JSutter

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I swaped my 96 glass lights for some 97+ TYCs, so i figured I'd mess with my old lights. I like the AE lights, but I don't think I've seen them with painted lenses. I did it like most others, but painted the rim of the glass too. I don't want to f**k my new lights just yet and I'd like to here your opinions. I'll mock them on the car once I do the other one (or if you like them, do the 97+ lights that are on the car now). Here are some pictures:

maxima_se007

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looks good. just like mine, except i didn't paint the lenses.

DR-Max

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Hmmm, looks good but is probably not a good idea since painting the lense would reduce the effectiveness of the headlight. 9004 provides weak lighting already, painting the lense just makes it worse. But it looks cool! Still I wouldn't do it if it was me.

On a different note, someone told me that the 97 headlight is wider than the 96. So how are you going to make them fit? Unless you have converted your 96 front-end to a 97 meaning, 97 bumper + grille + corner lamps and other brackets that supports the 97 bumper.

JSutter

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No all 4th gen lights fit, just look at my homepage or sig I have 97+ lights. As for the light output... we'll see what happens. In theory, yeah some light will be lost, but in the real world will it really matter?

Oh I just finished the other 96 (AE) light and will put them in to see how they look....like I said I don't want to mess with my good headlights and ruin them.

DR-Max

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Coool, thanks. Where did you get your 97 headlights and how much did you pay for them? Are the lenses glass or plastic? Did you notice an improvement? I heard that the 97-99 headlights are better than the 95.

JSutter

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I got the lights from some eBay seller, but not off eBay though he had and auction up for some lights. I paid $170 shipped, and they are plastic, and shizzo load lighter. There is a great impovement because the 97-99 lights have 1: multi reflectors, 2: clear plastic lens, and 3: a bulb reflector/dispurser? (I don't know what it's really called) in the middle and over/around the bulb. It produces a much better beam pattern because of these. The 95-96 lights produce a narrow beam where as the 97-99 produce a wide beam.

Stillen_I30

hmm..if you say that the foggy style produces a more narrow pattern whereas the clear style (97+) produces a wider pattern, then would you conclude that HIDs would be less scattered with the foggy style lenses?

DR-Max

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Guess I'll keep an eye out on e-Bay. I also went to 1001 Headlights.Com and they have the TYC headlights for $96 each.