Craig Mack

It's pretty easy to see that the headlights on the 4th Gen. Maximas are pretty plain. How about making some kind of eyelids that wrap around the entire headlight and give it a newer 240sx/skyline look to it?



My MS paint skillz look a lot worse when the picture is bigger




And now for the taillights for us 95-96ers. I dont really like how they are fatter and more bubbly then the 97-99's. What if we could put a trim around it to make it look thinner and sharper?



What do you guys think? They could make them out of polyurethane or something and stick on with high strength adhesives. I personally would love the idea of seeing these get made to give the 95-99 | 95-96 Maxima a much more aggressive look.

95emeraldgxe

i'm not too fond of the chinese eyes look, but 1hotmax posted a pic a few days ago where he used some sort of black rubber/vinyl strips and placed it around the headlights, looked pretty good

Craig Mack

I saw those pics. I wasn't fond of the chinese eye'd look at first, but if it's done right it would look aggressive.

EZEMaxima

That's easy!!! Go buy some clear headlight covers and paint what ever pattern floats your boat from the inside making sure to color match it to your car. I did this before with my 94 Honda Accord, but i just did the eyelid look.

Craig Mack

Yea, I know they are out there. Last time I checked, Autobarn was out of clear headlight covers. I just wanted to get a specially made set made out of material for the Maxima. As for the taillights, Gregory?

gtr_rider

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That car comes like that...

Craig Mack

I know

gtr_rider

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Oh yea, why not just get someone to flap the hood over the lights.. LIke the GTI boys.

Craig Mack

Pics? Seems like that would be too much of a custom/expensive job.

gtr_rider

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Craig Mack

Looks like an angry baby.

Black adhesive outlines for the tails...now that's something i'd buy. Would make us 95-96's a little sexier.

Chinkzilla

I dunno, I kinda like the way the E-class mercedes has that caucasian eyes look in the headlights.

You couldn't find another adjective? moron.

maxfanfromohio

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I was wondering when someone was going to say something.

gtr_rider

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Craig Mack

GTR, your more artistic then me, i'm sure you can invision what these would look like as well as I can. Narrowed, thinned, meaner, less conservative and bubbly. Southwest, CM, Warpspeed, Henrik, someone get on this.

gtr_rider

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I dont do that anymore, for free anyway, cuz people like to rip off ideas

Craig Mack

You don't do what anymore? Are you talking about your photoshopping? I was just saying that i'm sure you can invision what our tails would look like with some "outliners".

dwapenyi

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That tailight idea looks great! Makes a 95-96 maxima rear end actually look good

One thing I would suggest, too, is that you make the reverse and signal light thinner, as you've already done, but keep the brake lights big.

DW

gtr_rider

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yes, and yes

Craig Mack

Kinda like taillight "eyelids" ? I donno, I think black all the way around would look more symmetrical, don't you? I mean, having the upper lights thinner might look weird.

TurDz

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Might as well design a whole new tail light housing. I think it would sell like crazy to the 95-96 owners. I would like a smoke outline on the tailights rather than black....and, maybe, a cleaner red/clear housing such as current cars today? whoever can create these will get a crazy amount of business from us.

Craig Mack

I redid the pic. I made the top a little thinner then the bottom, but trimmed everything up. Tell me what you think boys.



Vs.




Kinda hard to tell with MS paint, but you get an idea at least.

Craig Mack

Well bro, that sounds really good and all, but that's alot of $$$ your talking about. And what about all of us who already have clear/red's? Creating polyurethane or whatever outlines that secure tightly and what not that could be painted to look stock would be just as good at a fraction of the price. They could come primed.

TurDz

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I'm included in that statement "and what about all of us who already have clear/red's?" Just tossing out ideas, that's all.

Maximan190

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gtr_rider

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RastaManMax

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No offence, but that looks really fugly... That GTI looks like a ****ed off baby...

LEMAR

Maximan190

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Larry H

good job guys. maximan, that looks great. I would definitely buy tailight covers if they came out looking like that.

CKNY

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if you're gonna do it you have to do it right (ie bodywork) - any vinyl sticker or anything will just come out looking really sh!tty

CKNY

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does anyone find it slightly ironic that this statement comes from someone who has "*****" in their user name???

Dave B

What's so hard about the tails? Simply paint them. If you F-up, take fingernail polish remover and remove the paint. It won't cloud up the plastic like thinner will. I've had all kinds of different setups with my taillights. Instead of using translucent paint like myself, just use regular spray paint.

*obviously take off the taillights when you paint them


Dave

amixam98

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It's ok for him to say cuz he is one and not ok for non-****** to say it.

Chinkzilla

it's meant to convey irony =P

I was going to write a really defensive and angry response, but there's no need. I understand what you mean. My name is a bit of tongue in cheek humor. I guess being called a *****, slope, slant, squinty, "those ORIENTALS", your whole life kinda gets to you, and you gotta make some fun out of it.

My original point was that he could have picked ANY other way to describe them without comparing them to a wildly exaggerated racial feature =P. Does it not basically amount to "all chinese people have slanted squinty eyes?"
I'm sorry if I don't find that flattering. I certainly don't look like that. It's true that some do, so? Is it any different than freckles? Do we need to assign a racial label to it? Do we call freckles, "Irish Spots?"

I don't like being the one to raise hell, but I find in general, most asians just lie down and take this crap. It seems to be a cultural thing. Try it on a black guy, before you know it every civil rights group in the country will be on your case.

In this country if you don't speak up, you get walked on. That's just how it is. Honestly, CALL me a "*****" I don't care as long as it's in good humor. But too often it's not.

Bad habits tend to become a social norm if not spoken out about. That is what my name is conveying. It's become politically correct for us not to point out ignorance.

You can think i'm flying off the handle if you like. I don't care, I just want people to be aware that I do not consider comments like that to be cool.

amixam98

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Well said bro.

Street Reeper

For the 95-96 has anyone tried to make it look like the jetta tails. That would be reding out the turn signals, and tinting the reverse lights, just like the jetta's. I have seen the entire tails red (thought it was a little too much red) but did not see any like I described, and I can't search.

Nice supercharger by the way Craig.

Craig Mack

thanks

Dave B

Look at my homepage.


Dave

Street Reeper

Clutch as alway's Dave, do you still have the hacked air box? I went with a JWT popcharger that is fed from the large pipe running under my car, I don't notice a big differnce other than the sound. Do you have a write up of the tails?

Thanks for the reply.

Dave B

The tails are simple. Buy a can of "hobby" translucent red and smoke paint. Pull out the tails, tape off the style you want, and paint the tails in multiple light coats. That's it. Use fingernail polish remover if you don't like it or mess up. I use to have both the turnsigal and reverse light smoked and that looked pretty good too. Nearly all the stock light still shines thru also.

As for the stock hacked airbox, I love it and it looks stock which I like. Pretty much the lower airbox is just a wide open box. It's still fed cool air from the stock intake snorkel. All the resonators are removed plus I have a K&N filter panel (may go with a Amsoil foam filter panel). I've switched between this setup and my HKS hybrid setup about 10 times now I've tested it at the track and there's no measureable difference in performance (96+mph traps). The sound is sweet too. It seems to sound more refined and aggressive.


Dave