JANUARY 2014:

Took apart the interior again to Paint the center console and door cards Black and wrap the accents with Carbon Fiber

 

FEBRUARY 2013

Installed new BLUE LED interior lights:

Installed new aftermarket Infinity Speakers and Tweeters to the doors, rears, and dash:
(get them in on wed. this week, should have pics up after the weekend)

Installed new Eibach Suspension Spring Coils:
(no pics yet, but i'll get some while the sun is out - and i'll get one in the same location as a precious pic to see the before and after difference on how much it lowered the car)

 

wow this is intensive

 

Lol...

 

MORE TO COME - MY PLANS FOR THE FUTURE:
Infinity Sub in trunk
Wrap Trunk Color in Gloss Black Vinyl
Tint windows 20% all around including tail lights - and a blue tint on head lights
Upgrade all exterior light bulbs
Add LED light strip to open bottom of Head Light gap (to give it the eye liner look like an Audi)
Full exhaust replacement (undecided - open for options and opinions)
New Air Intake (undecided - open for options and opinions)
Breaks
Body Kit
Spoiler
Rims and Wheels

plenty of more to do - just haven't thought of them or to far out for me to be thinking of it

 

What paint did you use on the interior plastic?
(Don't say black. )

You've put a lot of work in this already.
Looking forward to seeing the next steps.

 

I used a Dupli-Color Vinyl and Fabric Black with a Matte finish. It matches the stock black plastic pretty well. I put on like 5-6 coats on each part and 2 coats of protective no gloss clear coat (any kind will do) for protection. You can find the Dupli-color at any auto store, just ask where or go to the paint section and look for the can here...

 

Plasti-Dipped my grey diffuser to a sleek Matte Black and then wired up and installed new LED brake/rear lights on the diffuser

 

If you don't mind me asking, how did you connect the wires on? I've always wanted to do this but afraid of the cables since I never dealt with those before. FYI i've been reading through Goose's DIY section, just need more explanation for it, thanks :wavey:

 

Man, the black diffuser and reflectors looks great! Maybe a DIY is in store?

Have you had any issues with the blue license plate lights? I've been told that the police don't like blue LEDs (or most exterior lighting mods for that matter)

 

I followed THIS DIY for them

No problems with the blue license lights yet, maybe it'll get worse when I add more to the grill and under the body

If you follow the DIY, I simply cut the three wires that hooks into the circuit board in the tail light, then I stripped off the ends of those (now) 6 wires, and spliced the ends of the diffuser light wires

My colors were black, red, and white. So I took my soldering iron and I soldered together the black to black, red to red, and then the off colors together (white to green). I made sure I had a heat shrink wrap around the wire before doing this...then I used my needle nose pliers to bend the wires down to parallel with the wires and covered with heat shrink, used a heat gun to shrink the wrap to hold the solder in place, and re hooked up and installed the tail lights, and done

 

It's a really simple mod and that makes the back end look even better! An armature at electronics could do this mod with no problems, it's pretty straight forward, just as long as you have some how covered the exposed wires so they don't touch the car and ground out the circuit to start blowing fuses.

 

*****UPDATE*****

NEED TO RE-WIRE MY DIFFUSER LED LIGHTS ACCORDINGLY!!!

I had the VSA warning light come on this morning while driving to work...so tonight i'll have to re-wire my lights after I did some reading and researching on the forum for help...

there's the solution for those that are going to get the LED Diffuser Light Reflectors

Your observations made me try something out. I took a video of the rear of the car as I ran through a test cycle.

Headlights on - brake lights and diffuser lights on

Brake pedal hit - brake lights and diffuser lights on

Brake pedal WHILE HEADLIGHTS ON - brake lights *bright* diffuser lights *unchanged*

Upon closer examination it looks like the diffuser is wired up, by default, on bright.

So I switched the wires around - red wires FROM the car goes to WHITE wire on the LEDS.
Green wire FROM the car goes to RED wire on the LEDS.

Repeat video shows the diffuser lights working as intended - dim when the brake lights are dim and bright when they're bright. I will report out on whether or not this fixes the error messages.

Repeat - red does NOT work when attached to red, at least on my 2013 model.

and HERE IS THE THREAD that I read for the information of what was going on - the fix came towards the middle of the second page.

 

Alrighty, thanks for the tip, makes me a bit calmer :hi5:

Gonna install it after I'm done with my works.

 

Lemme see it when your done brotha! :thumbsup: Glad I could help.

 

Nice idea

Here's an idea I was having
A before and an after
Accent the outside of the rims, 'eyeliner' around front lights that continue along hood and roof
Accent two curves on the sides

Black plasti-dip

Wanting to comment on this, but not clutter CRyoZ's build, so sorry if I scooped you on your own build.
Very unique idea - should look sharp.
Not sure about the one along the top of the door (under window) - leave that to shadows from the existing sheet metal feature, IMHO.
How's about some blue WheelBands or very thin pinstriping on the outer edge of the wheels, to set it off, as well?

 

sorry if I scooped you on your own build.


How's about some blue WheelBands or very thin pinstriping on the outer edge of the wheels, to set it off, as well?

its okay - I was thinking of making a copy on here anyway, lol, so thanks for doing it for me.


what do you mean by wheel bands? on the outside of the rims themselves, or on the end of the wheel well?

 

Lots of ideas, for sure.
Mine would be the last picture. I think it would just give a subtle hint of the blue, kind of like leafvillage's Konig Deception summer wheels (only his are on the spokes):

My $0.02 only - and that's in Canadian funds!!

 

Not a bad look. It might get a CotM vote from me, hee hee!

 

Came home to find a great surprise in my mailbox
FINALLY!!

Before

After

And some more LOTM entry pics

 

got some more markups of my plasti-dip body idea...any thoughts?

and to see the contours (and for fun) I did one on the White car to see how it looks

 

I like the look of that. Great thing with dip, if you don't like the outcome, peel it off and do it again! You and Cryoz competing?!

 

You and Cryoz competing?!

Looks like it...he's got some great ideas to do the whole car - I just want some accents to bring out the curves and edges

but im pretty competitive...so BRING IT ON YO! lol

 

Ha! As long as we keep the CRZs uninvolved in the fracas, we'll be fine.

 

of course...only fighting Mega-Man will do, is on the track (street)...cause he's not a transformer - that would just be silly

 

Thanks to the all great CRyoZ and his awesome idea/DIY write up...I think i'll keep my Blue interior Lights going and move to the outside and illuminate the inside of the grill

just need to find a weekend to do this...maybe in a week or two I can get around to it

 

You guys are too cool

 

Do I sense a hint of sarcasm?

 

Yeah, he's a cool (copy) cat

 

How can I be a copy if I give you the recognition for the idea?

 

Yeah, I know, just teasing. I'm technically a copy cat too...the grill LED mod was done on 3 CRZs that I'm aware of. A blue theme, a white theme, and a red theme *elbows Holly*, it just wasn't very well documented here on the forum. Let me know if you need help with the DIY

 

GRILL IS DONE!!!

 

Love it! :thumbsup:

 

Thanks! I'll be playing with the light positions now that its in there to see if I can get a brighter shine or a more BLUE look...but all in all - this is an awesome MOD that im glad I did...all the little high schoolers are gonna LOVE my car now lol