ds08tf's 2004 Hatchback - Ride Thread

[JBale]

Woo, long day installing angel eyes and non-scratched up headlights, and yesterday I did a backup camera install that links to my eonon head unit. I will be putting on some more parts very shortly... more better pics to come.

Sweet that you got everything figured out! And I feel your pain I spent all day swapping my TRS clear lenses over to my new head lights

[ds08tf]

Found out yesterday I need another angel eye ballast so waiting on that to be shipped before I unveil pics.... but in the meantime I installed a twm short shifter, wasn't as hard as I imagined it would be!

In other news I ordered extended open ended white lug nuts as I think I'm scratching the black completely out of my setup and going instead for a very minimal theme with some body paint/work that will be white (White CF wrap or White Gloss) along with some white and blue interior pieces. The orange in the wheels will compliment the white better than the black and this way I can add subtle orange hints to match but if I get bored of orange it will be easy to switch.

Many will be skeptical now but MANY photos to come and we shall see

[JrCanuck]

Found out yesterday I need another angel eye ballast so waiting on that to be shipped before I unveil pics.... but in the meantime I installed a twm short shifter, wasn't as hard as I imagined it would be!

In other news I ordered extended open ended white lug nuts as I think I'm scratching the black completely out of my setup and going instead for a very minimal theme with some body paint/work that will be white (White CF wrap or White Gloss) along with some white and blue interior pieces. The orange in the wheels will compliment the white better than the black and this way I can add subtle orange hints to match but if I get bored of orange it will be easy to switch.

Many will be skeptical now but MANY photos to come and we shall see

Excited to see!

[Kwokalobster]

Nice! you got them on sooner than i thought. i'm liking the color combo, but like others have said i wouldn't go over board with the OJ.

[ds08tf]

Ps. This is me! The driver of said blue beauty.

[JrCanuck]

Ps. This is me! The driver of said blue beauty.

Just gonna throw this out there, but I feel F*ckin short next to you.. and i'm 5'11.

[ds08tf]

Night Pics of Temporary Headlight Set Up... just AEs on.

[ds08tf]

!!!!Updates - - Updates!!!!
Short Shifter Installed
New Totoro Sticker (Ill be impressed if anyone knows what that is)
Pedals Mostly installed (few screws still missing)
Headlight Project Very Much Underway...
Lug Nuts Ready to Be Installed (White Open Ended Lugs)

Totoro

Short Shifter (TWM)

Aluminum Pedals

Clear Coat and Blue Mica Paint Compiments Of KRIS!!


Old Lenses taken OUt Ready for TRS Ready to be put in soon



That's my gf Kristi just helping me outttt
Headlight Lens Before

Headlights Lens After (Not Perfect but Better)(Sanded from 220 incremental to 2000) (Then a Scratch Fixer)(Then UV protection)(Then Wax)

Parts Before Hand

Projector Housing Painted Winning Blue Mica

Rings Painted Winning Blue Mica

Housing Painted CWP White

Reflectors Painted White

White Lug Nuts Ready To Go On



coming together sooooon! When the white plasti dip and clear plasti dip comes in the whole theme will be revealed!

[The Wolf]

cool. cool cool cool.

[ds08tf]

cool. cool cool cool.

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[ds08tf]

Whoops forgot to include the new LED agnel eyes, SIX rings that will be going in my headlights as opposed to the CCFLs I have now.

[FD22]

cool. cool cool cool.

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Interested to see how the whole headlight project turns out. Looks like it's gonna be unique and good!

[ds08tf]

Hopefully... seriously though installing 6 angel eyes with a relay will be difficult for me as I have the electrical know how of a chicken.
I stuck many a fork in light-sockets.

[Mitchell3]

Im interested to see how this turns out, I havent seen anyone do the 6 rings yet.

And I love the blue orange combo

[ace_master]

Car looks great man. Looking forward to seeing your final product

I'm planning on painting my 2012's headlights sky blue and white to match my car too, just waiting on some more stuff before I jump into it.

[JrCanuck]

Yay updates! Lookin good Darien, stoked to see the final outcome of your headlights.

[Rob23]

wow thats alot of work!
It will be interesting to see how it turns out.
I like all your ideas, except the 6 angel eyes. Might be a bit much imo.

[Josh84]

Your ride is looking good man. Can't wait to see those custom headlights. I wish I had the know how to do more electrical stuff on my car. lol

[ds08tf]

Your ride is looking good man. Can't wait to see those custom headlights. I wish I had the know how to do more electrical stuff on my car. lol

Haha it's not thatt technical and I screw it up so much that it's really just a lot of trial and error. Thanks though!

[ds08tf]

SO GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS!!!



Turns out that baking the headlights caused one of the wires attached to the middle angel eye on the right side to become loose or something. It worked when I got them and now it doesn't. I contacted the seller and am waiting to here back. I don't think I've ever been that frustrated after I spent all that time on something and now I have to go back and bake open one of the headlights pry up the middle angel eyes and replace it. GRRRRRRRRRR


On the bright side !! The angel eyes are in and the trs clear lenses are in and all the painting is done and while it isn't perfect, and there are mistakes for the most part it looks great! (Because the one angel eye isn't working I disconnected the middle angel eye from both sides and am running it turn signal AE, hid drl, highbeam AE for DRL set up and same for night time.) Also I got all new bulbs and those are all in! I haven't taken good pictures yet and I haven't painted any of the white on the car yet, and I haven't gotten my custom eyelids but I think it looks good and I htink thats all that matters

PICS







Before v. After


I F*CKING HATE THE RETENTION CLIP. F*CK YOU BUDDY!



Me baking some headlights... 3rd time in two days doing a full set. No problems yet!


A comparison of the before and after



(notice the crack ! )



Some photos of where I screwed up and broke/cracked/badpaintjob/dust/chipped etc.





What they looked like after! Completed but not in full headlight housing


Toes




That's about it. I'll take some night shots that show the proper light and I'll also show the TRS lens difference (SIGNIFICANT and BLUE LINE yay!)
After I've cleaned up the foglight housing and what not I will post some pictures of them all night and day just for out put and whatnot purposes using a tripod to avoid glare like in pic one.

On a side note. I broke my macbook screen and ordered a new one online. 30 dollars and fixed it myself. Although it was traumatically scary doing so.
BEFORE (sorry for no pic of it cracked or in process I didn't think to document until after it was done.)

AFTER (sorry for the dust it's just because I didn't take a pic of it after for a couple of hours)



That's all for now folkels!
-D

[Jackal]

Amaaazziiinnnggg job! I didn't know exactly what you had in mind with 3 sets of angel eyes and now I know. Looks great. Take some night pics.

[Mitchell3]

that looks siiick! Id say do the wheels white to match but thats just me

[ds08tf]

that looks siiick! Id say do the wheels white to match but thats just me

I'm probably going to! But right now I'm just putting on the white lug nuts. And when I head home and play around with my gallon of white and gallon of clear and my paint gun we shall seeeeee
-D

[-ToM-]

love it

[Rob23]

wow, now that will turn heads!