Murciélago Headlights

Lamborg Sticker price of $23,000. My car came with part of one of them. It's worth about $5,000. Barely enough money to buy me a car to get to work. So let's build our own. My car came with a bit of a headlight left. It just had a cracked lens on it. So I went ahead and took all that glass off of the lens and that left me with a really nice leftover body of the headlight. So I took the bulb bezels out of it just to leave the black plastic and covered it in dots that you use for scanning and I'm going to go ahead and 3D scan it. After a few tries I got a pretty good version of the scan of the headlight but given that it has the glass bulbs in there and that reflects back on the scanner it is a really hard object to scan. Through that in a 3D studio max I started designing a replacement for the stock headlight shape. So I went through the process of modeling out the stock headlight shape and I wanted to do t So the first part is the upper that kind of covers the bulbs and it has a slot for the blinker integrated into it as well. And after a night of 3D printing I have a pretty good piece here. It matches up with the size and the scale of the actual headlight itself and it starts to look the part. So I went ahead and measured out how large the bulbs were so I could order my own replacement bulbs. I wasn't able to find an exact same size replica for the small and large bulb but I was able to find some projectors that were pretty close and DOT approved. Now that my bulbs arrived I'm going to do the idea is I need to be able to 3D print an attachment point so these bulbs can attach into whatever plastic housing I make and then I was rudely interrupted by a phone call saying that my boat had sank. These headlights have been a bit of a pet project of mine that I've been working on and off for quite a long time and everyt Recently, Creality reached out to me with their Raptor X 3D scanner and wanted me to test out their 3D scanner and I thought that was a great opportunity and a tool to use to j So right out the box the Raptor X is pretty impressive with its awesome carrying case. Now t It's got 34 blue laser lines which allows it to scan really small objects up to really large objects up to So I figured I'd give it a test first on what I'm calling the bulb bezels. These are these al They're a very hard t And for something this small and also al The large one was easier than the small one but I was able to get good scans of not only the headlight rings but also the different bulbs so I could emulate putting the bulbs into the headlights in 3d software. And then I decided just for fun why not take the entire headlight housing that I already had tracking dots on and stuff I got an ultra high accuracy perfect scan of this headlight on my It was unbelievable and it didn't stutter around the glass bulbs It captured everyt So you can see the side by side here of my old scan and my new scan that I got with the Raptor X and it is so much better what I was able to capture with the Raptor X. So it's a great product. Huge thanks to Creality for sending it out for me. There's going to be a link in the description product link if you're in the market for a really good 3d scanner that is where you're going to find it. And now that I've got a scan of my car and I got a good scan of my headlight I'm off to the races. The first piece that I want to model out is a lens. It's really easy to print. I can 3d print a template or a fake one and make sure it fits in the car. Make sure it lines up with all the edges on the car and we're starting off with the right base shape. So I did that. I tested out on the car. That shape was all good. And the next those parts were al They need to be printed a different way. They can't be 3d printed out of extrusion style plastic because they need to be able to stand really So t So I took my 3d scans that I had made and created my headlight bezels in 3d studio max and then Elugu had sent me t Now t My last time I tried to do t I was a little bit worried. It's only about five days left in the build so I had to nail t But this ABS So if I can get a good print out of these it's going to be able to last inside the headlight body. And I'm super happy to say that the Mars 5 ultra gave me no problems right out of the box. I was able to create these really good prints. Ultra It's got a large enough print bed that I could print the small rings and the large rings and they look really good. Now my first one I made a problem in the modeling process where I made some of these walls so that's how I was taking the supports off. Some of the walls broke. But that wall was way too t So I was able to really easily go back into the software and print another one. It's only about six hours per print. So I cranked out for those two large ones, two small ones, with a t So now that I've got my headlight bezels done and I've got my headlight lens shape done I know I could start extruding down from that headlight lens and build down into the car space to build out my headlight. On my headlight I changed the shape a little bit. I made it a little bit longer and in the long run I plan on having t So it's a little bit skinnier on the top left side than it would be with the stock headlight. For the styling cues on t I didn't want to try and make somet I actually wanted to try and see how close I could get to the real deal w Another t So I put a notch in there right underneath where the lens is going to mount but it'still going to be covered up and that holds about four dots of LED strip that is part of our addressable LED display. So it only took a few days of printing and I was able to have these headlight bodies and the tubes and the light housings and everyt Now at t So there's a lot of standing in front of t So it started with building what I call kind of the bulb tubes. We put the bulb in the light housing inside its tube make sure everyt