It's all lies until we see PICS!!!!!!!

Well done mate. You beat me to it.

BenJ

Pics please, i realy want to c this!!

!!!! PICS!!!!

like did ya do what dellboy did gut the EA light and put BA insert or did ya cut and shut ba lights to fit the eb front end

Picsorban!! Haha!

WHERES THE PICS,

Hey guys.

Sorry about the no pics yet, my computer has been f**k for a while. Just at computer mates place now, and just got my computer up and running again.

I will be home soon, and promiss to post the photos, haha. They are not great photos, but they do the job.

Aswell as the photos, i do do a bit of a writeup on how its done.

I assure its no lies!!!! HAHAHAHA

BTW, Fairmontxr6, you crack me up. :D:D

A

Hey hey hey,

So while my computer has been crashed, i've acheived a few cool mods. Now that i'm back online i can share them with the fordmods community.

Firstly, after some research, i replaced my front suspension that i wasn't really happy with.

Now its great, i love it. Its nice to have travel again. I used pedders short body struts, and a custom pedders spring. I stayed at the same height, but gained suspension travel, and replaced the bumpstops while i was there.



And now onto the headlight conversion...

To answer Froudey, i modified the BA reflector and surround to fit inside the EB case. To fit the whole BA light would be way too much work, and would probably look funny.

Now, as alot of you may know, BA lights aren't that cheap, even EBAY is quite dear. Wreckers seem to think they are made of gold also, and you have to be quick to get a good deal.

I remembered seeing a smashed taxi at Boss Wrecking, and checked, yep, has headlights that were usable. Quite smashed, but usable. So i got them for the princly sum of $20, and gladly took them home for the iminent conversion.

But unfortuantly, i nearly bit off more than i could chew on repairng the bad headlight. One reflector needed alot of repair, i sat and downed alot of beer and glued it back together peice by peice.

Once ready, i got my s**t together, this is an obvious before shot.

Front pulled off

Then the EB lights are pulled apart

Cutting to shape was alot of trial and error, and i finally got it

I then refitted the headlight to the car to get installation adjustments right

Once right, they were retained in the cases, and then pulled back apart to paint the case inside black

The, once the surround is trimmed, it gets installed inside, i chose to sikaflex the surround in, and then i painted the seal rubber, and reinstalled the headlight glass

Lights on

And some s**t car park shots





Wank away lads...... LOLOLOL.

I really like it, its exactly the kind of front end change i was after.

Hope ya'll enjoy.

Andrew.

Looks, awesome, thought about doing the black on the indicators to match, forget how they did it but i read one of the lane drivers did it.
Haha, must've been the same ba I got the shifter out of.

*unzips fly......

NAH lol they do look good.. dellboy999 done this mod ages ago. they look good

Thanks guys,

RE the black inside indicators, yes i will be doing this next weekend when i get some time. It was actually my misses that suggested it. I have a spare set to play with, i will pull them apart and paint the inside wall, and the bottom black, and i reckon that'll finish it nicely.

LOL at froudey, yeah it was dellboy's car that inspired me, and i actually stumbled on the photos via google when i found it!

I really like it man, and i'm thinking of maybe an ED fairmont grill???

how much did the shocks set you back?

I think they were $450. I've never paid that much for struts before, but it really drives nice now. To be that low but still have travel now is great.

Great JOB!!!!!

What did you use to cut the BA lense?

And how did you set up the adjustment for the lense?

Is the light output better, worse, or the same?

I will be doing my conversion soon, amongst other things.

BenJ

Thanks Boxcar Brother!

With all the cutting i just carefully used those ultra thin discs for 4" grinders.

With adjustment, when you pull apart, you'll notice on the inside of the smaller reflector there is a screw hole, i used a 50mm screw, through this and into the back of the lense, along with 7 1/4 inch nuts as spacers, as there is a gap of about 20-25mm.

Then the eb reflector adjusters had to be trimmed on an angle to meet up with the reflecot, and glued onto the BA lense back. I used a no name glue i scored from work a while back, not sure what it is, but it worked. This may be trial and error, but this is why i did all adjusting before i assembled, so i don't have to do it again, just incase it don't hold perfect.
To aid in holding this, i used sikaflex 11fc adhesive, smeared all around the adjusters were i had glued.Pretty sure i used the EB adjuster rods, but cut down a little.

As for light quality, man the EB lights just DON"T COMPARE.
The BA lenses are so much better design, even cut slighty to fit they are still very good.

Any other quireies regarding this tasty mod, just ask:):)