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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:16 pm

Or does this look good? :mad:

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It could be done quite easily using golf headlight units butchered a bit (they have a larger diameter) and fitted into the e30 main beams...

So it wouldnt have smileys, the grill would be pretty easy to do by cutting up another one...

Its reminiscent of the old 2002... but is it just silly on an e30?

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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:18 pm

I think it looks great...
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:19 pm

looks like a bottom feeder
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:26 pm

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A touch of the old school, reminds me of an e21 315 I used to own ( not the one in the pic) It'll look better without the brows IMO

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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:31 pm

looks like sid from the ice age :D
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:33 pm

Yes you are mental! It just looks tooo 'bare' in between the lights to me. If they could be moved a few cm closer in it would look better.

Whatever floats your boat munky.....
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:34 pm

whipsey wrote:looks like sid from the ice age :D
:lol:

I wouldn't do it...
but then i wouldn't paint my car matt black either...

it's 'different', but it's just upto you how 'different' you want your car to look!!!
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:38 pm

whipsey wrote:looks like sid from the ice age :D
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It really does!

hmm... I'm not going to do it, was just playing around in p-shop, but I do quite like it... I think.

Agree that its a bit bare between the lights and the kidneys... nothing an ///M badge or 5 wouldnt fix. :roll:
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:39 pm

still quite like it though couldn't you put the inner lamps behind the grille like on some mk2 golfs?
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:17 pm

there is one yhing i always wanted to see, the kidneys just wiped off, so the gril will just be smooth, or just simply photoshop your car with no kidenys :cool:
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:45 pm

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Looks like a golf. :?
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:47 pm

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Looks like a golf. :?
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:53 pm

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Looks like a cortina. :?
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:04 pm

without the kidneys it looks like its got a monobrow( or whatever it is you call it when someones eyebrows meet in the middle)
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:05 pm

I'm loving the first pic - single lamps with kidney and I also like the last one - twin lamps with no kidney!

Is it wrong to like those ? 8O
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:08 pm

kieron wrote:without the kidneys it looks like its got a monobrow( or whatever it is you call it when someones eyebrows meet in the middle)
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s252 ... nobrow.jpg[/b]

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Driftboy... yes its wrong... but if liking them is wrong.. i dont want to be right.
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:09 pm

munky30 wrote:
kieron wrote:without the kidneys it looks like its got a monobrow( or whatever it is you call it when someones eyebrows meet in the middle)
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s252 ... nobrow.jpg[/b]

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Driftboy... yes its wrong... but if liking them is wrong.. i dont want to be right.
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:12 pm

awesome! 8)
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:22 pm

:puke: You could put 'Italalian job' fogs on it winkeye

Or...

Dodge challenger / charger lights behind the grill style sort of thingy ma bob type thing?

Or....

Three lights either side, It would look like a mutent fish from the Simsons
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:27 pm

kieron wrote:without the kidneys it looks like its got a monobrow( or whatever it is you call it when someones eyebrows meet in the middle)
The scientific word being: Noel Gallagher
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:31 pm

What about single lights with a wider ( 5 series) type kidney?

just a thought

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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:41 pm

This E34 looks cool with triple lights each side:
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:45 pm

the e34 looks wrong! :eek:
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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:34 pm

Smells a bit fishy to me Munky..

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Post Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:54 pm

what about a flat black plate with rotating headlights?
Or a really wide kidney grill :D
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Post Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:44 pm

it's really a lot of work, if you want a smooth front, there's one like tha here in belgium

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Post Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:24 pm

Well... apart from the kit... I quite like that. Not keen on the mod to the wings and bonnet though..

It wouldnt be too hard. I've made a custom grill before for my old car, was a pain and very fiddly but not particularly hard...

From this.

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To this.

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And if I hadnt been ripped off by a paintshop (www.konceptz.co.uk, avoid them like the plague), it would have ended up like this.

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It was done by cutting every other 'fin' from the grill, then using the spares to build up the shorter ones in the middle where the bulge used to be. Some metal pins were heated up and set into the plastic to hold the new parts in place, then the edges smoothed with filler... not hard, just fiddly.

Would be easier with the e30 grill as I could just butcher another grill for its parts to fill the gap. Then just get a metal worker to sort out the gaps left at the top and bottom of the grill.

Its definitely something to think about with the e30. I want to change the looks of the front but don't want to ruin them.... maybe one day when I get bored of fixing my engine I might do it... watch this space. winkeye
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