Your signature says that the color is selectable... I can imagine that red makes her look like an angry kitty.

 

All looks great ! One question...where can I get a hard tonneau cover like the
one you show in your thumbnail ????

 

That is from Mina Gallery they can do it body color, black, or like mine it carbon fiber. (That's the expensive one).

Jaguar XK8 XKR Tonneau Convertible Cover

 

Normally I have them set for blue. Also the lower lights sequence like the Audi lights, kind of makes a cool heartbeat bounce over the headlight washers.

 

Have the Charge Coolers back from being painted. Hey does anyone know why the strut brace is padded on one side and not the other? The padding needs to be replaced and I'm not sure why I need it.

 

Was just sent the pictures of the modified taillights which are in the mail to me. Figured I'd share. I'll post final pictures when I get these puppies installed in a couple weeks. I also included some shots of the headlight mod with before the glass was glued back on.

 

Apparently I left out the best looking picture.

 

can I know exactly how you detach the front lens glass of the front headlights? and what do you use to glue the glass lens?

explains to us the exact steps to remove and what do you use to glue.

 

No idea, these are sent out to a paint shop that handles all of that. They do a lot of these but I've spoken to other paint shops and apparently this is something that is relatively common when doing some types of collision repair. This particular shop specializes it doing lights, they aren't fast nor cheap but they do nice work.

 

Hi
What size led rings in the tail lights? I'm doing mine too but I'd like to have them here before I dismantle the light.

 

Removing the lense (clear) is on youtube it pretty much the same for most cars. Just put in removing headlight lense.
I think it takes heating in oven on low like 200 got about 15-20 mins.

 

I love those tail lights!

Can't wait to see what is all looks like lit up at night.

Did you end up keeping the light bar on the bumper?
I liked the idea about placing it behind the rebar, that would probably look nice.

Where did you get those hood grill inserts? I saw them in one photo and they looked like the 2010 grill inserts.

 

Light bar is off at the moment but a different Light bar is going back on same time the Tailights are installed, I also have a pair of LED fog lights that Paragon put together for me along with an aluminum bumper. With the Billet grill now I should get a blue glow rather than the Christmas tree look I had. We'll see.

 

Next set of projects is nearly complete. Rear seat is out replaced by two 10" subs, rear lights have halo treatments and full LE replacement w/blackout, Paragon sent me a set of the LED fogs, and I moved the second bank of switches to the center console. Pictures below:

 

Tail lights turned out very nice! I didn't realize the aux button row would fit in the armrest, good find. Sub enclosure looks great also. I have one jl audio 10'' there, i imagine two 10s makes a lot of bass.

 

OK the new exhaust is in, some rattles and heat/cool adjustments to make but it sounds amazing. Even the Jag guy in the next shop over that hates mods came over and said the result sounded wonderful. 2.5" front to back. Here are the before and after pictures, Franken exhaust first then the beautiful new MacLeod exhaust. Only issue was the exhaust had to be routed around the special frame support that some (but apparently not all) convertibles get and then adjusting for the initial heat expansion. Pipes are so pretty it is a shame they are under the car.

 

Paragon built me a beautiful intake but the problem is its not fitting. We've adjusted it to get the hood closed but now the air intake side is too far forward to make a bend into the wheel well. Suggestions appreciated. I think we are going to try to replace a length of this pipe with a large silicon hose in order to get the angle right but the fit is really tight.

 

Just looking it seems like the section with the bend might need to be rotated a few degrees where it's welded to point more down. And the bend should be right around 45deg so that it tucks snugly into the shock tower curve.

Not the best angle in the picture picture but this is what my silicone tube looks like:


Even with the silicone it took some fiddling to get it in there so that it didn't hit the inside of the bonnet.

 

There is not a lot of room to play with and I take it you have removed the piece of inner wing between the old intake section to the light unit?

When I made this pipe I did have it fitting perfectly but it was a 4.0 and not a 4.2, the position of the throttle body maybe different, cant say I have ever check one side by side.....

 

It isn't the valve covers and we did (well the mechanic did) cut open the side of the car per the pictures. But I do know the entire intake is different because I was sent a bunch of parts by another supplier who swore they were 4.2 and they were 4.0 and didn't fit (another really expensive day) because I'd custom painted the charge coolers he sent and that explains why the ones on the car don't exactly match. Thanks for sending the info on the sealant I've passed it on.