Stacked to Round headlights and Shaving Hood Ornament
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DaveFury
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Dinomyte
76 Malibu
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dynchel
Tom77
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Re: Stacked to Round headlights and Shaving Hood Ornament
Same look I have, except mine is a '74 with a '76 classic grille.
dynchel- Donating Member
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How good is the Chrome on that Hood Ornament I have inserts to put back on it ?
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Roadcaptain S3- Donating Member
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dynchel wrote:
Same look I have, except mine is a '74 with a '76 classic grille.
Very nice car!! I didn't know what the cross hatched grille would look like blacked out, but seeing it now on your car looks very good. The blacked out bezels and sidepipes are a nice touch too!
Limey SE wrote:How good is the Chrome on that Hood Ornament I have inserts to put back on it ?
The chrome is very good. It always bothered me that the inserts fell out.
76 Malibu- G3GM Member
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After looking at this I'm thinking if this is something I want to do on my 77 Monte.
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pila wrote:I believe you can use just the head lamp plug for the upper 4- head light harness. Â The top lamps have the high & low beam, like the round lamps. Â You can clip the lower lamp wiring off, or tape them to the bundle.
Is this accurate? That makes me one step closer to getting the Laguna nose on my '77. !!
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Dinomyte wrote:pila wrote:I believe you can use just the head lamp plug for the upper 4- head light harness. Â The top lamps have the high & low beam, like the round lamps. Â You can clip the lower lamp wiring off, or tape them to the bundle.
Is this accurate? Â That makes me one step closer to getting the Laguna nose on my '77. !!
Yes, the (upper) low beam light works fine. On the quad light setup this ligt has the three prong plug. With quad lights, the low beam light switches to high beam too. This is what I have done with my car with the dual lights, just used the low beam plug and left the high beam ones disconnected. On my car there is actually a harness plug just before the light plugs. The light harness is actually just a very small harness that connects to this "master" plug all in front of the rad support. My guess is this allowed for the factory to easily adapt the wiring for dual or quad light, with a different harness for each setup since 1976 had both lighting options. I may make a new harness later on to clean it up or possibly run a relay to get more power to the lights.
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Some folks on another forum have re-wired the head lights with heavier gauge wire, along with a relay.
The relay is powered by the light switch of course.
 Anyway, it's claimed that the new wiring & relay have made the lights much brighter, which makes sense, since the factory wiring was never very heavy gauge to begin with.
I want to re-wire mine that way also.......new lamp sockets, wire, and a relay...
Only thing I'm not sure about, is the protection of the built in self-resetting circuit breaker in the light switch, which wouldn't help much if the relay craps out etc...
Maybe a re-settable circuit breaker between the lights & the relay ??
The relay is powered by the light switch of course.
 Anyway, it's claimed that the new wiring & relay have made the lights much brighter, which makes sense, since the factory wiring was never very heavy gauge to begin with.
I want to re-wire mine that way also.......new lamp sockets, wire, and a relay...
Only thing I'm not sure about, is the protection of the built in self-resetting circuit breaker in the light switch, which wouldn't help much if the relay craps out etc...
Maybe a re-settable circuit breaker between the lights & the relay ??
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Tony & Pila - thanks guys. This is very valuable information for me.
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After thinking about the relays, it would have to have separate relays for High & Low beams......not that it's a big deal once the mod is underway.
And relays are fairly cheap.....
And relays are fairly cheap.....
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After reading all the info on the stacked headlights, I have a question that I was wondering if anyone has an answer for. I have a complete front header and bumper that I want to make into a wall hanging. I have the whole wiring harness back to the firewall. my problem is that I want to covert it to 110 volt house current. Every power source converter I have tried is not powerful enough to run all 4 headlights and the parking lights in the bumper. Any ideas?
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Rather than go they the expense of getting the proper inverter, you could just use incandescent bulbs, ones for a chandelier. And make your own harness with socket ends that accept the hose hold bulbs. Trying to light up the existing 12 v headlights would be too bright and give off some heat if lit for long periods of time. I'm not sure, what would happen if you plugged a 12v headlight bulb into the wall, it would light up just wouldn't be bright....which could also be okay then... Or it would just blow out...
chevellelaguna- G3GM Enthusiast
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you should try led bulbs!!! they require a lot less current.
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76 Malibu wrote:Finally got the headlights converted and new header sans hood ornament. Â Filler panels worked perfectly.
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Looks Awesome! Nice job.
Dave W.
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That's the look I like also, and that's a very clean look, but too late in the game to do it now. Maybe down the road I'll come across the stuff to switch mine.
pila- Donating Member
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I like the look as well. Very smooooth.
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