motozachl
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- Jul 15, 2008
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Well I haven't seen any writeup on this before so I thought I'd document the processes. Many of us 1ga guys don't even use the popup function of the headlights in addition to seeing the 'tetris' shaped hood at
There is an older thread found here about the discussion and a related conversion that I may do later on:
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/appearance-interior-exterior/240177-solid-1ga-hood-no-popups.html
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/app...ylvia-headlight-conversion-merged-11-8-a.html
Here's the process with pics shown below
-Remove the popup motor if not done already and take out the headlight assembly
-Take the 'lid' off the light
-With this removed you can use the cut off wheel to hack off the tabs. Make sure to keep some tabs on to bend out for something to weld to
-Grind down the areas that are to be welded. As you can see I didn't thus some of the hood caught fire
-My welds were a bit fugly so I reassured them with some JB weld
-Now flip over the hood and tape the gap for some backing for the underside bondo
-Bondo time
-Sand this down a bit but will revisit again later to make it nice and purdy
-Now flip the hood back over to do the same to the top side
-Finally time to do some finishing with making it nice and smooth with mulitple layers of bondo, primer, etc
I'm currently in this last step so I will upload more pics as it progresses. To do after this is to fabricate up some lighting and will add some sort of hood vent in the near future.
Stay tuned
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There is an older thread found here about the discussion and a related conversion that I may do later on:
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/appearance-interior-exterior/240177-solid-1ga-hood-no-popups.html
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/app...ylvia-headlight-conversion-merged-11-8-a.html
Here's the process with pics shown below
-Remove the popup motor if not done already and take out the headlight assembly
-Take the 'lid' off the light
-With this removed you can use the cut off wheel to hack off the tabs. Make sure to keep some tabs on to bend out for something to weld to
-Grind down the areas that are to be welded. As you can see I didn't thus some of the hood caught fire
-My welds were a bit fugly so I reassured them with some JB weld
-Now flip over the hood and tape the gap for some backing for the underside bondo
-Bondo time
-Sand this down a bit but will revisit again later to make it nice and purdy
-Now flip the hood back over to do the same to the top side
-Finally time to do some finishing with making it nice and smooth with mulitple layers of bondo, primer, etc
I'm currently in this last step so I will upload more pics as it progresses. To do after this is to fabricate up some lighting and will add some sort of hood vent in the near future.
Stay tuned
Saved for later