Kevlo911

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impressive

Mistah_M

a hood wit a raised part in the middle comin from the grill wud look sickkk. i wish i had money to do **** wit my maxima =[

TreizeRXH

Personally I believe if it's not love at first sight, you don't like it to begin with. but the car looks sick, awesome work man

tigersharkdude

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English, use it

Rods03Max619

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Damn the Max is looking good will try the intake manifold paint on next tune up!!

maxgtr2000

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Nice build thread, looking forward to the hood modification and how the retro turns out.

TheArtist

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thanks for all the comment guys. ill be working on the retro tonight so that should be done soon. just painting the rest of my parts today. still need to do my lip kit.

tested out how the lights look against my color. it looks alright but once i put the trunk back on i gan get a better idea if i wanna keep the tails or not

ChrisMan287

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I think red/clears would look better than those semi-smoked ones with your color and white rims.

TheArtist

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i agree, i just hate the diamond look but love how the 95 trunk has the curved indentation towards the bottom. wish i could some how make the 97-99 fit but i know thats not possible

ChrisMan287

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There's no way you could get the '97-'99 tails to fit without major modification but I don't think it would be worth it and it might look weird.

Maybe we should just trade tails Yours for my David L's plus cash on your end?

TheArtist

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haha man youre really wanting my tails. let me get my rear end finished then ill let you know.

ok so i need some advice on my retro. i feel its just too plain and boring. like it needs some type of chrome or somthing else outlining the light.

anyway here are the pictures. only took me a half hour to mock all this up lol

ChrisMan287

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I just want something different lol Plus my new Volks are gunmetal and my retro uses black housed headlights so some smoked tails would work. Plus I'm trying to get tint sometime in the spring.

Now for the headlights, paint the black shrouds burple and paint the lens retaining rings white. That would look fresh and funky. You could maybe even paint the rest of the housing burple, leave the shrouds black and again paint the retaining rings white.

TheArtist

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those are some good ideas.

what kind of volks are you getting and shoot me some pictures of your tails so i know what im working with

max_dreamer

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paint the inside WHITE! ooooo! ive always wanted to see someone do that to the r34's... color match of some sort. i think it would really pop with some diamond bumper lenses and then the original david l's... just a thought

TheArtist

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i just dont know if i wanna go that crazy with it but i can always paint it back to flat black so ill try it out and get some pictures up in 15 minutes or so

TheArtist

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yeah i get results done fast. kind of like it but i wont know till i put it on the car

max_dreamer

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oooo, i like! but why not completely white?! n then maybe some uv ccfls or leds for a burple glow?

either way, thats really gonna set it off with the white wheels!

TheArtist

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im planning on doing a white led strip along the top of the light almost like a eyebrow. as for the all white i wanted some kind of contrast because my mirriors are flat black

max_dreamer

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oh ok, so thats not the only black! otherwise itd prolly just look weird! have you thought about the uv leds? put them on a switch? might look pretty cool at night.

TheArtist

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yes my whole interior is uv other then the dash area lol got something special for the door steps

i would like to put them in there but dont know where they could go. i want a clean look with no lights showing

TheArtist

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ok just looked and there should be enough for 2 rows of leds on the top. so the outside will be white and the inside will be the uv

max_dreamer

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well then actually do an eyebrow. then you can hide both the white and uv in there. itll just create a glow. or just enough eyebrow to hide the uv's then the whites can follow the eyebrow for the audi look. that would be pretty sick, slanted eyebrow leds!

you doing a little glowing plexi in the sills?

TheArtist

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probably not but yeah im going to tint where the eyebrow will be so the led lights will show through. the leds will face out and the uv lights will be facing down

max_dreamer

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yeah that would be pretty cool! can you get really dark uv's? or tint them?

TheArtist

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what would be the point in that? you wouldnt see where the light is coming from

max_dreamer

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just for a darker color. no other reason. im pretty sure most uv leds are still pretty bright

TheArtist

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the uv would look exactly like this. looks awesome at night and bouncing off the white would be intense, i can only look for so long till it starts hurting my eyes

ChrisMan287

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Yeah give it a shot. The entire white didn't look bad but I think they'll stick out just a little too much. Less white and more flat black or burple would look much better but would still look sick and stand out somewhat.

I got 18" Volk GT-N's with tires. I can send you pics of my tails but they're just your standard David L outers with stock inners. I'd also need your wiring harnesses for the tails and I'd give you mine.

TheArtist

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wow those are gonna look clean!!

agreed, i will probably leave some white in there but make more of it black.

yeah i will do that and keep the led lights in there along with the wire harness.

ChrisMan287

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Thanks man, two of em need a repaint but I really don't mind. I'm gonna re-do them gunmetal and call it a day.

Can't wait to see the finished result of your retro though, UV lights in there on the white painted parts are going to look sick. We have such similar tastes in modifying.

I'll give you my bulbs as well (stock bulbs for the brakes, orange bulbs for the signals and LED reverse lights). I'd need your set first though seeing as the car is my daily.

TheArtist

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sounds good. i should have everything back together by thursday so ill let you know then and post up pictures of the tails on the car

ChrisMan287

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Sweet I'll be checkin' in on the thread fasho.

TheArtist

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well got all my parts painted just in time. will probably be raining all week

colombianmaxima

Damn she looking sexy , looks like I got todo some more work on mine , competition is good though , I love reading these restorations

TheArtist

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well here are all the rest of the body parts and one of my trunk with the inner light. hate that my camera makes the color blue and my tail lights are not that light but they still look good

ChrisMan287

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I wonder how the rear is gonna look with those tails and the white rims. Might not look so bad after all but like you said your tails definitely aren't that light.

TheArtist

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hah yeah i just wish it wasnt going to rain tomorrow so i could install everything. hey got a question for you, do you think i should do my lip kit flat black or color match to the car?

Idrivea98Maxima

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question wasnt to me but i would have to say flat black

ChrisMan287

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At least it isn't snowing there

Anyway, paint the lip body color. Flat black with that color is gonna look tacky, unpainted and unfinished. Keep it clean brotha.

TheArtist

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That's what I assumed everyone would say, looks unfinished bla bla bla.