In the process of building this old CMC( Fiberfab) speedster, today I did the headlight assembly.
The instruction manual helped but I was missing the small clips or retainer pieces which hold the
top of the headlight in place. I used some old, good condition German Hella headlight parts as the chrome is not very lasting on the China aftermarket ones. Also, I like seeing the Hella brand name on parts. Pictures tell 1000 words, so I will cut this short. The only thing, that might help someone , I found new was using Grease Pencils to mark the fiberglass to know where to trim the fiberglass as needed so the headlight assembly would fit. Now, I am showing the non-permanent marking pencils in one picture. These are great to use on your fiberglass body. They are found at most hardware stores, like Lowe's in the Tile and Floor department. Used for marking lines for cuts, on tile, there pencils really helped me install all the misc. lights on my speedster, as the body needed to be cut for light assemblies. You can mark as much as you want to with these "tile" pencils and wipe the lines off with only your fingers. Just a great product for use to mark anything on the fiberglass body. Next find was with missing top headlight retainer clip, I found these stainless steel pieces at a local marine shop. The picture shows the package and there was two, as needed, stainless steel, made in Taiwan. These are used as vents somewhere on boats and had two holes I could use for riveting them to the body and one tab, I bent, as shown, to hold the top of the headlight in the body buckets. Note, had to grind off lots of fiberglass for the headlight assembly to fit into the body. Also, used a section I saved from cutting Chrome moly push rods, as spacers between the bottom of the headlight assembly and the body with stainless steel hardware. I sanded and painted the headlight metal with high heat aluminum paint. The stuff resist oil and gasoline and holds up good. I cleaned the park light sockets with sand paper and tested the light assembly to be sure the park lights would work. Used halogen headlights, which should be good enough for night driving. The tile pencils and marine piece really made doing this work easier. One more item which helped was the metal rotary file, not rasp, which is strong enough steel and $50 cost, I can grind off metal and grinding off the fiberglass for fitting the headlight assembly was made easier with that drill file. I had already drilled the 1/2 inch hole in he bottom of the headlight bucket, as the instructions showed. Someone at the speedster manufacture place did the fiberglass work to install the headlight bucket and got that off by about 15 degrees, causing the right side headlight to not be perfectly at the 12 and 6 o'clock position. Grinding on the fiberglass bucket helped some to clear up that manufactured mistake.
