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Im about to cast some clear city light lenses for my wagon and I figured I would make a small extra to recoup the cost a little as well as help out some fellow first geners. Im not exactly sure how well they are going to turn out but if your interested let me know via pm and ill get updates and pics up here. Ill start messing with it after I get back from atlanta next week.

As in pre-facelift "corner" parking lights?

The ones behind the frond wheels

Side marker lights.

Eh?! I thought everyone was calling then city lights?! What are the city lights then

Wow I feel incredibly dim

no pun intended! hey oh! but yeah, i'm use to hearing them called sidemarker or parking lights. do you have pictures of a set on your car? that would be fantastic.

Well I have some sorta ghetto tabbed ones I made from plexi I may post but it'll be a couple weeks before I make one

Sweet. Looking forward to it.

City lights are the lights on the sides of the inside in the JDM and EDM headlights I thought.

Clear lenses for the side markers? How much?

Are you machining the interior diamond pattern for light diffusion? How are you polishing or can you nail the high transparency with a very shallow finishing pass? If I ever build my own car, I want to make all my lenses and housings from scratch and I've been trying to find a garage-manufacturing way to do it. I have a fall back plan, but if they can be machined, that might make some things easier.

With the products being used it should be very little if any polishing. But again ill need to see. The diamond pattern will be there. These will be an exact mold of the factory lenses. There will be no machining of any kind.

Yeah, once you get them casted & polished, post up some pics. I think you'd have sufficient interest for several sets.

What would be a good price

That's really up to you. You know the cost for materials, time to make them, etc. So you'll need to look at that and see what you want...

Just a small update. I have all the materials but I can't mix the mold due to the coldness that just hit colorado. Im going to open up the chemicals to see how bad the vapors are and if they are not too bad ill do it inside tonight.

Be careful! Nobody needs the side markers that bad, that you need to deal with noxious vapors in your house.

Exactly.

Ok poured the second half of the mold last night. Which means I should have the first one on Sunday night.

Sunday night bump. lol

Update. Poured the first set last night. the results are decent but I need to tweek my mix due to the weather here. Ill post pics later today or tomorrow.

hmm, subscribed!

Ok so I've decided to replied the front face of the molds. Too many bubbles in the mold on that side would cause me to have A lot of polishing. So that will be 2 more days out. Also took the process to my shop due to my garage not cutting it for the resin to cure correctly....makes it difficult to polish.

They look great though. The diamond shaped diffusers turned out awesome. Its the faces that aren't meeting my expectations.

Next update sat or Sunday.

im so in for buying some