Chaps,

As I'm in the process of remodelling my bonnet, I'm thinking of doing away with traditional "7" type headlights and incorporating some into the nosecone.

They need to be small (and prefer one light for main and one for dipped), and may be part of a unit (I saw a BMW Z4 and they look promising). I've no probs dismantling the "unit", as constituent parts can have mountings moulded into the new bonnet.

Any other suggestions much appreesh

Cheers

Simon

There were some nice pics on here the other day of s2 elise headlights in the nosecone of a 7. Not v.small but looked awesome!

The favorite ones to use are the Hella range. 90mm iirc and they do dip & main (with the option of side lights)

SVC sell those, bottom of the page.

http://www.s-v-c.co.uk/SVCHEADLIGHTS.HTM

Donkervoorrtisthisnamelongenough integrated S2 Elise lights into their car. Looked good.

I noticed that the VW Polo or maybe fox, the current model, has some nice and compact round lights. Or even the current model nissan micra, might be a bit big, but there were plenty on ebay when I toyed with the idea a couple of weeks ago.

Your best bet to get an idea of what's around is to take a stroll around a large car park. A lot of modern cars have 2 individual units mounted behind a clear glass (VW & Peugeot are ones I've noted), would imagine these could be dismantled to be remade into what you want.

Will you get the spacing needed for dip beam and the distance from the outside edge if you build them into the nosecone?

New vectras have the projector lamp things in them

Pete,

Yeah, SVA'd so no worries there

I will be widening the nose cone by about 5" a side to allow for air exit behind rad. I will incorporate position/ind/dip lights in the "legal" position. The main beam will either be via "pop-up", but more like pop-out roughly where the mounting are currently or possibly "semi-tunnelled" into the top of nose.

ATB

Simon