Circular rear lights clusters

[Eddie]

Rear light conversion

I have just purchased my first RX and have decided to upgrade the rear lights, I was not willing to pay the price for the circular spec rears.
Here are some pics of progress with out plastic front.

Cheers


Lee E

[Eddie]

And here is one with the plastic front cover on

[Ed_RX7]

OHHHH My poor lights..!!!...only joking........

Look great Lee!


Keep us posted.....

Ed

[rextreme]

I wanted to do this too.

But the covers are stuck on like bastards!

Did you use a heat gun or something to get the glue off?

More info?

Are you going to paint the Centre cover or just leave it out completely?

[<--rYaN-->]

No way you actually cut the lens? madddd

I just put circle overlays on each part of the colored lens and then sprayed a few coats of black spray paint.

To get the rubber seals off use a heat gun on low, too high and the outside case will warp and crack

Looks good tho

[Eddie]

No cutting of the lense, these are circular coach lenses which have a more defined curve which is what I was looking for, I did not want a flat effect on the circle.
I believe this will give a much better effect a little rice maybe but hey check out what I am doing next with them.

Firstly
Heat gun , but what a job took ages and I almost broke the front cover several times, a lot of patients and a 1400W gun.

Full pics and instructions will be placed on my site once I have finished the job.
This is only the first step, I am contemplating a couple of paths forward at this stage.

Use carbon inside, around the circular lights, possibly angle the circles to create a deapth effect.

Put Red angel eye around the circles so when I turn on my side lights the angel eyes eluminate.

Once completed I will be offering a upgrade service, give me your light and a little dosh and I will do them for you, let me see how long it takes first.


Cheers


Lee E
Only had my FD a few days and I am at it already:)

[J4P RX]

I will wait to see what they are like illuminated before commenting.  

Good job on having a go though, I didnt have the balls.

Are you going to have to dismantle them when you want to change a bulb though?

Cheers
Lee

[Eddie]

I agree, lit they could look differn\'t
I will soon know

Original bulb posistions still used so no problems replacing bulbs.


Like you say worth a try adn I have enjoyed doing it.

Cheers

Lee E

[rextreme]

FYI,

In Japan they charge 8000yen for the upgrade and they will paint the inside lens any colour.

LED Conversions are coming too.

Auto Select kit is due out in April.



Russ

[monkeyboy]

Hi mae just started working in Oldham and would be interseted in the lights keep me up to date please:D

[andyrose]

Keep me posted as well. Thought of doing it to mine but I\'m scared of ballsing it up!
LED ones? cool must look like the rear end of an R1

[Eddie]

No worries chaps, I am going to get some new lenses Saturday, need slightly smaller ones if I am to do the angel eye thing, I am even going to be putting a fog light in as well now.

Should have them finished in the next couple of weeks.

Lee E

Hey Monkey boy do you take your rx to Oldham, if so we will have to have a miny cruise:) and I can show you the lights once they are done.

[monkeyboy]

yer drive mon to fri

let me know what happens with the lights and we can meet up

[Eddie]

LIGHT UPDATE

After messing around with the current lenses, I felt they were to big adn trying to source a lense about 7cm proved to be difficult so I decided to go the LED route, went to Maplin\'s and found some very nice super bright 52mm clusters.
I cut perspex to size which replaced the original red cover then drilled holes for the clusters.

I am still trying to source a ring of LED\'s to go on the out side of the 52mm brake light cluster, the ring will act as my tail lights.

I also have on order a set of amber 52mm LED cluster for the indicators.

Below a pic of the clusters with the cover on.

Cheers

Lee E

[Eddie]

Sorry for the poor quality, more pics to follow once I get them powered up