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I'd keep the high beams. more light FTW

Wouldn't be a 6GC without four eyes.

but people still do supra and other front conversions as well

yeah it will have a lot of space between the eyes if they weren't there. maybe extend the grill?

updates?

thumbs up if you are four eyed too (meaning you have glasses) LOL.

Today I got off my ass and started working on the head lamps. They've been sitting on my shelf for months now after failing to graft the dodge neon lamps to the celica because I didn't want to cut my wings, bumper and carbon bonnet to make them fit.
So I got my self a set of outer lamps and clear lenses.

Now what I'm about to do should not be attempted by an amature or if you have a faint heart. Though I've spent hundreds on the lamps, I had to accept that if it goes tits up I'm gonna bin it all.
But then again if I don't try then it's all going to waste anyway.

The aim is to cut it down to size of the dodge neon projectors and install the internals into the stock housing keeping origional fixings.
The results should be a hybrid head lamp with everything in just the outer clusters freeing my inside high lamps for air ducts.

So first off. Stock lens off. Was like opening oysters. 1 slip and you're in A&E.


Same goes to the dodge neon lense


Test fit of the clear lens which still needs some work


Cleat lens over the neon lamps to see what needs cutting off.



Then cut down to size


Now compare the housing



Cut the stock front fixings out




Now cut back the neon housing keeping the lamp fixings only and all together it looks like this


all 3 put together looks like this



Now I've had enough I'm off for a beer.

Next time when I can be bothered, I need to do the same to the other side lamps and I'm going to bolt it all together, test fit for angles. Then fibreglass the two front and rear half of the housing together, smooth it down and spray it black and then put the new lens on.

TBC...

This post has been edited by yellowchinaman: Aug 9, 2012 - 2:34 PM

Damn, I didn't realize just how close those neon headlights were.
This looks awesome and can't wait to see more progress!

OMG, SICK!!!!!!! UPDATES UPDATES, I DEMAND UPDATES

Its not often I get some time to my self to do things so I think it'll be a while till I do the other one.

oh yeah. These aren't just projectors. They've got duel halo's in each lamp too. Also by keeping the rear housing, they'll be fully adjustable in angles.

Very interesting. Can't wait to see how it turns out!

I think that, given the option, I would delete the low beams and have only the inner housings...

Very cool though. Subscribing to this thread for sure

Dangg I never thought of using a neon's lights I've been eying the projectors from the fiat 500s for a few weeks lol

Fiat 500 would probably be a better option actually as its smaller than the neon.

Yeahh I was hoping they'd fit but i never got around to pricing them out, a brand new set of lamps wouldn't fall too short of the nice jdm ones lol

I doubt you'd be able to graft them directly to the car same as the Neons so making a hybrid like what i'm doing is probably easier. However the internals of the 500 is smaller so less cutting is needed so should be easier to install than the neons.

True true, so will you still be able to use the original alignment setup on the stock housing once your done??

I will be interested to see what these look like with the OEM high beams...

ALL THE LIGHT!!!

Yes. One other thing is that the peons can adjust horizontally as well as vertically meaning it's easy to direct and age the lamps after fitting. I'm not sure if that can be done with the 500

lol sweet how much longer till we get to see the finished product Mann??