How do you like me now Delia? (and other e30 jamokes)

[Harv]

Got my smile lights and euro grills on.

John

[SteveJ]

If yer gonna run those, ya need to put a couple of well placed dots at the top. Make the smileys look right.

[robspeed]

Got my smile lights and euro grills on.

John

is there a point to smileys other than the looks? i like my H4 hella e-codes (non-elipsoid) because they also go to highbeam with the center highbeams, adding light reach. also how are euro grilles different?

-Rob

[schwarz75]

Looking good mon!

[Delia]

Uh-oh...

..another "convert."

...don't forget the Walker exhaust, computer chip, and single-mass flywheel...

How long do you suppose it will take before the '02 project gets pushed into the back of the garage and covered up with blankets, towels and stacks of newspapers waiting to be recycled...

Oh, the humanity!

Delia

[Delia]

Got my smile lights and euro grills on.

John

is there a point to smileys other than the looks? i like my H4 hella e-codes (non-elipsoid) because they also go to highbeam with the center highbeams, adding light reach. also how are euro grilles different?

-Rob

The Euro grilles are not legal here in the US. Seems the Feds felt they "restricted the light pattern" and needed to have a gap in the uppermost slat directly above the archaic sealed beam headlamps.

[Harv]

D beet me to it.

No, the o2 will not be pushed back. I was gathering all my aluminum engine stuff the other day to deal with it before I finish putting the motor together.

What was that? Walker exhaust? I haven't heard of that one. Been trying to figure out how to afford the Supersprint. Already have my Mark-D chip in and running. Billy sports and new stuff is on the way. I have a friend that is trying to find the springs he took out of his M3 for me.

John

[gwb72tii]

Got my smile lights and euro grills on.

John

is there a point to smileys other than the looks? i like my H4 hella e-codes (non-elipsoid) because they also go to highbeam with the center highbeams, adding light reach. also how are euro grilles different?

-Rob

the smilies have a superior cuttoff and beam pattern than hella h4's

especially with silverstar's or equivilants

great lights

[robspeed]

the smilies have a superior cuttoff and beam pattern than hella h4's

especially with silverstar's or equivilants

great lights

are smiley elipsoids any different than normal elipsoids, in terms of light pattern? they dont look like "smiles" to me, they look like that black makeup football players put under their eyes to cut down on glare.

i have silverstars in my E-code hellas, and love them. especially when they go to highbeam with the center lights. elipsoids cant do that.

[fiftytakedowns]

could never quite determine if I liked the smilies better than my smoked ellipisoids.

P.s.

delia got me into em as well.

[KFunk]

The only time I've driven an E30 at night was with this setup, and it was the wrong one!

Notice the Harbor Freight tractor lights aimed to highlight the next apex, but it sure didn't go very far when you were goin 100+mph on a dark un-lit track.

[Harv]

I guess the idea behind the smiley lights is that they are supposed to focus the light in front of the car better. Don't know if this is true. I have 100W yelowstars in the lows and 100W in the high's. Did the relay bridge so the lows stay on with the highs. This also keeps the fogs on as well.

John

[ahlem]

You may want to change the timing belt if it's a m20 motor. I bought a car last year with the timing belt within the specified mileage range but it only had 5,000 miles per year and the belt had aged to the point of breakage. That's not a real fun repair job. The job of changing a servicable belt is cheap compared to changing out a broken head.

[Harv]

You may want to change the timing belt if it's a m20 motor.

Thanks but it's an M42.

John

[robspeed]

I guess the idea behind the smiley lights is that they are supposed to focus the light in front of the car better. Don't know if this is true. I have 100W yelowstars in the lows and 100W in the high's. Did the relay bridge so the lows stay on with the highs. This also keeps the fogs on as well.

John

the problem with just bridging the lows with the highs, especially when you have really bright lows, is that the area right in front of the car stays bright when you are trying to see way far out (aka when you switch to highbeams). It creates the illusion that you have more light, when in fact you are ruining the long-distance vision that you really need to see stuff coming at you at high speed (or as you come at it at high speed).

The H4 non-elip E-codes on my car go to actual high beam, throwing their *additional* 120w of (silverstar-enhanced) light way out in front where I want it, not just (still) lighting up right in front of the car where it is not only useless, but in fact debilitating. So I have 2x the light where I actually want it, and none (or very little) where I don't.

When night driving, or driving on twisty roads with blind curves, I always count from the time I can see something until the time I pass it, and if its not at least a second out for every 10mph I'm driving, I slow down.

After the silverstars die, ima switch to Osram Nightbreakers...