Taillights

[tonyboi261]

so i was sleeping right and i had this dream......and since i love the skyline i figured why cant i make skyline taillights on my alero..........so i devised this plan i have an airbrush machine and some stenciling paper i could make some covers with the stenciling paper and airbrush them white then cut out the circles...

what do u guys think??

[sound_xtreme]

uhhh, no

[shiny alero]

hell no

[clutch1]

If you really want Skyline tails do it right and redo the whole rear of the car with sheetmetal and fiberglass and such instead of just making covers.

[SittinOnChrome]

ha ha ha ha

[Satsuriku]

...............please................dont

actually, i have a better solution..........stop having dreams!! lol sorry man, just kidden

[adam337]

stop smoking herb before bed..

[2.2l Monster]

Yea man I wouldnt try that!!

[sofa]

when i dont smoke weed b4 bed i have dreams about imports all night long
mmmmmm imports

and do w/e u want its ur car jus have an extra set of lights ready for when it looks horrrable lol

[tonyboi261]

u guys should chill out all im doing is putting a sticker over the taillight its not like im gonna really change anything if i dont like it i can take the sticker off

[Gr1m]

the guy croe did something similar to what you came up with although his had much more taste.

[tonyboi261]

what do you mean "more taste"

[Gr1m]

he didnt rice out his car

[sound_xtreme]

if you dont care wtf we think why post a thread asking us what we think. it's gonna look absolutely nasty, period.

[DOHC_tuner]

your on the right track cause the aleros have huge tails and its just ugly, i had the same idea as you but i was going to make them into corvette tailights. I thought about the covers but i knew it wouldt look as good, so i decided to use some fiberglass to fit the corvette lights in but i lack the funds at the time. So I just went along and removed the inner taillights. I think aleros look better this way. Check out my cardomain for a before and after, I just have to get a paint job. But i dont want to spend the money on looks right now, im saving for engine mods, im trying to get the 2.3 intake manifold. Gotta SAVE!!:yahoo:

[Gr1m]

i thought u were selling your alero and buying a honda.....

[mrmike]

It wouldn't be impossible to mount real skyline tails on your car. They are just circles, you could cut out holes in the lenses, make a frenched bracket for them, get them color match painted and call it done. I don't think anyone will mistake your alero for a skyline though. :)

[sofa]

u guys should chill out all im doing is putting a sticker over the taillight its not like im gonna really change anything if i dont like it i can take the sticker off

sorry dude you said you were going to airbrush them stickers are a good way to see how it looks b4 you go perminant tho

[jturkey69]

rowdygls has some extra tails he did some masking to, i can't find the pics though, i think they emulate a vette tailight

[MixtapeMessiah]

so i was sleeping right and i had this dream......and since i love the skyline i figured why cant i make skyline taillights on my alero..........so i devised this plan i have an airbrush machine and some stenciling paper i could make some covers with the stenciling paper and airbrush them white then cut out the circles...

what do u guys think??

your kidding me right??!?!

[TheMeaningOfLife]

Well, i think it wouldnt match the shape of the car itself. Theres nothin wrong with having this idea, it would just look nicer if you tinted them or left them alone.

[DOHC_tuner]

i thought u were selling your alero and buying a honda.....

No, i was going to buy a Honda and still keep my Alero, I wanted a new project to add to me and my friends car club. But i decided against it. But recently my dad called me up and told me he bought a 93 BMW. The only thing wrong with it is the tranny or the computer. It drives fine but then sometimes the tranny doesnt want to work, so you turn it off for a few minutes and then it works fine. I might by it and work on it, not sure though.

[420olds]

does anybody know if anderbra still does tails?

[Gr1m]

ya http://anderbrainnovations.freeservers.com/

[Spilner521]

I've had ideas like this. If you want a completely new look to the taillights, like the Skyline lights you're talking about, the best way to so it is to make clear lenses for it, and then the inside part where the reflectors are, you'd need to make a completely different piece to put in behind the lens. I don't know what Skyline lights you like, but I was thinking R34 GTR lights. You'd have the stock shape but with a clear lens, and behind the lens you'd have a large circle on the outside and a smaller circle on the inside. I'd do them in LED's and I'd also put the turn signal inside the outside circle and the reverse light inside the inside circle...if you get what I'm saying.

