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anyone got any ideas for some custom looking taillights?

You've already got the best taillights there are!

All I can say is be careful not to interfere with the taillights' proper function and legality. If nothing else, you don't need to give cops more reason to want to pull you over.

Thankfully, there are no aftermarket tail lights available for the legacy.

You do have the best tails. No orange, just clear.

I still need to pull off my tails and take out that orange peice.

yea, they look good, but i want to put partial covers on them, like the ones that have circles cut out of black plastic pieces.

You can make them if you have to. Go to a plastics supplier and get a thin smoked acrylic or an equivalent and cut and bend to shape with a heat gun.

Steve

Steve - I believe you asked what Kydex was. It's exactly like the plastic you described. Easily molded and bent with heat.

Kydex is a trade mark, isn't it? I don't know its availability, but smoked acrylic should be standard at any plastics supplier. A good one may have scraps at cheap $/lb. I never worked with Kydex anyway, so I'm not familiar with it in terms of forming and how well it would work outdoors. I've used acrylic in design projects, though. This would be tint, though, like those cheap covers they sell in Auto Zone and such - you can get a bunch of plastics in solid colors as well.

Whatever you make it out of, you can use double sided auto trim tape to secure it.

Now that I'm thinking of it, I always wanted to do something cool with mirrored acrylic other than the miniature turntable for my exhibit design's cutaway model. Maybe I could replace the headliner in the back...

Steve

HAHAHAHAHA, mirrors on the ceiling of a car. Brilliant.

Kydex is trademark. You know the hard vinyl looking material used on luxury airline interiors (like inside Leer jets and private planes?) That's kydex. It's VERY similar to the stock hard plastic dash peices.

www.Kydex.com

I got the link before. That's exactly what I thought it was. So it seems it's a laminate primarily. I wonder how stiff it is.

Yeah, I would love to pimp a wagon (in the traditional meaning of the word). Shag carpeting, mirrored ceiling, strobe light.

The New Kids on The Block used to buy their Mercedes at a friend of the family's dealer when I was a kid. They had Donny Wallberg's van there for repair (he used to side swipe cars for the hell of it and pay off the owners). He had motorized seats that folded flat to make the whole back a bed for when he'd pick chicks up off the street with the biggest custom subwoofer I've ever seen underneath (about three feet or so diam.). He told everyone the subwoofer could be hooked up to a seperate system to work like a vibrating bed when the seats were flat. New Kids on the Block may've sucked, but that green van was pretty cool.

Steve

I have always wanted a van like the one in Old School. That thing looks so cool! Shag carpeting everywhere, even the ceiling. With mirrors, and no seats other than the drivers and passengers. Just bean bag chairs and maybe a mattress. Or maybe just some REALLY thick padding under the carpet. Make it like a bedroom on wheels. That'd be amazing.

Kydex is stiff when it's not being molded. It's not soft, that's for damn sure. It's like ABS, only easier to mold and form.

I feel ABS is easy to use. What about thermal welding, like with plastic rods. That wasn't clear to me.

An old boss of mine said he had a big van in college and never got laid so often in his life - he said chicks loved it. Chicks loved my old wagon, too, and I think it was partly the same reason. Certainly wasn't because it was fast or flash.

Steve

Note to self: Get a bigass shitty van for getting laid in.

I'm not sure about thermal welding. You could probably get a similar result by "soldering" with plastic instead of solder.

I've never worked with ABS, so I wouldn't know. I JUST started with fiberglass, and it isn't that hard, just takes creativity.

TurboLegacy wrote:yea, they look good, but i want to put partial covers on them, like the ones that have circles cut out of black plastic pieces.

Please don't do that. Your taillights were engineered to be visible from a wide variety of azimuths and elevations, and they need their complete optics to do that.

You wouldn't wear glasses with covers blocking everything but the middle of your pupil when facing forwards, would you?

Like those X-Ray specs from back in the day.

If those really worked, imagine the possibilities...

just an update for Vikash... I was driving behind my car about a week ago(had to pick up my cousin's car, and my friend drove my car home) and my turn signals ARE orange when they blink. Slightly darker orange that stock, but not much darker than the orange on the front corners of the 92-94's. It looks hot!

Bah.

They're still darker, which means they're not as good at doing their job. Ricer.