[DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos

[Ken Green]

Art,
 
    I always view projects as excuses to buy tools that I can't otherwise justify.
 
    I've seen conversions where a clear sheet is used to cover the opening, and the headlights are stationary.  With the new small diameter lights, this seems like a good option.  I assume there is a loss when the light passes through the clear cover because of the steep angle, but I'm not sure how bad that is.
 
Ken
 

--- On Fri, 12/26/08, astephens <artstephens at charter.net> wrote:

From: astephens <artstephens at charter.net>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos
To: "Charles Engles" <cengles at cox.net>
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Friday, December 26, 2008, 9:54 PM

My pleasure  Chuck,
      I do like those simple projects,  and simple this was not!  (for me 
anyway) :-))

Art


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Engles" <cengles at cox.net>
To: "astephens" <artstephens at charter.net>
Cc: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos


> Dear Art,
>
>
>            1)  A relatively simple project that
>             2)  seems to involve a *lot* of fabrication and
>             3)  does make the kit solutions look attractive!
>
>             Thanks for sharing the picture story.   I understand picture 
> stories!
>
>
>                             Merry Christmas,  Chuck Engles
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "astephens" <artstephens at charter.net>
> To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 12:30 AM
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos
>
>
>>         Having lived with the Frog Eye headlights for more than ten
years 
>> on 4268,  I finally decided to do something about them on 2556.  Part
of 
>> the reason it took so long to get around to this was probably the 
>> thousand dollar price tag for the Vader and Kirk Evans kits.  A couple
of 
>> years ago, Dave Rudderow of TPOC  told me that he and Bud Williams had

>> converted their cars to the rectangular bulbs many years prior.  Dave 
>> emphasized how easy and inexpensive it was to do the conversion 
>> themselves,  probably before there were conversion kits?  I always 
>> thought it sounded like a great idea and I finally got around to doing

>> it.  The project was definitely inexpensive,  but easy,  not so much. 
It 
>> took me the better part of three weeks to do the job!  I don't
recommend 
>> tackling it unless you have more time than money (or good sense). 
:-)) 
>> That being said, I'm pretty happy with the outcome,  though there
were a 
>> number of times when I was asking myself if I wasn't trying to
re-invent 
>> the wheel.  I spent about fifty five dollars on the Sylvania
Silverstar 
>> bulbs #H4666ST and probably another thirty bucks on hardware.  The 85 
>> dollars I spent sounds pretty inexpensive compared to the price of the

>> kits,  but a thousand dollars sounded cheap by the time I got done
with 
>> this damn project!  So, unless you are a glutton for punishment,  (or 
>> perhaps just more talented than myself),  sticking to one of the kits
is 
>> probably a better way to go.  The link below has a large number of 
>> pictures of my project from start to finish.  The first three pictures

>> are of Dave's car, the rest are from my project.  Much of the
hardware in 
>> the first 80% of the pictures wound up being trashed until I came up
with 
>> what I wanted. The last pictures are of the finished product.
>>
>> Art
>>
>>
>>
>>
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