Renault 11 oblong headlights to snoot light boxes

[Jon-HPF]

Closest thing to snoot cibies i could find , but they dont have the curved vertical sides - more oblong. Had to cut away all corners of boxes and refabricated new more square corners to accept the new lights , but it gives the same deep flush fit as the cibies

Cut off the plastic tabs on each corner of lights and welded on small "L" brackets (12pence each at B&Q) Cut out new stainless steel backing plates (1.5 mm thick) - welded s/s nuts in each corner , used s/s long bolts with nyloc nuts to allow adjustment


New lights look ok in the reworked boxes

Repairs to slightly damaged sportshatch nose cone - cut out damaged areas - re glassed - then fibreglass filler , will use normal filler to finish off.

Rear of nose - reglassed damaged areas.
I am considering fitting the fog/indicator assembly in place of the normal side/indicator holes. So if anyone has got a decent pair of fog/indicator units from an FE VX/490 or FE 2300 GLS - please let me know.
Cheers - Jon

[Jon-HPF]

Lightboxes in place .

[carmad]

tidy bit off work there

[coggers]

Thinking outside the box as usual - excellent stuff !

[Jon-HPF]

Only slightly out of the box Coggers! , more a case of needs must when theres no decent original cibies to hand.
I have a spare set of lightboxes and am toying with the idea of fitting the 3 small square lights as on some alfa's - so id have a choice of a 6 headlighted snoot but without having to extend the light boxes!
Now which model alfa are those lights on !!??
cheers - Jon

[ade]

looks good john, nice to see a good bit of improvisation

[frankengeep]

Well done Jon, very nice work as usual. Can do is the way to go .
Nearly ready for the road ?

Boyd

[martin-reyland]

I'm torn between keeping the flat front on my car or fitting a genuine snoot that I have here, want to repair another snoot in similar condition Jon???

[Jon-HPF]

Thanks Guys , Boyd - the cars on the road , just working on an 1800 axle to shove in to try and get better top end at the moment.
Martin - the nosecones are quite easy to work on being f/glass - just takes a bit of time to strip off the paint etc without damaging the gel coat, then sorting out any damaged areas etc .
I have a new old stock nosecone still in factory primer - but i couldnt bring myself to use it!
Can u post some pics of your nosecone - should give an idea of how much prep work is needed
Cheers - Jon

[grandas_shed]

looks as though it was made for those lights, brill job u done there

what did u use to cut the stainless steel?