"Bvmp" is a toxic word on many bulletin boards, er, I mean on-line forums (guess that shows my age!) It's often used to bring a thread back to the top of a list without adding any pesky "new and relevant information"
By the way, your work is excellent!
hmm never thought of that, strange it would pull part of a word out of a different word
By the way, your work is excellent!
Thanks, I don't know about excellent though. fair to decent maybe
so here are a couple pictures, I shot a little primer on it and bolted it to the car. I still have to work on the center light bar a little and make a few minor adjustment here and there but it is getting close
I have been struggling with getting lights that will work because it is such a narrow area to work with now that I had to cut the backs of the lights down to get them to fit up to the back of the car. they make a triangle shape now that goes from the lens edge down and only goes out about 2.5 inch out at the bottom. this meant I had to remove the entire refractor area of the light assy. and now even a 1156 bulb won't fit inside the area I have to work with. Now I knew this going in so I knew I would have to go LED and most likely LED strip. the problem was getting the right brightness and having different brightness for the brake and turn lights. Well today I finally found my answer. I found a small 3 bulb LED that has 2 brightness ability using 2 sep wires, so I am installing 3 in each taillight and I took the refractors and using the heat gun flattened them out then molded them in to fit the new lens design. it doesn't look factory because it doesn't reflect as even as it did but it works great. I'll get some pictures to show what I was up against and the little lights I found
here are a few pictures, showing the taillight housings and after I cut them down to fit, then the rear part of the refractor lens I had to mold to the taillight. the lights are just sitting in there loose but you get the idea of how it's going to work
OK so now I'm working on 2 things, I'm working on the rear taillight/ er and now I decided after having it on the car and seeing it daily that I am going to widen the rear spoiler, it just doesn't look right sitting in the middle
so I cut it in half then using some stainless I cut 2 halves and bent them into shape to use as inserts to widen it
next I will use the lids of the saddle bags to cut the ABS and mold it on top of the stainless, then I will epoxy the halves together. then I can fabricate a taillight for it
I have made a little more progress, I got the spoiler back together and hit it with some paint. I still have to finish the base where it attaches to the car and get the LED light installed but the overall mod is done. I got the tail light section complete and threw a little paint at it as well. it is from a rattle can and is only intended to look better than primer. I still have to add the seal around the top of the lights and install the new mud flap. this too is in it's almost finished stage. it's gotten too late in the year to do a proper paint job so I will have to wait until next spring to sand everything thing down for it's real paint job
next up is to repair the damage to the rear fender and the damage on the right front corner of the nose, I didn't have anything to do with that damage, I did participate in the damage to the rear fender
