Has anyone thought of this?

hybrid_john · #1 November 16th 2003, 02:21

Has anybody in the germalook world thought about grafting 2003 Porsche 993 Litronic head lights( I believe that they will fit with medium fender modification), instead of just using the original to 356,944,911,etc. round head light?

I mean, every other part of the Porsche is used, why not the cosmetics(other than wings) as well?...

"I want some replys on this one!"

It would be nice for some suggestions and opinions...this thought has been crossing my mind ever since I found some on ebay.

vujade · #2 November 16th 2003, 11:44

First off do you mean 996 or 993 because there were no 2003 993's made.

If you meant 993, then there is a guy in North Carlona that has grafted 993 headlights into his beetle. & I have also seen one guy in Europe that has grafted them into a ghia too.

996 headlights seem like they would be much mmuch harder, if at all possible.

Derrick from NC · #3 July 15th 2005, 20:00

[QUOTE=vujade]First off do you mean 996 or 993 because there were no 2003 993's made.

If you meant 993, then there is a guy in North Carlona that has grafted 993 headlights into his beetle. & I have also seen one guy in Europe that has grafted them into a ghia too.

I am the guy from NC with the 993 headlights grafted into my GL fenders. The main problem is that the rear housing of the headlights are large & protrude into the fenders well past the stock buckets which were removed. A second set of fenders were used to mount the headlights out an 1" ahead of the original location which actually looks pretty good. Also the headlights had to be mounted at the angle of the original 66 headlights otherwise the backs of the headlights would have been angled down right into my 18" wheels. I believe there is enough internal adjustment in the headlight bulbs to compensate.

marco the T.S.E · #4 July 28th 2005, 04:48

heres a couple of pic of my car with the lights from the weekend
i managed a 11.7@124 on street tyers and 11.09@130on the 3rd pass on slicks!!!

trevorbrady · #5 July 28th 2005, 05:15

is that timber under the front of your car? To protect the water hoses?

Well done BTW, great times!

marco the T.S.E · #6 July 28th 2005, 05:22

sure is, it was the only thing i could find at the track that would of stoped the water pipes from being crushed from a big wheele

boygenius · #7 November 16th 2003, 12:06

I thought about it untill I asked my friend who does body work how much money to make them fit. He just started laughing at me.....

hybrid_john · #8 November 17th 2003, 04:01

No I was thinking of a pair of 2003 996 Litronic Head lights, but put down 993 instead, but there where a pair that I thought about purchasing their for a while, but I didn't want to fork over $2200 for em. maybe I'll consider it in the future.

boygenius · #9 November 17th 2003, 10:10

I have seen a set of boxster headlights sell for $400 to $500 dollars on e-bay. Almost the same as 911 headlights but a heck of a lot cheaper.

hybrid_john · #10 November 17th 2003, 21:26

I've never seen 993 headlights on a beetle before and wanted to do it for myself but Ive moved on and decided MINI ...
:yummy: Its an idea

boygenius · #11 November 18th 2003, 00:05

Do you mean mini cooper headlights? Hmmmm. It just might work...

hybrid_john · #12 November 20th 2003, 01:39

Yeah It just might... its an idea that I've never even heard of let alone see! So I'll continue doing my research on the head light conversion for 2003 MINI cooper head lights.... they look awsome to me, and the thought of them on my Beetle....

!!!!!

samcat · #13 November 20th 2003, 06:15

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Originally posted by hybrid_john
Yeah It just might... its an idea that I've never even heard of let alone see! So I'll continue doing my research on the head light conversion for 2003 MINI cooper head lights.... they look awsome to me, and the thought of them on my Beetle.... !!!!!

Been done a while ago by a geezer in the UK

LOTS of work.

Cya,
Sam C

hybrid_john · #14 November 20th 2003, 22:13

Gee-wiz man...
Is there anything that hasn't been done already?
I want to do something no-one else has done before!!

Any suggestions?

Anybody got any ideas that might be unique any realllllllly unusual, I want to be the first to do it!!

I'll try anything....:befuddled
:help:

Pillow · #15 November 20th 2003, 22:33

>Is there anything that hasn't been done already?<

No... Most everything I can think of has been done before. Which is cool, but new and fresh ideas are hard to come by. Granted just because one thing or another has been done does not mean a fresh presentation cannot be put together that is just as stelar or more so than an orignal.

I kind of got mad at BugJam/ Bulli Brigade that a few busses were rolling what I wanted to do already. Kind of kills the fresh and new idea!

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