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Old 01-03-06, 11:24 PM
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Sleepy eyes headlight mod

So I love the sleepy eyes on cars like 240s, and I was wondering if anyone has done it with the first gens? If anyone knows about this, share!
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quite comon considerd uber rice by most. If you would like to do this mod. Just disable power to the light motors by unpluging them or taking the fuse out however you want. Then crank them up by hand with the little turn **** on the lower portion of the motors.
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if your gunna do the sleepy eye mod do it proper and dont just pull the fuse(that way you dont have half your light showing when you dont want them 2) there is one guy on here that has a nice one adn has taken the time to do the whole head lights so the the light bulds are all custom, i didnt like the mod how it looked until i seen one guy that took the time to do it proper and change the one huge light to 2 small ones being totally visable when they where popped up
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Originally Posted by iceblue
Just disable power to the light motors by unpluging them or taking the fuse out however you want.
Or touch a wrench from the battery terminal to the headlight motor. Found out that way works rather well.

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if your gunna do the sleepy eye mod do it proper and dont just pull the fuse(that way you dont have half your light showing when you dont want them 2) there is one guy on here that has a nice one adn has taken the time to do the whole head lights so the the light bulds are all custom, i didnt like the mod how it looked until i seen one guy that took the time to do it proper and change the one huge light to 2 small ones being totally visable when they where popped up
I agree. Some Hella (Or similar) headlight pods, sheet metal, and a little bit of time would produce a much better-looking result imo.
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Something along the lines of these.
Attached Thumbnails Sleepy eyes headlight mod-rx-7-1.jpg   Sleepy eyes headlight mod-no-motor1.jpg  

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That doesn't look bad, except the fog lights are out of proportion along with the hood scoop.
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man boo i like that blue it looks nice slammed like that with that sleepy eye look, what springs u have on that
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Originally Posted by rxtory
if your gunna do the sleepy eye mod do it proper and dont just pull the fuse(that way you dont have half your light showing when you dont want them 2) there is one guy on here that has a nice one adn has taken the time to do the whole head lights so the the light bulds are all custom, i didnt like the mod how it looked until i seen one guy that took the time to do it proper and change the one huge light to 2 small ones being totally visable when they where popped up
That is not sleepy eyes that is a bsp head light conversion.
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a japanese company called pivot makes a control box that allows you to adjust how high/low the headlights pop up, when you see all JDM silvia's etc with their lights half up chances are they are using this. Here's one on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pivot...spagenameZWDVW

Hope thats what you were looking for.
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i would go with what 82transam said that looks pretty sweet and way better then just unpluggin it!!
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i know someone who has that, works well, he wired in another switch so the lights are on when its kinda up.
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hey boohame!!!, tell us what kind of springs you have on that blue rx-7...cause that looks badd ***!!
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Originally Posted by d0 Luck

Ghey!
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Originally Posted by AcidAngel7477
hey boohame!!!, tell us what kind of springs you have on that blue rx-7...cause that looks badd ***!!
It isn't mine. It's just a picture I have in my RX-7 picture collection. Oh how I wish it were mine, though.
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Originally Posted by d0 Luck
I really like the way this one looks but how come the rear tires stick out so far?
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Maybe because they are wider or have a different offset then the front wheels
Sorry Im being Captain Obvious.
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That dual headlight conversion is great. I tried a search on bsp (or w-e the conversion was called) in the forums and didn't get much. Suggestions?
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So I couldn't figure out how to "hand crank" and make them sleepy eyes. Could someone explain it in further detail?
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Originally Posted by notveryhappyjack
I really like the way this one looks but how come the rear tires stick out so far?
the rears are epsilons w/ negative offsets while the fronts are SSR formula mesh wheels.

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anyone wanna hellllllllllp?
Old 01-05-06, 10:08 PM
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the dual round headlight setup was a converted miata kit IIRC

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Originally Posted by skizzle84
So I couldn't figure out how to "hand crank" and make them sleepy eyes. Could someone explain it in further detail?

to hand crank them down...........

open your hood up and just infront of the battery you can see the head light motor. there should be a **** that has a rubber cover on it pull this cap off and then to the right of this **** is a relay with a plug connected to it... unplug this plug and then hand crank your light up or down.... and repeat on the passenger side.
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Been there,about 6-7 years ago I tried the BSP swap.They are a mile off with the hinges and actuators and the lights provided were pure crap.Best way to ruin a 400 doller purchase in my opinion.I ended up fixing them in the up position before tossing the whole mess and going back to stock.Then I succesfully swapped the Mid Tenn Miata flush kit in,right before CP came out with their flush kit.Mid Tenn Miata is gone now,BTW.

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Yeah, the flushmounts are always cool.


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