A few weeks ago, I fabbed a light bar for the front of my S, because I felt that I just needed to see better at night.

So I took the existing mounts that I had already made a year ago (from this thread https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ustom+brackets) and used those as mounting points for the new bar. The bar is some 3/4" (I think, I can't remember) steel bar from home depot that was bent in a conduit bender to fit along the bumper, and has four tabs welded onto it. The outer two tabs are bolted onto the old mounts via the outer two lights (i.e., the lights are actually holding the bar on.). The bar is fairly stable and only shakes if I hit rough bumps. But on smooth roads, it's pretty decent. The bar is painted, but the inside is a bit rusty since it's just bare steel. I will have to find some caps to put in the ends of the bar so it can't be seen. I know, the wiring is sloppy, but that can be fixed easily when I have time.

Total cost for my entire light project seen below: approx $180 and a friend who can weld.

Check it out:

 

looks very good!

 

Cool... The wires need a bit of stealthing, but that's easy enough. I love DIY stuff like this. Kudos!

 

What did you use for the lamps?

 

Same for the two bolts used on the inner lights.

But gotta hand it to you for creativity.

 

Those inner 2 can either be capped or simply cut off with a Dremel then painted matte black - visually they'd dissappear if they didn't hang down so far.

 

Nice stuff there, i hear you on the extra lights and custom being the better option. And as always for ingenuity of the DIYer!

 

Hella 500's. But as you can see the inner ones are slightly different.

I wasn't going for stealthiness, I was really going for pure function here.

 

Although not going for stealth, the bar and wires would look even better (or not be visible at all) if you black out the grill.
I think the lights would also look better against the black grill -- just a suggestion.
Nice job.

 

I always applaud any DIY and it looks good - solid effort.

Neat up the wiring and you've got a winner.

 

Nice job on the DIY!
Are all those lights Hella 500s? The inner ones look bigger than the outer ones. Very cool though!

 

I like how you have them slightly staggered from the inside to outside lights. Very rally-ish.

 

No body ever told Doc Brown to stealth the wires on his Delorean. Visible wires, if properly sealed, are fine. Function wins.

Looks good by the way.

 

I do want to tuck them up a little bit, at least on the right side in the pick.


The inner two lights are farther forward, so that's why. But like I've said in another thread, the "new" hella 500's are slightly different than the old, so many they changed the size slightly.