not complete or anything but I just remembered I had an old factory lens outside that was already off the headlight so I thought I would set them on my E36s to see how much work will be involved in putting the clear factory lens from those other lights on the E36.

As you can see it will take a little cutting here and there on the light assy. itself in order for them to sit down far enough to seal. All in all I think it will work and if you pull it off you will truly have a set of E36s that look as if they belong on the car.

I have a set of the Euro housings that I may try to cut and see if I can get them to fit together but I dont want to cut on the ones pictured...just in case it doesnt work right.

here are the pics I have now...I will take some others if I cut the euro housings.

 

Nice work, man this forum kicks butt. I like how *most* people try to do tasteful and unique mods and try to make them look clean.

Your average civic owner would gladly put BMW headlights on his car, but wouldn’t bother him/herself with aiming them or making them look professional, or even wiring them up to the factory switch…

 

are *you* inferring someone?

 

dont be so sensative...I am sure he is not saying you dont do tasteful mods.

 

lol, i wont make fun of your maxima, until i meet you first. Then its open season.

As for your wife/gf/job/state....

 

nice pics michael......there is no more modding with this thing, but if there was, i would probably buy those clear headlights and modd them onto some e36 projectors with demon eyes....

 

hey michael did you ever finish thoose headlights i would like to see the front of them if you did

 

damn it Michael...now you're going to make me buy those damn clear headlights...ugh!! there goes the holiday budget.

 

haha you have a habit of not reading posts today dont you lol...

I didnt do any more work on them because those are just factory covers with the lines and such in them (I think they may even have a crack in them). I only posted those pics to show people how the factory lens fit on the bmw lights so people could make up their mind if they wanted to buy the clear lights and put the lens on the E36s.

I have done nothing else to those lights since I took that picture and dont plan on anything except maybe pulling my old E36 frame out to make the cuts and see if I can get them to seal but I have way to many things going on to do that right now.

It would not be a good idea to put your stock lenses on the BMW lights because it would look funny and the light output would be bad.


Dan I posted that a while back...I figured you would have bought those by now .

 

whats all the hot glue for?

did you take apart the light bulb housing? and used hot glue for a seal?...

you see, im trying to take mine off so i can thoroughly clean them (inside and out)

when i tried to pry one off, there was maybe some RTV glue or something

i didnt go through with it because i didnt want to break them and or not able to put them back together that night

how did you take them apart, did you heat them? or just pry them off with a flathead?

 

....been buying parts for the camaro...the budget can only go so far ya know.

 

The process to taking them apart is 350o for 8-10 min then pry apart repeat the process to reseal them, i'll be doing mine this weekend.

 

the bulb holder not the lens im talking about.... or is that what you were saying?

 

So you're not taking about separating the glass lens? May be I mis understood the question.

The only way to get inside of the lens is baking it and prying it apart.

 

hmm ok... in that case i prolly would buy the crystal clear lens off ebay... the price has dropped EMENSLEY ill think about it after xmas

 

Yes.... please do so I can see what they look like on an actual 3rd gen.

 

sure make me regret selling mine

 

I guess I am out of the loop...please explain

 

68 camaro...i thought i told you about that.

 

You said you were working on a friends but you didnt say it was yours.

 

i'm talking 1st gen...not 2nd gen

 

yeah but i'm laying out the $ for parts now...i'm going to be expecting a big fat check when it's done.

 

gotcha...thats what threw me off.

pics to my email please

 

PM me the addy...i'll get you some pics in a few weeks.

 

2nd gen got better front end geometry

 

not after i'm done with it

 

Pics or GTFO

 

Nice pics. I wonder why we didnt think of this years ago when it first started. Great find. Also, I believe his nameis JBR8K... Nice 3rd gen.