So I spent most of the day replacing the driver’s side headlamp housing on my Z.  What a pain in the butt.  Apparently the headlamps on the car had been converted to HIDs.  Cool right?

Not so much.

See, the headlamp housings I purchased (JDM style black outlines) don’t support the HID bulb and ballast.  I thought, “no biggie, I’ll just modify it so it fits.” Well, that didn’t go so well either.  The housings within the headlamps are completely different.  I ended up cracking the igniter wire’s insulated housing next to the bulb.  No clue if it will still work…

Ultimately, I chopped up the wire harness of each housing, and spliced them together as necessary to make it work.  All good now, and the left lamp housing is in.

Oh, and the car has been in a small crash before I purchased it.  The front left corner is pushed in a little.  The fender doesn’t line up with an OEM lamp housing, the plastic mounting tabs were broken off the HID housing, and all the mounts on the chassis were bent backward.  I wouldn’t have a problem with this if I had been told about it, but finding out the hard way sucks.  I probably would have bought a new fender and put it on at the same time just to make everything kosher.  Instead, I ended up palm-slapping the fender into the appropriate shape around the headlamp. It still looks fine, but dammit, this is my [almost] perfect car.

+150 HP, +120 Lb. Ft. of Torque, sunburnt orange, and a non-crunched fender.  Then it’d be perfect.

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I’m siting here watching the “Crisis in the middle east” coverage on CNN, and it’s pretty sickening. They stated blatantly “This started with Isreal bombing the Gaza strip on December 27″. Sorry CNN, but no. It began back in August when Hamas resumed rocket and mortar attacks against Isreal. This absolutely infuriates me, and I wish FOX would do actual coverage and not just rerun Geraldo sensationalism hour after hour throughout the night.
Get it together FOX.

Gaza, Hamas, Isreal, Politics, War

I’m 9 weeks into house hunting and after having had 3 really nice homes bought out from under me before I could even get an offer in, I think I’ve finally found the one!

This one is 3 BR 2.5 BA, and approximately 2000 sq. ft. It’s pretty nice overall inside, needs some help on the floors and a lot of help on the walls. Here’s a link to some of the pictures.

From Willard 356

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house, Living