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Nah-- I dont think so. Do you??<p><p>I really didnt care for the chrome altezza look-- so I decided to do some custom work.<p>This is only my 1st coat-- I still have a while to go, and I need to add lots of clear coats too.<p>I just wanted to give you guys an idea of whats coming...<p>muwhahahahaha.....

interesting play on something boring and old

pretty cool
i personally like how i did my altezzas

Yep, me too-- that pretty bad-*** . I am just not brave enough to pull apart my lights like that.<p><p>Definately pimp, however.

how do you do that? every time i post a pic it's a box with an x
i follow the instruction to the letter and no go

redding out altezzas.. FINALLY someone does it.. add a few more coats and it'll get darker and no you didn't ruin em... one question, what are you going to do about the reverse light? it can't be red or else its illegal.. well down here and most of us it is.

I was going to get some altezzas and do them in black as well...but I was wondering how hard it was to seperate the lense from the light assembly. And, Darren Hyderman, what kind of paint or whatever did you use?

Tremclad high gloss automotive rust paint. self priming.

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by marshmallow15:
redding out altezzas.. FINALLY someone does it.. add a few more coats and it'll get darker and no you didn't ruin em... one question, what are you going to do about the reverse light? it can't be red or else its illegal.. well down here and most of us it is.<hr></blockquote><p>hehehe-- I know I didnt ruin them.. hehehe.. that was a trick to get you guys to see my newest project!<p>Well, I am pretty much screwed with the reverse light being red. I thought a very long time about how to solve this problem and came up with some ideas that just didnt seem right.
~ Mask off little circles where back up light is
~ make a cool design or logo
~ try not to paint that area.<p>None of those were really feasable because once I put a layer of paint on top of the masked area, when I pull it off, I did not want to risk pulling the rest of the paint off with it.<p>Also, it would leave an indention where the mask was and look "el cheapo". <p>So, I am screwed-- oh well. I was anyway with my old stock lights when I painted them too. I never got busted for it because most of the time, I try to back into a parking space so I dont have to use the back-up light when pulling out.<p>So, I am driving illegally pretty much. But I really wanted to do this mod-- I really didnt care.<p>Any thoughts?<p>(BTW-- this is something that Brian (Mnemonic) and I have been brewing up for a while... it just took this long to come to fruition because I was the 1st to get Altezzas between the 2 of us.)<p>[ August 02, 2003: Message edited by: atlantamx3 ]</p>

actually i wanted to do the same thing.. but i had the same solution as you, and was too scared to do it.. the only legal and clean alternative is to rewire the reverse light to some fog lights mounted under the bumper.. to stay safe and legal and to keep the altezza looking clean without a masked circle messing the look up.

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Darren Hyderman:
how do you do that? every time i post a pic it's a box with an x
i follow the instruction to the letter and no go<hr></blockquote><p>
Because I am the man! <p>Also, some sites will not let you link their pictures, but luckily Cardomain will.<p>[ August 03, 2003: Message edited by: atlantamx3 ]</p>

I dont think that masking would make too much of a mess if thats how kaveh did it?
<p>But that looks sweet as well

roflmao
masking eh,,, that probably was the only thing i didnt do much,,
just masked the light covers (red and white ones) and thats it, sprayed 5-6 coats and thats it, in the oven, put em back together, and thats it, done,,, <p>(its funny, i wanted to post that pic earlier but i just didnt feel like it!! )

mazdasport check the apperance faqs and scan back a few pages and u will see alot of posts about removin the lense from the altezza good luck.<p>
cody