ghudson

Im going to start my own permanent "sleepy eye" modification for my 91 coupe.. I had to decide which headlight to go with that would fit nicely and have the correct height and width. I started thinking of car with thin headlights and of course the 88-96 pontiac grand prix coupes came into mind and also the mid 90's camaro's. They looked like this:




Im going to have to use the normal headlights for this, but ill post up later about how it goes. For now this is my mock-up. It seems as it will work very well, but I guess we'll see...






Sorry Guys: heres some progress, computer has been actin horrible lately and its hard to do this mod since i cant drive at night with one headlight only as im working on the other headlight...

Baked the headlamps for 6-7 mins at 325ish degrees (glass lense comes off easier when glue holding it is heated), and that was perfect timing cause a tiny bit of reflective material started bubbling inside...phwww. also removed projector peice (obviously)





took this shiz off:



MOCK UP:







I cut the corners of the old headlight housing (near the top) ans siliconed it. It will probably need to be epoxyed... (due to little vibration) and i mount a bolt/washer at the bottom with use of a hose clamp, very strong mounting system. A DIE GRINDER WORKS WONDERS FOR THIS JOB......!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Once again a die grinder is your best friend if you wana do this like I did:

Bolt mechanism:


Buncha grinding:


Here it is in normal headlight rest position, i also made an acrilic plastic cover (held by tape for mock up). It was the hardest part about doing this conversion... very hard to grind it correctly for nice fitment. I used a bench grinder and it worked wonders!



Sleepin:



Looks terrific in person (lights up the road very well with the halogen that came in it, its better than the stock headlight.)

93nismo

you probably should have waited till you've finished it to post. but im interested either way

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bboyoracle

I was also on the hunt for some slim oem headlights for my supermade buckets. I bought the ones from the old camaro too lol. I gave up on it though. Good luck with your mod. Looking forward to the finished product.

Still have those camaro slim lights if anyone is interested /threadjack

jing

NSX

93nismo

nsx is sexy:] i vote those. can you still have them down with this mod? or do yu have to keep them up like this? just curious

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hOngsterr

^^^^ yes yes, NSX are smeexy as FUCK!

&& they forever stay at where you place them

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drift Kid

i did that with my head lights on my old car.. the head light cover was fixed and i made some brackets for the fog light housing and threw hid in them. i also had s14 yellow beside them..

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Killa_D

super nice only problem i see is that they are hard to find and if you do find them nsx people want nothing less than 600 bucks for them.

Mark IVDX

And ontop of all of that, those aren't regular NSX headlights. The pop-up NSX headlights are not projectors.

datboibrad

whats wrong with supermade?

seriously supermade housings with the right PIAA 3 functioning lights > NSX garbage any day of the week.

duynguyenn240

91 nsx have the same head light

1991 Acura NSX 5-SPEED, [email protected]@K !!! ( take a look)

jing

The pic posted isn't quite clear enough to make out, but people DO retrofit shit all the time y'know.

DreEzed

So any downsides for doing something like this?
Also how does it effect your visuals at night?

sincity_sil80

this is dopeskiies.. it's be cool if the lights could still go down tho

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iwannaslyde

can't wait for finished pics!

BustedS13

yes, tiny miniature driving lights are better than oem projectors.

there are a million threads on this shit.

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ghudson

the reason in not buying any of the kits for this is that none of them just had a square reflector only headlight, there was always some projector type thing or something. I a reflector only type guy usually so thats my reason for doing this. And also these sylvania's are slightly smoked which I thought looked great. here's a link:
Amazon.com: Sylvania H4351 Standard 12.8v 55-Watt Rectangular Halogen Headlight: Automotive

datboibrad

wow way to talk out of your ass?

have you ever owned these? ever side by side compared them to a stock halogen 6054 garbage output spec stock s13 headlight?

go ahead ill wait for you to prove to me it puts out more/better/clearer light.

datboibrad

any halogen light in that style housing is going to have shit for output. hell i remember back in 05 having 9003 or 9004 which ever bulbs with conversion housings. the output was undescribable compared to stock.

whatever setup you choose to do, update your car and steer away from halogen housings (especially if your going to run such a physically small housing)

BustedS13

i'm calling in a professional.

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Nezahualcoyotl

yeah i had the same idea... already thought of a way to reposition the motor and the linkage

i like the NSX lights

Xbroke_kidX

Like Busted said NSX > Shitty SuperMade.
Read up kiddo. They have shitty ass projection and horrible fitment.

sr20drifter1

If the guy that owns this car is on here, can you pm me a write up on how you did this? I saw only a write up on a supra.
Thanks and sorry for posting this on your thread man.

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datboibrad

im suggesting just the super made housings. not the headlights that come with it which are corner store foglights with no projector lenses. also there is nothing wrong with the projector style NSX lenses other than the astronomical cost for them at the moment.

BustedS13

you suggested supermade housings with some dink piaa fog lights in place of decent headlights. your visibility will be horseshit.

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funes

i vote NSX lights... but it will be very expensiveee!!!

dopplganger1

couldn't you retain the pop up functionality with the nsx light but just cutting the rod and shortening it? I'm talking about the rod on the headlight motor..

Taniguchi_Is_#1

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meteorite_flo

Plus that supermade shit is not even sleepy eyes to begin with.