sobelik

I want to make the headlights on my 88 be independent so i can have one up and one down. Or have both up then lower on as to "wink" at somone. Im not sure how to do it but i would like to.

Syonyk

Grab some wiring diagrams & go at it.

You could either run independent switches to run each light, or you could have some sort of "mixer" that would take inputs from the main headlight control lines as well as a toggle switch. If you wanted the mixer, I'd use a center-off momentary rocker switch (three position). When the headlights are off, pushing the rocker to one side raises that light, returning it to center lowers it. When the lights are on, pushing the rocker to the side lowers that light. You will still have the lights shining through the "flash to pass" lens, so if you wanted to be really nice, you could set up a relay for each light that would cut it off as it closed when on (and/or lit it when it came all the way up off the rocker switch).

It's really a matter of how much time, money, and skill you can throw at it.

-=Russ=-

ddretard

You could put a relay before one of the headlight motors, and you'd have to turn the relay ON for it to go to that motor, so if you had it OFF, only one would go down or up. It'd be pretty easy, but I don't have time to try...

Scott 89t2

what you like winking at other guys??....

DEZERTE

haha, this sounds like a fun mod.

sobelik

yes, Im a homosexual.

Mr Pilkington

Yours might be different than mine, but the problem you are going to have is that in a vast majority of cases the lights are adjoined by a bar with one motor, this saves the automakers money as well as the consumer. The simple answer would be to wire up a motor to the emergency lift switch. A timely and costly process, also rendering the switches useless for drastic emergencies. The only other option would be to gather duplicates of the components from the system, as is stock, and lop the restraining bar in 2. Then it’s a simple as attaching the new motor onto the second half of the bar. Solution! Then simply wire up a second switch for the lights and rig the actual hotwire for the bulbs themselves in parallel with the new switch, this will prevent further costly wiring as well as other various anomalies. But being an 88 that might not be the case.
Meh

introVert

^^^The headlight motors are independent on the fc.

Thanks for playing, though.

CompuBob

Obviosly no one here has been bored and ******* around with switches in there FC.
make your headlight go up and down as fast as you can by flicking the switch on and off, make sure your fully opening and closing the lights. do this for about 2 min and they will eventually go out of sync and do some funky stuff. it's really neat to watch!

Mr Pilkington

No need for rudeness, as I said, mine may be different than yours, but I did offer up the option of rewiring so commonsense would ensue that a mere wiring job could fix this. But I guess I am the only one here trying to help, not promote some infantile pissing contest.

spot_skater

yeah...my passenger headlight is independent of the other one...
once in a while, when i turn my headlights on, the passenger one will keep flipping up and down, for a good five minutes or so, with the headlights and the "stay-up"(couldn't think of a better name) switch on
then it will stop

it's actually pretty annoying..

Terrh

iTrader: (7)

All he was trying to say is that the in the rx7 they're independant.

I know that some other cars they are too, the fiero and the MR2 have independant motors, and the porsche 944/928 do not.

casio

i wouldn't do it because my rx7 (though practically the newest of 2nd gens) is still 14 years old. i don't want to burn out a motor winking my lights. in fact, when my car was working, i started leaving the lights up at night because i usually went back out. if i didnt go back out, i'd just close them in the morning. i figured that way my motors wouldnt go out as quickly (i dont know how common it is for motors to wear out). funny, when my car died, my step dad recommended we get me something else because my electrical is bad. my lights dont even go down anymore. i informed him that i left them up, they work fine. (guess i didn't tell him about my rear lights/parking lights going out as has my gauge cluster. i fixed those, though).

oh yea, and the whole thing i was getting at is i knew you could wink headlights on Miatas because someone showed me. pretty... stupid really. bored fun i guess.

Cory Simpson

Heh. I didn't have to rewire my car to make it do this! Mine is just a little on the slow side, maybe has a lazy head light... But if you flip them up/down fast eventually one will stay up while the other is down.... And one is always faster than the other.

sobelik

Hmm sounds like a lil project for next weekend. Where might I find a wiring diagram for my FC?

ArmyOfOne

iTrader: (12)

Did anyone ever get a working mod for this? i remember this was all the rage in the late`80s with the Corolla GT-S. I guess it was all put away into the Top Secret vault at Area 51. lol.

Wankel7

jgrts20

haha get some hydrolics for them.

SayNoToPistons

its going ****** CRAZY YO!