99 spec replica lights no where to be found?
 

hi, im almost ready to get my t88 widebody fd back on the road but, i need a set of 99 spec lights. and ive tried ebay but all they have are the chromies. i want the black housing ones and im not willing to settle for the chromes.. does anyone know where i can buy them?

https://www.rx7club.com/vendor-classifieds-276/gb-fd3s-led-tail-light-conversion-sakebomb-garage-902148/

also if you just want the 99 spec I think theorie still does the conversion.

I'm sure hes talking about the 99 turn signals, not tail lights. Good luck finding them, you have to be patient because they only pop up once in a blue on eBay.

Are these them?

http://www.rx7partstrader.com/interi...turn-lamps.php

-Taranis

Try Brian with Rx7boutique.com

its funny :P becasue i just finished doing that mod heres a pic :)

thanks for the domain name for rx7 boutique i'll check them out :)

+1 RX7 Boutique

Here's a thought.... buy the real ones ;)

well why buy the real jdm lights for 500 when you can buy a replica for 100?.. is there a fitment issue?what other reasons?

I have real ones there nothing special........
Only the specially trained eagles like Rich can spot the differences
and you being on the left coast, you wont run into him very often.

lol :P well i think im gonna go with the repys then but.. i want the black ones.. im no gonna settle for the chrome ones at all

www.rhdjapan.com has some alternatives and they ship to you within two weeks. Website is down right now though. I wanted the black ones but they only had the CF look in the style I wanted so I had the body shop guys paint the inside black.

I am putting my OEM (Stanley) 99 turn signals up for sale soon. My left unit though is slightly warped because I tried to heat the lens off for a project. No one else noticed but I am pretty anal.

well when you figure out what you want for them pm me with pictures :)

matt

Will do. They are currently on the car at Kilo Racing in Orlando while my other pair is retrofitted with Audi style LEDs. This will be completed early in the week and I hope to go down on Tuesday or Wednesday.

In the meantime, here is a shot of the turn signal assembly in question:

https://www.rx7club.com/attachment.p...1&d=1279974805

Note the slight bend in the lens cover on the upper center and lower right sections of the cover? I was told you could heat up the unit to pull off the lens cover but I learned this is not the case! The glue didn't even budge.

to be honest with ya... i cant even see it.. hahaha.. thats the lights i want tho:D

The replicas have had quality problems in the past, to include water clouding behind the lens and warping. Those may have been addressed in the more recent copies.

It's a personal choice---personally I choose to steer clear of replicas and copies in most cases, unless the authentic products are impossible to find or priced in the stratosphere.

The OEM combo lights aren't $500 per pair brand new, and after I bought my URAS set, I think I sold my good condition used Stanleys for around $250 or so. They are available for a reasonable price, you just have to look around.

Im not sure how other people feel, but Nengun (http://www.nengun.com/) seems to be a pretty good source. That and like others have said; RHDJapan.com.

-M

Does anyone know if you can heat these apart like we do the tails?

I been trying to find a set for almost 3 weeks, and the ones that are real always have damage to them. If these will come apart i can paint them suckers to look like the oem ones.

unfortunatley you cant heat them up like the tail lights thats how his warped in the picture :P..

Exactly!!

David when you heated them up did you use a heat gun or oven?

Oven at 200 degrees first for 5 minutes and then an additional couple of minutes. The glue didn't even budge.

damn, so was the glue that contact cement kind or silicone based one. Because yours are actually real 99 specs these knock off ones could be diffrent, I hope! rhd sells the uras for 265 shipped that will be my last resort if I cant get them to seperate

I almos looks like the superglue stuff and the edges appear to be pinched together.

I bought another set from rhdjapan:

http://www.rhdjapan.com/uras-front-c...mps-fd3s-58024

These come right apart and are held together by a few tabs. Note they don't have the black ones anymore, only cf, so you'll need to paint the inside if you want black.