EagleTSIawd
15+ Year Contributor
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- Mar 17, 2005
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Stayton,
Oregon
I upgraded my bumper to a 97-98 talon bumper, which in my opinion looks way better than the 95's. On doing so, I wanted to put in the 2gb headlights because, again, they look way better than the 95's IMO. But, as some of you may know both parts don't fit right. The headlights leave an open gap since the 2gb Talon bumper only accepts 2ga headlights. I really wanted to make this work and i did not want to mold and screw up a nice bumper so i came up with an idea to Frankenstein the two types of headlights.
Note: the top one is the 2ga... On these two pics you can see the only difference are the outer clear plastic and the inner black plastic (i painted mine black)
I took them apart with a heat gun, you just take the clips off and apply heat all around the edges until the silicone gets soft enough to pry open. Here again shows that the housing on the two are alike, except for some really slight difference in the reflector design.
Here are the two inner plastics that i will be modifying (I took apart one of my spare 2ga headlights i had laying around so this one has the chrome plastic, the first pic with the black plastic was just to compare both headlights) and as you can see all there needs to be done is to swap the tip from the 2ga to the 2gb
I placed the 2gb black plastic inside the 2ga clear plastic to see and measure where i needed to cut, i decided to cut off as little as possible to leave room for some adjustments.
After the cut i placed it back in the 2ga clear plastic and measured the gap that needed to fill in. Then i grabbed the 2ga chrome plastic, measured it and made a cut
I placed the 2ga tip (I painted the tip black because i wanted to see how it really looked as i made adjustments) and the 2gb black plastic in the clear plastic and made slight adjustments to the black plastics until everything fit in real nice and tight and finally glued both pieces together, after that i placed a couple drops of clear silicone to secure the black plastic in the clear plastic since the screws that hold it together do not align
After i putting everything back together, here are the results. Starting from the top 2ga, 2gb, and at the bottom the new 2gab.
Here it is installed
The most work was sanding the clear plastic on my 95 headlights to a crisp clear shine because they were very dull from all the highway driving. In all, i spent 100 bucks on the new 2gb headlights from eBay and a few bucks on the glue and sand paper but the end result is a bit unique... What do you all think?
Note: the top one is the 2ga... On these two pics you can see the only difference are the outer clear plastic and the inner black plastic (i painted mine black)
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I took them apart with a heat gun, you just take the clips off and apply heat all around the edges until the silicone gets soft enough to pry open. Here again shows that the housing on the two are alike, except for some really slight difference in the reflector design.
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Here are the two inner plastics that i will be modifying (I took apart one of my spare 2ga headlights i had laying around so this one has the chrome plastic, the first pic with the black plastic was just to compare both headlights) and as you can see all there needs to be done is to swap the tip from the 2ga to the 2gb
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I placed the 2gb black plastic inside the 2ga clear plastic to see and measure where i needed to cut, i decided to cut off as little as possible to leave room for some adjustments.
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After the cut i placed it back in the 2ga clear plastic and measured the gap that needed to fill in. Then i grabbed the 2ga chrome plastic, measured it and made a cut
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I placed the 2ga tip (I painted the tip black because i wanted to see how it really looked as i made adjustments) and the 2gb black plastic in the clear plastic and made slight adjustments to the black plastics until everything fit in real nice and tight and finally glued both pieces together, after that i placed a couple drops of clear silicone to secure the black plastic in the clear plastic since the screws that hold it together do not align
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After i putting everything back together, here are the results. Starting from the top 2ga, 2gb, and at the bottom the new 2gab.
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Here it is installed
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The most work was sanding the clear plastic on my 95 headlights to a crisp clear shine because they were very dull from all the highway driving. In all, i spent 100 bucks on the new 2gb headlights from eBay and a few bucks on the glue and sand paper but the end result is a bit unique... What do you all think?