paint the inside of the turn signal housing. (we just covered up the other part and used black flat spray paint from Autozone. we considered doing black gloss, but decided against it :dunno: )
3) Take the reverse light tail assembly off the car open it up the same way and remove the clear insert and spray paint the inside of that housing black as well
4) When painting, be sure to put on a few coats and get it all in there.
I guess I'll have to write a full write up on the subject soon.
Thanks for the props guys... we like them too!
Chris
I got lucky and got my all clear tails from a member here that wanted to do the skyline tails with altezzas, so I bought his all clears and made the DTM (Dallas Taillight Mod).
This exact procedure has not been discussed from what I could find before the search was removed. The reason it's called the Dallas Nissan Enthusiasts Taillight Mod is because we have a large Nissan group here in Nissan and one of our members came up with the idea. There are 5 Maxima's with this mod. 2 Black, 1 Sterling Mist, 1 Pearl White (about to be 2), and my Blue 95.
Yes, that car in the middle is a sterling mist.
As far as the red piece removed, that was a choice darrick made to keep. The other black max with the mod took his out and with a normal halogen peanut bulb it looks kinda fugly IMO.
To better explain the process, it's VERY similar to the diamond tail mod. After doing this mod on these Max's, I could never understand why anyone would put anything back in the tails.
Quick Instructions:
---------------------------------
1) Take apart turn signal taillight and remove amber plastic.
2) Spray paint the inside of the turn signal housing. (we just covered up the other part and used black flat spray paint from Autozone. we considered doing black gloss, but decided against it :dunno: )
3) Take the reverse light tail assembly off the car open it up the same way and remove the clear insert and spray paint the inside of that housing black as well
4) When painting, be sure to put on a few coats and get it all in there.
I guess I'll have to write a full write up on the subject soon.
Thanks for the props guys... we like them too!
Chris
05-14-2003, 09:38 AM
#27
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Scituate, MA
Posts: 73
Can you paint the yellow ones black and get the same effect? Or would that not work? I've got the clear inserts all set to go in, just waiting for a nice day to do it. I'd like to tint/paint them too, just don't want to *** it up.
05-14-2003, 10:51 AM
#28
omg-that is so tight! 
gonna be a must when i get a new taillight for the drivers side-it has a crack on the little sidemarker part-would i tbe ok to do it anyway, or would you guys get another one? I don't want it to like split or shatter. most definetly a mod i wanna do.
gonna be a must when i get a new taillight for the drivers side-it has a crack on the little sidemarker part-would i tbe ok to do it anyway, or would you guys get another one? I don't want it to like split or shatter. most definetly a mod i wanna do.
05-14-2003, 11:52 PM
#32
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 437
Re: Dallas Nissan Enthusiasts Taillight Mod
Originally posted by BlueBOB
hey guys... been procrastinating about showing this. It is a "smoked" diamond clear a$$.
This is my buddy with a 99 GLE.
My 95 is the car on the right and the middle car is a 99 SE-L.
Some REAL pretty ***** for a really cheap price. We thought we'd share our find.
Thanks to dtholman for this awesome idea!
BlueBOB
hey guys... been procrastinating about showing this. It is a "smoked" diamond clear a$$.
This is my buddy with a 99 GLE.
My 95 is the car on the right and the middle car is a 99 SE-L.
Some REAL pretty ***** for a really cheap price. We thought we'd share our find.
Thanks to dtholman for this awesome idea!
BlueBOB
05-15-2003, 09:55 AM
#33
Originally posted by laba
Can you paint the yellow ones black and get the same effect? Or would that not work? I've got the clear inserts all set to go in, just waiting for a nice day to do it. I'd like to tint/paint them too, just don't want to *** it up.
Can you paint the yellow ones black and get the same effect? Or would that not work? I've got the clear inserts all set to go in, just waiting for a nice day to do it. I'd like to tint/paint them too, just don't want to *** it up.
05-15-2003, 11:59 AM
#35
How is the visibility during the day? The regular clears mod is bad enough but spraying the whole thing with flat black paint (even though there's no inserts) doesn't sound like it helps. I like the way it looks but I'm hesitant to make my turn signals even harder to see.
05-19-2003, 06:23 AM
#36
We haven't done it to a beige YET. SeximaGTR is supposed to donate his soon! Pics of that to come.
The visibility is fine during the day, IMO. Mine are pretty bright and so are Darrick's. We need to go out and take a bunch of pics with the lights at night and during the day.
Pics of that to come.The visibility is fine during the day, IMO. Mine are pretty bright and so are Darrick's. We need to go out and take a bunch of pics with the lights at night and during the day.
05-20-2003, 05:23 AM
#38
OK. We did it on CMOE221's black 97 last week. We used gunmetal paint instead of true black. Looks awesome. Now we're gonna do the AE headlights on his ride tonight with gunmetal as well. This is gonna be sweeeet. Thanks DNE.
David
David
05-20-2003, 07:16 AM
#40
Yeah. Pull apart the housings. A ll four of them. Remove all the lenses (orange and clear) and paint the chrome housing whatever color you want. Then reheat and put back the housings. you're done. It's easier than red/clears. No damn lens to cut.
David
David