I'm having my car painted black right now and I was thinking about smoking my corner and side lenses. I wanted to see if anyone has done it and if so if they could show me a picture. I want to get mental picture before I decide to do it.

 

Dude I want to do the exact same thing LOL. Except I'm also smoking the taillights to complete blackout. I've seen the taillights blacked out and it looks sweet as ****. I'm just still trying to find taillight paint that wont set me back $30 a can

 

VHI Night Shades. 3 light coats and 2 coats of clear. Ordered mine from Summitt.

 

see sig search ebay for VHT NITESHADES

 

atkins dan has been making clear corners and selling them, and people are trying to get him to make smoked ones. the thread is down abit if you want to check it out

 

yeah I saw those and thats why I'm trying to decide if I like the factory colored smoked or if the clears would look better.

 

i used 5 thick coats, you can hardly tell a difference in the lights and the finisher, i love the look.

i highly reccoment a led 3rd brakelight as the lights are obviouslly harder to see in the daytime, nighttime is no prob tho
ive got a 10 inch led strip 3rd brakelight, ill try and get some pics of it, its freakin bright

 

sorry i havnt gotten back to ya yet man! i havnt seen my guy, and the car is in storage for the rest of the winter. like was said...nite shades from summit.com. $13.69 for a can. stock number VHT-SP999. i have 3 coats on my tail lights, but make sure there are no grease spots on the lens, or the paint wont stick that well. and i'll e-mail you the pics with the lights on as soon as the car comes out of storage (april). just stay on my *** about it or i will probally forget!

 

Go buy some LED taillight bulbs, they are now making them for OEM replacment on older cars. They are so bright! seriously, either get them at autozone or on ebay...

 

You used too many coats. I used 3 coats on mine, left the red reflectors unpainted, and mine show up fine in the daytime.

Look for my thread titiled 'Unveiling'. There should be a good shot of the rear tails in there. Don't need to smoke the side markers, have none.

 

^^^You should post the link for those of us who are too lazy to search LOL

 

Hey does the Nite Shades make the reverse lenses appear red or pink when they're lit up?

 

Here you go lazy,

 

Nice. You have one sweet FB there trochoid. You should post some more pics of it so we can see all it's beauty LOL

 

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...ight=unvieling

 

Nice. Very sweet. And that car looks excellent in flat black. Interior is nice and slick too. Kudos to VERY excellent work

 

heres the link to find it on summit, for all you lazy people!

http://store.summitracing.com/defaul....asp&x=42&y=14


VHT Nite Shades Coating
Create a custom look.

VHT's Nite Shades coating is a transparent black taillight lens coating for creating a custom look. When applied to taillights, fog lights, or turn indicators, VHT Nite Shades appears black--until the lights are lit. Then the natural color appears; red, in the case of taillights. It's recommended for off-road use only, as it may not be legal in some areas.

 

Damn I should have been really lazy and not searched for that already LOL

 

i am so glad i found this thread. i've been trying to find taillight black out paint, and even though i got it before at canadian tire, they don't stock it anymore...

do you scruff up the inside of the lens first before you spray, or just clean it and spray?...i was thinking maybe using a really fine sandpaper to help make the paint stick better...any comments?

oh, did you leave those little squares unpainted on your taillights? or is it just the way it looks normally

nick

 

I tried a little something different, I sanded the letters off the lenses before I tinted them, then I just put them on the inside of the fender for a cleaner look without the moulding on the car. It looks a little sketchy with the screw heads showing, but once I weld on a little tab it will be much slicker. The shape of the hole isnt even that bad!

 

^^^If you're gonna do that just fill in the hole and sand it all smooth and have no side markers at all. How did you do your taillights?

 

The paint goes on the outside. The lenses need to be cleaned, degreased, wiped down with prepsol or something similiar. Do not sand!! I masked off the reflectors in hopes it would keep me less noticed by the popo and the car would show up better when parked. Don't need to get sideswiped parked on a dark street.

 

^^^I thought that's how it was done but I wasn't sure

 

will the cops bother u for tinting that ****

 

really i didn't even think for a second that you would paint them on the outside.

is this the way everyone does it?

i am goign to do my side markers as well, should they be painted on the outside too?