after reading that thread on putting a turbo hood on an N/A 7, i'm a little hesitant to ask this question (and i hope it hasn't been asked recently, b/c i couldn't find it using search), but what do you guys think of putting series 5 2nd gen rx-7 tail lights (89-91) on a series 4 2nd gen. i think it's just a unique visual mod, something that not too many people do. but i'm the last person to like riced-out civics with ten-foot aluminum wings and coffee-can exhausts. anyways, what you guys think?

 

Its been done, I've done it. I love it and makes it look ten times sweeter. Just follow AAron cakes instructions and make sure you get the liscene plate bezel as well.

 

sweet

 

it's a walk in the park. I wanted to do that, but instead just got an 89 TII.

 

yup and i have a pair of tails in decent shape if your looking. we can work something out. badboy@kuentos.guam.net

Fred

 

I did it aswell and i used the S4 liscence plate deal. You can use it with a little cutting.

 

You know what tho. I tried really hard to get the shape right by grinding with my dremel. So I just bought one. BTW it looks pretty different.

 

Put S5 tails on my 88 (S4) vert, didn't use the S5 license plate bezel, and the S4 one didn't need any cutting.

 

anybody got some closeup pics of s5 lights. im gonna make my own as i cant afford to buy any

 

Its actually very common for many FC owners to do, that don't remember the ugly mid-eighties T-birds that had the same tail lights as the series 5 FC.

 

I hear this again and again and laugh every time. If you think an S5 and a T'bird look even vaguely similar from behind, you need glasses. Early Mazda rotaries had four round taillights, as does the 95-on RX-7. Do they look like T'birds too?

Wait, my car also has four round wheels just like a T'bird. Does that make it look like one? Perhaps it looks more like a Camry, coz they have four wheels too... j/k

 

haha, they have similar tailights so they look the same? go figure i want some S5 tails for mine, i had a chance a while back to get some for like 75 bucks but lost it. oh well for another day i spose. S5 tails look sweet, they make the S4 cars look better. as far as the T2 hood thing goes i dont see it as rice, its a good looking hood. if i had an N/A i want a T2 hood on it.

 

Actually 4 round lights would be better than the 3 found on the FC and Tbird.

And I thought (and still do) that even back in 89 when the series 5 lights first came out that they looked just like that mid-eighties T bird. There is a very US domestic car look to the series 5 lights, that is radically different than any other Mazda product before or since. I see if I can find paictures to post that compare them, and eat my hat if you don't agree after seeing them next to each other on the same page.

And besides that I normally completely agree with you, the arguement that the early Rotaries had them is lame. No RX-7 had round tail lights for the first 10 years of production.

 

I'll buy S5 lights if I ever find a set for non-rape prices.

 

3rd gen taillights look more like Tarus taillights

 

Hmmm even that same funky wide black strip at the bottom....Just like the series 5 FC

 

I tend to think about the sileighty and the s5 looking more the same than anything, and its not a bad thing to have s5 tails on an s4 i.e. i have them....

 

i agree on going to do the conversion the s5 look so much better

 

Foster, only US FDs had the taurus looking lights, all others had the round lights.

Icemark, the S4 had the black trim, the S5 had body colored trim.

btw---woohoo!! 1000 posts

 

do to your car what makes you happy.

 

'verts are a different beast. I have a S4 and S5 lights that I have yet to install. Doesn't APPEAR to need a different license plate surround for the 'vert. Coupes on the other hand, are different. (and coupe and 'vert lights do NOT interchange at all!)

Brad

 

They dont interchange but you can use vert lights on a coupe but not coupe lights on a vert

 

vert lights fit the coupe but not the other way around? odd.

 

the vert lights have a keyhole on the left or right light, to open the trunk. US coupe guys/gals have hatches so we have the key located above the tailights and not in them. so if you put the coupes lights in a vert, you won't be able to get in the trunk, or .......yah.

 

i just got my 88 TII three weeks ago and haven't done any mods yet. i guess it's fast for the size motor that it is. keep in mind, i'm coming from a 265hp camaro. anyway, the whole point behind this reply...what do you consider to be too high a price for s5 lights??

Craig