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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 10:39 PM
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Baking and blacking out headlights
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Few months ago painted my car white. Wasn't really happy with the way how headlights looked like.
Decided to remove plastic amber pieces and paint the housing semi-gloss black. Came out great!

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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 10:39 PM
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Time for bugeye Headlights:
Stupidchicken"s ride:

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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 10:40 PM
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Then HAWKEYE:
Smedavar's 2006 STI

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Retro 707 2007 WRX

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Notice the difference betweeh painted and non painted headlights

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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 10:41 PM
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Last week did 2 more peanut eyes:

Rodrigues GD's 2004 STI:

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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 10:41 PM
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WHO's next??????????
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 10:48 PM
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Very nice work! They all look really good. Your car is sexy with the custom paint job up front. If I had stock bugeye headlights, I would have loved to do this.
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 10:49 PM
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 10:56 PM
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Nice job!!! What kind of paint are you using?
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Awesome work! I'm so scared to bake the headlights. lol. What brand paint do you use?
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know how to install projectors into the peanut eye?
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know how to install projectors into the peanut eye?
That would be my next project.
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 11:51 PM
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Originally Posted by iDriveMyi
Awesome work! I'm so scared to bake the headlights. lol. What brand paint do you use?
I use Rust Oleum brand Semi-gloss black or flat black paint.
If you are scared let me bake ur lights! Wanna be first 2010 with blacked out lights?
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Old Apr 7, 2011 | 10:31 AM
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Looks tight dude, but the real skill is baking cookies WITH the headlights (kill 2 birds with 1 stone)-lol.
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Old Apr 7, 2011 | 11:11 AM
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deff happy with how mine turned out
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Hey dude! You want to do an 09? I would love to have this done! PM me if you would be down!
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