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YK86
01-14-2003, 03:37 AM
This is a 3rd gen Lude with custom headlights. I think this looks really good but it's too bad there are no pics with the hood down and lights off. But it's something I would like to try. As much as the flip ups make the 3rd gen what it is, this is the first time I've seen a conversion I've actually sort of liked.
http://yk86.hypermart.net/nonfliplude.jpg
http://yk86.hypermart.net/nonfliplude2.jpg

YK86
01-14-2003, 03:42 AM
Come to think of it, it probably wouldn't look as good on a 3rd gen Accord because we have sidemarkers and the grill so the pattern on the eye lids would look missing if we did it.....

Site
01-14-2003, 05:47 AM
Maybe you could shave the sidemarkers and modify the grill?

bobafett
01-14-2003, 06:04 AM
i think that looks pretty good.... alot better than the "stock" accords without flipups...

its on par with the lude conversion, because i love the style of these lights! but i think the lude lights actually work better with the 3G! nice find, those are getting saved! :)

markmdz89hatch
01-14-2003, 06:23 AM
I like it! Thanks Yasu. I think that looks great, and yeah like site said, maybe you could just shave the grill a little, and shave the corner markers. Kinda like what integraccord did on his car.

SQ is the SQUAD
01-14-2003, 06:58 AM
with the lights on it looks kinda like a mid 90's nissan z car. there is a kid around here who had one of those preludes with the nissan z headlights and rsx taillights

RobT5580
01-14-2003, 07:43 AM
I was just gonna say they look like nissan housings. It looks like a good fit and not bad. I think it looks good myself and it would be similar on an accord but i dont know if the slope of the hood is the same on our cars but they can trim it to fit. If you did do it though i would suggest shaving the grill or working on that.

iloveJDMblackrims69
01-14-2003, 02:21 PM
THATS LOOK AWESOME!!!!!!! I WISH MY ACCORD HAD THAT CONVERSION!!!!! yea, shave the side markers and it would look good

superaccord
01-14-2003, 03:11 PM
dude, thats so bad ass!!

88Ex-i
01-14-2003, 05:49 PM
ya, that looks so good. I'd do that in second. I would have never thought of doing that.........

87accordHB
01-14-2003, 05:54 PM
then it just wouldnt be a honda any more. I LIKE MY FLIP UP LIGHTS!!!!! give my car character.......still getting closer to an LXI user :) creepin along..SE-i here i come!

whiteboy
01-14-2003, 09:07 PM
i found a guy im talkin to now, he says he can make those for our cars for about 400 a set, he amkes em pre made for probes now......idk tho, im sending him a headlight to haev him craft a mold/model first before i send him anymoney.

Id try soemthing liek that myself but im lakcing a welder lol

Jordan

3rd GEN
01-14-2003, 09:52 PM
damn...those look sweet..
almost like Supra or NSX lights

RobT5580
01-14-2003, 10:35 PM
You only would need a welder for the fenders and hood. The headlight bezel itself is probably fiberglass or a type of plastic. I would think that this can be done fairly easily with the exception of the hood/fenders and i would say some cutting for the back of the old headlight bay to accomodate the wiring for the bulbs and stuff. I like the way that looks a lot nice and clean. I do like how the prelude lense fits the curve of the car too.

A20A1
01-14-2003, 11:01 PM
I saw a lude over here with square lights instead of 2 smaller round lights.

‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^›
01-15-2003, 01:55 PM
I think those Rx-7 headlights

superaccord
01-15-2003, 03:03 PM
looks like they just fabricated a fiber glass housing to hold fog lights or something. its cool.

whiteboy
01-17-2003, 01:36 PM
Hey
If someone will donate a headlight please i have a guy who wants to make a conversion for our cars for 375, but he needs a headlight to make a mold out of, i just need the basic frame of the light and it will be shipped right to him if you want, please let me know as i broke my arm and cant get to a junkyard, thanks guiys !!

Jordan
[email protected]

buish
01-18-2003, 04:19 AM
some cars with flip up headlights have those kind of conversions. take the mr2 or rx7. i remember an old issue of TURBO, that showed an rx7 with that kind of conversion.

here is an mr2 with them.
http://www.mr2beast.com/images/BeastStockLidFrontH.jpg

smufguy
01-19-2003, 07:07 PM
my idea in the futer was similar to that, but keeping the eyelids, but loosing the sealed beams and putting projectors in there, single or even twin. Its gonna be just the lid and everything is gonna go, like the brackets and everything that is needed to hold down the weight of the sealed beams. So in reality, just the lids would go up and down, but the lights would stay stationary in side them. I dont know how to do it as of yet, but sure i will find a way out.

pmip
01-19-2003, 07:44 PM
Originally posted by ‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^›
I think those Rx-7 headlights

I think those are RX7 conversion lights:
http://66.216.67.51/product.asp?0=217&1=278&3=580

Elijah
01-19-2003, 07:55 PM
I saw a lude with the two lights where are lights are it still had funtional flip ups thow.

smufguy
01-20-2003, 08:51 AM
like the corvette and the firebird. they got dual sealed beams in em.

zip7
01-20-2003, 05:39 PM
hey whiteboy, it will be a tight conversion. I am lookin forward to seeing the result.

zip7
01-30-2003, 04:43 PM
hey whiteboy, how is your conversion coming along?

StUpiD8000
02-05-2003, 08:00 PM
Hey whiteboy, did your friend get a headlight for the mod. I really would to know some info. Im trying something like this too.

whiteboy
02-10-2003, 10:15 AM
hey
yea whoa sry lol i need someone to donate a housing, i am not having it done to my car as that is now gone and i have a 3000gt which he also makes lights for, he said hed make em for 86-89 accords if someone sent him the headlights shells for both sides, i can get his addy if someone wants to mail em out to him so he can start on a mold, that is if anypne would pay 375 for these ?

Jordan

zip7
02-10-2003, 06:24 PM
hey whiteboy.
What is his email and address, I might be interested if I can find an extra set of headlight housing.

Micah 89LXi
02-11-2003, 01:47 PM
id go for projectors for our cars in a second...the flip ups just dont put off enough light for me......dont think it would be worth $400 maybe if it was also HID..hehe $400 is alot on headlights