The holy grail of my black out quest has been found! Lights 4 Speed, an italian company makes gauge faces for the chrono pack that actually go over the center cluster. I currently have the center cluster glass tinted, which helps but makes them difficult to read. I had sent an email to this company before and not heard back, but they responded this time!
Just with the thumbnails were larger so I could really see them, but my hopes are high!
Tag: blackout
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Gauge faces for chrono pack
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Joey Mod MINI Headlight Blackout
Well I finally did it, been wanting to ‘Joey Mod’ the headlights for years, and now was the time. I just happened to have my brothers heat gun (thanks Greg!) so today was the day to tackle this last exterior chrome.
It took a while to heat the lenses up enough for the black ‘goo’ to give up its grip. Once I got an edge up it came up pretty easy tho. Finding the clips from inside the upper bulb housing was a bit tricky at first, but they popped right off (be careful to hold your lights over a towel or something as when the second clip disconnect they fly off with decent velocity).
I could not reach the torx head bolts that hold the mid-housing in place, so I ended up taping off the rest of the light (including the inner reflector, to maintain brightness). A bit of the chrome ended up flaking off where I had cut the painters tape, which I touched up with some chrome paint I had, but you can still see them. So not perfect, but they look really good.
Reassembly was a snap, a brief heat with the gun before squishing the lenses back on and BOOM. No more exterior chrome! -
Tail Light BLACK OUT!!!!!
HUGE Thank you to Chad from Detroit Tuned for doing this incredible work. The worst piece of chrome left on the outside was the rings on the taillights. NO MORE! BAM! BOOM! I frakking love the way the boot looks now. This is way better than the rear BKK that we did. (tho thats pimp too, pics to come)
Sorry for the photo quality, my first gen iPhone is about done.