While waiting for my exhaust system to come back from being powder coated, I decided to knock out the E36 headlights modification. The BMW headlight buckets were grafted to the Camaro fiberglass headlight support. I wanted to do minimal cutting to the radiator bulkhead and maintain the original fender mounts. I feel it looks like an OEM installation.

 

Looks good! Defiantly one of the cleanest headlight swaps.

 

Somebody needs to write a sticky on this.

 

NICE JOB

 

Awesome job.

 

Sorry to rain on your parade, especially since you did it better than most, but anything that hacks up the core support without welding it back up and reinforcing it somehow isn't how it should be. The E36 headlights still don't fill up the headlight buckets. Nowadays that headlight mod is outdated when you can just open up the back of the headlight clam (Nothing structural cut and you can still swap back and the entire project can be done in an hour) and install a set of these LED projectors.

 

This does look to be one of the cleanest headlight swaps i've seen.
How much was actually cut away besides the notches up top. I got a firebird so dont know how stock support is on this.
Wonder how it looked when all finished with the hood on.

 

In the end I made some modifications to the light housings to extend them 3/4” out to better align with the edge of the hood. I also cut out the hump where the hood bumpers were and made them flush on top. There were notches cut outboard of the outer headlight cutout, this can be seen in the older pictures. Finally, a fiberglass nose was used on this car and the entire headlight bezel was bonded to the inside to create a true bolt on front fascia. The fiberglass nose, headlights, turn signal lens, and the grill are one piece. I recently added close out panels on top of the light housings.

One piece assembly

The headlights fitted to the fiberglass fascia

Hood alignment

Without close outs

Added close out panels

This modification in no way compromises the integrity of the core support. There are multiple unused holes throughout the core support from the factory and it is not a structural component.

 

Real nice work there if someone didnt know, they would think its factory.👍

 

By the way what suspension are u running there, looks like missing some strut mounts.

 

C4 Corvette front and rear. You can see the build thread here in the Camaro Forum under
“1 of 1 Z28”. You can also search “SoloC4” for more of my work.

 

Cool i'll check it out.