re 90Q Eurolight Sidemarker Relocation?

["Smith, Kirby A" <kirby.a.smith@lmco.com>]

"Robinson, Michael/SFO" <mrobinso@ch2m.com> asked:

I have an 88 90Q who will soon be getting the H1/H4 Eurolights that replace
the sidemarker.  My problem is that I don't know where the
turnsignal/parking light will go.  Has anyone done this?  i don't really
feel like doing any cutting into the bumper cover or whatever.  I am not too
familiar with these lights, so maybe i am overly confused about the
sidemarker issue.  If anyone has any experience or advice, please let me
know, otherwise i will have to get the ones that replace the stock DOT
lights.
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My plan, before interruption by my wife damaging her car, was to have solved
this by now.  BTW, her replacement car now has the H4 Eurolights (used on
Euro 80s), and you may find them to be adequate.  In my opinion, one
minimizes risk of others (in the US) hitting one's car by retaining amber
reflectors and lamps in the front.  Further, I believe side as well as front
markers are needed.  Thus, my plan for my 90q is to use Euro 90q amber
turnsignals, mounted in the corners of my US bumper cover in the same
location as in the Euro bumper cover (which doesn't actually have a bumper
in it), along with the H4/H1 Eurolights.  This requires removal of the
bumper cover, separation of the bumper, cutting the necessary hole in each
side of the cover (for flush mount - data provided by Tom Nas shows the
contours to be very close), milling some of the bumper (outside the mounting
slots), mounting into the bumper cutouts a pair of inner turnsignal
retainers (likely hand made), and "gluing" on some retainers for the outer
ends of the turnsignals.  I have demonstrated that polyethylene ski repair
sticks, applied using a special purpose hot melt glue gun, provides adequate
retention of metal parts to the bumper cover.

Note that the H4 Eurolights extend further to the back than the H4/H1
lights.  As I pointed out in a recent message, the H4 housing is within an
inch of the hole for the short rubber air intake duct.  This could degrade
maximum air flow, although I suspect the exhaust path is still the limiting
factor. 

Other turnsignal options include certain recent VW side marker lamps, as
well as those really narrow ones used on Saturns.  I have determined that
the existing amber turn signals cannot be fitted to the bumper cover in a
side-to-side and upside-down orientation reversal.  There is room behind the
bumper cover, but the contours don't match adequately.

Kirby A. Smith   New Hampshire USA
1988 90q Titanium gray, 180 kmi
1988 90q Stone gray, 185 kmi 
1988 90q Stone gray, 180 kmi - parts car
1995 S6 Pearl effect, 80 kmi