New England B.S. Thread

If possible, turn down the ISO on your phone's camera.

 

I have no idea what you just said...

 

Basically turn down the shutter speed so it takes in less light and won't overexpose the bright taillights

 

Ah, I see.
Probably not going to happen. It took me long enough to figure out how to focus the camera on this thing, haha!

 

..... Tapping the screen?

 

That's correct. Half my pictures were coming out blurry because it wouldn't autofocus on what I wanted it to.

 

Yeah tap on what you wanna focus on lol.

You tried, you tried

 

Noel, do you have one of those flashers for your tail light? When I hit my brake, the tail light flashes 3 to 5 times before going solid. Grabs people's attention.

 

If you keep your CVs at the same angle as they would be at a 3" lift, you'll get some additional lift because of the extended arms but not a ton. No way I'd run an LT kit with the shocks maxed out, it'd be the same as running 4+ inches of lift without a drop bracket, your CV angles will still be really steep and wear things out quickly.

 

Yeah, but the taillight on the M50 is pretty lousy. It's an LED, so it should be awesome, but it's got a ridiculously opaque lens that bleeds a lot of the brilliance out of the diodes. On a sunny day when I put the brake on it's tough to tell. So I figure a couple of extra lights that aren't on normally and flash on when I hit the brake should make a difference.

 

There's no way I would crank up an LT kit. That's not the point of that suspension setup

 

I thought about a one inch body lift but then my rear bumper would look way off from the tail gate. And my sliders would look stupid too

 

1/2"

 

And done...

 

How long did it take you to do the BHLM

 

Most of the day honestly. About 45 minutes to pull the headlights the first go round, then on and off for about 3 hours (we started doing my friend's Xterra but stopped).

It wasn't that bad to do to start, but the oven is definitely the way to go instead of the heat gun route. I elected to tape off the small running light while most people just paint over it, which took significantly longer than if you just painted the entire insert.

 

It looks nice. I saw Cam's BHLM today also and now I really have to do it.

 

Just poured myself a glass of this, with a splash of water, and was nosing the glass when the girlfriend wanted to see what it smelled like.


I get hints of caramel and vanilla, seaweed, maybe some heather.
The GF: Ugh, that smells like rubbing alcohol!

 

Thanks. If you want to see what mine looks like up close to see how it will look with the '12 front end please let me know. I'd be happy to show you.

 

Those came out looking slick!