{"id":299,"date":"2012-01-20T23:17:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T23:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/?p=299"},"modified":"2017-11-16T02:37:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T02:37:43","slug":"day-582-headlight-conversion-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/2012\/01\/20\/day-582-headlight-conversion-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 582 &#8220;Headlight Conversion Part 2&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started the headlight mod using the write up\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.camaroz28.com\/forums\/appearance-34\/how-mount-88-98-c-k-truck-headlights-your-93-97-camaro-754516\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, except I&#8217;m cutting the header panel off on each side instead of trimming out the inside of the headlight area.<\/p>\n<p>Here is where I got to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I modded the new housings and trimmed the hardware to be shorter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_11-41-25_424.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_11-41-25_424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bracket is cut<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_13-14-17_491.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_13-14-17_491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the disassembly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_20-21-03_328.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_20-21-03_328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_22-08-35_273.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_22-08-35_273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fit check!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_22-25-46_381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_22-25-46_381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_22-26-35_12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_22-26-35_12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to choose to trim the bumper a bit to get the headlights down enough to look right. Mainly because of the humps you see here. I&#8217;m going to cut a line that matches the new headlight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_22-30-40_216.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/headlight_mod\/2012-01-20_22-30-40_216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started the headlight mod using the write up\u00a0here, except I&#8217;m cutting the header panel off on each side instead of trimming out the inside of the headlight area. Here is where I got to&#8230; I modded the new housings and trimmed the hardware to be shorter. The bracket is cut And the disassembly&#8230; Fit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/2012\/01\/20\/day-582-headlight-conversion-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 582 &#8220;Headlight Conversion Part 2&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9l0gt-4P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}