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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 12:21 AM
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Well I spent a good portion of my Sunday doing this instead of my homework. haha

So heres all the pics. Enjoy and tell me what you think!

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Baked open:


The projector:




Side marker:


Eye lid:


All painted and ready to be re assembled:


Projector and Shroud being mounted:


All back together:



On the car:





HIDs powered on:



Old Apr 1, 2008 | 12:23 AM
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Those actually look pretty sick, good job...wish i knew how to do that ish!!!
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 12:25 AM
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steallthy... cooool..
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 12:26 AM
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niiiiicccceeee!!!! What kind of shrouds are those and where did u get them from?
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 12:28 AM
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nice Browndogg... more info on parts please...
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 12:28 AM
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looks good!! which projector did you use?
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 12:35 AM
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The projectors and shrouds are from a BMW M3... or at least thats what i was told. I used 6K HIDs
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 01:40 AM
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its clean, and i like how you painted everything, esp the chrome for the lows. but gotta zing ya on the temp choice and the hyper-rice high-beams. its a personaly preferance, but anything over 5K in OEM HID projectors is just wrong .02. i woulda of course done an led retro too... so all is custom.. LOL
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 01:42 AM
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looks good but the quality of the pics makes it hard to even see them
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 01:46 AM
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Damn. Looks good bro. I wish I had the ***** to do that.
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 01:52 AM
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thats pretty bad ___.. u made it seem so easy.. haha
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 02:34 AM
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nice dirty bumper... lol jk... looks good man
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 02:40 AM
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how much did you spend on this project (if you dont mind me asking), im lookin into doing a retro and im just trying to get some baseline prices
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 03:22 AM
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nice
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 03:23 AM
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how hard is it to do this. i might have to do this next time the parentals go to atlanta
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 03:31 AM
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Now clean them, looks great
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 03:40 AM
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wow, nice job.
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 03:40 AM
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dude, you did all that in one day?! (very nice btw)
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 04:32 AM
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do you have any pictures of the cutoff?
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 04:38 AM
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how did u do it all in 1 day? i've been doing mine for about 5 months... haha, cant figure out how to aim and adjust them before putting them all back together.



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