They'll look great once painted...nice work man

 

Thanks for all the complements.

To Snub Disphenoid, it took them a good month and a half to get them out to me. Although it me riding them on a daily basis for weeks before they finally shipped out. In all honesty i would personally never buy anything from them again, their customer service is not bad, but it is far from good. Also, the quality of the kit is ok. I had to do quite a few modifications to get it to work properly:

1) i had to modify the brackets a-la oval the holes to get the lights to line up to the body correctly.
2) After adjusting the position of the lights there was a gap between the light beams and the housing. So i temporarily had to used some high temp black RTV between the two to prevent moisture from getting into the housing. It has worked well but, i am looking for a better alternative.
3) In order to mount the front of the lights to the bumper i had to completlely remove the bracket from the lights and drill a hole and then fasten it with an allen head stud, some washers and bolts that i got from home depot.

All in all I give the experience a 5 out of 10. For the price of the kit, if you have the know-how, or the resources, you could do it a whole lot cheaper. My advice to all, buy at your own risk.

more updates to come...

 

I think it saved about 10-15 pounds from the front of the car. not alot, but for a weight saver every bit counts.
I definitely will paint the inside and vent of the housing. Can someone do a photoshop with the lights, hood, and moulding painted the same color as the car. I will try a ghetto version with microsoft paint when i get off work.

 

Here's a ghetto photoshop with the lights painted to match, somewhat....

 

looking much better already

 

Once you get them paint that will look great, the red/black combo only works with the black s4 trim IMO. Looks great though good job.

 

it would look realy good with everthing red ,i second that the black does not go ,only my 2 cents , but it looks great,nice fc good luck

 

painting them is a mistake.... they will look cheap after and not as agressive

 

Test

 

my own ghetto setup for much cheaper

 

cpracing is located in Canada..but I dont' know why you haven't gotten them if you ordered them in march. Anyways they look pretty good..nice fc man..can't wait to see the finished product =)

 

lol so cf hood only looks good with janky nasty s4 trim? oh right, you hacked your roof off...

 

Thanks Bitteliten thant photoshop is beautiful! I am definitely going to paint them red now!

By the way Dltreezan, i really like that kit your putting together. Are you selling the fenders yet? i just might have to buy some from you before i paint.

 

personally it reminds me of either a panda bear or a crack ***** the big black lnes all around arent apealing to me

but if the headlights were like this i would really like it



(Edit...Sig violation...check your PMs)

 

i like it...i have one of those too...post pic later...
almost the same....except..mine is a red t2 hood....

 

I remember seeing something like this a while back. Do you have any pics with these on your fc?

 

first of all carbonfiber is nasty looking on anything other than black vehicles, i prefer the s4 trim over s5, with the exeption of the front bumper. I like the actual trim shape better, and since its black it'd go with that light set-up better. Oh yeah i didn't hack the roof off i bought it like that, jackass

 

IMO it looks weird

the glass pane is too long.

 

Yeah, that does look a lot better. The benefits of the kit are you get to take out your entire pop-up mechanism and replace the heavy stock headlights (have you ever picked one up?) with fiberglass buckets. You also remove the entire motor assembly so you save even more weight there. I think the reason they designed the headlights like that I think is so that they could have those little air scoops above the headlights, but that photoshop does look much more aesthetically pleasing.

 

what does it look like at night with the headlights on?

 

If you paid the regular price of around $2,000USD for the *original*, I don't think you'd be complaining about the price.


-Ted

 

I just dont like the inverted lights....the closest ones back and the ones on the outside the most foward...

 

yea its so hard to find a non targa 7 theses days.

 

i like the FC2k headlights only.......Higgi sells molds of them but I don't/can't do fiberglassing........

 

I think it is over priced mainly because of the quality of craftsmanship. Between the gap between the projector lamps, and the poor fitment (without modification), i think in retrospect i could have probably put a similar kit together for a 100 or so dollars less. The hardest part would have been finding someone to make the fiberglass for the headlight bucket. i would have found an alternative method for mounting, probably more similar to what Dltreezan has put together.