Retrofitting Popups!

[Initial-D]

There should be 3-4mm play left and right with them, otherwise you\'ll have to enlarge the two outer holes on the rear of the top bracket, you don\'t need the middle two. You then have a rubber grommit on the inside of each light which is you can pull off to reveal a bolt which adjusts how low the light will sit when down as it rests on it. Are the brackets inside the light covers alright? Sometimes peeps repair them and move the backets which will cause a misalignment. Hope that helps a bit!

[Red and Single]

{\']Keep us posted on how you get on - i\'m considering putting the pop ups back on mine

At last he see\'s the light :rollin

( no pun intended !! )

[tokyo_black]

Thanks for the info Initial D.

I don\'t think I have any covers *inside* the popup covers. Would this effect it?

I will look into enlarging those two top holes thats a good idea..

[tokyo_black]

Pics..




 
The covers were black when we were test fitting...







This  one below gives the clearest view of how they are fitted now. It looks as if they need to be rotated to flow with the lines of the car?




Does this help?

[Initial-D]

It looks like you need to bend the outerwing where it meets the front bumper to get that flush and enlarge the holes on the lights mounting points so you can rotate them counter-clockwise a touch. They are fiddly to get spot on, but your getting there!

They should fit perfectly as thats what the car would have had when made!

[Initial-D]

Oh what I ment by inside covers was the protrusions on the underside of the pod covers. They tend to break over time and if they have been repaired they may not be level.

[tokyo_black]

Okay well we had another session at this yesterday.

The left one now sits pretty well with the wing and the bumper, the gap is bigger then i\'d like but it is perfectly even. The bonnet however does not have the correct angle to flow with the lights so it looks like im gonna have to get the bodyshop to cut it back a little.

The right light bracket doesn\'t seem to line up with the cars\' chasis properly. The bracket looks fine and I think it might be that the chasis has warped slightly out of place.. Again it looks like the body shop are going to need to have a look as I don\'t want to be banging the chasis back into position without being certain about it.

So I have both popups and covers on now, but the left is just touching the bonnet and the right is sitting poorly. The bonnet is aftermarket and fiberglass and I think thats a lot of the problem, the two light cutouts in the bonnet do not match - the angle of curves on each are different slightly.

[Initial-D]

Thats unfortunate about the bonnet, it\'d be far eaiser if everything was stock! I think it\'s very hard to get aftermarket parts to match up like it came from the factory without spending out on alot of bodyshop tinkering.

[tokyo_black]

Yeah, it is true what people say; if you buy a cheap bonnet then you get the cheap quality

It is in the body shop now and it\'s in his more then capable hands so im looking forward to see the result

[rextreme]

you have taste...

Russ.

[tokyo_black]

Cheers mate - i like to think so

[tokyo_black]

Just posting an update.
 
I have got my car back from the bodyshop but do to time constraints as it was the week before christmas he couldn\'t complete all the work!
 
He has added the full bodykit, and the work he\'s done is really quite astonishing its all rock solid with a perfect paint match. But unfortunately the popup lights are the things that had to miss their turn!
 
I am moving house soon so I now have £0 to spend on the rex, so I will have to wait a month or two until I can sort out the lights but I have made the decision to lose the vented Scoot bonnet.
 
I love the look of the bonnet but with smooth popups and a flowing kit it very much sticks out like a sore thumb..

[Jit]

pics!!! this thread is useless without pics!!!
Pmd you over on itr-dc2 as well!

[tokyo_black]

Thanks for the pm mate.

Okay heres a couple of pics..




Looking at these pics makes me think again about losing the scoot it looks so aggressive!

[TwistedHumour]

Ignore me - looked at the first page and answered my own question :p