wow my headlights...

[Guest Boxhead]

wow, as eveyrone knows, i have a r32 gts.... non turbo.. but i was reading some articles about r32s.. and it appears i have gtr headlights

but.. is that a good or a bad thing?? what do you guys think...

[NRB]

I can't help you on that one, but perhaps you can help me

What's the difference between the GTS and GTR headlights?

[Bozz]

The GT-R ones (and GTS4 and I think the turbo flavours of the R32's) have eyeball lowbeam lights whereas the regular ones only have the twin reflector lights.

[Morgs]

Anyone know how to adjust headlights? Is there some screw somewhere?

[Guest Boxhead]

i dont know about what bozz said, but.. with a gtst, the ball is on the inside of the lights...

where as the gtr ones the ball is on the outside of teh highbeam...

do you guys understand?

i will post a pic tomorow when i get digital cam back.

[Guest Boxhead]

here is a nice front on pic from a gtr...

now i aint 100%.. but i saw a gtst with the round globe thingo in the middle or the high beams.. not on outside..

[Bozz]

That's exactly what I said although my unglesh is kwite a biit por yustaday.

The eyeballs are the low beam (middle) parts, the parking lights are the outers and the high beams are the inner standard reflector type lights.

Non turbo variants had the standard reflector type lights for the low and high beams.

[Guest Boxhead]

no bozz no... thats not what i am saying, im stating that the eye ball one was in the middle for a gtst that i saw in this magazine of pete smiths.

[Cubes]

All GTS-T Turbo R32's have the eye ball for the low beams and the std reflector type for the high beam which is in the middle.

There is two different types of low beam eye balls but.

One has a more frosted look and the other is clear looking.

I have both on my car which sucks as the clear bulb looking one that also gives a tinge of blue when you drive towards some one gives out alot more light and it is a white light. Where as the frosted one doesn't put out as much light but gives a almost yellowish/orange tinge on the ground in front of the car when driving.

Basically the clear bulb is the way to go.. I'm pretty sure they come on GTR's and the others come on GTST.

[Guest Boxhead]

arggghhhhhhh....

no body sees what i am sayin...

ok i understand low beam are eye ball type

im just stating how i saw that gtr headlights have the eyeball on outside of high beam, and gtst have the eyeball on inside of them!!!!

[Cubes]

Your not talking about the aftermarket 3 eye ball beam front lights are you.

I havn't actually seen any for a skyline but i've seen them for silvia's.

[funkymonkey]

boxhead... yeah I got em too, turns out that most r32's which have gone through their 10 year rebuild get the "GTR" style lights. There's no major difference, there's 2 types, the N1 style lights with twin projector beams and the normal ones, which come in 2 different arrangements. There's no specific model that comes with a certain arrangement, they all have both available.

[Bozz]

Odds are there is something we're all missing that you've picked up on, heck I've picked up on strange little things previously too!

Photo's!!!!! Show us what you're talking about

[Cubes]

Yes.. PLease show us some picks.

[Guest Boxhead]

i think shan knows what i picked up on, i saw it in this magazine, the import buyers guide .. the blue r32 gts had different lights to the r32 gtr.. go have a look see if you haveit... i couldnt take a pick coz of camera wants here, and this computers usb ports are rooted, coz my computer is rooted too

[funkymonkey]

its simple... you take the high beam light and the normal light, and swap their positions around and u get the "late model" style lights. They still work the same way.

[Guest Boxhead]

alrigth now yo getting ahead of yourself, have you dynoed your car? results?

[TTT]

Box head I know what you mean.

On the R32's the GTR and GTST have slightly different headlights.

The actual headlight unit is the same but the internal globes are different.

The GTR has a light like this..

Lets look at a car front on and look towards our left which would be the cars RIGHT head light cause it is facing us.

From left to right...

indicator, park light, normal driving lights (low beam - the round globe), high beam (square light)

Where as the GTST's go...

indicator, park light, high beam (square light), normal driving lights (low beam - the round globe).

Get it?.. the round globe and the high beam globe are swapped around..

Now that wasn't so hard was it?

[Guest Boxhead]

no it wasnt.. now why didnt anyone else pick up on that?

[d0p3y]

one more time for the dummies --->

However i have noticed some GTR's with the GTS style headlights, the non projector types so perhaps the projector headlights were a factory option on earlier models?