So to summarize, I cracked the housing and went to town. Sanded, primed, and painted the housing pieces matte black on the trim and radiant silver on the smaller pieces. Tinted the amber reflector with 1 coat of nightshade and a few coats of clear - still reflects perfect. My original light mods were a custom Iron Man using fabricated 6k white LED's, a CCFL halo on the projector, and a color changing demon eye.

I updated this mod by retrofitting the high beam with a projector shroud, painting both the low and high beam shrouds matte black and upgraded the CCFL halo to dual Umnitza Orion V2 LED halos.

I pre-wired everything with wireless remotes, went outside and put it all in my car. Here are the results...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJpq9NUjth4

thats pretty amazing!!

Nicely done Dan.

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW THATS SO FN NICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

list of products used?


Awesome job btw.

I thought it was going to be "too much" but it looks good!

Damn you Dan!!! Hate Hate Hate, lol!!!

Bro! Amazin job with this... sh*t looks HAWT!!! Congrats bro - nicely done.

BTW - I hate you Dan

That is truly very nice. Great job.

This is just beautiful. Best headlight setup i have seen in my opinion. Wonderful job.

WOW.

if they look that good during the day, can just imagine how the night shots will look

Props sir. . .

Looks good. Any chance for night shots?

damn!!!!! thats freakin nice!!!!

Some inspirational work you've done right there!

WRITE UP!!!!!.....PLEASE!!!!!!!!!


BTW....LOOKS SICCCCCK

looks cool man..maxpowercustoms and i have been modifying headlights for a while now...good to see some people can tackle it themselves

Very nice.. I wish I had shops to do headlight painting and custom work like that in my area. Kmoney I'm curious what you got up your sleeves.

looking very nice, Congrats

That looks really good man!! Great job!!

i cant reveal it just yet. its too soon but i can say one thing that its something nobody has done to their headlight or will ever dare try it.

came out great !

curious on where u purchase these products from?

that looks sick! WELCOME TO THE HEADLIGHT MOD KREW! lolol

Man that is off da hook, I'm really feelin that set up-plus the car is Silver like mine.

wow, thanks for all the love guys this is more replies than i was expecting damn. i wont lie it was a ton of work but definitely was worth it in the end. as my girl put it about an hour or so ago - "so you're getting a car alarm now?" lol...

here are some night shots, i did the best i could with my terrible camera ill see if i can borrow a nice one with a tripod and take some properly. these just do NOT do it justice...

Angel eyes


Iron man


Iron man + angel eyes close up


Iron man + angel eyes + red demon eye


Iron man with blue demon eye


Angel eye with blue demon eye


Iron man with green demon eye


Iron man + purple demon eye


Iron man + green demon eye


Iron man + blue demon eyes far shot


Red demon eyes (TERMINATOR)


Blue demon eyes


Iron man + blue demon eye + LED strips + parking lights


Shot from above, right side only


And last but not least...everything...Iron man + angel eyes + 8k low beams + parking lights + 6k LED strips + 6k HID fogs

niceeeeee

My wife says I never grew up, because I still love crayons and coloring books and really nice lights on my car.
I'm glad she is in the den, and can't see me slobbering over daniel's lights.

That's very nice!!! Thanks for the pic

One word.......DAMN!!!!!! How did you figure out how to do that type of stuff man? All I can say is that you got it DOWN man. Truly a custom set of headlights.

OOHHHWEEEEEE looks too sick Dan!!!

Im calling the red eyes Megatron, cuz he looks like hes about to jump out of the lights =]

Love ur 7th gen and the fact that its silver

duuude those lights are sick! awesome job.

holy ****? how did you do this? tell us now!!

That looks amazing! U gotta get a nice camera and shoot some hq photos to see the detail. Jealous!

Looking good there Dan

those r some of the sickest headlights i've seen yet!!!! AWESOME JOB! ya gotta tell me how ya did the iron man in there

I have to agree with everyone else!!!!!!! They look SICK!!!! I am a jealous fan! Keep it up and I am sure most of us can't wait for a full write up....with pics of course!

Thats the SICKEST headlights ive seen good job!!!!!!!

Active bruh!! to yuh!

Thats really hot

Paint : dupli-color adhesion promoter, dupli-color high temp matte black, k12-radiant silver, VHT nightshades, dupli-color high temp clear, 3M scratch remover, microfiber rags for polishing

Lights : LEDs from Oznium, ordered the Superflux that were not pre-wired cause the pre-wired definitely do not fit, CCFL I got through a friend, resistors from Oznium

Wiring : soldering iron, solder, wires, heat shrink tubing, high temp epoxy

thanks man, but honestly I don't think i can do a complete write-up it was an immense amount of work. most of it was just knowing how to solder and how to drill plastic without cracking which you can learn on Youtube or Google. the rest was just me messing around in MSPaint, seeing what looked good, and then test fitting everything on the shroud and seeing how it fit which I obviously needed the headlight cracked open for. I broke several LEDs in my test fitting and had to rework my project several times to get the wires/LEDs/resistors to fit, so it was definitely hard. if you dont know how to solder LED's and resistors then I'd stay away from this project until you learn - it was a ton of custom fabrication in regards to the lighting.

well i talked to a few other members to figure out how to crack the headlights, and learned how to paint using Youtube and testing on my engine bay panels last month. the rest was just me knowing how to solder and doing my best to make stuff fit in the tiny little projector we have. couldnt do a complete iron man all the way around, but i like mine i think it looks like angry eyes. i should have installed the CCFL tilted too so the dark part would match up with the dark part of the iron man...but oh well. it's not perfect but i think it turned out good enough for my first headlight project.

lots and lots of planning, close to 3 months of gathering materials and planning how everything would come together. wish it was as easy as saying "just buy this LED ring and glue it to the back of the projector" but it wasnt...was lots of soldering and cussing when things broke and re-soldering. lets just say im lucky i bought a few extra LED's.

working on it, my boy has one and should be coming over this weekend with his tripod cause he wants pics too, ill def post them up when i get em.

lol again I'd love to do a full write up but we're talking about documenting ~ 40+ hours of labor (yes 40+ maybe I'm slow but it took a LONG TIME). i did take pics the whole way through the project at different stages though (130+ pictures so def not posting them all here) so let me know if you want to see something specific



again thanks for all the props everyone - its cool having a mod that doesnt get the response "oh thats the BMW thing" or "oh thats the AUDI" thing. it gets a "where the hell did you buy those?" which is fun to respond to saying i made them.

-D