So I posted in my introduction thread about working out the over heat issue. that's done car has been stable @ 190° for the past week, put about 80 miles on the car since and have had it idling in the driveway as well for long periods of time.


yesterday my brakes went wonky, turns out the vacuum canister that was used was plastic and mounted on the frame pretty close to the headers, it got hot, it melted, need I say more?

so I purchased an aluminum Comp Cams from pep boys.. not the greatest looking thing for this car, but it will work until I can find something better. Brakes are behaving now.


so I tackled the headlight issue:

since I purchased the car the headlights haven't worked, the headlight switch was overheating so I swapped that out, still no working headlights.. Checked the buckets and there are bulbs and wiring, but no light..


So I decided since I had to tear it all apart I was going to make some custom lights for the car.

bought new buckets, LED 7" round headlamps, some LED parking/turn lamps and new headlight glass in CLEAR, no diffuser pattern in the glass.

I removed the halogen units from the buckets, put in the LED lamps, pretty much plug and play as they are designed to replace the stock 7" round lamps on 50+ cars.

removed the chrome reflectors from the buckets, no need with directed LED lamps, and I drilled a hole in the bottom and mounted the LED turn signals into the bottom of the lamp.

everything is ready to be installed into the car, as soon as I figure out where the short is for the headlights..


here are some teaser pics.

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