Round head light conversion

[Charlie_Brown]

I've been flirting with this idea for awhile but it's never been done. I've seen one picture of a d21 and 4 round headlights which I thought looked pretty good but it was on a slammed d21 with more cosmetics than sense, would look different on an off-road rig imo.

Has anyone done this or thought about doing this or am I the only one?

[Slartibartfast]

I've wondered about this myself. Infamous Duck Man tried it with what look like aux lights (second pic). It's not a bad look, just kind of odd, especially unfinished like that. Maybe you could modify a Hardbody grille (one of the ones with the little rectangular sealed beams) to take round lights so the lines flowed and they wouldn't look so out-of-place with the markers.

 

Maybe draw inspiration from the fourth-gen Patrol.

 

Or a Lada Niva.

[Charlie_Brown]

Yeah I've run across his pathfinder in my search to see anyone who has done it but the unfinished look made it look like absolute trash imho.

The pathys grille is a possible issue for sure with it's lines, the hardbody might look better with it but in the end there is always the option of making your own grille if you really want it. Would give you bonus points for being unique

In a perfect wp uld I would prefer to delete the side markers and put them directly to the fender in the form of those smaller visibility lights.

 

The MQ patrol is where my love idea of this came from, if I could find the specific picture I'll link it however while searching I did find this

https://4wd1blog.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/black-gq-tough-dog-2-800.jpg

[Charlie_Brown]

Interestingly enough it has the same style grille as a hardbody with the triangular arches, could look really good. Only guys I've seen talking about the conversion on the d21 side are talking about datsun 620s and making the swap bit I've yet to find anyone take the plunge in my searching

[Slartibartfast]

There was a guy on here a few years back (can't remember his username but his truck was olive drab and black) who deleted the markers and filled the holes in the fenders with sheet metal. Looked like an easy enough process if you don't mind a little bodywork. You could incorporate something into the grille to replace them, or maybe get the round projector/conversion housings with the LED halos in them and tie the halos to the marker circuit.

 

That is a good-looking Patrol!

[Charlie_Brown]

I ran across that once when I was first on the forums (where I initially got the idea) but didn't save anything on it and have been trying to find the damn forum ever since lol.

I remember the write up being very well done and something I'd like to tackle at some point.

Ohhhhh now you're getting creative! I like that idea tyin the halos into the turn signals as well. I really like that idea.

 

Right? Pathy isn't too far off from the patrol, making me think she will look really good with duels! I need to get back to my truck so I can stick some disks in place to kinda see the look.