Fog Lights / Driving Lights for 308

Click on my profile and look at the picture. Where mine are are the best you can do without cutting and drilling.
Those two you see in the picture are simply mounted where the bumper shocks are. I just loosened the bumper eased it out a bit, slid the mounts (simply a straight flat piece of metal the lights are bolted to) in between the bumper and the shock stopper thing and tightened the bumper back down again.

Takes ten minutes if you are slow and is 100% reversible in less time than that. No holes, now screws no cutting, no nothing.

 

The correct lights are Cibie "Airport" compact spotlights - with a PITA and rare H2 bulb. The QV grill is shorter to allow them to mount. Mine had pitted reflectors, and they are rare and expensive, so I replaced with similar size Narvas with 100W halogen bulbs (H3), a relay, and separate switching so I can have them on with my high beams if I want. They still work as "flash to pass". The LED H3 lights are getting better and better, and I will replace with these when they get good enough.

 

The problem are those bottom elements on the US bumper. They are in the way to make it look "correct" if you will. That, and you need to cut your grill. Not sure that is the cheapest or easiest piece to find if you later wish you didn't.

I have toyed with the idea of doing this to mine about 4 million times but I just can't bring myself to break out the hacksaw. That is why I settled on the way you see it now. I know this isn't what you were asking for, it is just another idea to consider if you are okay with a compromise.

 

Which Narva did you use? I'm having my flash-to-pass rigged to be on all the time, so this winter may take the stock ones off to save them, and replace with something brighter.

Was it this one?

http://www.narva.com.au/products/browse/maxim

 

Can't remember exactly, but I did try and dry fit a few different ones before arriving at those particular ones. I think those were too big (180mm), and I went for the smaller size again - I took the Cibie Airport 35 light to the store to compare sizes.

I rigged them with an on-off-on switch, one side being on only with high beam, and the other side on by themselves - both switched via a relay off the ign circuit, so I wouldn't accidentally leave them on.

 

Ok, if you get a chance to look at the part number let me know.

 

Just had a look at the store website: Narva Ultra Compact Rectangular, 100W, 150mm x 85mm. Part No. 72230

 

Thank you.

 

Here is the Cibie American catalogue from 1985. Of note is the Cibie "Bobi". This was Cibie's attempt to make an H4 legal light when we were still stuck with sealed beams in the US by law.

http://winktimber.com/vintagerally/gear/lights/cibie_catalog_1985.pdf