Painting Kouki Headlight Housings?

[Brentbohn]

Anyone pulled a usdm kouki headlight housing apart and painted the chrome black? The chrome is pealing off inside my lights so I have to do something and I thought painting everything but the high beam reflector would look cool, especially cause I have a black kouki...

[slow40sx]

pm 95KA-Turbo he did it

[Brentbohn]

Yeah I saw his, pretty lame looking. I was thinking about not rattle can flat black bbq paint over chrome

but actually stripping chrome sanding down the ridges and high gloss painting them.



pm 95KA-Turbo he did it

[Okinawandrifter87]

^^ wow.......

[ramman434]

Yea I did mine 2 years ago. It still looks fine and I think a lot more aggressive. I painted the chrome so it wouldn't mess w/the light output. I hate when people night shade their headlights or put covers over them.
These pics were taken about a month after I did it. I also painted the turn signals. I simply pulled them apart, wet-sanded using 3 different grits, and then put about 3-4 coats of spray on them.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f69/ramman434/newlook4.jpg
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f69/ramman434/newlook3.jpg
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f69/ramman434/newlook5.jpg

Mobile pics:
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f69/ramman434/downsized_0831081344.jpg
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f69/ramman434/downsized_0831081344a.jpg

I hope you like the idea. If you have any questions feel free to PM me.

[FLMadness]

just joey mod' em and find out

[tqstarburst]

http://i54.tinypic.com/2u76df7.jpg

[Brentbohn]

right on those two look awesome, what brand of paint and type did you use? specifically how did you go about opening up the housings and the corner pieces... oven method? any prep work needed?

[Brentbohn]

what the hell is a joey mod? never mind I just googled it, what a queer name for this....

just joey mod' em and find out

[tqstarburst]

On the one i posted,it's the car of the guy that you said this.
Yeah I saw his, pretty lame looking.
Pm him for details.

[Okinawandrifter87]

^^ Like I said... Wow... lol

[Brentbohn]

Dude I googled his account, saw a green car with alot of damage and a huge fortune sticker on the side, the pic make the lights look horrible, i stand corrected.... let it go

^^ Like I said... Wow... lol

[95KA-Turbo]

Yeah man, lots of damage.

[Okinawandrifter87]

Dude I googled his account, saw a green car with alot of damage and a huge fortune sticker on the side, the pic make the lights look horrible, i stand corrected.... let it go

I sure wouldn't want him reading this thread right now...

Yeah... LOTS of damage... :bowrofl: :rofl:

[Brentbohn]

For fuck sake I told you to let it go, I was miss informed. MODERATORS PLEASE LOCK THIS THREAD. Okinawandrifter87 is causing drama!


I sure wouldn't want him reading this thread right now...

Yeah... LOTS of damage... :bowrofl: :rofl:

[Okinawandrifter87]

^^ god it was a joke because he posted right before me lol I dont see drama... even 95ka-turbo laughed. But since you think im causin drama which I am not I will personally ask admin to close this thread :) have a good day my friend and god bless :)

[Drift N Dragg]

We are not going to lock it...

No Sand in the Vag around here.....

This is Zilvia..... No Spoon feeding or nice stories before bed around here..

[Brentbohn]

haha thats funny :ssex:

We are not going to lock it...

No Sand in the Vag around here.....

This is Zilvia..... No Spoon feeding or nice stories before bed around here..

[Drifting-pedobear]

For fuck sake I told you to let it go, I was miss informed. MODERATORS PLEASE LOCK THIS THREAD. Okinawandrifter87 is causing drama!

u mad bro?

[Starfire97]

okay i also need help with this, but the baking/disassembly seems pretty straightforward. The painting is what frightens me. I want to sand off the chrome as well, and paint em black. anyone have experience with painting? i dont.

[Okinawandrifter87]

haha thats funny :ssex:


haha I say it and im drama... admin says it and they are stand up comedians lol! Thanks drag!! :)
:keke:

[95KA-Turbo]

okay i also need help with this, but the baking/disassembly seems pretty straightforward. The painting is what frightens me. I want to sand off the chrome as well, and paint em black. anyone have experience with painting? i dont.


Its really easy. Once you bake them and pull them apart you can see the housings are screwed in, so you just need a super small phillips head screwdriver and you can pull them right out. Scuff them up, and spray them with some spray paint. I taped off a little of the chrome area around the projector so I wouldn't completely kill the light output.

Its not rocket science, get something to degrease/clean the housing after you scuff it up if you're paranoid. Once you put the glass back over them you don't have to worry about them getting messed up. I used high temp satin black spray paint.

[koji187]

why dont you guys just buy the kouki housings blacked out already.. they aren't that expensive

[Starfire97]

why dont you guys just buy the kouki housings blacked out already.. they aren't that expensive

oh, you mean $200+ for something i can do for like less than 10 bucks? come on now, thats money that could be spend elsewhere, like on gas or something. :2f2f:

EDIT: Its really easy. Once you bake them and pull them apart you can see the housings are screwed in, so you just need a super small phillips head screwdriver and you can pull them right out. Scuff them up, and spray them with some spray paint. I taped off a little of the chrome area around the projector so I wouldn't completely kill the light output.

Its not rocket science, get something to degrease/clean the housing after you scuff it up if you're paranoid. Once you put the glass back over them you don't have to worry about them getting messed up. I used high temp satin black spray paint.

thanks bro, i might as well try it as my car is likely to be off the road for another few weeks.

[Brentbohn]

Update: Finally did it, worked great, used krylon fusion spray paint with 600 grit sand paper, also did turn signals. anyone know what if any thing can be sanded out of the glass to take pitting out?

[snofufu]

this thread is funny xD

[ReLiC]

Posted on a 5 month old thread just to say it's funny. Nice.