Home made headlights?

["Graydon D. Stuckey" <graydon@apollo.gmi.edu>]

On Sat, 6 Jan 1996 PDQSHIP@aol.com wrote:

> >much room that entire assembly takes up.  I was thinking that if the whole
> >assembly was removed, a pair of those newer small PIAA or such lights would
> >fit behind a plexiglass or custom fitted glass shield.  Might even be enough
> >room left over for some custom black mesh air inlets, like one to feed the
> >air cleaner horn with some ducting.  Comments?  Be a lot cheaper than
> >Euros...
>
> Graydon Stuckey was playing with this idea a while back with all MY
> encouragement.....  What do you think graydon?
Scott,

	Yeah, I've been thinking about it alot lately, but it really 
won't be alot cheaper than Euro headlights, and it _will_ be alot more 
work for sure.  I've been collecting parts & pieces anyway, just in case 
I come across a couple 25 hour days:-)

	My current favourite idea is to incorporate a pair of projector 
beams for lows, and a pair of large reflectors for the highs.  The lense 
would be clear like some of the newer cars' and the whole thing would 
look much like an S4/A6 headlight.  

	After the comment made today (Euro reflector is the same as the US
spec reflector) I am thinking about using the reflector, adn drilling a 2"
hole through it in the corner to mount the proj beam.  Then use the
original reflector fro the high beam.  The running light would get an
orange bulb for a turn signal, and that would leave the original turn
signal free for fog lights. 

Later,								
Graydon D. Stuckey								
graydon@apollo.gmi.edu								
'86 Audi 5000 CS Turbo Quattro, GDS Racing Stage II				
'85 Mazda RX7 GS 12A-leaning-towards-a-13B-soon