More Baking Headlight Trick - Subaru Enthusiasts Car Club of the Sierras

LetItRev · 2004-04-14, 04:15 PM

I saw an STI yesterday with a cool mod. I know many of you have baked the headlights and removed the amber parts. But didn't you then paint something black?

I thought this look looked great on a silver WRX. Is this legal? Let's get baking!

Franz

LetItRev · 2004-04-14, 04:17 PM

Here's another

LetItRev · 2004-04-14, 04:18 PM

and yet one more

tysonK · 2004-04-14, 05:17 PM

I think since the baking craze people like Scott have leaned that a heat gun around the edge of the seal is better and safer than in the oven.

I think we can do it one of these weekends or something.

It's only a matter of removing light heating seal taking out a few small brass screws and then popping out amber(and painting if you so chose) and putting it back together.

MattR · 2004-04-14, 08:42 PM

Russ at ESX said he jsut did his STi lights at 200 degrees and everything worked fine. I 'm gonna do it soon I think...not sure if I'll paint my lights black though.

LetItRev · 2004-04-14, 08:58 PM

Matt -- Let me know when. I'd like to bake mine as well. I hear 200 degrees for 6 minutes is the key. What about the heatgun?

We'll have a Seccs bake-a-thon! :shock:

Franz

MikeSTI · 2004-04-15, 10:01 AM

so your house MattR this time?

I don't want any more casulties at my house

sorry Sean

Evo Mike · 2004-04-15, 10:14 AM

those lights are crazy lookin! damn, is the 'baking' process a one headlight fits all? or are there different temperatures for differnt brands of headlights?

So most of ya'll are going with the oven and not the heat gun? i'd be sh*tting bricks doing that to an STi headlight.. it cant be good for your health to be that nervouse! lolol

sperry · 2004-04-15, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Evo Mike

those lights are crazy lookin! damn, is the 'baking' process a one headlight fits all? or are there different temperatures for differnt brands of headlights?

So most of ya'll are going with the oven and not the heat gun? i'd be sh*tting bricks doing that to an STi headlight.. it cant be good for your health to be that nervouse! lolol

Well, once you take the HID bulbs out, I think the housing is the same as the '04 WRX, isn't it? So if you screw it up, you're out like $275 ('02/'03 prices) or so from the dealer for a new housing.

MattR · 2004-04-15, 10:49 AM

I hosted the first bake-day, way back, and everything went fine, we can do it again soon.

MikeSTI · 2004-04-15, 02:23 PM

600 dollars for the 04'

sperry · 2004-04-15, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeSTI

600 dollars for the 04'

You're saying the headlight w/o bulbs, ballasts, wiring, etc costs $600 per light!!?! That's insane! It's not like it's fundamentally different for the '04 vs. the '02/'03, it's just a different shape!

MikeSTI · 2004-04-15, 02:33 PM

but its new!!!! atleast thats how they try to justify it

Kevin M · 2004-04-15, 07:54 PM

Try calling subaruparts.com or subaruwrxparts.com for the "real" price.

2004-04-14, 04:15 PM	#1
LetItRev R.I.P. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Reno, Nevada Posts: 501 Car: 2004 WRX	More Baking Headlight Trick I saw an STI yesterday with a cool mod. I know many of you have baked the headlights and removed the amber parts. But didn't you then paint something black? I thought this look looked great on a silver WRX. Is this legal? Let's get baking! Franz Attached Thumbnails

2004-04-14, 04:17 PM	#2
LetItRev R.I.P. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Reno, Nevada Posts: 501 Car: 2004 WRX	Here's another Attached Thumbnails

2004-04-14, 04:18 PM	#3
LetItRev R.I.P. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Reno, Nevada Posts: 501 Car: 2004 WRX	and yet one more Attached Thumbnails

2004-04-14, 05:17 PM	#4
tysonK warehouse SECCS Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: SoCal... Posts: 6,253 Car: 04 Evo 99 Cadillac Class: street de le mod	I think since the baking craze people like Scott have leaned that a heat gun around the edge of the seal is better and safer than in the oven. I think we can do it one of these weekends or something. It's only a matter of removing light heating seal taking out a few small brass screws and then popping out amber(and painting if you so chose) and putting it back together. __________________ Anjali? Anjali?

2004-04-14, 08:42 PM	#5
MattR El Matador Real Name: Matt Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 10,660 Car: 2012 Toyota Tacoma Class: ?	Russ at ESX said he jsut did his STi lights at 200 degrees and everything worked fine. I 'm gonna do it soon I think...not sure if I'll paint my lights black though. __________________ "Dallas..We have a problem.”

2004-04-14, 08:58 PM	#6
LetItRev R.I.P. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Reno, Nevada Posts: 501 Car: 2004 WRX	Matt -- Let me know when. I'd like to bake mine as well. I hear 200 degrees for 6 minutes is the key. What about the heatgun? We'll have a Seccs bake-a-thon! :shock: Franz

2004-04-15, 10:01 AM	#7
MikeSTI EJ205 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 2,354 Car: 2004 STi Class: TSM I can't complain	so your house MattR this time? I don't want any more casulties at my house sorry Sean __________________ Cobb Stage 2

2004-04-15, 10:14 AM	#8
Evo Mike EJ251 Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 513	those lights are crazy lookin! damn, is the 'baking' process a one headlight fits all? or are there different temperatures for differnt brands of headlights? So most of ya'll are going with the oven and not the heat gun? i'd be sh*tting bricks doing that to an STi headlight.. it cant be good for your health to be that nervouse! lolol __________________ I Can't Believe My Friends.... Drive WRX's....

2004-04-15, 10:49 AM	#10
MattR El Matador Real Name: Matt Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 10,660 Car: 2012 Toyota Tacoma Class: ?	I hosted the first bake-day, way back, and everything went fine, we can do it again soon. __________________ "Dallas..We have a problem.”

2004-04-15, 02:23 PM	#11
MikeSTI EJ205 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 2,354 Car: 2004 STi Class: TSM I can't complain	600 dollars for the 04' __________________ Cobb Stage 2

2004-04-15, 02:33 PM	#13
MikeSTI EJ205 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 2,354 Car: 2004 STi Class: TSM I can't complain	but its new!!!! atleast thats how they try to justify it __________________ Cobb Stage 2

2004-04-15, 07:54 PM	#14
Kevin M EJ22T Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Reno Posts: 9,445 Car: '93/'01 GF6, mostly red Class: 19 FP	Try calling subaruparts.com or subaruwrxparts.com for the "real" price. __________________ FWD is the new AWD

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