BMW e30 325i

[Ben J]

Sounds fun actually, might have to check it out, if my computer will even run it

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[Ben J]

Picked up some headlights on Saturday as one of the surronds for mine was broken in the crash, making it impossible to aim properly. Decided to smoke them before changing them into the car. As the low beams are projectors they're very easy to do, the high beams take a bit more work though...



Bosch lights in a bosch oven...




Here you can kind of see how the high beams are done, you basically make some pieces that make a cross out of sheet metal, paint them black, and glue them in. Doesn't affect light out put, but basically creates a cool smoked optical illusion. I also polished up the lenses and then painted the bottom and sides of them, and used black silicone to increase the smoked affect.


Sealing them back up


Finished product


Excuse the extremely dirty car



Very happy with how the lights turned out, not 100% set on the look though, I feel theres too much black (if there is such a thing). I painted the headlight trim rings black as well but I'm going to strip the old set and polish them up to a mirror finish, think that should look perfect with the rest of the chrome trim on the car.

[guile]

looking good, if you could afford it euro size plates would do wonders for the front end and fill that recess...

[Ben J]

Thanks! Euro size plates would definitely look a lot better, I'll add them to the ever growing list of parts on the wish list for after I fix everything else up, which on my incredibly limited student income is already going to take years of saving for haha

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[guile]

all in good time. always good to have a list of things you want, keeps you interested. if you are anything like me it will never really be finished anyway...

[guile]

quick pic of my old e30, lovely cars. mine was a bit under powered though. e30 m3 one day, one day...

[Ben J]

very nice. id love an e30 m3 one day as well. Always nice to dream

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[Ben J]

A short sound clip a mate took on a go pro

[team_v]

Sounds good, will we be seeing you at Lakeside tomorrow?

[Ben J]

Sorry man, completely forgot to reply to comfirmation message! Have been selling a lot of parts so must have skipped over the message...

If the weather stays nice I'll be there If its wet again though Ill have to give this one a miss, still don't have tyres with any sort of wet grip, but it's looking good at the moment

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