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Well.... It's been a couple years......but I finally found some time again to work on Cibie Bi-Iode headlight units.
I had the Cibie 190 Bi-Iode inserts in a box for the past 3 years, waiting for some spare time to come up.....
A new job and to many slowly progressing Porsche projects prevented me from completing this task, but I've been able to complete 3 sets.
This set is the budget set, with the Bi-Iode units I've been driving around with on my HotRod. (My hotrod now sports clear silver units)
In this set I have used a set of Used original SB19 20 21 lenses that have only a little sand blasting, pitting and scratches, but were still very nice and way to good to throw away.
(I've thrown away about 3 out of 4 with these used lenses, because they were not good enough for my standards)
These have fresh black painted rings that are very nice, but one of the mounting holes is a bit enlarged, still holds fine with the original mounting screws Eric Linden manufactures.
(But I'll throw a nice used chrome ring in the package, just in case you have issues with it over time, so you can paint and replace it)
The buckets on these are good replica buckets that have been blasted and powder coated. A nice set that will look good on any decebt driver hotrod and won't need you to break a bank.
About the Repro Bi-Iodes:
Let me start with "they are not really repro's", but real used Cibie Bi-Iode units, just a little bigger that the original, similar in appearance:
I've been working on converting the similar slightly bigger Citroen DS Cibie Bi-iode units and converting them is quite labour intensive, so it takes me a couple of evenings to do that the right way....and off course I have been searching for buckets, rings and glasses for a couple of months, so I can offer a complete set.
The bigger ones won't fit into the SWB USA light inner buckets, however they do fit inside the SWB Hella USA light outer buckets. Problem with these Citroen units is that the bulb holders have very long extension made for the Citroen light housings to be able to replace the bulb from the inner front wing / wheel well. Also the mounting method is entirely different on these. I've adjusted all that on the repro's to make them fit.
In my opinion, porsche should have used these bigger lights in the first place. There really is no benefit to use a 2nd metal bucket inside the outer bucket. (Which they did not do for the H1 and H4 lights) they even could have done without the glass on the Cibie units and use a fluted hella glass to shave off some more weight of the racers. (But it was probably a sponsor thing more than actual form follows function principle...)
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