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    Taillight conversion?

    how whould you guys feel about a bolt in tail conversion? like corvette style or rsx or somin?



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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    skyline style.

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    if this was to happen you would have to make the matching center peice that has the lisence plate holder (lighting on trunk lid), haveing just the outside tails done would look like crap in my opinion

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    if you made a complete set of tails (including center trunk piece) that look like the stock ones only with clear/white on top and red on bottom i'm sure people would buy them

    or make a knock off of the jdm ones for 88/89 USMD trunks.

    just keep in mind our cars are boxy so round tail lights or stuff like that won't match at all
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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    I would pay soo much for Taillights that were Clear/white Split You don't even know... I would buy them in a heartbeat!

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    Quote Originally Posted by snoopyloopy
    skyline style.
    I am going to translate what he said .That just a real stupid idea and ugly
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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    Quote Originally Posted by frantik
    if you made a complete set of tails (including center trunk piece) that look like the stock ones only with clear/white on top and red on bottom i'm sure people would buy them

    or make a knock off of the jdm ones for 88/89 USMD trunks.

    just keep in mind our cars are boxy so round tail lights or stuff like that won't match at all
    I agree

    Quote Originally Posted by TWOLOUDNPROUD
    I am going to translate what he said .That just a real stupid idea and ugly
    I also agree.

    i dont want to rice my car out....i would only like something that looks good but yet it still looks stock....i dont want to put skyline lights since thoes are ugly.....even on 240sx....i would like to see the JDM knock offs....but the center has to match....anyways thanks for the offer but you would only have one customer that would get the skyline type of lights.....Civic accord honda.....lol

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    id say keeping the normal look is the best way, either the half clears like frantik posted, hell i bet full clear like that wouldent look bad on white or light colord cars and what about all smoked tails?? i would buy a set of all smoked

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    Quote Originally Posted by labeledsk8r
    id say keeping the normal look is the best way, either the half clears like frantik posted, hell i bet full clear like that wouldent look bad on white or light colord cars and what about all smoked tails?? i would buy a set of all smoked
    just get some nightshades.......clear is more harder....i kinda like frantic's but i also like the all smoked one also...depends on what color car they are on.

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    yeah the color of the car helps, and i kinda want to stear away from night shades becuse it dims the lights down from going thew the red then the black, if there were all clear tails i would night shade them and they would look hella better and not be so dim, or just make them darks from the factory

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    So we want Tails link what Frantik did
    and or the JDM style Shown below


    and maybe hatch guys would like this LOL


    I'd like to see LED Tails not the clear with red LED kind the STOCK with LED kind.
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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    i'd take some smoked tails or maybe some red/white split ones. depends on how the finished product looks.

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    Quote Originally Posted by forrest89sei
    So we want Tails link what Frantik did
    and or the JDM style Shown below


    and maybe hatch guys would like this LOL


    I'd like to see LED Tails not the clear with red LED kind the STOCK with LED kind.
    I like the way mine look and le3gion's I used to have all clears but these are the lastest ones I made

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    i agree with that aswell L.E.D instead of bulbs would be the way to go

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    those hatch tails on the white one .. are those the JDM ones.. Ive never seen the JDM hatch tails
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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    I'd take a set of the smoked ones, or even the splits.

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    Quote Originally Posted by frantik
    word. but not 90 bucks like these ones are on ebay.
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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    Maybe we should stick to one thing at a time Insted of getting swamped with a bunch of stuff? Your going to have a lot of work to do man if you start doing Carbonfiber and tail lights

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    90 is a very good price for tails....you should see what other guys are paying. I would buy a set of red/clear for sure.
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    red/clear. the end.
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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sporno
    those hatch tails on the white one .. are those the JDM ones.. Ive never seen the JDM hatch tails
    Hatchback models were only made for the US market. Same goes for the Coupe. The tails on the car you are referring to are a result of photoshopping. HTH
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    Quote Originally Posted by '89AccordLX(Rus)
    Hatchback models were only made for the US market. Same goes for the Coupe. The tails on the car you are referring to are a result of photoshopping. HTH
    Umm then how come the EUDM Repair manual has the hatch in it?

    and the Coupes were exported to japan!

    and i just used MS paint on the hatchback!

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    Re: Taillight conversion?

    Quote Originally Posted by stat1K
    word. but not 90 bucks like these ones are on ebay.
    yeah thats what I want, But They dont have them for the TWO DOOR and they dont seem to come with trunk center peices either... I would pay top dollar for something like that...

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    Quote Originally Posted by forrest89sei
    Umm then how come the EUDM Repair manual has the hatch in it?
    and the Coupes were exported to japan!
    and i just used MS paint on the hatchback!
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    I don't know which repair manual you are refering to, so I can't explain why there would be a hatch in the EDM Manual. Perhaps you are looking at the aerodeck models which were widely available in both the EDM and the JDM markets? Yes, Coupes were exported, but built in US and mainly sold in US. Hence in my humble opinion, the Coupe design was mainly targeted at the American market. Good job on using paint for monochroming the lights, didn't know that you could do that without photoshop.
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