I'm thinking about blacking out my headlights, would HIDs compensate for the black replacing the chrome reflector?

 

on my old rd2 i blacked out my headlights-... i had hid's prior to doing so-... and they were just as bright afterwards. but i did not black out the reflective backing on the high beam. i just did the surrounding.

 

whoa....black....suprise me i figured blue if anything,lol.

 

I say leave your headlights alone.. I dunno it'd look weird. Maybe you have a vision I'm not seeing though.

Are you talking about tinting the outside? Or taking the chrome middle piece out and painting it black (like I did). Headlight dispersion is not affected by the later, Note: DO NOT PAINT HIGH-BEAM REFLECTOR, it won't even come out unless you break it so it should be pretty obvious.

 

^^ do you have a good pic of that?


There's certain legality issues that I have to deal with. I'm planning on doing some angel eyes and I want to make sure that I never want to take apart my headlight again. So i figure I'll just mod whatever I can while I've got them open.

Believe it or not, I do have black on my car too mang! Actually, i just got done painting my IAC black instead of that nickel/annodized color it was before.

 

no, this is the best I can do.



you're going to be removing/painting the black shaped piece (it'll be chrome when you take it out). NOT the piece that remains on the headlight assembly (in the area where the green arrow points).

that help? I uno..

 

^^ Pat, I drive an RD2. I'm also talking about the portion RIGHT behind the glass.

 

the lows are projection headlights, they don't need to reflect of anything really. the highs you barely use and are probably plenty powerful. give it a try.

 

I rember seeing a post on here some where, saying that you lose the use of your highbeams if you paint the reflectors. This was back when i did my headlights black, so maybe 3 months ago.

 

Uh, i dont know if you've noticed but SOCKS and I have our headlights blacked out. SOCKS also did a DIY on it and that's how i did mine, he also did the corners.

The projection is not bothered at all. I have HIDs and dont even need to use the high beems either since they are so bright. So if you have HIDs dont worry about the light deal, it'll be ok, even if you have the normal ones it wont bother any.

Here are some pics of mine when i had my other bumper.





And when i had my corners blacked out also.


And a pic at night, you can see how bright the HIDs are.