iceman_vti's Weekend "DIY Madness"

[iceman_vti]

Well as most of you would have read my "Valve cover opinions" thread yesterday, u would know i did my own lil DIY Valve Cover yesterday... today was DIY day again.. this time with my headlights. Starting at 2, with some "Flame Proof Flat Black" spray, and some "High Temp RTV Silicone", i began the DIY madness

Taking the front bar off,

http://www.ozhonda.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=500/4495100_1522.JPG

and leaving her as b-e-a-uuuutiful as the day the car gods made her, (note: started gettin the HONDA on the valve cover back to scratch ;) ) , we unscrewed the headlights, removed the bulbs, and went to the process of melting the OEM silicone... talk about being the most annoying job EVER... we had the oven at roughly 120 degrees, and for about 10 mins... boy was she hot to take out...

after pulling it apart, came the process of spraying the headlight itself... a quite challenging yet fun task..

http://www.ozhonda.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=500/4495100_1524.JPG

NOTE: Indicator was masked out as to keep shiney part (;) |N| :p)

once the paint had dried came the very intersting challenge of sealing the headlight back together... we opted to smush (heheh engrish) the 2 parts together, and put it back in the oven to re-heat the silicone.. then, afterwards, go over and seal it with the Hi-Temp Silicone.

while sealing, we notice that its starting to rain, and hence comes the very fun part of fitting the headlights, in pitch black darkness, while its raining.. lol. many a torch was found, and after a few long hours, finally my project came together. We connected all the lights back up, and after turning the parkers on, and only 1 coming on, and me having a psycho cos we'd just got it done, and then realising that it came unplugged lol... we finally got it all done back up and lookin purdy (pretty) :)

Before (OLD PIC) (With parkers on ;) ):

http://www.ozhonda.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=500/4495100_1404.JPG


After!! taken tonight :) :

http://www.ozhonda.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=500/4495100_1526.JPG

http://www.ozhonda.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=500/4495100_1527.JPG

Thnx for reading guys!!! And as its 6:52 ish, and i havent eaten all day, here's to a great DIY weekend :)

inspirational?? i fkn hope :p

Hully

[|N|]

lol.. nicely done mate....
DIY is the way la...

[Paul1985]

good work, looks heaps better champ
was your rocker cover a DIY paint job??
looks good in red, just looks like the "HONDA" is only half red..

lovin the painted headlights :) :thumbsup:

[iceman_vti]

yeah man..... valve was DIY... and only half the HONDA is red cos at that stage i'd only taken half of the red paint off of it :p

ur more than welcome to come see it in person... i'm doin nothin tonight and a mini meet could do justice to geelong OH'ers

[Paul1985]

would be good if we had like a mini-cruise in geel, say like 7/8 of us... all hondas, cruise geelong..

but yeah.. headlights look great.. what mods are u planning on doing next?

[clikz]

Headlights look good mate
Dont ya just hate it when you finish putting it all together and expecting it to all work, and then a small think fcks it up? hahhaa happens all the time to me too
Good work mate :thumbsup:

[iceman_vti]

hmmm... next would be.... probs colour code the black strips on the side, then maybe headers, high flow cat, lower, tint... sparkies, service.... next service is Timing Belt install... umm.... then dunno... :p

as i said man.. tonight i'm doin shit all..... if u wanna meet say... eastern beach or a maccas somewhere for a 1v1 show off :p i'm more than available too...

[Q_ball]

nice work hully!!
lookin schweet as!

[iceman_vti]

fark yeah clickz... i was all screwed in, then my mates gone "oh how would it look with lights on?" so he turns the parkers on, and they both go, then bye bye rightie... i was like "WTF DID YOU DOOOOO!!!!!! NOOO!!!! WTF HAPPENED!!! ARGH!!! etc." lol.. but i wasnt too overly fussed... i get my super whites courtesy of egSi tomoz... :)

more pics more pics :p

Hully