Looks pretty badass!

 

Thanks, ccarrillo717

Here's another angle of it finished.

 

I like it. Looks good.

 

Thank you.

Good job. I've done several of those for members.. I'm sure you remember. They were paying $80 for the service. Only took an hour.

Oh yes, I remember.

One of the reasons why I decided to do this is because I remembered one very specific photo when you first did one for your car. It was a close up of the third brake light and it had a nice little red bulb in it as well. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it anymore.

I'd like to see it lit up

And be sure to get the wide angle LED's, instead of like the 35 degree ones.

Thanks man. I was thinking of getting a LED bulb similar to this...

I'm trying to avoid having my third brake light look like a small Christmas light when it lights up. So perhaps having some LEDs on the sides would help reduce that possibility? I'm no LED expert here.... :sweat:

wow, i didn't think it would be so easy to open them up! Waiting for pics of install for sure.

Yeah, me too. That's the reason why I put off buying the LED because I thought it would be more difficult than what it really was. I was betting that I would break the lens or something and didn't want to have two red (they come in pairs) LEDs sitting at the house..... :lol:

 

Good job. I've done several of those for members.. I'm sure you remember. They were paying $80 for the service. Only took an hour.

 

I'd like to see it lit up

And be sure to get the wide angle LED's, instead of like the 35 degree ones.

 

wow, i didn't think it would be so easy to open them up! Waiting for pics of install for sure.

 

Primer/Paint combination?

 

I don't think you answered this one yet

 

You know instead of buying a clear one and doing all that work, you could have bought this one: 00 01 02 03 04 05 MIT ECLIPSE LED THIRD 3RD BRAKE LIGHT: eBay Motors (item 120389834860 end time Aug-31-10 19:55:34 PDT) it already comes smoked with the led lights:lol:Either way you did a great job James:yesway:

 

Those have chrome reflectors, but they have black version as well.

 

Looks great. Similar to what I was going to do to mine.

 

It's not the cost IMO, it's the uniqueness. Anyone can click a button and get a part off eBay, but spending a little bit of extra time to make something more unique is what sets you apart from the "typical ricer".

Just my two cents.

 

Looks good. Did you cut out the piece in the middle where it's still chrome?

 

He covered it with painters tape...

 

looks hot

 

The LEDs finally came in today. And I got the light installed!

Here's a before/after shot:

And another:

Looks like a decent amount of light output from that LED bulb. :yesway:

Let me know what you guys think!

 

Looks better than what I expected. Especially when lit up. Good job. :yesway:

 

Thanks, man. I spent a pretty 'penny' on those LEDs to just make sure they had proper light output.

Much much better - matches the taillights. Climson, you are one of the very few on the site whom I know will selectively choose the rights things to do to your car each and every time with the ability to actually take a proper photograph as a follow up.

You have damn good taste in mods. As a suggestion, you should consider replacing the red Mitsu badges with the chrome OEM ones and remove the GT badge on the back corner. That would square up and center the back of the vehicle perfectly and the chrome Mitsu logo would pick up on the center section of the 3rd brake light and lightly accent the rest of the rear of the car. Your only other option would be refinishing your current ones to a satin black.

:blush2: Thanks HIJACKER for the kind words. It's my pleasure to provide such pictures for everyone to view.

And yeah, I actually do have the one piece chrome Mitsu emblems. I just layed some red tape over the diamonds in replacement of the black diamonds I had one before.

I'm still undecided about the red emblems....but right now, black emblems would look much better than the red. :yesway: But when it comes time to switch them out, all I have to do is just peel them off.

 

Much much better - matches the taillights. Climson, you are one of the very few on the site whom I know will selectively choose the rights things to do to your car each and every time with the ability to actually take a proper photograph as a follow up.

You have damn good taste in mods. As a suggestion, you should consider replacing the red Mitsu badges with the chrome OEM ones and remove the GT badge on the back corner. That would square up and center the back of the vehicle perfectly and the chrome Mitsu logo would pick up on the center section of the 3rd brake light and lightly accent the rest of the rear of the car. Your only other option would be refinishing your current ones to a satin black.

 

Looks great James!

 

Looks great! Another quick request: Nighttime shot?

Also, I think you should go back to the black emblem.

 

I second the night time shot, and the black emblem.

Y'all ask and y'all shall receive.

It seems plenty bright to me.

And here's what the LEDs came in the mail. This pic was taken right after I opened the package.

 

I second the night time shot, and the black emblem.

 

:drool: Looks even better at night!! I would definitely like to do something like that for my car in the future.

 

wow it looks great, it seems like you niteshaded them from far away:yesway:

 

This looks great. Good Job

 

Return of the black emblem! lol It just took me five minutes to do it with the tape.

 

What kind of tape did you use?

 

masking tape.

 

:agreed: although for some headlights/reflectors/chromed surfaces masking tape has too strong of an adhesive that can cause the chrome to peel (not the case for anything I've encountered) but I've heard of the use of post-its to mask such sensitive places.

 

I haven't had any issue with any chrome peeling off, but I used regular old black electrical tape. :blush2: