well i just recieved a video of my car when one of the previous owners had it. it seems that he painted the rear tail lights to match his car. no he didnt paint the lenses, only the black part. man it looks cool. so if i wanted to do this, i would have to get a whole new paintjob and have them paint the black part right? or in my case, the white part. if anyone wants to see the vid, let me know ill send it to them.

 

do you mean the 89+ tail lights? or the 86-88's...painted like the 10th anniversary 88 T2...

 

Yeah I've been looking to do this as well, I'm wondering what it will involve. Will the paint stick to a plastic surface like that? IF you coudl send me the vid that would be great.

My car is an SE though, so it has that black body strip and black side view mirrors. Not sure if it'll look good.

 

i have a 87 na so its the rectangle boxes. dude it looks so sweet. my tail lights are painted now. they are white, and it looks like crap. they are supposed to have that black trim around, but a previous owner painted them white so i need a new pair of tail lights. but i wanna paint them to match my car it would look so sweet. how would i send you this video?

 

here it is.
http://www.speedtoys.com/mkiv_supra/...ir_of_RX7s.WMV

mine is the yellow one

 

cmon you guys, tell me how i would go about doing this.

 

I know this doesnt have to do with your post, but what kind of rear bumper/skirt you got on that? I think it looks nice and might get one of my own.

 

get a new pair of lights


rough the black part up a little bit with sandpaper, make em smooth,

then get that stuff that makes paint stick,

spray that stuff on, let it dry and then add 1 coat-dry-2coat-dry-3coat

how ever many coats you need until its perfectly yellow.

i don;t know if this is right, i would need a second opinion as it is very early in the morning right now, and im kinda high/

good lucjk

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whatever was on there is now off. the previous owner took off several things before he sold it to me.

 

my car is "silver mist metallic" thats the name of the color and i had all the trim and th tailight painted that color too, it looks sweet



crossbar

 

can you post a pic?

 

Here's what mine look like



PaulC

 

HOLY WHEEL GAP BATMAN!!

 

It looks much better now with an engine and coil overs

PaulC

 

LOL.

By the way the video of the 2 RX-7's kicked ***!

 

silkworm, how did you do that? did you have a shop do it or did you do it yoruself? tell me how you went about doing it.

supergoat, yeah that vid is sweet. i cant belive the kid got a vid of my car.

 

My car used to have body color tailights until I got it painted, then I went back to black. I just masked off the lenses, and got some black paint and sprayed away. The hardest part about doing it the other way around would be matching your current paint.

 

yeah thats what i wanted to do, but then there is this yellow. so i think i am gonna take it to a body shop and have them match it then paint it.

 

Mine was painted at the sametime as the car was. Just mask off the lens areas, scuff up the black areas, and paint. I prefer this look to the 89-91 tail lights.

PaulC

 

you mean sand the black stuff? yeah when i saw this i prefer it over the round ones too.

 

I like this look also, but since my car is black they were still kind of ugly. So I went with the 89+

 

I just painted my car also, and painted the hatchback and taillights silver body color, Now that it`s done, I think that I will paint the taillights back to a dark metallic gray, I think I liked the breakup of colors better, Oh well to each his own!!!!!

The trick thing that I did though was to cut out the grill {87 N/T} I looks soooo bad!!!!!!!!! Blacked it out in behind, and put in some driving lights. Lights maybe too big!!!

Well if I was a little more comp literate I`d post picks for you to see!!! Everything that I do , the picks just too big!!!!!!!



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HUMMER

 

I have an extra set of tail lights that I'll sell ya. The black part on them is fading so they'd be perfect for what you're trying to do

 

i have someone scouting junk yards for me, but if he doesnt find any ill be sure to check up with you. how much would you be willing to let these go for??

 

40 bucks