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

[richee3]

My suggestion for doing projector retrofits in the low beams is this: You will have to make clear lenses, correct? Closely examine the JDM projectors and notice that they have the amber parking lot on each side, hidden behind some diffusers. My suggestion is to smoke the edges of your clear lenses so as to hide the corners of the lights, similar to the JDM lenses. Otherwise you see inside too much of the headlight and it doesn't look right.

[richee3]

My suggestion for doing projector retrofits in the low beams is this: You will have to make clear lenses, correct? Closely examine the JDM projectors and notice that they have the amber parking lot on each side, hidden behind some diffusers. My suggestion is to smoke the edges of your clear lenses so as to hide the corners of the lights, similar to the JDM lenses. Otherwise you see inside too much of the headlight and it doesn't look right.

This is what I was talking about:



Notice how the lens over the sidemarker isn't clear like the rest of the lense. That might be something to look into.