Feeler: Completely Customized Headlights, Many many details inside, please read thoroughly! Options

[Espo]

If you answer "No" to the first poll, please tell me why! With your feedback I may be able to improve my service to help meet the needs of more 6GC owners!

Alright so I have a set of broken headlights laying about that I think I'm going to restore and customize very soon. It wouldn't be very hard to do as I envision it since all I need to do is remove the glass and buy new glass, carve it with a dremel and all that and put it back in.

This lead me and a couple friends to thinking that if we can do it with my headlights (these would be the test batch) then we can do it for other people - offering perhaps the first fully custom 6GC headlight designs ever. The inspiration behind this is CinCity Designs, by the way - I have a feeling Celica headlights will be much easier than 350Z and G37 tails though.

So to get to the point, with sufficient interest I'd think about offering everyone the service here first, then branching out to perhaps EBay and whatnot, assuming all goes well. So to get down to the nitty gritty, let me explain the choices of the poll:

1. Blacked Out Headlights: Nightshaded lenses (Clear or stock) with black (possibly reflective, will have to look into that) interior housing. May or may not require projector retrofit.
2. Clear Lenses: Crystal Clear lenses installed, just like the JDM Projectors, only custom made to order.
3. Stock Lenses: US Style lenses, if you wanted them.
4. Projectors: Retrofitted projectors from an LHD vehicle, eliminating the need for an LHD conversion on JDM Projectors.
5. Angel Eyes: Projectors with a custom made halo around them (Could be LED or Electroluminescent Wire) in various colors (illegal colors would be able to be switched off) much like BMW headlights.
6. "Night Rider" LED Strips: This one's a big if, because I'm not sure if I can make the leds light up in sequence - fairly sure I have timer chips that will allow me to do it, but it would be an experiment first. Basically, I would either install a Night Rider strip in your headlight, or replace the headlight rubbers with one, also coming with an on/off switch. Headlight rubber replacement would be weatherproof.
7. Halo Turn Signals: Placement of your choice (my idea has them on the outside edge of the lens, inside the glass) that would be a turn signal inside your headlight - wired into your turn signals, and blinks with them. Likely made from EL Wire, or LEDs.
8. Color-Matched Headlights: Have the inside of your headlights painted to match the color of your car, just like GM does with the Corvette. Would only be available with projector retrofit.
9. Metallic Colors: Color-Matched headlights with metallic clearcoat - might make it possible to remove the need for a projector retrofit.
10. Custom Designs: You tell us what you want if you have an idea, we do it for you!

Pricing is to be figured out after we gauge interest - if sufficient interest shows, we'll figure out pricing and go from there. High beams are also an option, so it's not just low beams.

I do know however that there are two ways of doing this - either you can send us a set of your headlights, or you place an order and we order headlights for you - the latter way however would incur a core charge and be much, much more expensive.

Also, you can mix and match any of the choices you like in order to create your own unique 6GC headlights - just as long as they don't negate each other (I.E. Blacked out headlights with a colored interior - duh, lol)

Feedback, support and comments are much appreciated - I'm rather excited about this idea myself!

This post has been edited by Espo: Aug 3, 2010 - 11:33 PM

[Bigblock]

Good ideas, & good luck!!

So since I don't know a thing about how lenses are done, please overlook the duuuhhh factor of my q's

(1) If someone sends you light assemblies with cracked // broken lenses, { but housings are good } is your service able to replace the lenses & return them? Or am I too far off what you are doing?
(2) Would you have the assembles already, & assemble them as they are ordered?
(3) How would someone know if the assemblies are good enough for you to re-use as a core?

Reason I ask is maybe there are quite a few who would like just stock U.S. DOT lenses, or clears to replace cracked // busted lenses, but not wanting HID or projectors..??..

Also, just wondering--
how difficult would it be to have a Celica dragon etched onto clear lenses?
( edit )
Or 6gc etched on clear lenses, same design as the stickers?



This post has been edited by Bigblock: Aug 14, 2010 - 3:11 PM

[Espo]

Good ideas, & good luck!!

So since I don't know a thing about how lenses are done, please overlook the duuuhhh factor of my q's

(1) If someone sends you light assemblies with cracked // broken lenses, { but housings are good } is your service able to replace the lenses & return them? Or am I too far off what you are doing?
(2) Would you have the assembles already, & assemble them as they are ordered?
(3) How would someone know if the assemblies are good enough for you to re-use as a core?

Reason I ask is maybe there are quite a few who would like just stock U.S. DOT lenses, or clears to replace cracked // busted lenses, but not wanting HID or projectors..??..

Also, just wondering--
how difficult would it be to have a Celica dragon etched onto clear lenses?
( edit )
Or 6gc etched on clear lenses, same design as the stickers?

To answer all your questions:

1- As long as the housing is good, there'll be no problem.
2- Either we would charge you a core charge for a brand new set of headlights, or you ship us ours at your cost, and we ship them back at our cost.
3- Pictures would suffice for use as gauging whether or not they're good enough. If the pictures don't tell the whole story then we'll ship them back and refund your shipping charge.

Celica Dragon/6GC Lens - It would all be hand carved dremel work as that's the only tool I could think of using to etch into glass - plus, it came with a glass etching bit

Update for everyone, I'm having trouble finding an exhaust shop to setup my exhaust, but once that's all said and done, we'll begin working on these.