(Updated w/pics)New eyes on this Lara!(ZoomZoom's Gen 2)

by **ClassySolaraGuy** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:03 am

Hey all!

This weekend I decided to do yet another mod to my girls Lara. I just can't stop lol! As far as custom headlights go for the Gen 2 lara's I have seen: eye lids, tint & reflector removal but not painted headlight housing. It has been talked about but I haven't seen it put into action so I thought I'd step up & execute. Here is a little preview of them.

by **Sebas007** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:15 am

Nice work !! Hurry to see it on the car !

by **PhreakdOut** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:25 am

I've been waiting to see someone do this. For mine, I had planned on painting these areas red to match the body color. Black or unpainted would look hot as well.

Nice work, I look forward to seeing the final results.

by **woa_its_j3ff** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:27 am

imo i would keep the housing black if you're looking to paint it. maybe it's just the type of car but a few days ago I saw a red IS300 with the headlight housing painted red to the same color of the car, and i'm telling you it looked ugly, just my opinion though, good luck on the project!

by **michaels artic frost** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:31 am

congrats and good luck w/ your project.

There's a gold plated set, which tacti has. There's also a chrome and black, similiar to what you're trying to do there. There's also another set of all black housing floating around as well. From my sources, there were several of these floating around on actual solaras, but no owners besides Tact has posted pics.

These were all done as test products from the actual manufacturer of our headlights, which never went into full productions.

Good luck and glad to see you doing the work yourself. It's always a great feeling for these projects done as DIY projects. Only the owner knows the hard work that is involved. PROPS!!!

-Michael T.

by **PoshPepper** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:42 am

Looking good, cant wait to see them on the car!!!

by **ClassySolaraGuy** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:59 pm

Sebas007 wrote: Nice work !! Hurry to see it on the car !

I'll be posting pics after dinner tonight

PhreakdOut wrote: I've been waiting to see someone do this. For mine, I had planned on painting these areas red to match the body color. Black or unpainted would look hot as well.

Nice work, I look forward to seeing the final results.

Thx Brian, Those 2 combo's would look way sick!

woa_its_j3ff wrote:imo i would keep the housing black if you're looking to paint it. maybe it's just the type of car but a few days ago I saw a red IS300 with the headlight housing painted red to the same color of the car, and i'm telling you it looked ugly, just my opinion though, good luck on the project!

Lol Jeff!...You know they used to be all chrome. I just painted them a dark charcoal metallic. I do agree with you on some that paint them with the same color scheme of their car's. On cars like the Lara I think they would look awesome but on other...blah!

michaels artic frost wrote:
congrats and good luck w/ your project.

There's a gold plated set, which tacti has. There's also a chrome and black, similiar to what you're trying to do there. There's also another set of all black housing floating around as well. From my sources, there were several of these floating around on actual solaras, but no owners besides Tact has posted pics.

These were all done as test products from the actual manufacturer of our headlights, which never went into full productions.

Good luck and glad to see you doing the work yourself. It's always a great feeling for these projects done as DIY projects. Only the owner knows the hard work that is involved. PROPS!!!

-Michael T.

Thx for the props Mike! I had forgotten about Tact's headlight's. It does feel way good to DIY. I'll tell you what though, These bad boys could probably be submerged underwater after all the silicon I used to seal them up!

**PoshPepper** wrote: Looking good, cant wait to see them on the car!!

Thx Posh...Will def post pics later today!

by **kingkakyle** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:03 pm

wow that paintjob looks so clean
it looks like it came from the factory!!
cant wait to see some pics of it on the car

by **PXLpainter** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:07 pm

I was thinking of doing the exact same thing to mine - only in a flat black so that LIDAR will have a smaller target to shoot at!

Can't wait for you to finish your damn dinner already and get some pics up! :lol:

by **Biggi_e** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:28 pm

looks great! lucky zoomzoom...this spring/summer im taking my headlights apart again to make it look cleaner from the previous job i did of removing the orange deflector..might try this as well.

by **---CAMRAZY---** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:09 pm

Good work son, I hope Jes loves it and rewards that job with something good.... eh?

by **ClassySolaraGuy** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:34 pm

All right all...Here are some shots of them on her Lara.

Also painted the lower grille to match the top.

by **Biggi_e** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:37 pm

sort of hard to tell but it still looks great. what did you use to open up your lights? i used a heatgun which took forever

by **Sebas007** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:49 pm

On a black Solara it must look even better !! I like it !

by **SolaraBlue** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:55 pm

looks clean.

(Updated w/pics)New eyes on this Lara!(ZoomZoom's Gen 2)

(Updated w/pics)New eyes on this Lara!(ZoomZoom's Gen 2)

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