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Old Sep 30, 2006 | 10:12 PM
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I saw a guy that had headlights that looked like the new corvette lights. They didn't have any motorization. Does anyone know anything about a conversion kit or where I can look to find something like this?
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 12:05 AM
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Breathless is the brand. There happens to be one in the Parts for Sale Forum right now: https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...ght=breathless
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 10:00 AM
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Those headlights are very expensive new, somewhere around 1100.00ish. they do have a little flaw, they hold my hood up about 1" higher than it should be. but you can see what they look like on my car at http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2449493
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by MidnightThunderTA
I saw a guy that had headlights that looked like the new corvette lights. They didn't have any motorization. Does anyone know anything about a conversion kit or where I can look to find something like this?
In my opinon if you do thid to our f-body your crazy the pop up head lights for me are what makes the f-body so appealing with the lemans tyep lights it looks more like a gran prix..it your car so take my opinion or leave it.
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by TrshdNScatrd
In my opinon if you do thid to our f-body your crazy the pop up head lights for me are what makes the f-body so appealing with the lemans tyep lights it looks more like a gran prix..it your car so take my opinion or leave it.
this is true, but with the pop up headlights being such a pain in the butt when they go out ( and it seems that they invariably will), it's easy to see why folks would be interested in a non-pop up style. you'd think with GM doing pop-up's since like, forever, they would have a better, more dependable system.
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 11:13 PM
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I just would like to see someone step up to the plate and make a conversion for a LT1 bird.

As for the quality of the headlight motors, they are good pieces, its just the nylon gear that sucks. and since the f-bodies werent making alot of money to begin with why would they go all out and have premium parts up there when a nylon gear and the other crappy parts work for a good while
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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 12:46 AM
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I'd love something of this nature for ours cars, but it'll never happen unfortunately.
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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 09:31 AM
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hey Goatpimp you didnt see that guy that posted up the pics of his TA with a HID conversion, looked pretty similar. plus he reworked the bracket so no headlight shake
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I saw one where there were the bulbs kinda stuck out from some black plastic, I don't know if that's whay you were talking about. But I like how the bulbs are still behind the plastic like that. Granted, on ours it'd be two pieces.
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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 12:58 PM
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Is this what you were talking about?
No offense to whoever owns this car, but I think it looks thrown together.

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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 02:29 PM
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Nah It wasnt that one, it was LT1 TA and it was silver I believe
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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 05:51 PM
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Anybody have pics?
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Old Oct 4, 2006 | 04:20 AM
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Yeah Id like to see pics of this too...
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Old Oct 4, 2006 | 03:59 PM
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