Re: Euro Headlights

["therealdmcvegas" <DMCVegas@xxxx>]

As was explained to me, the conversion looks totally great, but is 
utterly useless. The problem is that the composite housing is 
designed for mounting into a car with an engine compartment to access 
them from the rear. To install, you of course need to remove the 
sealed beams, and the light cans. To mount the units, I was told that 
the owner of this car had to "glue" them in with non-shrinking 
silicone. That way when he needed to replace a bulb, he could just 
tear the housings out.

The real problem is that there is no way to aim the beams, since they 
are not mounted into any cans. So you will end up driving with the 
beams pointing up into the air, and you can't see the road that well.

If you're looking into a sealed beam conversion, I'd reccomend 
somthing else. GM started using a composite headlamp set on their 
cars that used the standard 4-beam system. I don't know the year 
ranges, but I believe that you can find them on late 80's-early 90's 
Cadillacs, and Chevy Caprices (the old boxy design, before the 
switched to the aero-dynamic platform shared by the Impala). 
Admittedly, it's a bastard design. To make a single sealed beam, it's 
like GM just glued two standard sized sealed beam units togeter. So 
the unit appears to actually require 4 capsule blubs! However, the 
front lense is a seamless, single piece, and appears to have the 
exact same dimentions as two regular sealed beam units.

Plus, if you used these units, you should only need to modify the 
existing DeLorean and/or GM cans & bezels to mount/remove and aim 
them just like stock.

http://www.layitlow.com/members/Rhidin2low/

On a personal note, these would be my preference for a conversion 
based upon astetics. With the GM units, they would take up the exact 
space that your current sealed beams use. But if you look at the 
Maxima units in the picture, they appear to be quite slopply. Because 
they're so far forward, they look to me like they're spilling out of 
the facias. And in addition, I can't tell if the owner had to cut the 
sides of the facia, and the grill insert to make it fit.

-Robert
vin 6585 "X"



--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jon" <doki_pen@xxxx> wrote:
> Hey again everyone. I think one of the slickest mods I've seen to 
the
> delorean are the Euro Headlights like on this page.
> 
> http://www.entermyworld.com/custom/modica1x1.jpg
<SNIP>