DubGA

I did my own halo job on my headlights. I painted the bezel satin black, painted the chrome rings around the headlights to match the car, and cut down the blinker bulb to make a matching ring to mount the switchback halos. I used 60 mm, 70 mm and 90 mm halos from diode dynamics.

DubGA

I had previously done halos on my tail lights.

DubGA

Also did my spoiler this week.

Tonylmiller

I don't see the halo in the spoiler. Just kidding, looks great!

bartsky

Good job man...

firemanast

Excellent job !

Sabre34

Very nice!

DubGA

Yeah, still trying to find some to fit the spoiler brake light, backup lights, and side markers.

OregonMike

Looks great

cmonkey713

Question on the headlight halos. Do you need to remove the headlight lenses for the halo install?

OregonMike

I'd like to see more during pics & maybe a quick note on how you went about the project on the halos

0Diode Dynamics

Very clean installation! Well done!

Looking forward to seeing night time shots

Nick C.

Welker1

Looks good ... very nice work

BlindSpot

That is awesome nice.....

DubGA

Yes, no way around that.

ZachLegend

I love those taillight halos so much. Would you do that for someone if they sent you their OEM tails?

DubGA

Sorry, I didn't take any during pics. But I mainly followed a video by Vesttesthetics on youtube about removing the headlights from the car. To remove the headlight lenses, I laid a towel on a baking sheet, then laid the headlight on the towel with the lens down, and baked it in the oven at 250 for 10 minutes. Then, wearing gloves, I started prying the lens off, working my way around slowly. Its mostly glue that holds it together, but there are tabs that have to be unclipped along the way as well, so watch out for them. That gets the lens off. Then there are some screws to remove to get the bezel off the lens. There are youtube videos on that as well. There are three screws along the bottom of the bezel that may appear to be just spinning and won't come off. But if you watch the bezel at the bottom as you unscrew them, you will see that they are pushing the bezel toward the lens. Just unscrew them until the bezel doesn't move toward the lens any more. The other screws will just back out with no problem. Then you can remove the bezel from the lens. Removing the turn signal bulb and rings around the headlights is just a few screws on the back. I used some etching primer on the metal rings, and bought rattle can paint to match the Jet Stream Blue. It's a base coat, then a mid coat, then a 2-part clear coat. But its a perfect match and the clear flows very well and has a hardener that you activate before spraying. I used it to paint my door handles as well. I used RTV to hold the halo's on the metal rings. The blinker bulb, I used a dremel to cut it down to a ring to match the others, then glassed over the hole in the middle. I painted the middle satin black to match the bezel, and put a small Corvette emblem in the middle. I painted the outside edge of the ring with the Jet Stream Blue. I used 3M trim tape to hold the switchback halo ring on it. The metal rings didn't have much surface area to use the 3M tape on them, which is why I used RTV there instead. Then I tapped the halo's into the park light/drl/turn signal harness.

Only unexpected problem I hit was that I didn't realize the DRL runs on the same wire as the turn signal, so the DRL wants to shine orange all the time. The pics above are with park lights on. I have ordered a kit from RadioFlyer that separates the DRL and turn signal wires so you can have white DRL's and flash amber turn signals. I will have to pull the headlights when I wire that in, so I can take some pics of the headlight removal process then, as well as the three screws that don't back out I referred to above. I will post them up here when I do.

DubGA

As much as I would love to help out a fellow Corvette owner, I couldn't live with myself if I screwed it up. But if it helps, they are much easier than the headlights.

Use the same baking procedure I described in the headlight post above and pry them apart. There is a clear diffuser ring behind the lens. I sprayed the diffuser ring with VHT Niteshades to darken it. That gives the taillights a dark cherry red look without limiting light output. I then used 3M tape to hold the halos on the top of that diffuser ring. Then use RTV to seal them back up, and tap into the brake and turn signal wires.

I followed this thread for installing the rear halos, with a few exceptions which I go into later in that thread.

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ght-halos.html

DubGA

One thing I want to point out that is not evident in the pictures. I used the Diode Dynamics halos in the headlight, and Oracle halos in the rear. The Diode Dynamics have a smooth light appearance because of a coating they put on the halo ring. With the Oracle lights, you can see the individual led's. They don't show up in pictures for some reason, so in the pics they appear to be a smooth ring. In person, you can tell its individual led's. They still look great, but you can see the led's. Diode Dynamics do not offer red halo rings in the size needed for the tail lights (150 mm). They said they used to have them, but were having issues with the drivers. I have noticed recently that they now have white halos in that size (and larger) but I haven't seen the red ones listed in that size yet.

0Diode Dynamics

We will be releasing our larger single color sizes here shortly. The goal is to have them available by the end of the month.

Our HD halos are perfect for tail light applications because of the dual-stage brightness options. You can have a running light + brake light setup very easily.

Nick C.