supra tail light conversion

[Import2nr99]

There are two different setups for the conversion. It depends on the shop and the time put into it. also has a lot to do with the imagination of the person doing the work. when you remove your lights and certerpiece from the rear of your car there is what is called a light "bucket". Self explanitory on it's purpose. When you go to put the lights from the supra into the rear of the car you have the option of building your own buckets on top of the existing stock taillight buckets, *easier and less time consuming) or you can cut your buckets and move the lights farther to the outside of the vehicle. (much more time consuming) The only problem with building your buckets inside the existing buckets is that this tends to crowd them due to the angle at which the rear lights slope down. it causes the lights to only be about 6-8 inches apart. and does look a bit on the goofy side. also you have a lot harder time molding the lights evenly and often end up settling for the "bubble" look. which is a complete different look from the "molded" conversion. for an example go to the miaminightout.com site and check out the blue eclipse gs on there. The nice part is that this piece can be fabricated to be completely removable, should you need to do so for whatever reason. The other way, cutting the buckets, will take you longer and might cause you to have to get someone with a cutting tool to help. if you've ever taken your rear lights off you know that there are three bulbs that are used for the signalling. (running light, brake, and turn signal) On the supra there are 4, because the reverse light is included in with the rest unlike the eclipse where it is mounted by the license plate. This is the reason for the length of the taillight assembly. but by cutting your existing buckets you can compensate for the extra 4 inches or so that you gain with the reverse lights. also by cutting the oem buckets you can set the lights in the extra half inch that they would normally stick out and make it a flush, smooth installation.The final product is a permanant, but smooth and flawless(hopefully) installation leaving you with the same basic look but a touch of "wild". making the lights almost seem as though they were oem. this mod will get you TONS of points in the show world! It is growing in popularity though, so it's not so hard to see. I've done it on my car and a lowrider truck, and it turned out very nice. I will also be doing it to my friends civic when I get home.

Sorry to ramble on about something not so popular. Basically, in short, if you spend the time to do it right, you can definitely make it look like they were meant to be. it's all a matter of the quality of the craftsmanship. I will try to post as many pics as I can when the site for the shop is up.