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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 07:15 PM
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How do some people do the sleepy headlight mod where the headlights dont pop-up all the way? Pics would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 10:38 PM
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i don't think that's a very common mod around here.
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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 11:00 PM
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i don't think that's a very common mod around here.
Never heard of it.
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I only see it on nissans and old corollas. cool drifter thing to do I guess.
the lighting on pop ups already suck. aiming them lower is begging to hit a tree.
I guess if you disconnect the motor an manually adjust them. it should work
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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 11:10 PM
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Hmmm, got some pics that a forum member put up a while back, don't remember who but he did a whole writeup on them, looks like an NSX!



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^ interesting vent on the nose.
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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 11:21 PM
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^ interesting vent on the nose.
I wonder if it is functional too?
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those lights with hids in them would be killer.
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I think it looks pretty good...

I never use my normal headlights anyway, HID foglights all the way!!
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Ya know, I actually like that
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Old Apr 24, 2008 | 01:29 AM
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That does look cool...
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Originally Posted by jdmvette
^ interesting vent on the nose.

Originally Posted by damilleniumboy
I wonder if it is functional too?
It looks like an open air filter element behind that vent. If that's the case, it is functional.
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Old Apr 24, 2008 | 03:53 AM
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i like the vent alot, anyone know who makes it or has seen another
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I've seen the sleepy eye on RX-7 and Stealths/3000GTs more often, I agree it looks good on the C5. I abandoned the idea because I couldn't afford to have any LESS light coming out of my crappy headlights. With HID that may be a different story, depends on how the pattern looks I guess....
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[QUOTE=CUlookin;1565159088]Hmmm, got some pics that a forum member put up a while back, don't remember who but he did a whole writeup on them, looks like an NSX!

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Yeah. And I think there was another where the guy used Infiniti headlights with the door not coming all the way up. look.
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The air intake is functional. I remember him posting it a year or so back, Did it himself in fiberglass as I recal. Looks like the same one.
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Unless the HIDs were small projectors mounted high in custom mounts, the beam pattern in the "sleepy" setting would be way too low and almost 1/2 the beam would be lost.

Perhaps RadioFlyer will do this on his next headlight mod
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I'm diggin that scoop more than the lights.
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