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My New Headlights (low rise)

Old Jun 23, 2005 | 08:32 AM
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Looks pretty cool...what did you do to make the headlights not come up all the way?
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Icemark
Sorry, probably before your time.

Go rent the movie Short Circuit.

It has a robot that has eyes that look like those lights.
His eyes were most of his head as I remember....and I do see the family tree there
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by sleeperfc
where did you get the lights... im running the walmart fog light kit now and want the real projectors so i dont blind everyone in the world anymore.
http://www.rallylights.com/hella/90mm_modules.asp

Originally Posted by 88t2romad
i thnk they look great! was it a kit for an rx7 or somehting you kinda fabbed up from a kit for another car? Oh and get a night picture shining on the road and then on a wall.
I just bought the lights i fab everything else my self.

Originally Posted by REnder
ya definetly do a write up. I was thinkin of doin the samething but have been to lazy to research the lights.

oh and get a picture from the side so we can get an idea of how low.

and do the pop ups still work or did you pull the retreacter fuse?
lights still work like stock pop up and down fine.


Originally Posted by KNONFS
I love it!

I've been thinking about doint it, but the cost of the Hella's forced me to put it on hold. How much better is the light pattern?
lights were only ~220. Light pattern is awsome, im going to get more pics tonight.

Originally Posted by ultradef
Looks pretty cool...what did you do to make the headlights not come up all the way?

modify the headlight arms.
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 10:26 AM
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When you do your write up please make sure to let us know how to adjust the headlight arms so that I can have the sleepy eyed look and still be able to keep the function of raising and lowering of my headlights. Thanks bro. Great looking car by the way, and everyone is right. Your paintjob is immaculate!!

Zach
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 11:21 AM
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Can you also include in your writeup how you "modified" the headlight arm to do that...thanks
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 11:39 AM
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What front lip is that also? Car looks great! and I would love a write up on how to mod it as well.
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 11:44 AM
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that ebay kit is just a cover that goes over your rectangle headlights that has two circles cut out of it. Nice job on the lights man, Looks really nice.
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by 88sunlover
His eyes were most of his head as I remember....and I do see the family tree there





Hmmm not as much as I originally thought
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 05:05 PM
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yes, please tell us how u modified the arms!! i though that would cause the lights to pop back up lol

did u just cut and reweld the end back on?? defenatly diggin it thogh!!
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 05:34 PM
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 06:25 PM
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wow, your car is pretty mint. Take good care of her.
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 06:45 PM
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I usally dont like the low rise but you made it look clean and mean. nice job
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 06:55 PM
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What are you body pieces? MazdaSpeed front and stock everything else?
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 07:00 PM
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^^

yea thats all for now
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 08:09 PM
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sorry for blurry pics but you get the idea of the light beam.


low beam

high beam
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 08:14 PM
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look like the low beams are projectors and the highs are not?
just some hids for those
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 08:18 PM
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yup Low beams are projectors highs aren't.

I'm tring to find some hids for this but i cant find any, other than the hella ones which aer $500+ and im not gonna pay that much for EACH LIGHT.
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by gergrx7
sorry for blurry pics but you get the idea of the light beam.


low beam

high beam
you need to setup the proj better. The cutoff should be parallel to the floor. Not only does it look better but it also doesnt blind oncoming traffic.
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 08:33 PM
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yea i know i still need to adjust them some more.
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 09:56 PM
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those look yummy we all still demand a write up gj bro Hooah
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 11:46 PM
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looks great side question here tho. What kind of wheels?
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 02:09 AM
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Yes indeed everything looks great. I'm curious to how you modified your stock housings to fit these Hella lights. The way I think about it, how did you manage to keep them relatively straight. Meaning that a slight angle could throw off the light quite a bit down the road. I personally don't have an rx-7 still, haha so perhaps is it something that would become clear if I had the lights and were to examine the stock housings? Meaning, some type of guidelines to follow?
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 02:28 AM
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so, u gunna spill the beans with more detail?? or are u writing up a how to for us???
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Ricer240sx
so, u gunna spill the beans with more detail?? or are u writing up a how to for us???
Its not hard at all. Once you remove your stock "block" light, you will see how to make the bracket for the lights. I did this over 2 years ago, and there has been a few people on the forum that did the conversion also. I never put up any detailed pics, but I have since sold the lights.
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Old Jun 24, 2005 | 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by gerbraldy
that ebay kit is just a cover that goes over your rectangle headlights that has two circles cut out of it. Nice job on the lights man, Looks really nice.
And sadly enough......someone in my neighborhood has this kit on his Probe....ghetto as hell. Who would buy something like that, and why?
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