96-98 civic headlight mod

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erebunicrx

my name is Dale
i have seen the city light in the jdm head light and decided to do it to my own stock headlights.


car before i took out the headlight to get started on this little project.
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i took the headlight out so that i could seperate the housing. i preheated the oven at 200 degrees and put one of the lights in at at time for 8 min.

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after taking the head lights out of the oven i pulled them apart and bent the tabe around the headlights with a small flat head screwdriver. then i seperated the front part of the headlight attached to the clear part of the headlight and unscrewd the corner light housing.

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next, i sanded down the whole chrome headlight peiece as pictured below.

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after that we primed them in flat black

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i chose to paint them charcoal metalic although if i was going to do them again i would have left them flat black.

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now for the next part i cut both corner light of a ef hatch to use for the city light sockets.

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then drill a hole in the part pictured below and notch out for it to screw in.

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here a pic of the whole socket installed with holes drilled in the bootom for the wire to go through.

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heres the bottom of the light with the wires coming out and female conecters attached.

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i chose to use amber corner lights and amber city lights to this. the male connectors will attatch to the females and are wired into the running lights.

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here are the light all done, re glued and polished.
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all installed and finished pics.

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i know im not that good at doing any kind of writeup but this was my best try. any questions post them up.
 
i like them. i'll take some more pics tommorow.
 
Just found this, sorry for bumping such an old thread, but this is a sweet write-up. Yet another cool headlight modification.
 
Just found this, sorry for bumping such an old thread, but this is a sweet write-up. Yet another cool headlight modification.

You should know better than to bump a 3 y/o thread. Finally a chance to use my ban stick on a reputable member of this site:ph34r:

Actually I'm glad you bumped this. The ek i bought a few months back has this done, and until now I couldn't figure out if they were modified stock or aftermarket. This answers that for me. One thing to add. If anyone attempts this make sure you do a really good job re-sealing the housing. Mine weren't done very well, and there is condensation inside the lens.
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