sanchez

I had painted my brake light to say iroc-z and was wondering if anyone else has done theirs.
mine is on a piece of plexi but i want to go ahead and paint on the lense.
what process should I go through to ensure no light shines through the white area, and my paint sticks and stays?

transam305

i've seen it done someone had a picture of a trans-am that had the third brake light not really painted to say trans-am but they had some sort of plate over the light that said trans-am and the light only lighted up the letters through the plate. it was pretty cool but i don't know where he got it. i wanted to get it.

ERICCAMARO

my third brake light says 5.0 when lit up. I just used black spray paint and a piece of thin cardboard.

transam305

that's the best way to do it just mask off what you want it to say when it lights up the have at it with some paint lol i still like the plate idea though it looked sweet.

underdave

https://www.thirdgen.org/newdesign/t...lightmod.shtml

looks awesome, i'm gonna do it in the near future.

transam305

yea that's what i'm talking about but the dude had it made to say Trans-Am but you got the basic idea.

AFor89mula

Mine says "FORMULA". I got mailbox letter from Wal Mart to put on there, painted it black, pulled the letters off, then painted over it again with a few coats of Niteshade...you can't see it at all til I hit the brakes.

Mark W. Winning

Mine is done with vinyl. Its says, "You Lose".

Mark

transam305

nice so that way that's all they see when you make them eat your exhaust fumes lol i'm going to start working on mine this next week i need to collect all the materials and then have at it that idea of painting over it so you can't see it untill you hit the brakes is a good idea but can you see it during the day or is it bad during the day and really nice and night?

Camar92

will this work for my camaro? I have it apart and it looks like the ridges are too deep to sand out. I think Im gonna use vinyl or maybe the mail box letters might still work, just take longer to do. Has anyone done on camaro?

sanchez

here is what mine looks like
its even better at night!

gtaguy87

I have a GTA and my third breake light lens is red. Any suggestions on how to do the brake light up. I dont think it would work with a red lens. Any advice is appreciated i think it looks awesome when its done and i want to do it

Sanchez yours looks perfect

acidboy

I'm going to be doing this in the summer. Only I'm going to black out all of light except for a bowtie in the center.

I can see her in my mind.

transam305

i can't wait to get started on mine if it is warm today i'm going to take it apart and start sanding.

GreenRS

On my 92 I dropped the light down off the glass and put a bow-tie on the glass itself. Remounted the light and it looked great.

transam305

got pics?

sanchez

here is mine at night:lala:

DISTURBthePEACE

You have any pics of it lit/unlit in the day/night? I am interested to see what it looks like...

sanchez

here are some picts or night and day

DISTURBthePEACE

Ya man, i seen those in the post, looks bad azz...I was wondering about the dudes who's doesnt show up until he hits the brakes....any day/night on/off of yours?

bubbakutz

if i were to take out the camaro lens and put camaro on the backside and spray painted it black and removed the letters.......would the outside still look red and when i hit the brakes all u would see is camaro??

gtaguy87

i have a TA with a red lens do i have to change the lens?

transam305

read that tech artical it tells you that you take off the lens and sand off the little bump thingys and them put the letters on and then paint the color of the lens will be changed all except where you put the letters on when you take the letters off it will still be red where the letters are.

AFor89mula

I don't have any pics of it at the moment, I'll get some and post up tonight.

TwinTurboROC

Mines says IROC-Z on the light...ill take some pics and post em....matter of fact i got one ready im just going to block of my licens plate.....will post it in a sec

TwinTurboROC

here it is

bubbakutz

i wanna do this mod but what kind of paint did u guys use.....i dont know how good i can match the color to my cars color....

gtaguy87

I just have one qucik question

Do you paint the inside or the outside of the lens?

thanks

TwinTurboROC

outside

gtaguy87

thanks thats what i thought but wasnt sure, im gonna do it today

transam305

lets see pics of it when your done.

gtaguy87

Im in the middle of doing the painting but i ran into one problem.

The GTA lens(red part) was really small only like 3/4'' thick, so i customised totally. I bought a piece of clear plexiglass, made it the exact same shape a nd size of the whole frame and put TRANS AM on it in 1" letters
MY problem:

The Plexiglass is clear and i need to make it red when i hit the brakes, any suggestions on trying to do this? I was thinking of red light bulbs but i dont know if they make them for it.

Let me know

Thanks

trigger GTA

hers mine that i made to go over the lends that is there now

gtaguy87

Did you just put it over the original one
did you use plexiglass
and did you have to use longet screws

trigger GTA

i used an aluminum plate that i cut the letters out of. then just bolted it over top of the lends that is there. i had to match drill holes to line up. so i could return it back to stock in seconds.




edit.... i did have to get longer screws

gtaguy87

It looks good. I cant put mine over the old one cause mine is longer than the red part

gtaguy87

Do you know if they make the same lightbulbs in red, if they dont i might have to color the clear ones with a red marker or something. Its ghetto but it might work

trigger GTA

the marker thing will not work for sure. but you should be able to get a red bulb. not sure where so you would have to look around for sure.

gtaguy87

Ill have to do some looking around then tommorow, ill take somepics tommorow if its done and post them

transam305

check auto zone they have a lot of different colored bulbs at least where i live they do. try and get the red LED bulbs they are bright and the last long from what i hear anyway i don't have them but those should work i don't know if you can find them in the size or not though. but it doesn't hurt to look.

gtaguy87

Thats what im gonna do i should finish it today so ill have pics real soon. The brake lights i have are the same shape as dome ones thats the only wierd part

88txiroc

Go to a local hobby store and get some Testors clear red paint. I have seen ppl do this and it works great. Almost the same as factory. Search for this about brake lights and you will see that someone did it to the yellow parts of the tail lights. I think it was unforgiven89.

gtaguy87

Im real pissed off, I had the whole thing painted and took off all the letters and it looked perfect. when i went to clear coat it,it made my paint crackle and bubble up and softened the paint it really pissed me off now i have to repaint it. Im going to try using a different paint. I used stuff that was meant for plastic too.
Oh well i got all day to redo it

fireturd350

iTrader: (8)

I did mine to say FORMULA also. I got all my stuff from walmart. I bought the letters in a pack there, then I went back to models and bought a can of grey primer and a can of clear coat then I bought a small little jar of blue paint.

gtaguy87

THe clear coat i have makes everything get all messed up

bubbakutz

do u know if he painted the inside or the outside of the plexi......and so after he was done the letters were clear?

transam305

what kind of clear coat are you using and how far away from the project are you holding the spary bottle a little bit will do you just fine don't glop on the clear coat that causes the cracking and bubbling affect that you have going lightly spray the paint on holding the can about 4 to 5 inches or more away from the project.

gtaguy87

I painted the outside of the plexi glass, yes the letters turned out clear. I kept the same light bulbs i just went to autozone and got the things called "bulb Skins" or something like that and slid them over the clear ones now the bulbs shine red. I will take some pictures and post them tonight. It looks pretty good

gtaguy87

Mine didnt turn out too good, im going to redo with only GTA and put it over the original so it looks real red and no light gets out the sides. Back to work
heres a pic

It looks real good when the lights arent on but the main idea is for it to look good with the brake lights on
here it is

AFor89mula

It was raining...and the car is dirty