I'm pretty sure its been done, but does any body have any pics of using oem usdm ef hatch or rex headlight housing and getting rid of glass cover and using plastic cover instead? and What to pros and cons are?

 

You might want to look into the jdm EF3/7 headlights. They where similar to our headlights, but were plastic rather than glass.

 

Yea I saw that but they still have the fluttering in the plastic. I want clear plastic

 

so no one has ever done this?

 

I think you would to start off with an aftermarket "conversion" headlight. Generally, they are used to convert older sealed beam headlamps into the modern replaceable bulb lamps, and some come with clear lenses. I'd bet you can find one in the correct size, if you search hard enough.

Example:

 

but i have a composite headlight. My hatch is an 88 not the old school models lol. so I was gonna use aftermarket projector plastic cover and put on my oem housing but i just wanted to make sure that the aftermarket projectors fit on my oem housing. here are the pics<br>
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You can't just use a clear lens. The reflector in the OEM headlights was not designed as a "free-form" reflector. Without the prism pattern on the lens, the light will not be dispersed out where it needs to go with the stock reflectors.

The high beams of those projector headlights have free-form reflectors (whether they are designed properly is another story). They are (hopefully) designed to put the light where it needs to go without the need for the prismatic pattern on the lens.

 

Then what about the eg headlights? They come stock with fluttered prism headlight lens, but the jdm replicas have that clear glass lens. And they still work fine

 

What "JDM replicas" are you talking about? JDM EG lenses are fluted plastic. Other aftermarket headlights with clear lenses have actual free-form reflectors inside them.

If you put clear lenses on lamps designed to have fluted lenses, the light output will be awful I suspect.

 

Ok I see. Well there is only one way to find out, so I'm gonna try and if anything I can put back together

 

Those clear ebay lenses will work fine with projectors small enough to fit.

 

I get what you are trying to do, but why? Glass doesn't haze...I Love efs for this.