Re: Dual Head Light

["Marc A. Brown" <mad_one@email.msn.com>]

If it was a black one with Momo rims, that was my car.  The grill is a
Bonrath badgeless with a modified extension piece from Strickly Foreign in
PA.

Marc
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From: Stuart <mecastor@ids.net>
To: jettaglx@igtc.COM <jettaglx@igtc.COM>
Date: Monday, June 08, 1998 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Dual Head Light


>i will start off by saying that i do not know every thing and what I am
>going to tell you may very well be a custom fabrication.   But recently
>at Lime Rock (a race track in Conn.) I saw a vr6 jetta with the dual
>headlights, the jetta hood and a grill which eliminated the need for
>this extension or a new hood.   The grill was badge less and had no
>manufacturer name on it but they do exist. btw it looked real nice.
>
>Stuart
>
>posaune wrote:
>>
>> Had you posted your question on the GTI-VR6 list too, I'm sure you
>> would've gotten all kinds of crazy "YOU HAVE TO change the hood..."
>> comments, but seeing as how we are a bunch of level-headed 4-dr owners
>> :), here's the deal.
>>
>> As far as I know, there is only one way to do this without changing the
>> hood, and that is with the Golf grille and a fiberglass extension made
>> by Transforma I think.  It seems strange, since I think it would be
>> really easy for an aftermarket co. to make a jetta/dual headlight grille
>> -- oh well.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm in the process of doing it with the extension right now (its
>> off getting painted as I type).  It looks like it will work with no
>> problem.  If you don't mind the look of the golf front end and don't
>> mind getting your hood painted, you can go that route for not much more
>> money (except for the painting).
>>
>> As for lights, which ones are you looking at?  I have the Hella smoked
>> ones -- got them from Mike Potter at Virtual World Parts
>> www.parts4vws.com (I think).  They are a straight plug in with his mods
>> -- all you have to do is drill 1 hole on either side of the radiator.
>>
>> BTW, if you saw the white Project GLX in EC, not to worry, I don't know
>> how they screwed the extension up that much -- it would be hard.  Mine
>> looks like it will work MUCH better.
>>
>> -erik
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