^ Sorry, no night pics yet, but I will definitely take some and post them up in this thread later this week.

Thanks, Clement! I love how the CF covers turned out too!

Incidentally, the JDM tails would look REALLY nice on your car. Terry has them on his Blue Slate sedan and they look great! I think they seem to look better on the darker colored cars than on he lighter colored cars for some reason.

 

Ah damn... you bought that last set of lights...

I was gonna go next week to pick them up......

 

Im sure they look better in person.
I'll check them out soon and see how they look. Pictures dont do justice lol

 

Well, Rick got two sets in, but I think he sid that he sold the other set (to you, I thought). LOL... so, you may want to give hm a call asap and see if he still has them before someone else on here buys them.

Your spot on there, Robby... They do look much better in person... much more suttle... they also look great all lit up at night!

 

So A, the harness is true PNP then? (I remember reading in another thread that some were and some weren't).

 

Yup, complete plug-n-play. No modifications to the factory plug needed. Rick said he thought they would need to be modified, since you have to modify the 350Z plug to fit the JDM Fairlady Z tail lights, but to my surprise these are a simply plug-n-play process. Made it a nice, easy install.

 

Since I have them, I thought I would be all for them on your car - but I feel the way some other people have. It looks... peculiar on IP. I absolutely love them on my car, but something about it just looks different on IP. Of course it may grow on you (us)

Changing the lights is extremely easy for anyone wondering. I'm pretty worthless and it took me like 30 minutes with limited tools available.

My only question - did you also get the JDM reverse light cluster (on the trunk) or just the outer cluster?

 

Sent one set to a customer over seas and the other set to Adrian, during NISMO's recent move I think they got there inventory confused and we ended up getting 1 more set in yesterday, but those are long gone now too!

 

Is there a difference in the center between the USDM and JDM ones?

 

IMO, I think the JDM tail lights look no better than the USDM ones, because they both look just as nice.

On a side note, I find it funny how the grass is always greener on the other side for a lot of people. Some here like swapping out JDM parts. And some in Japan like swapping USDM parts. It's a matter of trying to being unique, I guess. I'm guilty of that, too

 

Exactly They want stuff that hardly anyone has (USDM), and we want the same (JDM).

I remember my old civic had JDM brake lights on it and they were very unique.

 

The red used in the light housing on the JDM is more of a lighter red, almost with like a pink hue. While the USDM ones, at least in my opinion, are a rich red color.

When I put in the outer clusters I could notice the difference between them and the reverse lights on the trunk so I switched those out too (which is a little unnerving because you have to break a glued seal on the lights

not the best picture... but maybe someone can tell the difference with it

 

Hmmm.. That's strange, because the red around the outside of my JDM tails matches the red on the reverse lights almost exactly... I wonder if they had more than one supplier for the JDM tails and that might account for the differences?

 

Just got the outer tail light clusters. As you can see in the pics, they match the original reverse lights almost perfectly, so there was no point for me to go with the JDM reverse lights.

 

Lol from that picture it looks like the JDM is darker in color, I guess I might just tint mine like 1/4 or something like that Don't want it way too dark.