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Stay down headlight conversions....

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Old Oct 11, 2001 | 12:20 PM
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Stay down headlight conversions....

Who has done this? Show me pictures. Tell me how you did it. Thanks!
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Old Oct 11, 2001 | 12:37 PM
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It's an easy mod to do in your driveway, I've done it and hopefully can find a pic somewhere...

Buy enough wire to make 2 trips from a switch you will put in the car to the engine bay fuse box. Buy a switch.

Find the retractor fuse and cut the wire leading to it. Leave some room connect a wire from where the wire comes out of the fuse box. I believe this wire is yellow (in an '86 GXL).

From the fuse box the new wire you hooked up will go alll the way to your switch, and back again to the fuse box where you connect it to the remaining cut wire. Done!

With the switch off, when you turn on the light they will stay in the down position as the circuit is broken to pop them up. When _on_ the circuit is completed and the headlight will pop up.

Looks cool even in daylight and cost $5 or less.

edit: you won't get the warning that you have left your lights on anymore. Be careful.

--Mike

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Old Oct 11, 2001 | 12:42 PM
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No no no....

Thanks for your mini how to but I am looking to take out all of the original headlight equipment and build some headlights in a little enclosure and cover it with plexiglass. I think Cosmo Donk has something similar.
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Old Oct 11, 2001 | 12:45 PM
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oh...

You can try this one for now, it's cheap and maybe you'll like it. It may also ring in at hundreds less and you can buy some speed parts!


--Mike
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Old Oct 11, 2001 | 02:35 PM
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I bought some inexpensive pieces of 1/16 in. steel, and I plan on building an enclosure to go in place of the current headlights. My total costs will be under $100, but I wanted to get some ideas from others who have done this. Thanks.
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Old Oct 11, 2001 | 06:57 PM
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you need a different bumper, or cut yours up.
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Old Oct 11, 2001 | 10:01 PM
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well i think i did what you are asking i just took my trusty string line snaped aline from the botom of the light door to the botom of the flash to pass and reached for my hook blade and cut
then pulled the motor arms of the light so the would stay down
then tin in a bay or what ever that fits tight then take some silicone go around the edge then pop rivit some thin plexie over top
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Old Oct 11, 2001 | 10:06 PM
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post some pics of how it turns out.
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