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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 11:39 PM
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I found a new set of headlights in the trunk of bro Jerry's 3-rotor. A little too advance for an old school? What do you guys think?
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 11:51 PM
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Im such a noob for forgetting to attach the pix






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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 12:59 AM
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Originally Posted by wackyracer
I found a new set of headlights in the trunk of bro Jerry's 3-rotor. A little too advance for an old school? What do you guys think?
Nah it would look much better on my car, so why don't you just take them off and bring them over.
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 01:11 AM
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To each their own, but I would have left them in the trunk.
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 07:38 AM
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Looks good wacky.They still sell those lights in the Whitney catalog.I was thinking of buying a set but didn't know how they would look on the rx's.Now that I see how they look I might buy a set.
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 09:17 AM
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Now I can see at night

thanks bro. I will take more pix today so you can see how it looks. I had to try it coz its hard to drive using old style of headlights. Maybe Im just getting old OR I just got used to driving newer cars with HIDs.

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The “angel eye” has 2 small bulbs on the side. To install it, you have to notch the side of the headlight buckets along with the header panel (radiator side). But I don’t like butchering any of my cars so I installed them in vertical position (top to bottom), instead of side to side. It means I only butchered the headlight buckets.
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 02:07 PM
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notched headlight bucket. not that straight coz my eyes werent straight at that time. thanks to RickRX3 for his suggestion on how to ged rid of a tooth ache. but he failed to tell me to spit out the tequila. lol

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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 02:08 PM
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Nah it would look much better on my car, so why don't you just take them off and bring them over.
good to have a parts car eh..
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 02:09 PM
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To each their own, but I would have left them in the trunk.
I bet it wont look good on an old school toyota.
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 04:57 PM
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We old toyota guys leave the "ANGEL EYES" for the Ricers and their Civics. Now you're not going Ricer on us Wacky, "ARE YOU???"

But seriously if you want brighter lights try the AUTOPAL H4 convervions and put a set of Silverstar bulbs in them. I'm running that setup in my TE51 Corolla. They work great at night and still look like old sealed beam bulbs. Just a thought. You can pick them up at swap meets or on ebay for 30-40 bucks a pair.

I'm just not a fan of those crystal looking lights.
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 05:34 PM
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i like how it looks on your rx3,i wonder how it will look on my rx2.
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 05:37 PM
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maybe I should add a switch (ground wire) on the "angel eye" to turn them on only for show. Not a bad idea Rob.

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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 07:12 PM
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I think it looks pretty good, wounder how it would look on the outside lights on an RX2
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 07:24 PM
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the angel eye is on the high beam side, not low beam. Im not sure if its gonna be street legal to switch their the low & high beam
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 07:45 PM
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Maybe wacky can post pictures of Jerrys old RX2 with those lights, they look good but I'm not a great fan of those fancy things on my old cars specially carbon fiber stuff. ....Remember old is gold
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by wackyracer
the angel eye is on the high beam side, not low beam. Im not sure if its gonna be street legal to switch their the low & high beam
looks nice now all you need is h.i.ds and then you see better and people will move out of the way , take them off and bring them to my house I will show how good they look with some h.i.ds on my 4 dr rx3 , hey look to you left at the money pit
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 09:28 PM
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Those lights look sick Wacky... I say leave 'em,...man, I'm gettin a toofache right now!
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 11:07 PM
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Im not sure if these are the HIDs but they look very nice







j/k, here are the pix


and the crew

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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 11:32 PM
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Probably just getting old wacky lol... but the lights look more yellow than bright though, so probably still hard to see with it.
Yeah, those H.I."DD"s sure look very nice though!
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Old Aug 7, 2008 | 07:02 PM
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maybe youre right. i should get my eyes checked
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Old Aug 7, 2008 | 07:29 PM
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Wacky thoes might be a good addition to my front since it has the bmw bumper on it---MadChad.
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Old Aug 7, 2008 | 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by wackyracer
the angel eye is on the high beam side, not low beam. Im not sure if its gonna be street legal to switch their the low & high beam
Like you care about legality.

I like em. Especially the HID's you posted.
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Old Aug 7, 2008 | 08:16 PM
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imho i think it would look better if you had all 4 with the angel eye thing but that's just me
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Old Aug 7, 2008 | 08:35 PM
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all 4 maybe an over kill but Jared said it all.

hey chad,
here's a close-up pix of the SP with the HID's. That will help you decide. and yes, its still available at JCWhitney. Thanks to Supercharged RX3, I didnt know that JCW is still around.
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Old Aug 7, 2008 | 10:41 PM
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Talking headlights

If you want to take them off I'll trade you some stock buckets. hey I'm working on Sat. are you going to be around about 3:00. I'll bring the HKS---MadChad.
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