seen it mentioned a couple of times but no one has said wether or not they have tried to use the headlights from a full size chevy truck in their camaro. size wise they are the same but that is all I know. any info would be great for me and others as well

 

have you searched? flynlow92 i believe is his screen name did it back in 2002-2003. and they are a bit smaller than our headlight openings.

 

I run the chevy celebrity lights, they're the proper size.

 

does this mod improve lighting or is it purely cosmetic?
what type of brackets are required to install them?

jack

 

They have a little bit wider light pattern and was an improvement for me. Also, you have the advantage of just replacing the bulb and not the whole sealed beam. The brackets I made myself, just 3 of them per light. 2 for the top mounting studs and one for the bolt in the center of the housing, fairly easy to do. Probably could have done a better job with the upper brackets.

 

I did an H4 headlight conversion on my 89. Im very happy with the difference in headlights. They are not just a bolt in tho, it took over an hour to moddify the metal bracket the lights sit in to allow for the deeper case of the H4 headlights. Mine look a little off in this pic, they just need adjusted alittle. Good luck with whatever meathod you choose.

 

I've heard of alot of people having to modify their light buckets. I didn't have to at all just popped in,in the same place the stock ones did. No movement.

 

These Celebrity headlights, would the housings be able to handle xenon light bulbs, or later on HID conversions, with the ballasters, bulbs etc ?

 

i checked the offset of the truck lights and the one s on the camaro and they are the same. 4" on the outside and 6" on the inside. by the measurements i took you should be able to unbolt and rebolt (with new holes of course) the truck lenses in with out much modifying.

 

After a quick search on google, it looks like it. The bulb type is 9005 and 9006, found a HID kit for 498.

 

So one would have to use TWO sets of ballaster setups, one for low beams, one for high beams ?

The Celebrity lights, are they the same size ? And are they perfectly rectangular ? On some sites on the net it looks like they're slightly angled at one corner.

 

Yup, I guess 2 sets. The lights are rectangular but sit in the bucket at an angle as you can see from the top down shot. That angle is the same as the stock ones if you were to draw a line from one side to the other.

 

your not going to want to run HID's in your high beams.... the ballasts arent designed to be turned on and off rapidly or multiple times and doing so will greatly shorten the life....you can find kits for around the 250-280$ mark these days.... a couple sites off the top of my head are Neon Lights at Oznium.com - underbody kits, LEDs, cathodes and www.hid-sin.com.... i suggest doing a full out HID projector retro fit... because those housings werent designed for HID bulbs and will probably cause alot of glare and possibly blind oncoming traffic...

 

wow i can do this to my '84 caprice

yay

good info

 

Mine's going to be a bit more tricky. Putting '04 Ford Focus lights to replace my existing (boring) HLs. This is on an '86 T/A though, and I want to keep the flip up - so not as easy as it sounds. Already measured, and they will fit, with some minor fab work, so they should look great. My other option was a Honda, but it looked too ***** to me.



Let me know what you think - I will post pics when finished.

Xtremecustomizr

 

Maybe you could Run one of those H.I.D Bi xenon Kits which includes both high and low beams. I have one installed (in a car other then my camaro) and it worked great. Maybe that would work.

 

good luck, if i were you i would just buy the headlight lenses for hid bulbs and get the hid bulbs for them, shouldn't need any fabwork. something like this...
eBay Motors: 82-93 CHEVY S10 INTEGRA EURO XENON LIGHTS HID 83 84 85 (item 120029800451 end time Sep-15-06 18:54:29 PDT)

 

just finished my conversion to projection lenses. Used new lenses and brackets from a 98 chevy full size. They are bright as hell and have a sinister look to them. Am very pleased with them. highly recomend it to anyone.

 

Any pics of this?

 

yea will. we want pics.

 

Show us PICS !!

 

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Did you have to change the wiering, and if you did was it hard.

 

can you send us pics of your headlights. I want to do the same thing but I want to see it first. Thanks

 

Anyone tried a "round headlight" conversion on a camaro?

 

This is what I was going suggest. I used teh celebrity head lights on my 1st gen Sunbird (non-GT) front end, I noticed they were about 3/8" narrower than the two sealed beam units were, but no one would ever notice.

 

Anybody got anything cool for the firebirds?

 

Any progress? I wanna see!

