I found these at the salvage yard yesterday.



Clear Euro lenses $10 ; need help with HID projector mod, can't wait 'til she's running proper again.

 

Wow helluva comeup

 

And a nice save, too.
Congrats!

 

cool...
the clear lenses were aftermarket stuff usually from china.
the true UK/Euro headlights were fluted lenses that ran H4 bulbs.

 

I never find modded max's at the yard, nice find man! working on a retro myself

the pair I have was made in Taiwan

 

So about that cateye set-up?

 

Talk to grnmaxdmon or chunkysause. Both of them have done projector retrofits. Oh and so has Chrisgreg

 

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeee!!!

 

Man I've been trying to get my hands on some of those aftermarket clear glass lenses forever. They were all over the eBay for the longest then just suddenly dried up and are nowhere to be found now

 

Here you are:

http://www.protuninglab.com/hd-op-nm...tm_content=pla

 

Betcha if I try to order them they'll email me weeks/months later and say they aren't available. I've tried to buy them from probably half a dozen vendors over the past couple of years and they are absolutely completely unavailable even though all these places still list them on their sites. Sort of like the Tokicos that some places still list as available.

 

Yeah man, same exact thing for me. I always wanted to buy them and seen them for like $80 or so on ebay. Now they are just gone. Even clear corner lights were all over ebay now i cant find them..WHAT GOING ON! Should email them before and make sure they actually have them on hand.

 

Just checked, they're drop shipped from the manufacturer. They checked with the manufacturer and they're discontinued. I really wish all these places would remove their listings

 

Yeah well i found 1 listing on ebay for clear corners. lol.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAXIMA-J30-C...f4afbc&vxp=mtr

 

Don't we have clear corners already?

 

yeah but what they're saying is a couple years from now you probably wont be able to find them, the clear corners that is

James there is somewhere that will take your stock lens and make a clear replica, but i fear its only plastic, tho I dont know for sure. Dont even know where it is I read it on hidplanet a lot...People will mention it when describing their setup etc, think its around $120?

 

Surely it's plastic, which I don't need. I would be shocked if custom one-off glass lenses could be manufactured for that little. I have plastic lenses now. Even though the plastic is holding up well after 8 years I've been wanting to re-do the setup in all glass but guess I'm SOL now.

 

We find alot of good stuff in the boneyard...headers, lowered springs, AGX struts, aftermarket taillights, aftermarket headlights etc.....

 

I swore I thought Chunkysause posted a link where he got his when he did his retrofit a few months back. Like in May or April.

 

im selling a pair of E36 with halos with clear lens in the classifieds.

 

Yes but those are E36 lenses and not Maxima lenses correct?

 

Good question, wouldn't you have to take them out if the lenses first to fit inside the max lenses?

 

Well yes and no - most people who did the E36 conversion just left the BMW lenses on the headlights which doesn't quite fit the Maxima. Depending on the skill of the install you can negate that some but it still doesn't fit quite right. The overall shape of the lights are about the same, yes, but unless you're oblivious you can generally spot an E36 conversion a mile away and the lights definitely look like they don't belong. It just generally looks very jerry-rigged.

So, on my BMW light conversion I did 8 years ago now, I cut off the lenses of the BMW headlight, and used the center section of clear Wade bug/rock guards as the new "front" of my housing (as the Wade covers were made for the Maxima, they have the exact shape of the stock Maxima headlights). I then used ABS plastic and lots of plastic weld/fabrication to complete the housings (see the pics below - they're fully sealed, waterproof, one piece headlights and do not fog or leak). They've held up great over all these years, I'm just wanting to re-do them in glass but it's looking like I'm SOL.

 

I don't think so cause they came right off a maxima and they fit good in the maxima they were in. I didn't get them directly off a BMW. they were used in the previous owners maxima.

 

I saw your pics in the FS thread and they're definitely E36 housings and not 3rd gen housings. Just out of curiosity, got any pics of them on the previous owner's car?

 

Sweet! I see you went all out; turboed her out; she must run like a beast?

 

No i wish. But they fit on his max tho the way they are. I saw them on the car.

 

I'm still trying to decide how I wanna mod my clears; but from what I've seen so far I'm thinking E36 lenses with projectors, I think I'll also go with a brow some how, on my clears.