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Old 12-14-05 | 09:13 AM
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Default Clear LS400 headlight! Looks like its the 1-2 gen



I found this going through the gallery looking for a quick pic to show someone. I'm posting this here because some folks have been looking for this lately and it looks as if it actually exists! The user's name is Wide LS and anyone looking to find out more about it is encouraged to pm him and ask him where he found them or if they're custom made etc.
Old 12-14-05 | 03:24 PM
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i would KILL for a set of these....
Old 04-03-06 | 07:37 PM
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any more info on this headlight?

will pm wide ls shortly
Old 04-03-06 | 09:05 PM
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Basically, you send your headlights out to a company in Japan called Hilltop, and they'll send them back cleared like so...all for an unreasonably high cost of around $750-800.
Old 04-03-06 | 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by BR1AN
Basically, you send your headlights out to a company in Japan called Hilltop, and they'll send them back cleared like so...all for an unreasonably high cost of around $750-800.
well, i guess that pretty much sums it up for me!

thanks for the quick response.
Old 04-04-06 | 11:41 AM
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Those are 1st gen LS lights and not 2nd.
Old 04-04-06 | 03:00 PM
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thats pricey
Old 04-05-06 | 11:03 AM
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how long does it take to do the process?

as in...

how long will i have to drive w/out headlights if i decide to do this someday????
Old 04-05-06 | 01:44 PM
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It would be worth the effort to clear them yourself (ie: deline). Time consuming but if you're saving $700+, you do the math.
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Originally Posted by Koma
It would be worth the effort to clear them yourself (ie: deline). Time consuming but if you're saving $700+, you do the math.

any DIY's written? how would one go about doing this?
Old 04-05-06 | 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Koma
It would be worth the effort to clear them yourself (ie: deline). Time consuming but if you're saving $700+, you do the math.
my first gen LS would kill with these things. any thoughts on how to do yourself?????
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i don think we can deline.

we have glass lenses, not plastic, so we would somehow have to grind the glass clear and have it still be optically correct.
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you could prob find some one who works with plastic and just swap out the glass pices with the plastic ones.there has got to be people out there who like mold and desgin plastc or glass
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Originally Posted by biglexass
you could prob find some one who works with plastic and just swap out the glass pices with the plastic ones.there has got to be people out there who like mold and desgin plastc or glass
Yup. There's a guy on HID planet.com who does this but he says he only did it once because it was a pain in the you know what and isn't doing it for anyone else. I don't blame him. Lense transplants aren't easy to do and I've done a couple in the past myself. All plastic though. Not that much different with that vs. lense transplanting with glass to plastic. If you would want it done locally, I would seek out a shop that does plastic fusion/molding to see what their fees are and go from there.
Old 04-09-06 | 03:21 PM
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tig you talking about Larry ? (littodevil)


he'll do anything as long as he's getting paid the right amount...

the custom job he did for the NSX involved cutting out the glass lenses and molding the polyurethane i think it was to fit the lenses he cut out...turned out VERY clean and VERY OEM (as most his work does...)


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