rick_rabies

ok i looked everywhere for plastic lense headlights but only found glass ones
So I decided to work with the glass ones(ones that I have)
I have the $100 jdm headlights. Real fancy junk.
Heres a DIY to make a intake dealy from a headlight housing.
and i didnt want to buy a $250 carbon fiber fancy dealy from pswdjdm
This isn’t my daily driver it’s the driver side for the turbo...enjoy.


i started by taking the headlight out. either driver or pasngr side.
remove the clips on the lense cover. put a towel over the lense and use a breaker bar or your face to break the glass to remove it
(i tried prying it but with no avail.) after breaking the glass pick it all off


after you get the glass off. remove the all screws from the back of the housing. and then remove the inside peice


from there you have a plain housing. bondo the small holes from screws in the back of it.
and use a dremel to cut the inside lip from the lense if you choose to.


i painted mine black after some cutting and sanding



and the back of the housing has a lip for a coupler, from there you can route anywhere. *my contribution*


EDIT

FINISHED HER UP

the original idea was to add a coupler to the back of it...but ther isnt much of a lip to it


so it sat on the shelf until my brain starting getting better ideas. sooo

3" piping


cut a peice like this
about 3-4" inches of length for a coupler on the back and cut lines the other way about 1" to fold out


cut this lip off so there is a 3" hole


test fit it in. make sure its snug


fold out the fins. doing this its already pretty snug in there.
hopefully your getting the idea and its making sense so far


mix up some good smelling stuff. not too much hardner or it will harden too quick...


get messy and smear it in.

do a coat and let it dry. then apply more and more and build it all up





almost done sanding with the rotary vibrating sander thing

all done and painted


its not the prettiest but you get the idea and theres no doubt air wont get stuck in there and sucked it. we will dyno it in a few months compared to short ram/ blox velocity stack/filter

K20egcw

Not bad, not bad.

hindsketchup

pics after its installed? '

ej1love

cool

rick_rabies

i would take pics of it installed but the head is off and the turbo is chillin on the counter right now. when i get a head gasket il put it all together...again. and then take pics.
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if anyone else does this sort of thing. they should post pics for some more ideas

Vindicator9000

that's kinda bangin. Me like. I'd love to run one on mine just for the track, but I'd be embarassed to run a 16 with a missing headlight. If I had a faster car though, I'd definitely rock one for track use.

Are you just running regular metal charge piping to it? Are you driving it on the street and just running that on the track or something?

rick_rabies

its a track car. the turbo is about 12 inches away at an angle so il have to get a curved peice of piping. or just a long curved custom silicone turbo coupler(big $)

hindsketchup

im looking forward to seeing the final installed pic

thumper64

PVC FTW! Or, fiberglass or exhaust pipe like for doing custom exhausts. Maybe bends are available cheap somewhere.

rick_rabies

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