Kudos goes to Medallionman for an amazing guide he sent to me without request to my email address.

 

I now hate Butyl/Tar and it's the worst stuff I've ever worked with.

Got through it though and got most of it off the car.

 

 

Here is how far I've gotten so far...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The heating for 5 mins didn't work for me.

I went for a bake of around 7mins in the oven itself.

The lights glided apart like butter.

 

No marks on the lenses and no cracks etc.

Well happy.

 

Watch this space on the mod I'll be doing.

I was rear ended by a Peugeot about 6 years ago maybe longer. It wrote her car off, mine was fine, the insurance chap turned up looked the car over from the outside for about a minute and that was it he was happy. No intense looking or even looking over just a quick yup.

I have led rear clusters and have declared them to the insurance company, along with every individual upgrade/modification, visible or hidden, big or small. Although, that said, no doubt they could still refuse to pay out if they were the cause of an accident.

So minus the centre panel for now while Phutumsch does his magic for me........

 

 

 

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The masking tape was for an extra seal all around the lights with a tiny thin bead of black silicon.

Look great ant, looks like your garage is a squeeze too I have to climb out the bloody roof lol...

I likey those. Just gotta get that black strip on the top half to mirror the curve on the bottom half. :D

Also your car is loud lol. What exhausts on it?

Ant id say if i may if i was to be really picky , the bottom spread of defused light looks great with what ever u used but the top ,if i may u must of have used the norm red defuser thingy for the top ,id say see if you can get the same stuff that u used in the bottom clear with orange lights or clear lens at top with the red lights , u know what i mean do the same uptop as u done down the bottom. that said good job and love the bootom defuser

Thanks for the interest.

I would of loved to of done the tops in the red but I think that would of been a bit too illegal and the LED strips looked really tacky butted up right against the frosted.

I did get away with it for the inidicators however as they light top down.

 

I couldn't hit the brake light for obvious reasons but it is around 25% brighter than the top strips.

 

My car is loud, It's Japspeed divorced downpipes into an SS Billet 2.5" test pipes (no H or X mixer) and full decat (tailpipe also SS Billet).... I need my exhaust tailpipes levelled up with each other on the rear however. ***It was MarkyB's old twin exits***

 

Not much more to do now but something for 2014.

 

I am fussy and chose the tail-end on the boot to rid the black strip... (sorry).

 

I hate my garage, but only one the council had in my area... A piece of cardboard is up the wall on the drivers side to stop my door whacking the wall lol.

 

 

 

Hope you all had a nice xmas and new year.

Edited January 1, 201411 yr by oobumblebeeoo

Lol horses for corses. What's the back boxes then? Short of the lack of a x pipe it's very similar to mine on paper.

SS Billet or Bullet.... Can't remember but that is what was stamped on the tail-ends when I bought them.

 

Just updated the last post saying they were MarkyB's if you know who he is?

He maybe able to clarify more?

I'm very tempted to remove my back boxes and have straight through :devil2:

Oh here we go... just did a thread search...........

I don't know much more sorry.....

 

 

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?149921-Exhaust-system

 

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hahaha, good boy!

I think there's too much thought going in to the insurance side of it. At the end of the day, if yOure rear ended it would be the other persons fault, simple as that really in the eyes of the insurance. So there'd be no need for the insurance company to come and investigate your light - especially if you have an MOT. I've worked in insurance for years and haven't seen them be that picky on anything unless there were none disclosures. I would however suggest they're aware you've made amendments.

 

P.S. good work there mate

Thanks Bud

Ok night test at last and managed to get the phone to record the video propped up in my van windscreen while I could capture the break lights also.

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

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that looks really good mate. top work.

Thanks Dave.

 

Will bump your kudos tomorrow.

And thanks to Phutumsch with the centre panel.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All bulbs are now LED.

I had the fast flashing problem and didn't think it would affect me as at least one set of flashers per side had one proper bulb (on the front corner indicators)...

 

These are now LED also.

I also got over the fast flashing with a hybrid relay... Instead of buying inline 50ohm load resistors (that get hot!) and hacking into wiring as well.

 

This is the link on eBay and is a direct replacement without modification to your current relay circuit and plugs straight into the three spade socket.

 

Here is the link:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201010724121

 

Hope that helps everybody.

 

 

 

All bulbs now LED demo:

 

[video=youtube;LLcPfHVWl-E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLcPfHVWl-E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Edited January 10, 201411 yr by oobumblebeeoo

That video doesn't work and I'm sure people will think what the hell as phutumsch done with that reverse light panel you mention in post 70, c'mon lets have an update on what you've done with it :D.

This is the link on eBay and is a direct replacement without modification to your current relay circuit and plugs straight into the three spade socket.

 

Here is the link:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201010724121

 

 

I hope you didn't pay 96.99 for that unit.. you can get that plug and play for about £3 (see one of phut's posts)...

It was around £5 I think.

Also just goes straight in without needing to mess with the spade connectors.

Hi Bud.

It should work?

 

I'm still waiting in some parts so it can't be wired in yet :(

 

 

 

 

That video doesn't work and I'm sure people will think what the hell as phutumsch done with that reverse light panel you mention in post 70, c'mon lets have an update on what you've done with it :D.

As requested by Phutumsch....

 

These have been cut down to size and duplicated so they go opposite ways behind the 300zx rear centre panel...

 

It's going to be my reverse light.

The fog and reverse are being converted to red LED fogs (so the original reverse will become another fog)

 

 

 

 

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