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Originally Posted by KiLLeR2001
I am a bit surprised you didn't opt to get the OEM S14 kouki German glass headlights (similar in construction as the JDM headlights but with proper LHD beam pattern).
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I did have the German glass 95-95 zenki headlights a looong time ago before they were easier to buy here. A friend of mine met a guy from Germany around 2002 who, coincidentally, owned a body shop in Germany. So he ordered the headlights in Germany and then shipped them here. As I recall, no beam pattern changes were needed on the German lights because their cars are LHD like the US.
When I did the kouki conversion, I sold those and installed the glass USDM 97-98 headlights. Had I used the JDM 97-98 lights, then a beam pattern correction would have been needed due to JDM being RHD.
Here are some before/after pics of my car in bone stock form compared to the 97-98 swap I did in 2008. I learned the champagne gold color was only an option in the US in 95-96, but not on the 97-98 models in the US. And it was never an option in Japan for any S14s that I could find in any Japanese S14 brochures. I briefly worried about that color combo with this body, but couldn't have been happier with the results.