Now the original light had a texture to it and I wanted to match that texture the best I could. The way I found to do that was with Rustole So with the tubes all body worked up and drying it's time to plastic weld and glue the lights and t When I go to sand the body filler the glue doesn't sand off because it's just not fully dry it's not rock solid and it's not sanding off The longest part of t One saving grace is the tubes fill up a lot of space and the tubes are easy to sand quickly and you start to see the shape of the headlight body here and where the tubes slot into the headlight so the actual finished surface that I had to sand to be really perfect wasn't as large as it could have been but it was the most standing and sanding I had ever done in one day by a long shot. After the sanding is done I'm able to mock up the tube placement and everyt Once everyt I was a bit out on a limb when I tried to steal it over the truck bed liner paint because I had no idea if it was going to work and also I'm at 3 a. m. at t Now that the paint is drying up and I really Now these lights have a slight bend to them side to side and a slight bend to them front to back but it's not a huge one so I tested out putting a sheet of glass on the lens itself or the light itself and it didn't really need for me to heat and bend and change the shape of the plastic. The plastic would just do it on its own so I started by tracing the light tracing my borders and my edges so I knew where everyt Once I have my two pieces of glass it was time to build kind of the eyelid into the glass so originally these were going to be parts that were made out of plastic but real estate is really t So I used some gloss black spray paint with some really good vinyl edge tape so it would not bleed and drew that shape out painted it gloss black and I was able to rivet the glass onto the headlight housing. Worth mentioning at t Next it was time to s I'm really happy to say that my model was so close to the original headlight housing that I was able to use the mounts on the driver side that existed already for the headlight but since we rebuilt the entire passenger side I had to rebuild custom mounts but they're pretty simple they're pretty straightforward so I welded in some adjustable brackets and damn these headlights look really good with an open body without a lens I was very happy with how they turned out so far how they're fitting in the car and they look super mean but I had always planned on putting a lens on these so I had to go ahead and make sure I still did that anyways but it was my first time seeing the light on the car knowing that this project was going to be successful and it was going to look good which was really motivating so in the plastic 3d modeling world a lot of people need to attach plastic pieces to plastic pieces and they use these things called nutserts so I had some n6 nutserts and you heat them up with a soldering iron and press them into the plastic where they need to be and it basically creates a spot that a bolt can go into your part they're not bulletproof strong but they are pretty damn strong since my light holds itself and the weight of it and everything is held in place just because it sits on the mounts these bolts are basically to keep it from shifting left to right too much so I'm hoping these will be able to hold up so I got my nutserts in the bottom of both headlights so they could be bolted into the car and now we're on to the final stretch of just needing to put the border around the lenses so you won't see the headlight housing area where it is riveted onto the headlight housing I first started by using a matte black vinyl wrap and I actually really just did not like the look of that so I decided I want to do a gloss black vinyl wrap instead the final is pretty solid for anything that's going on in the front of your car because it is really good against rock chips painting the external side of the glass would have been a nightmare so keep in mind the paint is on the internal side of the glass for the eyelid vinyl wrap is on the external side of the glass for the border and it makes for a pretty good combo that's going to be able to survive being on the road and with those two lens pieces being done it's finally time to rivet them onto the light body really happy that none of the rivets had any failures the plastic was able to have enough body to it and enough grip to it that the rivets could go into it but they didn't break the plastic and they didn't cause any failures and I was able to rivet both of the lights down perfectly good and the lenses and everything were connected from there I wanted to do a lot of weather sealing so I used windshield urethane adhesive all the way around the outside border of the light to make sure that it would be sealed in really well from the outside elements all right they have not had their final leveling but the headlights are wired they are on they look absolutely amazing like this was such a cool project I just really wanted to be able to show you guys how much we could do now with the 3d printing resin printing fdm printing and all this stuff I mean this is such a cool combo of things that we put together 23 000 for a set of headlights and we built headlights that look in place for this car they look right they look very correct and they're absolutely amazing I'm going touch up a little bit of these edges that have a little bit of light bleed through I'll go ahead and get some black on those and then I'm going to get these set level set in the car the right way because they're just basically resting on their mounts right now but these are unbelievable we got low beams we got high beams I went ahead and put the blinkers in there this is freaking killer thank you guys so much for watching thanks for joining us on this journey we really appreciate it make sure you m we have a guest signing I'm the guest I t