NEW! Pivot Japan Headlight Controller ?!?! just letting you guys know...
 

its sleepy eyes

Its not a new item.

Actually its kind of a pain in the butt to install, but yeah it makes the sleepy eyes look, thats pretty cheap for it right now.

JT

"wow."

somone want to explain why it is hard to install?

thanks and one more thing...do i need to controlers? one for each light?

someone explain to me why someone would want this

Perhaps if you changed your front headlights to a dual bulb setup (per side), kind of like the old knight sports kit and you didn't need it to pop up all the way.

I've never cared much for that look.

$65 for the broken headlight look.. er.. i mean the sleepy eyes look. bargain !:confused:

I doubt this kit works for the 7. I have seen a few people who have set their lights to stop at that point by cutting the power to them but as a kit that will do that every time and keep them level and have operating headlights. That would be more complex.

it works. how do I know? I have it installed in my turbo 2. was pretty simple to install cut one wire wire those 2 wires to the controller and then find a ground. if anybody gets this and needs help installing it hit me up.
its mainly for looks although it can force cooler air towards the filter if you have an aftermarket tid.

why not carve some new headlight lifting arms outa wood, then you have soething fast and easy to install, and its easyly revursed.

"What happened to your headlights?"

"I did that on purpose."

"Well, it looks like they're broken."

"Nah, I bought this $65 switch off of EBay to make 'em do that."

"Are you retarded"

"Yes, yes I am."

The lifting arm setup doesn't let you do that accually- Anouther forum member (gnrx7 i think) accually built a sliding rod setup that worked. He planed to sell it with a twin projector kit but it never happened.

If you just shorten the arm the motor gets fucked up and it wont come back down becuase of the cam setup used.

I'm sorry

:D

and it would float :)

why would you be sorry what I have done to my car? No offense but other people's opions don't matter much to me nor should they matter to others. what are your mods that you are so high and mighty?

:rlaugh::rlaugh::rlaugh::rlaugh::rlaugh::rlaugh:

That is pretty funny.

I did see them on a VERY few cars in general and I thought they looked alright. I mean opinions vary quite a bit.

You would never find it on my car, nor sleek lights, I just like the stock look with LIGHTS DOWN all the way. I just use my fog lights to drive anyway since they are bright enough.

lol, its probably a waste of $60 you could spend somewhere else :)

just buy a $2 switch at radioshack and wire it in below the headlight retractor fuse. lot cheaper.


i dunno sometimes the look is ok
https://www.rx7club.com/attachment.p...postid=2456708

the problem with that is you have to hit the switch and try to get it in the position you want every time your lights are off. with the controller you turn your lights on your head lights are open all the way. once off the controller regulates how far the headlights close and you never have to change the setting unless you want to make adjustments either + or -

still $2 vs $60+, i know what i would buy.

thats like buying a mbc instead of greddy FATT cause its cheaper.

I think it looks horrible, I would only pay to fix my car if it had that look

eh, no its not.


if you want to pay 60 bucks for acheiving the broken headlight look while a 2 dollar switch will do the same exact thing, by all means go ahead.

Depends on how high you want it to go up. If it only goes up 1", then yes, it will look broken. But if it goes up 1/2 or 3/4, the who the hell would ever even notice. Like I said, if you did a headlight conversion, this would be just the tool you'd need. You dial in how high you want it to go up and when you hit the headlight switch it'll go up that high everytime and retract fully when the lights are off. So for performance you can have the lights go up 1/2 and try to cut down the Cd increase from the lights being fully up :D

I can't understand why people think it makes the car look more agressive (it doesn't, not even close) and then call them "sleepy eyes"? WTF? It doesn't look sleepy either, it just looks broken!

That's the best laugh I've had all week Zach. Thanks :crackup:

This would look cool ONLY if you had special headlights that were lower profile and thus would look silly if they werent partly retracted when up. Otherwise.....kinda dumb...

rofl

heh, your avatar has em. :p:

DOH!

I did it on my 1st gen, I like it (obviously). Just putting a momentary switch in the "headlight up" circuit from the console switch, switching to "up" then pulsing the momentary will move them upwards but mean that when you turn on the headlights they will still pop up full height and then stay full up when the lights are off.

Or a little more fiddling will have the headlights stay "sleepy" when the lights are on, but still pop up to full height at the flick of a switch. (eg when police arrive...)

Dunno if 1st and 2nd gen wiring is similar - I have written instructions on how to do it.

Each to their own, my wife doesn't like it.

So do I, but I'm not a cheapass, and I'd rather pay for the convience of not having to manually adjust it everytime.

That's a pretty cool little device. I still prefer the $2 switch (though it is a high amp circuit so it might take more than those puny ones).

As for why people do it, it's just like any light mod. Personally, I do like it quite a bit and have installed that switch on every car where I've been messing with the wiring at all. For those who think it's stupid, shut up. I think rolling around with fog lights on or parking lights (especially parking lights) is ridiculous, but people will continue to do it because they like it. Just the same as I like how it looks when you can see the top of my headlights and my FTP's are illuminated. Though now I'm starting to just turn the lights on with the lids all the way down as I'm sick of dealing with that switch :)

Redwood
"Peace"

I am a cheapass, and if flipping the power switch to off after flipping your headlights down is considered manually adjusting.. yeah.

why pay 65.00 for the controller when you can manually give it the sleepy eye look. huge waste of $ plus it look horrible.

I'm sorry, I have to drive around with my parking lights on, and sunroof open. all the time. I do want my FTP illuminated all the time too but don't feel like screwing around with the wiring. I think i need to get my car running first anyways.