Re: Euro headlight conversion

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

I have Cibie lights for the inboard pair on my GTV6, and I didn't have any 
trouble installing them--at least not enough to break anything.  I do 
recall a bit of a squeeze though.

As for Biba's recent obsession with supercharged TS motors, why doesn't 
anyone ever put a 1.8 turbo motor in their Spider's instead of TS 2.0's? 
How hard would it be to bolt the turbo hardware from a 1.8T onto a 2.0 from 
a Bosch Spider??  Just curious

Joe Elliott
'82 GTV6 (air conditioned at last!!!!!!)

--On Saturday, August 17, 2002 1:11 PM +0000 alfa-digest 
<owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided> wrote:


> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 07:39:53 -0500
> From: John Brase <jbrase@domain.elided>
> Subject: Euro headlight conversion
>
> I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, but...
>
> I bought a set of really nice Cibie lights for my '84 GTV6 (along with
> the relays and such).  I'm having trouble even getting the lamps mounted
> in the buckets.  The Cibie lenses protrude forward much farther than the
> USA spec sealed beam units so that they won't slide into the chrome
> rings that hold them into the buckets.  They get hung up on the little
> tabs that hook to the clips on the bucket.  I tried to gently bend the
> tabs to get clearance and promptly broke one off.  Now, of course, I
> need to find a new ring.  And I need to figure out how to get the lamps
> into the rings I have left.
>
> Anybody have any guidance they are willing to share?  I hate feeling
> this stupid.
>
> John
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