 

Projection lenses from a silvy on a camaro? O that has to look awesome. You can get some wicked wicked headlights for those trucks

 

AJ89rocz - I like the H4 setup on your camaro; can you pm me with some info on how you did it; I am wanting replace both low and high beams but I am not going to replace them until I have the donor lights so I can still drive the car at night. I do have one question; When after the conversion and when you installed them was there any fabrication that needed to be down to the housing area? I read that you may not have but just curious.

Thanks guys for giving me a better idea on lighting. The 97 camaro I had (v6 model) had poor headlights and I love the headlights on my fiance's 06 cobalt; the bulbs look like the ones on my fiance's cobalt. I have pics of it.

Great job guys on the headlight conversions !!!!!

 

What year Chevy Celeb. are you lights from?

 

That looks pretty damn cool. That would definately be a cheap way to improve my lighting.

Like everyone else here, we need pics please.

I'd also like to know. But, it looks like '87-'90 Celebrity headlights to me.

 

I only bump this thread to see if anyone else has done this mod? Pictures and or a DIY how-to article would rock right about now. I'd love to see the Silverado lights on the Camaro as well as more Celebrity light pics.

 

I must bring this back up, still would love to see anyones pics of doing this!

 

I did the h4 upgrade for our cars...Love the look!

 

thanks 85maro, but i wa looking for someone who had done the single light out of a fulsize truck, like year ones ban 3 ....they dont have any info on the swap, it is a very sharp look.... yes the h4 look like 85maro is ok, and there is nothing wrong with that, but i want something just a touch off the beaten path. as far as i can tell the problems would come with the adjustment "stalks" on the new housings, here is what i would like to put in http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/88-98...spagenameZWDVW

or this

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/88-98...spagenameZWDVW

both of these would look great, the first with hid, that is what i want to do ... but dose anyone know how it would need to be molested into the rad support inplace of the factory light bucket. thanks


bill

 

Here are mine Lights

 

Oh what the h*ll 85maroz28, your whole camaro front looks awesome!!! How did you turn your marker lights clear that way and the chevy bowtie foglamps, where did you get those? AWESOME, AWESOME looking Camaro!!!


- JG

 

My h4 conversion gave me a hell of a lot more visability. Look at my avatar, the car looks evil lol.

 

i am going to order a set of these,

i will take some pics of the install, and what not.... but it will be after aug first. But I think this is the mod most of the " interested" posts were for. any way sooner or later some smooth lights on a 3rd gen.[IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Bill/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.jpg[/IMG][IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Bill/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.jpg[/IMG]

 

Those look interesting. I still want to see someone post some better pics and a how-to on the Celebrity headlight swap. Or even the Silverado or Monte Carlo swap.

I'll get some crystal clears with H4 bulbs for now, but I want the Celebrity or Silverado headlights.

 

hers some pics of a conversion.

 

That looks pretty sweet actually. Just wish I knew what headlights those are.

My question is which Silverado/Blazer headlights will fit?

I was thinking about these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Parts...m290230767919&

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Parts...m160240830636&

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Parts...m350060416446&

 

For grins while I was at a salvage yard on Saturday I measured the Beretta lights an they are just barely too large. So that leaves me with the same question as above. What year/type silverado/blazer lights can fit?

 

Nevermind what I said about Beretta lights. They'll fit. It's just going to take a bit of fabbing. I started the driver's side and I need more brackets. My MAIN concern is since I removed the header panel how the hell am I going to fix the alignment of the front nose bumper. Not having the header panel in has made it sag a bit as you can see in the second pic.

 

i got the same h4 kit as 85maroz28. the blue bulbs match great with my blue iroc.

heres a slideshow video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1YsKNCSoTE
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anybody got pics of projector headlights in camaros?

 

Don't remove it completely, get a second one to cut up or just cut your original. All you need to do is lop off the ends where the headlights mounted and leave the center part that bolts to the core support and bumper cover.

 

That's some good info! Thanks. Do you have any additional pics? I'm going to try and do this again next month or later this month when I have the $$$ to order another header panel. Mine's cracked in a couple of places anyway.

 

This is the only one I think that shows how everything is mounted for the celebrity lights...

 

You wouldn't happen to have pics of how those lights look with your hood down and standing in front of the car do you? I may sell off these Beretta lights if I can find some Celebrity lights.