mine havent fogged or leaked yet. but, I used about one tube of Permetex per headlight. I let it squeeze out, then i wiped off the extra.

 

i had moisture in one headlight so what i did was remove it bake it in the oven again to get all water to evaporate, then resealed with the permatex ultra black. i laid a big think bead all the way around abd havent looked back.

 

I have a little in mine i'm just going to cook them a bit and then lay a thick layer of silicone around the whole thing

 

Dude, I love that SS symbol where it is, niiice

 

thanx just remember i'm the first. i just had that piece from my trunk floating around and what can i say.... these things just come to me.

 

Wow. I would never get rid of that 350z. EVER

 

Love that SS inside the light! That is hella pimp!

 

thanx i thought it would add some flash to the lights and it looks even better now without the bit of fog. .

 

u got a pic of ur whole car with the headlights?^^ Also how do u think our yellow cars would look with smokes tails?

 

SS in the headlights!!! Love it......that sounded gay Dude that looks pretty damn good.....wish I never sold mine

 

here is my headlights



the bowtie lights up like so



they still fog up from time to time. which sucks.....so im going to find another pair at a local junkyard and see if i can complete my super secret headlight.

 

 

there are a couple pics in my garage post paint.

i dont want tinted tail i like being able to push the brakes and see who's behind me.

 

after a about 5 months of having my headlights on.. i noticed today after all the rain we had that my driver headlight is all fogging up. This is making me mad, i think if i reseal it, it will just end up leaking in the future again, so i'm just going to put the regular headlights back in and maybe get headlight covers.

 

yah im pissed, I painted mine, like 3 weeks later, fog.

I said screw it, and ordered the projectors yesterday lol.

 

Headlight covers are not very attractive. Fella's...lok at Mercury's how-to on retrofitting. Notice towards the end he inserts some silica gel packages into the headlamp tohelp absorb whatever moisture remains in there after closig them up. Pretty much the only way to ensure no condesnation appears on the headlamps is to seal them when the humidity is extremaly low and air is dry. This means when you plug in the headlight you need those conditions. The silica gel should help with minimal amounts of moisture..just don't eat it :P

 

the main trick to getting them to seal is how you put them back together. when i did mine, i took a heat gun and ran it around the headlight body for about 5 minutes straight to soften the adhesive that was left in the groove. then i did about 5 laps around the lens to soften that glue while someone else applied silicon to the groove on the headlight body. then i sandwiched them back together and held them shut for about an hour with clamps.

here's a couple pics of my Z headlights






here's what we did to my buddy's STi



and here's how i did the cobalt headlights

 

the only issue with a dessicant like silica gel is that it acts as a sponge to soak up moisture, and as we all know, once a sponge is full, there's nowhere else for the moisture to be absorbed. dessicants are used in house windows, inside the frames to perform the same task. you may have noticed on your house or a friends house that there is some moisture in between the panes, that means the dessicant had become totally saturated and there was nowhere else for the moisture to go.

it was a good idea in theory by Merc, but only would be successful to get out any initial moisture in the headlights from when they were opened and any humidity got into them. if he has a leak, he may run into a problem in the future when the dessicant becomes saturated.

 

Yeah he did say he had a leak and the silica became saturated. This is all under the assumption that the lights are sealed of course. If tehy are not you are SOL. A pressure test would be a good way to check I suppose. Hook up a compressor and put some water along the seams to look for bubbles as air pressure builds.

 

my painted headlights were leaking so i took them out and replaced them with stock.. now my stock headlights are leaking?? whats the deal

 

the thing that sucks about mine is when the headlights are installed you can see the glue in the gaps of the fender and hood.. i also broke a few of the plastics off so that looks ghetto. I'm thinking about getting fiberglass and putting that around my headlight then sanding it down and painting the back of the light to make it a lot nicer??

 

my girls dad owns a bodyshop, he told me that when he sees condensation in a headlight his soluting is to drill a small hole at the bottom of each headlight. I donnu about this however, what do you guys think.