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Hello all...
I'm so very happy! I just got an awesome deal on a rallispec lightbar and 2 hella 500 fogs and 2 hella rally 1000 driving lights for a hundred bucks!
It bolts to two pretapped locations underneath the subframe...on a gc8 impreza... Course I have to drive over 5 hours to syracuse ny to pick them up...got them cheap cause he didn't want to ship.

I'm hoping I'll be able to find a way to rig it up on my car...
but which one, the GT or the turbo...maybe if its easy to rig up, I could do it in a way that I could take it on and off really quick, put disconnects in the light harness's...and wire both cars...that way I can switch it when I switch cars for the winter...that would be sweet.
I also got a pair of hella FF1000 driving lights so if I mount the bar more permanently, I can put the those on the bumper of the other car. I'm looking forward to not having to drill a bumper now though...
YEH FOR LIGHT!
and if I use the driving lights as high beams, I can put back my HIDs in the GT....everyone can hate me again... HATE HATE HATE playa hatas
See you at the ball

Pretty sweet.

For mounting stuff to make it easily removable, the coolest things I've seen are quick-release locking pins. We used them on our submarine. An example (albeit an expensive one) is McMaster part number 90980A330.

Don't put the HIDs back into your GT. It's a bad idea. The optics in the GT's headlights are pretty good and you're just screwing them up with those hacked-up HID kits. Get high-output H4 bulbs instead.

Please oh please tell me more, your submarine? Military? Or did you build a sub? A guy around here built a sub from propane tanks...was cruising around local lakes and such....and then there was that something global orbiter thing that was built out of a milk tanker that was cool...
Thanks
Micum

Maybe I should take out the HID's while they still work and sell them, and put in relays and harnesses, maybe run slightly overwattage bulbs...like 80w or so...nothing crazy. Or get some money to put into the morette fund, or a proper hid hi/lo projector conversion...

http://www.brainteam.org/

A small unmanned robot submarine. :)

I definitely think you should take out the HID hackjob if it's still in there.

Try the relay and heavy-gauge harness with high-performance stock-wattage bulbs first. You might just find that you're satisfied with that. Overwattage bulbs are a little risky since the headlight lens and reflector are both made of plastic.

VRQ3 - Do you have a picture of the quick release lock-rings? They sound uber badass.

I am picturing something like the hoodpins on the Supra I saw the other day. That thing was straight up pimp. ACTUAL real hoodpins!

If you go to the McMaster catalog and look up that part number you can go to the page of the catalog that has it and see drawings of various types.

Here they are on the submarine:

http://www.brainteam.org/2002/lockin_pin.JPG
http://www.brainteam.org/2002/bottom1.JPG

In both those pictures they're not actually locked in place. Here they are in place:

http://www.brainteam.org/2002/7.jpg

They make them with different shapes of heads and stuff... They're not unlike hoodpins.

czo79 wrote: A guy around here built a sub from propane tanks...was cruising around local lakes and such....

my boss at the time hired this guy to grab some logs from long pond in newark VT, what a score, 18"wide perfect mahogny boards, ive never seen suck beautiful wood, we took a trip up there and watched, he would go down and hook a chain to the logs and then a winch would hoist them up...neat little contraption he made

18" wide mahogany? Whoa! Were the logs mahogany and you had them cut? Those would be beautiful in a boat.

www.mcmaster-carr.com for the pins. They're like a t-shape handle with a locking ball on one end that can be released by a button on the handle.

I had real hood pins on my '83 sedan (to hold the slightly crooked hood straight). They were the old-school muscle car style with the cotter pins. I still have one of the pins as my keychain.

Steve

The HID conversion kit is allready sorta out...I still need to pull the ballasts if I decide its not going back in, but I'm just runny standard crappy halogen bulbs right now till I figure things out...
Mike K

I say go spend $17.88 plus tax on a pair of Sylvania 9003XV bulbs at the local Advance Auto Parts store in the mean time if you can spare it.

evolutionmovement wrote:18" wide mahogany? Whoa! Were the logs mahogany and you had them cut? Those would be beautiful in a boat.

sorry for the OT but yeah he had them cut, made some extremely nice cabinets, this is a googl esearch of the guy, but no website yet....go figure

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U ... gle+Search

evolutionmovement wrote:www.mcmaster-carr.com for the pins. They're like a t-shape handle with a locking ball on one end that can be released by a button on the handle.

So, Identical to the HUMMER brush guard pins?

Push the button, the ball retracts and you can pull the pin out?

I'm not familiar with the Hummer guards, but that sounds exactly like it.

Steve