aftermarket headlight idea! check it out! Options

[uberschall]

so, i got to thinking the other day. i'm just as disappointed as everyone else with the aftermarket headlight scene for celicas. everyone has made good points about the cost of production, design, and materials, which are the three biggest barriers to a/m availability. then it hit me. why not do an aftermarket impreza style light? they are nearly the same shape and don't have a fairing, which i think would make them pretty cheap...especially because we'd only need one projector per light, unlike the subie units.


here's an example of some aftermarket subie projectors:



and here's a crappy hand-sketched rendition of what i think they could look like on a celica:


sorry about the doodle, i'm not so handy with photoshop. anyway, one projector per capsule, and the plastic bezels coulg be left black, wrapped in cf, body-color matched, etc.

opinions, suggestions, comments?

edit: i forgot to mention that the impreza headlights shown above sell for about $150 a set on ebay. even if each set of high or low beams cost us the same (which isn't likely given the fewer components necessary for our application, see above), we'd still only be looking at $300 for all four!

This post has been edited by uberschall: Aug 28, 2006 - 9:36 PM

[uberschall]

thanks celiracer. i'll try that tomorrow.

coldbluesteel, i agree that there are alot of cavaliers and such out there, but you should check out ebay if you didn't. i'm sure there's at least one car that will make you say "wtf?" oh, and i'm stoked that you're going to try to build some too. i'll let you know when i get started so we can share advice/warnings.


anyway, i'm not sure about any of this....but i just think it's crazy that nobody makes anything for celicas. if companies can afford to shoot each other in the foot by offering no less than a dozen aftermarket options for civics (talk about market saturation), there's no reason they can't corner the entire aftermarket for a car that was produced practically unchanged for half a decade and sold worldwide.