headlights

how do you get the "sleepy eye" effect that you see so often on the 180's in all the drift videos? thanks

Originally posted by Soyo
how do you get the "sleepy eye" effect that you see so often on the 180's in all the drift videos? thanks

you gotta get a headlight pivot adjuster.

where can I order and how much do they cost?

Originally posted by Soyo
where can I order and how much do they cost?

You can make your own-got this from www.zilvia.net

Sleepy Eyes (s13)

1. Make sure headlamps are off and in the "closed" position.
2. Get down on your back and look up through the large opening in the lower front bumper.
3. Look directly under the left and right headlamps and find their electronic plugs.
4. Now while you are down there, you can reach through the large opening and unplug the electronic plugs left and right. You must unplug these in order to adjust the headlamp motors manually.
5. Now get off the ground and pop your hood. You should see a headlamp motor next to each of the headlamps. Looks like a single prong.
6. Pull the cap off each headlamp motor. Now you may manually adjust the headlamp angle at any variable by turning the knob. Make sure that both headlamp motors are evenly adjusted.
7. Now turn your headlamps in the "on" position. Notice the motors dont move and the headlamps simply light up. Viola, instant "sleepy look."
**Now in order to get the headlamps in its original position you have to manually adjust the headlamps in the "closed" position via the motor. Then plug the wiring back together.

hahahaaaa.....:grey:

or---

sleepy eye mod for S13s..

w/o getting out of your car.

you need two things

1.) A wire/cable
2.) A toggle switch

both can be bought at Kragens, Auto Zone etc etc for no more than $5.00

anyways.

left of the steering wheel there is the headlight button that when pressed/on it makes the headlights pop up no matter if the lights are on or off.

pop out the button cover and you should see wires underneath it

take the Light Green wire and cut it.

then take the wire you bought and splice it to that wire and hook it up to the toggle switch
make sure you leave enough room for the wire so you can run it where you want. [ i have mine by my ash tray ]

now to test to see if you did it right.

turn the toggle switch OFF

and push the headlight button.

[ head lights should pop up [ if not already up ]]

now press it again [ if you did it right it will not go down ]

now flip the toggle and the headlights will start to go down.
before it goes all the way down flip the toggle agian and it will stay.

wa' la!

$5.00 sleepy eyes

you can use the above method or you can do the method they explain here: http://streetphase.tripod.com/sleepyeyes.html

no manual turning hehe

Originally posted by Buddah
you can use the above method or you can do the method they explain here: http://streetphase.tripod.com/sleepyeyes.html

no manual turning hehe

Thats a lota work.

Id rather do the second method I posted:cool:

Another way as told by me:

1.) Fetch a crow bar
2.) Pry the shit out of your headlights and mold them until they won't go down all the way.
3.) (optional) Spray paint in a dull, sleepy color, "I AM SLEEPY" on the side of car and on the hood.

VOILA! Now you have a sleepy looking 240SX! Good luck selling it!

www.autoimaging.com has the pivot lazyhead light conv. for $90. i ordered it this wednesday. hope fully i can get pics of my car posted in the next 4-5 weeks for you guys to check out.

thanks guys, I like the toggle switch idea, sounds cheap and easy:D but I don't have a 240 yet so I have time to think about it

i ordered the light controller 3 months ago, but i have yet to install it

why u ask?? because i dont know how, and there is no intructions for it:( :(

Originally posted by Buddah
you can use the above method or you can do the method they explain here: http://streetphase.tripod.com/sleepyeyes.html

no manual turning hehe

hey man, nice avatar. ;)

i personally will probably just order a headlight pivot controller. may as well use something that's MADE for that instead of running the risk of cutting an important wire, doing it wrong and having to go in to get it put back together again.

Now, I know it's an older thread, but I'm in need of some help..

I did the method that ghostchild mentioned above and it worked fine. (except for the fact that my motors run at different speeds, so one "eye" is lower than the other..)

i was showing my friend the sleepy eyes, and I think I might've hit the headlight switch when the eyes were in Sleepy mode. That is, I turned the light switch on, the headlights went all the way down, then back up again, and now they won't go down - period.. I checked my wiring and it looks intact, I'm going to double check it later today.. Has this happened to anyone before, and is there a way to "reset" or otherwise fix it? Any help is appreciated.

Cheers,

C

Start Another Thread Please!!!!!!!!

wow I got an e-mail saying I subscribed to this thread... this was back in the day. I started this thread a month after I joined... what was this on like page 127 or something? haha

hey man, nothing personal, but just make a new thread when you need advice on something instead of bringing something back that's over a year old.

thanks. :smile: