Nismo steering wheel emblem / Golden Customs Grille / Audi r8 headlight Update

Post by **itsjustbusiness** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:02 pm

Hey guys,

So the mesh grille and audi r8 style headlights are almost complete. Should be finished within two weeks time!

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has tried to take out the the nissan on the steering wheel. Nothing against Nissan or anything I just don't find it that aesthetically pleasing and it just doesn't flow with my nismo-ed out car right now. I tried to pry it but I'm hesitant knowing that an airbag could deploy, sending the lovely swiss army knife I'm using 300 mph at my face. lol. Anyways, the customs shop said that they would definitely make a fiberglass (or whatever they use) emblem to replace or go over the nissan emblem. I'm interested in having one that says nismo but they can basically laser etch or write something custom into it. So if you're sick of that ugly nissan emblem-ed steering wheel respond! The customs shop needs to see if people are interested so please comment!

Post by **rjdmmfl1** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:05 pm

itsjustbusiness wrote:Hey guys,

So the mesh grille and audi r8 style headlights are almost complete. Should be finished within two weeks time!

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has tried to take out the the nissan on the steering wheel. Nothing against Nissan or anything I just don't find it that aesthetically pleasing and it just doesn't flow with my nismo-ed out car right now. I tried to pry it but I'm hesitant knowing that an airbag could deploy, sending the lovely swiss army knife I'm using 300 mph at my face. lol. Anyways, the customs shop said that they would definitely make a fiberglass (or whatever they use) emblem to replace or go over the nissan emblem. I'm interested in having one that says nismo but they can basically laser etch or write something custom into it. So if you're sick of that ugly nissan emblem-ed steering wheel respond! The customs shop needs to see if people are interested so please comment!

yo, you need to stop procrastinating, and pick up some carbon fiber, nismo, illuminated kick plates!!!!

Post by **itsjustbusiness** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:26 pm

lol - done deal!

Also, EVERYONE BUY A SET OF KICKPLATES FROM DOC! THEY LOOK AWESOME AND ARE WORTH EVERY BUCK! see Doc I look out haha

link:http://forums.altimas.org/zerothread/341873

Post by **packerjd04** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:34 pm

I for one am excited to see the mesh grille and new headlights, do you have a ballpark idea of how much the grille and headlights will cost?

Post by **LongBeachCoupe** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:09 am

U HAVE ANY PICs of the headlight? or ideas on what its gonna look like

Post by **spockrock** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:59 am

damn no pics, please pics........

Also do the r8 headlights have projector retrofits?

Post by **packerjd04** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:58 am

One more quick question, will the new mesh grille replace the bottom chrome pieces?

Post by **maxentropy** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:26 am

spockrock wrote:

+1!!!!!!!!!

Post by **itsjustbusiness** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:04 pm

The customs shop have not finalized the pricing yet so I am not able to say just yet but soon! The headlights are a custom job so I don't know if they would do them for anyone else unless there was interest. The inner housing of the headlights are going to be painted black, the amber strip is going to be painted black, leds are going to be drilled into the black strip going in a vertical direction following the grain of the hood. There were some photochops on another thread and it's going to look pretty close to those. The new mesh grille will get rid of the ugly chrome mustaches and create a more fluid design. I gave them the photochops that mehdi did and it's going to look pretty close to them. Patience guys!

Post by **mcheddadi** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:57 am

I want some pics of the prototyping on you car, even if it's not completed! I have no patience lol!

Post by **packerjd04** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:54 am

mcheddadi wrote:I want some pics of the prototyping on you car, even if it's not completed! I have no patience lol!

Post by **LongBeachCoupe** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 6:22 am

in no way do i mean to steal Kev's (itsjustbusiness) thunder... as he will be the first with the Ironman LED headlights... but what i can tell you guys is that the people who are going to be setting up a GB and become a fabricator for NICO (the guys who are doing my headlights on saturday) are finalizing their IRONMAN G37 lights this weekend for the HIN show(i may be able to take a few pics of them on sat when im there). They WILL be able to do them for our car (if golden doesnt want to man up and join the forum)

Post by **mcheddadi** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:54 pm

I AM IRONMAN!

Post by **skilled44** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:51 pm

any word on pics?

Post by **itsjustbusiness** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:21 pm

Patience guys!

I can't give you guys a picture update just yet but here are some photoshops.

These are of the r8 style led runnersPhotoshop by: don't remember

This is what we're expecting the grille to look like. The frame will be attached throughout. You can see the break where the chrome mustache's would've been. That part will be filled in. Also the photochop has the bottom part of the frame to be kind of blocky. The bottom part of the frame will hopefully be a nice smooth curve. The whole frame of the grille will be made to match the color of the car. The mesh will be black. Photoshop by Mcheddadi

This was the other idea but it could not be made. The mesh needed some kind of support. It would have been flimsy otherwise. IMO the other one is better anyways.Photoshop by Mcheddadi

Post by **spockrock** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:37 pm

I had this idea a long time ago with the vertical lights but instead of it acting as the Day Time Running Lights it would be turn signals.

Post by **itsjustbusiness** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:39 pm

I was inspired by the r8. I thought it looked beautiful and the r8 uses the leds as running lights as well. Using them as blinkers just didn't make sense to me especially because there's a whole part of the housing dedicated to the turn sigs.

Post by **spockrock** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:56 pm

Very true..... whom are you getting your headlights done by?

Post by **itsjustbusiness** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 5:21 pm

Golden Customs. They're one of the top customs shops on the east coast. They've won car wars with funk master flex, featured in mags, the whole nine yards.

Post by **spockrock** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 5:33 pm

itsjustbusiness wrote:Golden Customs. They're one of the top customs shops on the east coast. They've won car wars with funk master flex, featured in mags, the whole nine yards.

How long does it take to get the lights modified. I would of done this a long time ago, but I am trying to find somebody that does this here. I just do not know how long it would take. Two weeks without my car might be a little tough.

Post by **packerjd04** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:00 pm

I really cannot wait to see the finished products (mostly the grille!!!) Thanks for the photoshop pics at least hah

Post by **LongBeachCoupe** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:27 am

tomorrow im dropping my lights off for 1 day service headlight painting

spockrock wrote:
How long does it take to get the lights modified. I would of done this a long time ago, but I am trying to find somebody that does this here. I just do not know how long it would take. Two weeks without my car might be a little tough.

Post by **spockrock** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:11 am

LongBeachCoupe wrote:tomorrow im dropping my lights off for 1 day service headlight painting

Its just for painting, hell I cannot wait I may need to make a trip to NY over a weekend to get this done maybe.

Post by **LongBeachCoupe** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:06 am

bad part is they dont do work on the weekends (i had been trying past 2 weeks to get em to come in lol)...

They accept them by mail.. spock stay tuned for the posts on tue night...

Post by **spockrock** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:35 am

LongBeachCoupe wrote:bad part is they dont do work on the weekends (i had been trying past 2 weeks to get em to come in lol)...

They accept them by mail.. spock stay tuned for the posts on tue night...

Do they do projector retrofitting?

Post by **LongBeachCoupe** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:33 am

spockrock wrote:
Do they do projector retrofitting?

I dont believe its their specialty (and im not too interested in projectors for whatever reason) but i promise you ill get the low down from them when im there tonight

Post by **Reymann** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:12 pm

damn r8 head lights, there goes the hype for the halo's lol. i have to wait for these to even bother goin with the halos..

Post by **Reymann** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:54 am

so where are they!!!

Post by **adidas2go** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:01 pm

Reymann wrote:so where are they!!!

melted....

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