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Old 11-26-2010, 06:21 PM
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I found this thread on a different website and I'm hoping someone has some more information about this conversion. It looks like they just took out the old lights and mounting assembly and put in the new ones? I think it looks incredible. PPLLLLEEEAAASSSEE if anyone has done this or has any information I would love to hear about it. Either way... obviously it can be done. I'm going to do it this winter so I'll take pics if no one else has any. I cant stop looking at this picture... my only problem with my car is the ugly (yeah..sorry everyone is entitled their own opinion no matter how much you might disagree ) front end. Maybe I should just specify the headlights, if this pictures had a 2.5" harwood hood.... oh man
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Old 11-26-2010, 07:30 PM
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definitely different....I think it would need to be seen in person. I don't know that the headlights would fill the "bucket" enough...JMO tho...
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Yeah, I'm curious to see it from a different angle, but I'm sick of the 4 eyes look. In my opinion it's the most outdated part on the car. I like this a lot better than the "terminator" or "robot" style piaa HID's or whatever they are, but I'm looking for something different all together. I've also seen the very thin rectangle lights and they dont look bad, but..... I think this is still number one. I like to keep it somewhat stock looking while still being able to tinker and change up the little details. And what better way to do that then to use stock parts, even if its not from my year As much as I love it when someone actually notices the LS1 lid on my LT1, it's almost just as good as the people that have no idea.
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God i hope that was a joke cause i just puked in my mouth a little lol.. The head lights wouldn't fill the hole enough and they look way out of place imo.
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i kinda like that as long as it fills the gaps. the headlight well would still look better black though imo
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let me know if you find out who makes em or if someone made ls1 lights fit in it
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There was a thread about it on cz28.com but no real detail. I would take 4 eye pride over catfish mania any day.
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The stock headlights on a 93-97 Camaro is what I hated the most style-wise. I consider the 98-02 headlights much nicer looking.

I think this makes a very nice improvement over the originals.

It also opens you up to better bulb options.
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You guys realize it still has the 93-97 front bumper right.... no catfish there as far as I can see. I think it looks good with the different headlights and as said it opens up the bulb options big time.

Everyone is allways complaining about the light brightness on the 93-97 Camaros and Firebirds.
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I think it looks good actually.I cant get over the fact that it looks like a transformer face... kind of like it got stuck when it wanted to transform back into a car...

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lol ^

Ya I remember seeing a thread on that a while back but there wasnt a lot of write up or pics on that. I know that there was a lot of modification to make the newer headlights fit in a square setup you can say. check google on that
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Originally Posted by WS Sick
You guys realize it still has the 93-97 front bumper right....
Yhup. There's plenty of threads about swapping the entire front end but none to do just the headlight set.
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Yeah, I've googled the crap out of it, but no luck. The site I found this on is ltxtech and I've checked out the thread on camaroz28.com as well but not a lot of information, just a bunch of people saying if they like it or not... sounds familiar hahah. I'm parking the car for winter next week so I can start deconstruction. The best price I could find was an ebay auction for $39+15 shipping for each side and it comes with the mounting brackets, and they're used. I might go for it and start some test fitting. If this happens I will definitely be taking some pics and writing a little something up for you guys. The more I look at it, I almost prefer the way the 93-97 bumper looks with the LS headlights more than the original LS front end. My car is all black so I'm pretty sure it's going to look bad ***, I cant wait to mock them up. If anyone knows of any headlights cheaper, I would appreciate it.
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A+ for effort though
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If you look closely you can tell that the the outer corners are not filled In all the way but I still think it looks awesome and would like to make the swap
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I'm sorry, but that looks like hammered dog ****!
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that thing looks ugly, i u want just do the 98-02 front end conversion.
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Agreed does not look good.
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Does not look good imo but I honestly think the stupid halos should have been forgotten about years ago and people keep on buying them

Maybe a set of stock lights with the whisler mod but I think you would have to shave the bumper cover to match the contours of the headlight and I'm not going to do that unless I had a junker to chop up.

I'm suscribing to see where this goes though


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