Outlaw Driving Light Mount

Extremely well engineered and built. I’m sure others will find this to be very useful for their own projects should they be so inclined. 

@Jim Gilbert - Madison, Mississippi

Jim, thanks for sharing that tech tip and those detailed drawings! 

Nicely done, Jim!   Looks very clean.

You really have good skills with detail drawings, I mean we can all follow those and build the brackets.  Great stuff.  BTW, I can't wait to see when they are finally attached on the car. 

Good Work !!  Post a photo of the mounted units please !.................Bruce

Ok. Here's a shot of the driving lights installed on the Speedster. They are old Hella Optilux, 6" diameter. I'm not sure if they might not be too large. I haven't wired them yet. It too hot! The car isn't driven much at night. The real purpose is to hide some of the paint chips. I'll also add a license plate to the front. That will cover a multitude of sins! Wish I had bought a clear bra in the beginning.

I often think that you could touch up the rock chips then wait a month and Xpel film, would that not cover up a multitude of sins?  I think some peopel won't apply Xpel except to new paint properly cured, but why not?

@Jim Gilbert - Madison, Mississippi posted:

Ok. Here's a shot of the driving lights installed on the Speedster. They are old Hella Optilux, 6" diameter. I'm not sure if they might not be too large.

I LOVE them.

My first thought (even before reading the post) was "wow, somebody put the right sized lights on the front of a Speedster'.

They're fantastic!

I like 'em, too.  But that's coming from a guy who had a pair of 10" Super Oscars on the front of a pickup truck.  

Yours look great and you won't believe how much they light up the road in front of you when you get them fired up.

Jim, they look PERFECT. Goldilocks size as far as I'm concerned.

P.S.: Nice Speedster, nice color. Different than all the usual colors, but totally appropriate color. 

Fog lights off of the new Mini Coopers look great 2005 and up. You can find used sets on eBay.. they are smaller than most of the Hella’s. 

I have a set I’ll post pictures once I remember what box there hidden in 😂 

Looks great, Jim. And about paint chips: they're cool. Means you drive the sucker. 

Jim your lights look awesome 👏 

Excellent! Love your drawings, too.

Very nice, Jim.  As Ed says above, paint chips are a badge of honour for a speedster owner. And when I spell honour, I include U.

Chips are like laugh lines. It shows its having FUN

I got these off a 2009 Mini Cooper at a salvage yard

@Tab Tanner it would be helpful to see them on the front of a Speedster.

@Jim Gilbert - Madison, Mississippi posted:

Ok. Here's a shot of the driving lights installed on the Speedster. They are old Hella Optilux, 6" diameter. I'm not sure if they might not be too large. I haven't wired them yet. It too hot! The car isn't driven much at night. The real purpose is to hide some of the paint chips. I'll also add a license plate to the front. That will cover a multitude of sins! Wish I had bought a clear bra in the beginning.

how interesting how they made the speaker grills 

@Stan Galat posted:

I LOVE them.

My first thought (even before reading the post) was "wow, somebody put the right sized lights on the front of a Speedster'.

They're fantastic!

Seconded!