Anyone know where I can get some EUDM black housed headlamps for a decent price?
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Anyone know where I can get some EUDM black housed headlamps for a decent price?
Ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/JDM-97-03-Ga...ht_5270wt_1398
http://www.ebay.com/itm/JDM-GALANT-V...ht_2599wt_1398
or try JDM Auto Lights:
http://jdmautolights.com/headlights-...a292d54b09860c
Hope this helps.
Thanks Wetamup2k3g. I'm trying to stay away from the JDM look. I want to try and do a EUDM look. I know that it's almost impossible to do since EUDM and JDM are damn near one in the same; but there are a few parts out there that I have my mind set on to try and customize my G a lil differently from everyone elses.
oem EUDM is JDM. all EUDM cars were made in japan. it wouldb better to refer to that segment as worldspec since everything they have in europe was available in japan first. the only markets that were unique were north america and taiwan. there are however rare JDM packages like VRG faceleft and vrm. if you wanted to be unique look up the taiwanese variants, or EUDM aftermarket and JDM aftermartket, as not many have been done if any in the us. what parts specifically r u trying to track down?
2 pieced black housed headlamps and VR-G front and rear bumper and sideskirts.
those are all JDM/WORLDspec. which version of the VRG? also which version of the 2 piece heads: there are amber corner flush, amber corner raised, and clear corner flush (the headlights themselves are the same and the corners can be found separately). the 2 piece heads were standard on many pre-facelift (PFL) versions of the worldspec 8G. some other places to look at other than europe and japan are asian countries like the philippines, south america, the caribbean, and the middle east. further if you can, look for the LHD version in non-british influenced countries so that your beam pattern will be correct over here (u won't be blinding oncoming traffic).
VRG facelift, world spec bumper and the clear corners flushed. I have an 01 3.0L V6 ES.
just so u know, the PFL VRG is the popular one here, at one point was more popular than the VR4 front on this board, so it isn't really that unique... the one that would set a car apart would be the VRG facelift version, which hasn't been completed here stateside yet or is just hiding. this one (with the optional splitters):
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...3/DSCN0142.jpg
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...3/DSCN0141.jpg
I edited the last message to reflect my mistake. I actually meant that one minus the splitters.
there was at least one example of this bumper in the US that a member was selling (w/o splitters) but i don't know if another member picked it up or installed it. you can always try TRIGGERMAUVE as he is able to source used JDM front ends. some of our european members also might be able to source it as well as some of our australian / new zealand members. good luck and great choices!
thx
Corey2kg was selling the one pictured some time ago I think that the one reelax is referring to, so ask corey
That VRG front clip is awesome.
Im definitely going to try and pull this off with a lil bit of my own flavor. Getting my girl out of the paint shop this week so look out for my build thread.
I can supply that bumper as I removed it from my gdi legnum as for the headlights they're merly a. NZ new 2 piece headlight,not eudm at all
just remember that new zealand is a RHD country so the beam pattern is wrong for our country and you will have to aim them low and to the right to compensate so as not to blind oncoming traffic. a few LHD countries that have the 8G 2 piece worldspec heads would be germany, taiwan (i have these in 1pc) and the philippines. however, if u are planing a projector retrofit, the reflector beam pattern won't matter because the projector's cutoff shields will dictate the beam pattern.
Somthing like this?
http://www1.garaget.org/archive/169/...71-2510861.jpg
nice headlights
No shipping is extra 60-80 matey
Beam swapping is simple
Yup that's right swap the reflectors
so how and where would you find spare LHD reflector bowls to swap in to the RHD housings? wouldn't you have to find LHD headlights to get those donor parts? at that point you would have LHD housings with LHD reflector bowls already in them so the swap would not be needed anymore. of course the swap itself is simple but in order to do it you would have to get the parts out of LHD headlights, and if you have LHD headlights, you wouldn't need to swap anything anymore.
Wow lol repeated that twice lol .. It's simple just go to a wrecker and get a set of broken USDM lights and then open them up and perform the swap, easy..iv done heaps of flips now and iv grown accustom to it so it's gotten easy now
this is correct. the USDM reflectors are wider than the JDM/worldspec versions, and they are made for H4 focal length dual filament (both high and low beam in one bulb/reflector bowl) not H7/H1 individual beam reflectors; an H7 in an H4 bowl will not throw correctly and neither will an H4 in a H7 bowl.
As long as the cutoff is correct the throw wouldn't matter too much, there is a twin style us version correct? There's your deflectors you'd use
well the actual filament placement is slightly different between the H4 and H7 bulbs and since the bowls are made to focus light based on filament position, the light will not throw correctly if the incorrect bulb is used; the cutoff will be affected and the distance of usable light will also be diminished. and no, there is no twin style USDM version for the 8G (the housings themselves are not even the same size. USDM are taller and narrower than JDM/worldspec making JDM grills incompatible w/ USDM heads and vice versa)... that's the whole reason we convert to JDM/worldspec headlights AND grills stateside, for aesthetics and to separate low and high beams into their own reflector bowls and bulbs (H7, H1). the USDM headlights use 1 bulb and 1 reflector bowl for BOTH low and hi beam (H4 dual filament). additionally, USDM wiring does not allow both low and hi beam to operate simultaneously (when hi beam is activated, low beam is deactivated), so we have to rewire a "work around" via relay or diode into the headlights' wiring to replicate JDM/worldspec functionality where the low beam stays on when the high beam is activated.
here is what the USDM heads look like:
http://shop.carbodyparts.net/images/...9-00_1ftbk.jpg
1999-2001 (USDM PFL)
http://shop.carbodyparts.net/images/...0120_1ftbk.jpg
2002-2003 (USDM FL)