Re: Somethin' for the Jetta fans...Headlight conversion available?

["Cymen Vig" <cymen@ziplink.net>]

Hi Ken,

    I assume you're doing this on an A3 car.  Can this be done to
an A2 Jetta also?  Are there any pictures of your car on the web
with the lights attached?

    Interested!
    Cymen Vig
    cymen@ziplink.net


- -----Original Message-----
From: ken r weidmann jr. <glxtasy@juno.com>
To: jettaglx@igtc.COM <jettaglx@igtc.COM>; checkeredflag@prodigy.net
<checkeredflag@prodigy.net>; nrichards@nrgsource.com
<nrichards@nrgsource.com>
Cc: jettaglx@igtc.COM <jettaglx@igtc.COM>
Date: Friday, November 21, 1997 12:17 PM
Subject: Somethin' for the Jetta fans...Headlight conversion available?


>Just wondering.  Now that my car is back from it's theft death bed.  WE
>have redone the grill again making it all one piece.  It makes the BMW
>e-36 lights look almost like they belong in the car.  I am going to see
>what it would take to use my grill as the model and make a mold to try to
>kit the e-36 lights.  I am trying to see how many people would be
>interested in the kit if I can put it together complete for around $600.
>
>In all fairness, to install the lights, you need to cut out the 2 inner
>core supports to clearance for thw wider BMW lights, and there is about a
>1 inche deep cut you need to make on the inner fender/engine compartment
>joint in order to clearance the outside of the lights.  Those are the
>only 2 real mods that were made to the car.  It will fit with the stock
>air box in, I put mine back in for my smog check, but it is a much easier
>fit with a p-flo type set up.
>
>I still don't have a final price for the grill mold, so I am just
>guessing at the total kit cost, but I thought I would try to find what
>kind of interest level there is at the same time.
>
>Ken Weidmann Jr
>GLXTASY@Juno.com
>Checkered Flag Automotive Components
>95 Black Jetta GLX M3 wannabe
>85 Show Scirocco
>