2-3 people have asked the same question; "what did you use to do them with?"

any answers?

 

read the post above urs....

 

Good man........................

 

^ True dat.

 

looks great bro. Everything you've done to your car lately is the same things ive been doing. my vinyl tint came in the other day im just waiting till i get some free time to put them on. I took pics of my blacked out emblems today too just gotta post them.

 

So do we already have a DIY for smoking the 8? I will whip one up if we don't. I think next I would like to either have my rims powdercoated black or get some different ones.

 

hey guys i just picked up my rx today, 04 -6 speed. velocity red. just wondering with what u guys would go with.... gold or bronze rims. or go with the black seibo carbon fiber hood and glossy black axis rims... i cant stop thinkin what i wanna do

 

Damn upstate T-RX. What a thread jack I would go with the black axis and the Carbon hood

 

i just tinted my front lights.....look sickk
w/ vinyl though...not to much differance ..ill post pics soon
but anywasy for tail lights,
is there any way to take off the smoked paint?

 

paint remover

 

does it look the same once u take it out?

 

yeah they look exactly the same, I had to do it to my old S-er, I went with the spray and over sprayed them the first time. It took me about an hour and a half to scrub them both down tho.

 

i smoked mine as well.. but not too black.. did you sand, clear coat and wet sand? cuz i highly doubt it'll look the same once you remove it w/ paint remover.




more of my car pics found here:

https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...postcount=5377

 

i just did mine yesterday with that tamaya stuff. 3 coats. looks really nice. not blacked out, the color is "smoke". up close it's kinda matte/cloudy, so i definitely need to put some polishing stuff on there. the color/tint is damn near perfect though. i'll try to post pictures later...

 

heres a few of mine, i got them off ebay for 120 bux, ive had my adventure of smoking tails and they never come out the way i want them. these are super glossy and have a hard durable finish. next up is the brake light and turn signals....headlights remain clear but maybe ill get some black eyelids
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2659568/2

 

damn bro, that looks sick. how did you get them so damn glossy????

 

There's mine. I think I went a little overboard. At night, the light is clearly visible and looks badass. But during the day, people can't really see the brake lights. I'm doing the third brake light in a few days and I think I'll go a little lighter.

 

wet sand and polish...

 

sorry in advance, but what does wet sand entail? never done it...

EDIT: just did some internet research on it...sounds like a PITA!!!! anyone know if polishing alone would have a desirable effect?

 

Wet sanding eliminates orange peel and evens out the clear coat... imo there is no way around it if you want to achieve best results... polishing wouldn't do anything if the clear coat is bad to begin with....

 

Smoking lights is bad for your health..

 

i haven't even done a clear coat

just the tamaya "smoke" ...

 

I am considering smoking my tails too, but I am not entirely sure how it would look on the Winning Blue. My windows are all tinted very dark, and I think smoked tails would compliment it well. Also, I really love the shape and details of the tails, so I want that to still be visible. Can anyone recommend a quick and easy way to tint them slightly? I really like the look of flip's and w0rm's tints. Thanks!

 

^ Thank you for the compliment...

I dunno about "quick and easy"... your choices would be doing a vinyl overlay (<--tried it and major fail for me... ) or bite the bullet and paint them... VHT night shades come out pretty dark compared to the TAMAYA smoke. Good Luck

 

Yeah, I will probably wind up going with the vinyls first - as an experiment. You can get them pretty inexpensive online and I figure that it might be worth a try, even if it fails, not a really an expensive failure. Plus, if I decide I am not wild about it, they're pretty easy to remove.

Of course, I also want to get some LEDs in there, but I need the new tail lights to come in first, and I don't want to make them too dark with tints that LEDs don't get the job done.

I'll try to get some pictures up if I get around to giving it a go. Who knows, maybe it'll work out alright!