[Cliff8928]

something like this?

http://www.rallylights.com/hella/hella%20images/Miata%20Tail%20Lamps.jpg

http://www.rallylights.com/hella/008221.asp

[pawzbear]

wow that would look trashy on an alero. that a big no-go right there.. all of this.. lol.

[Gr1m]

i hate it when you throw up in your mouth

[Spilner521]

something like this?

http://www.rallylights.com/hella/hella%20images/Miata%20Tail%20Lamps.jpg

http://www.rallylights.com/hella/008221.asp
That actually looks pretty terrible. The way I was talking would be more like the IS300 lights, with the circle behind the lens, only I would have the housing painted black instead of chrome like on the IS, and also the clear lens tinted slightly to hide the lights a little. I thought of this awhile ago and decided that it'd take more time than I wanted to invest and even then it may not look right.

[Headstrong2740]

i hate it when you throw up in your mouth


Yeah i was able to hold it down till i saw those lights right there...... :badidea:

[TwistedDreams]

http://i15.ebayimg.com/03/i/03/3f/0c/07_1_b.JPG

If this is what you are talking about go ahead and do it... so I can make fun of you:thumb:

[Gr1m]

Yeah i was able to hold it down till i saw those lights right there...... :badidea:
wow i dont even remember typing that post last night....alcohol is bad

[AGT]

:lol: No to the taillights. Just put red circle reflectors over painted tail lights

[rowdygls]

rowdygls has some extra tails he did some masking to, i can't find the pics though, i think they emulate a vette tailight

http://www.aleromod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17659

couple pics down

[HazMatt24]

how about hell to the nah for this idea

[bizarre179]

Look, who cares what you do to your car. Im not saying it will look good, but hey, dont care what other people think. Do something no one else does. If you like it, thats all that matters.

[Spilner521]

These lights are for a Maxima, and I'm not saying do them exactly like this, but this is the basic concept I'm talking about, with everything behind a clear lens. The only thing I would do is paint the chrome housing black and tint the clear lens:
http://www.autocarparts.com/images/products/ACP/altezza/NIS-MAX-9799-EUGU-LEXX-AT2X.jpg
Honestly, if you made lights like this and did a good job and didn't make them too gaudy, they probably wouldn't look absolutely terrible. You'd have to try it out and see I guess.

[Vinalero]

I'm with spilner on those last post's lights. It would look good on the Alero. If one pro photoshopper could try and fit something to the taillights.

I'd say change all the pattern of the existing tails. the two red circles should take all the room (even where there's the back up light and the corner light) then relocate those 2 lights somewhere in two small spots.

[Vinalero]

Something like this for instance (Ok its some paint crap but it kinda gives some idea about what I had in mind, you just gotta have some imagination haha)

[TheMeaningOfLife]

Still like stock better.

[protocol7]

You do know that there are already circles in the inner lenses. Well, actually a segment of a cirlce. It's not very visible except at night, but I think it's a pretty cool design:

http://xs115.xs.to/xs115/07203/light000001.jpg
(hard to tell from angle, but it is truly circular)

Maybe if you accentuated this circle somehow, it would be cool?

[Spilner521]

I'm with spilner on those last post's lights. It would look good on the Alero. If one pro photoshopper could try and fit something to the taillights.

I'd say change all the pattern of the existing tails. the two red circles should take all the room (even where there's the back up light and the corner light) then relocate those 2 lights somewhere in two small spots.
Yes you would have to change the housing so that the circles take up the whole lens. But you wouldn't just stick the reverse and turn signals anywhere, you put them in the center of the circles...just like the maxima lights...look again:
http://www.autocarparts.com/images/products/ACP/altezza/NIS-MAX-9799-EUGU-LEXX-AT2X.jpg
To make them like the R34 Skyline GT-R taillights, you would just make the outside circles larger than the inside circles.

[Spilner521]

You do know that there are already circles in the inner lenses. Well, actually a segment of a cirlce. It's not very visible except at night, but I think it's a pretty cool design:

http://xs115.xs.to/xs115/07203/light000001.jpg
(hard to tell from angle, but it is truly circular)

Maybe if you accentuated this circle somehow, it would be cool?
What you're talking about has already been made, by Anderbra I think. He made some with LED circles right inside that part you mentioned, as well as the same spot on the outside lights. B-spot I think had them on his car.

[Vinalero]

Oh! I thought the clear part in the middle of the lens were for reflexion purpose. Of course it would be better with the reverse and corner in the middle of each circles. But I guess that would start to be some serious custom work on the tails.