R34 headlight replacement

[DieselTime]

R34 headlight replacement

Hey all,

Unfortunately the headlights on my R34 are completely stuffed, so it's come time to replace them. The current ones are xenons, however considering the stupid money you have to pay for them I was planning on just going plain old non-xenons as a cheaper alternative. The actual process of swapping xenons to non-xenons has been covered a million times, but what I'd like to know is, are there are physical differences between the two with regards to shape? Despite the dozens of threads on the topic each one gives me a different answer, with some saying the rubbers are different and just need trimming to others claiming they're a whole different shape. Given I'm swapping over to a GTR front bar in about a month I need to know if the new non-xenons I'd like to swap over will actually fit the bar.

Cheers

[Kinkstaah]

I swapped these personally (went from Xenons to normals because normals are better than hacked up Xenons) and they are exactly the same shape though there is a little bit of wiring to do as the plug is different.

Physically though, the outer dimensions are the same.

[niZmO_Man]

What's wrong with yours? If you have the Xenon headlights, I'd buy some halogen ones, open them up and swap the xenon reflectors in (if they are in good condition). Or put some HID projectors in the halogen ones.

[DieselTime]

Thanks for the replies guys, the guy who owned the car before me obviously damaged the front of the car somehow as the passenger side light if completely buggered,  and to fix this he's done a very sketchy job of siliconeing up the casing then bolting on some loose bits of metal to hold it to the frame. Kinda hard to explain without pics but they're well beyond repair. Other than that there's the standard yellowing and scuffing to the lens which just detracts from the car's appearance. The headlights do stuff all as far as lighting the roads go so I'm probably going to swap them out for halogens with a HID setup.

[niZmO_Man]

Don't put PnP kit in halogen headlights. If your HID bulb starts with H, it's wrong (unless you went down the mini H1 HID projectors path, which you don't need to as R34 headlight has plenty of room for D2S projector).