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Old 07-13-2007, 08:22 PM
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I read a magazine where a guy put mercedes head light ion his civic. I was wondering if there were any some what but not limited to easy convertion. it would be for a 1992 - 1995 civic.

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Old 07-13-2007, 09:09 PM
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Thats a full out custom job. Go to a local body shop and see if they can help.
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I work at a body shop. I was asking if anyone knew of any good looking lights I could conver to.

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Old 07-14-2007, 04:39 PM
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Keep in mind there are a bunch of aftermarket headlights for civics that may suit your tastes. I remember about 6 years ago, when aftermarket headlights were just coming around, they put out poor light compared to OEM's.

To answer you original Q, 97+ eclipse headlights looked nice on an Integra I saw in a magazine.
Old 07-21-2007, 11:39 AM
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thanks a lot for the tip. I'll have to see what I can do.
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I reccomend you spend that money on an HID kit or aftermarket unit. There are many good looking stock fitment headlights out there. TYC has some good 1 piece sets. Check em out.
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1586148
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1948720
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=666112

For a civic, s14s look good. Some might call rice but hey its your taste, if it makes you happy then im cool with it. I dont judge like that. I think it can look good if done right.

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If you put mercedes anything on ur civic I hope you crash it or it gets jacked x2

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Wrong forum, too, and no, the S14 headlights don't look horrible on it.
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i don't have what your asking for perse, but i saw this in person and i thought it was clean as ****
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I think he's talking about a HID retrofit.......
Old 07-21-2007, 02:48 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Sa.L.aS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I think he's talking about a HID retrofit.......</TD></TR></TABLE>

thats what i had in mind.
Old 07-21-2007, 03:24 PM
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http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/, great forum when it comes to retrofitting lights and doing led mods.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tei344 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I read a magazine where a guy put mercedes head light ion his civic. I was wondering if there were any some what but not limited to easy convertion. it would be for a 1992 - 1995 civic.

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Serious??
Old 07-21-2007, 04:00 PM
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lol wow
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yeah im pretty sure hes talking about retrofits, there was a k20 eg hatch featured in modified that had E55 AMG HID's in it..........if hes talking about the atcual light cluster....than thats a not-so-good idea IMO.
Old 07-22-2007, 04:59 AM
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damn, this is clean but yeah i think he is talkin about HIDs
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by nathanong87 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i don't have what your asking for perse, but i saw this in person and i thought it was clean as ****
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99-00 front end on an EG doesn't look too bad if it is done right

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tei344 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Head Light Convertion</TD></TR></TABLE>

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Old 07-22-2007, 06:57 AM
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im amazed this guy hasnt been completely flamed by every1 (minus the one or two that have )

if you think it looks good do it, as for recomendations i dont have any.
Old 07-22-2007, 07:37 AM
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conversion. You can perform this, and not know how to spell it?
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Sa.L.aS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I think he's talking about a HID retrofit.......</TD></TR></TABLE>
Old 07-22-2007, 08:44 AM
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i want tsx retrofit on my rsx! is that what u mean?
Old 07-22-2007, 09:08 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Syndacate &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">If you put mercedes anything on ur civic I hope you crash it or it gets jacked x2

EDIT:
Wrong forum, too, and no, the S14 headlights don't look horrible on it.</TD></TR></TABLE>


what a dick...Syndacate i hope that u crash ur car or it gets jacked
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Thorgs(on HIDplanet) &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
TYC OEM replacement headlights
OEM housings (the black part that holds the headlights because the TYC ones sucked)
E55 Bi-xenon projectors
BMW shrounds
Matsushita ballasts
DS2 4300k bulbs
H4 Harness




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This is how one guy did his retrofit, most tend towards projector conversion units and then swap the projector for something better (s2000, TL, TSX, ect)
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CarbonizedDX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

This is how one guy did his retrofit, most tend towards projector conversion units and then swap the projector for something better (s2000, TL, TSX, ect)</TD></TR></TABLE>

Not really. It depends on the housing. For example, the E55's seem to pretty much drop in to Mazda3 housings, but a lot of cheap crappy ebay projectors don't switch out for something.

Most people just bolt the projector itself to the halogen headlight reflector. It's stronger that way, and you retain factory adjustment.

hidplanet.com

customlightz.com
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Engrish?
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CarbonizedDX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/, great forum when it comes to retrofitting lights and doing led mods.</TD></TR></TABLE>


Please give this a look and read up on retrofitting in the University section.

Yes not everybody goes the route of using aftermarket projector conversion units, this was just an example of what people do. I've see retrofits using the oe lights, using aftermarket conversion lights and I saw a guy who did custom 90mm hella units (since they are mostly sealed units) with a simple plastic lens from a headlight to cover the lights from rocks and what not since the OE headlights were simply too small to have a projector mounted inside of them.


EDIT!!!

HERE is an article in HondaTuning that shows how to do a retrofit (into an EG), the article is scanned page by page so the words are almost unreadable but you can still see how the step by step process looks.
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