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    Then i decided to get the 3.5 inch tips mounted (They are Trans am Tips from ebay) The guy there was really good and he spent some time getting it just right and welding them up.



    The Below pics of are me just messing around with the body parts and seeing how it would look. I always was thinking the tail lights were throwing off the color contrast too much and might be better black but i stuck with the LED look








    Spoiler was not mounted yet in these pics but more just to see if i like it or not. I think it looked better without a spoiler in some pics but i always wanted a genuine whale tale so i decided to have it painted

    I still didnt think i had enough tint yet. I had 20 percent all around in the above pics but the windshield was 50 percent which made the rest of the car look darker but i was driving at night on a dark road and thought i can't really see that far ahead and that it was stupid so despite how good it looked i went over to a guys house and had the 50 on the windshield and removed and had another layer of 20 put over the rear windshield and another layer of 20 of rear windows. The formula is easy if anyone wants to know how it will look when overlapping tints. I ended up with 4 percent tint. Formula is whatever number add to existing is added. so i had 20 then added 20. 20+22=40 which is 4 percent.
    Here are some pics of how it looked when i was there getting it tinted and then when i got home i took pics of how the front windshield looked

    Below you can see how the 20 percent was on the rear windshield and how the extra 20 is covering half of it already. It's a pretty big difference


    As you can see, its a house i went to with a bunch of mexicans that just went to work on my car and other peoples cars. I have the WORST luck with tint people though. Even though i tipped him an extra 20 dollars and they give you a warranty, i thought i would have made a good connection. The guy lives 5 mins from me but wont travel to my big shop i have and i have a semi truck too i wanted them to tint and they blew me off 3 times till i finally gave up and have started learning how to tint myself.





    Then i got the front windshield tint taken off so i could have my SE seats seen from the outside of the car. I regret taking that film off even though it is safer but it looked hella good with 50 percent on windshield. I may go with 70 percent over windshield again to see if that helps at all with the overall look and still makes it safe at night




    Might as well show you a few more pics of how the car looked in its final stage before i spent another 2000 to get paint and body work done





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