Sina's BMW 318i: Project Re-Shell & Beyond! (Starting Page 46)

[freeride53]

Those headlights are the wrong size.

ahh sorry, i was flipping through some pages and meant to post the 5.75's (these would be going on my other car if I were to buy Danielson headlight buckets)

Here's a better comparison...something like these or Depo's?

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=105031

[nick123]

Awesome thread awesome cars.

[nokincy]

Those headlights are the wrong size.

[acolella76]

Buy DEPO smileys and retrofit FX-R projectors into them. Bitches love bi-xenon.

[freeride53]

So... what do you guys think of these?

http://www.tirerack.com/lighting/detail.jsp?ID=1123&brand=Hella

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http://www.amazon.com/Nokya-Hyper-Ye.../dp/B0031R3YUC

[freeride53]

Dun even have to replace the mounts, just the housings. It'd be different if you started out with Ellipsoides, but since you've got sealed beams it's a plug and play swap.

Very tempting. I'm highly considering going amber on the lows and clears on the highs. I've been trying to find some on ebay though to no avail.

[canakami]

Dun even have to replace the mounts, just the housings. It'd be different if you started out with Ellipsoides, but since you've got sealed beams it's a plug and play swap.

[freeride53]

Ah very interesting. I know of several dude's who've done similar with the Peugeot.
However, the more popular swap amongst RWD Peugeot enthusiasts is to swap out the entire dual-round assembly for the one-piece glass european lights like below:


My 1983 Peugeot 505 circa 2009 by sina.pour, on Flickr


New goodies by sina.pour, on Flickr

Would these european style h1/h4's be "direct replacements" to the stock US sealed beam mounts?

[canakami]

I'm referring to the H4/H1 E-codes that weren't legal in the US at the time, leaving us stuck with shit-ass sealed beam-halogens. Their direct replacement housings that have replaceable bulbs and vastly superior output and pattern.

Justin(OKC)'s car has a set of Cibie CSRs as an example:



That being said, Cibies are at the upper end of the price scale, there are more affordable and nearly as good offerings from Hella and Bosche, your Peugeot forum probably knows a thing or two about them as well.

I'd take the quality of these over any DEPO set-up any day.

[freeride53]

Meh, I think an H4/H1 conversion would have better light output/quality (your typical Hella/Bosche/Cibies).

But someone once told me I'm an old man at heart, so ymmv.

so are you talking about using sealed beam setup, or implementing those on the depo smileys?

[TimKninja]

What does R3V think about these?
One of my sealed beams burned out, and I'm sick und tired with the low output.
These are pretty affordable for me, and I could get hi-bulbs & 35W HID's for lows fairly easily, as well.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEPO-SMILEY-...a33b5f&vxp=mtr

Their OK. Product review somewhere around here.

Ill be buying them come spring.

[canakami]

Meh, I think an H4/H1 conversion would have better light output/quality (your typical Hella/Bosche/Cibies).

But someone once told me I'm an old man at heart, so ymmv.

[freeride53]

What does R3V think about these?
One of my sealed beams burned out, and I'm sick und tired with the low output.
These are pretty affordable for me, and I could get hi-bulbs & 35W HID's for lows fairly easily, as well.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEPO-SMILEY-HEADLIGHTS-CHROME-BMW-3-SERIES-E30-M40-88-89-90-91-DEPO-SET-/180986526559?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2a23a33b5f&vxp=mtr

[freeride53]

Some neue fotos

[Vivek]

You can do it fairly easily with a table mounted vice. My dad's work happened to have a circular spacer that fit really well into the lollipop to push them out, so that definitely helped.