painting depo cutoff shield

[chauncey0337]

If u guys want, while u have shield off if u put a small washer between shield n lens, to move shield away from lens it makes cutoff line sharper at different lengths. Meaning, the closer shield is to lens, cutoff line is sharper close up. If further away from lens, sharper at distance. Hope that makes sense. I cant remember how many washers I ended up using, but I like my cutoff line sharper at more distance personally. Just another mod to think about

Is there any way to make it sharp at all distances or is it one or the other?

 

[01HDtahoeNJN]

What? Painting the cutoff shield...

 

[01HDtahoeNJN]

I did paint my shields red though, if thats what your talking about.

(kind of forgot what the topic of this one was)

How did it come out?

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[Tahoewhat]

How did it come out?

EH... i painted w/ engine enamel, so its not very bright red, probly should of used brake caliper paint, but it looks red.

I'll try to get a pic today before school

 

[01HDtahoeNJN]

just for others reference theres a nice retrofit thread on full size chevy and he did the red paint on the cutoff looks sick....







http://www.fullsizechevy.com/forum/...-blackknights-hid-retrofit-starts-here-9.html

 

[01HDtahoeNJN]

and one more....

 

[Tahoewhat]

I remeber seeing those he did. Looked alright. He was selling them also when he sold the truck for like 400 bucks or something.

 

[01HDtahoeNJN]

EH... i painted w/ engine enamel, so its not very bright red, probly should of used brake caliper paint, but it looks red.

I'll try to get a pic today before school

its funny because i thought you could use just reg paint bc everyone says hids dont run hot....cant wait to see um man

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EH... i painted w/ engine enamel, so its not very bright red, probly should of used brake caliper paint, but it looks red.

I'll try to get a pic today before school

good looks are those ccfl'S

 

[Tahoewhat]

its funny because i thought you could use just reg paint bc everyone says hids dont run hot....cant wait to see um man

good looks are those ccfl'S

Yeah, thought so myself, but if you have ever touched the projector, its hot as heck...

Nope, no ccfls. WHen i got these, they didnt have ccfl options yet. But im thinking of retroing 4 projectors and some LED Halos. Seems that led halos are brighter and better. (at least from my searching) Seen ccfl in person, but still not very bright. I want the new bmw bright.

 

[MeanGreen03]

I just did mine, thanks to this thread. haha... I would have painted them green but there wasn't any high temp paint close to my color and even so it wouldn't really stand out. So needless to say I got bold and went with bright red.

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