Headlight Ideas?
 

Well here’s my old beater 93 NA that I picked up just for the hardtop. It runs but needs a radiator and some obvious body work. It was hit high in the front above the inner bumper and took out both flip-up headlight assemblies. So, I plan on pulling the bumper cover off and gorilla gluing it back together to see if I can make it look okay for the time being.

To me the car is too good to part out, I think it will make somebody a good little zoom around. So, I’m thinking I’ll keep it a little while and tinker with it to get it back street worthy. But it’s going to need some headlights and I’m not going to spend any money on an aftermarket kit. So… if this were your project car, what would you do for “low dollar” headlights hmm? :confused:

are you good at fabricating stuff? look at the halogen lights at like advance auto.

Why aren't yo replacing with junk yard pop ups? If you're not for whatever reason, I would buy some bulbs, make a bracket, and then fab a housing around it so it looks like the stock ones only up all the time.

Yeah, I'm sure I can fabricate well enough. I'll stop by advanced and take a look, thanks for the info.

No junkyard miata's around here to speak of. And the frames and mounting area on mine are mangled badly, especially on the passenger side. I'm thinking more along the lines of putting headlights in the bumper cover holes somehow. I'm not a fan of up pop ups all the time, makes me feel like everybody knows they dont work. :)

How about a right fender for $75? http://www.car-part.com/

How about headlights that pop up straight like a late 80's Dodge daytona

How bout just using some dual beam fog lights and make some kind of mount for them .

hey just cruising craigslist and found a complete set for 100$
http://columbus.craigslist.org/pts/2670587169.html

what a douche:

I WILL NOT REPLY TO "Do You Still Have Them?"

If This Ad Is Still Up Than Yes I Still Have Them

I am going to send him a bunch of those "Do You Still Have Them?" e-mails.

People in columbus are some of the most ignorant douches you may ever meet.

I've kind of been thinking that route as well, and I've even cruzed the local junk yard for some kind of take off's that might work. I just don't want it to end up looking like the old Bricklin GT kit car. :eek:

Keep the idea's coming tho, right now I'm still in the process of beating the front raidiator support and passenger fender back into shape with a ball peen hammer.
:sad2:

I've drove thru columbus a couple of times, I've often wondered why it always smelt like butt? :confused:

may be worth while for you to call the guy about them. the ad is still there.

Cleveland is the ass of Ohio

agreed

The least expensive choice would be to go back with the stock set mentioned earlier. Another option would be to use one of the low profile dual headlight kits that exist. This is not cheap as the are about $500.00 plus,

^^ THIS.

I'm in the process of making another headlight set up . Using some Hella rectangle fog lights and i'm going to look for some mini projectors to retro fit into them. My bracket is going to look like the lights that have the plexi-glass over them but i'll be keeping my headlight lid just mounting the lights so i can keep them as low as possible .

I'll shot some pics tomorrow right now its in like 4 pieces just need to put them together . I also need to order a bulb for them to use in the mean time .

Armpit of Texas
 

:skid: Amarillo is the armpit of Texas :bowrofl:

This is a DIY light set up , I should be ordering up some projectors sometime this week to complete the set up .
https://www.miataforumz.com/attachme...ine=1321095738
https://www.miataforumz.com/attachme...ine=1321095738
https://www.miataforumz.com/attachme...ine=1321095738

This is about the height of the lights now .
https://www.miataforumz.com/attachme...ine=1321095738

Looks good, how bright are the lights?

Right now there about as bright as the factory headlights . I'm ordering some 4300k HIDs and projectors to make up for it . There going to be Hi/Lo set up so it should make for better lighting .