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 posted on January 3rd, 2004 at 04:42 PM |
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Wide Eye vs Bug Eye
In your opinion what is better in terms of looks and performance? I've been thinking of maybe eventually changing my baja to a bug eye but
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Anthiron
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 posted on January 3rd, 2004 at 10:35 PM |
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check this out for a phat bug eye
this has a 22inch clearance.......apart from that i think bug eyes look good but it depnds on whether u can be botherd really to change it lol....oh
and the cost:P
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Craig Torrens
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| posted on January 4th, 2004 at 09:15 AM |
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Well I had a bug eye, and I loved the look ! I had the headlights mounted on top of the guards(like buggies) and I had Hella 186 spotlights mounted in
the nose cone. As for performance, I found that you could climb rock faces easy as the front face of the wheels were in front of the guard, I assume
this is an advantage over the wide eye design, not too sure , never owned a wide eye:thumb
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| posted on January 4th, 2004 at 09:47 AM |
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All the bug eye kits I have seen have thicker front guards which without the headlights makes them stronger.....but the problem is that the headlights
are too close together having them mounted in the nosecone......I'm not sure what the measurement is in QLD for the distance between headlights,
but it is a safety issue.......Imagine your traveling along the highway, go to overtake a car , and the car coming the other way looks further away
than it really is because the headlights are closer together.....
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Craig Torrens
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| posted on January 4th, 2004 at 11:34 AM |
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your right about the headlights being to close:thumb great for spotties
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Baja Wes
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| posted on January 7th, 2004 at 11:20 AM |
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I think you will find that bug-eyed baja's would need to have headlights mounted on the gaurds to be legal these days. I am pretty sure that the
headlights in the nose cone is too close together to be legal. Already registered bug-eyed kits would probably get by though.
I personally think the bug-eyed kits are ugly. Just a personal preference :thumb
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| posted on January 7th, 2004 at 09:01 PM |
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i had my bug-eyed baja go through the roadworthy about 18 months ago when i sold her,no probs at all, well apart from the leaky gearbox from way to
many hard lands but we'll forget bout that right.. that was in C-QLD..never know still mite be able to do as i thing the bug-eyed is the
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| posted on January 8th, 2004 at 04:57 PM |
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I wonder if the legality of bug eyes has something to do with the age of the pan. Old serise 2 land rovers had their headlights close together, the
later serise 2A and 3, landies had them in the gaurds because of Australian standards.
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| posted on January 9th, 2004 at 09:37 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by DubCrazy
i had my bug-eyed baja go through the roadworthy about 18 months ago...
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was that going through a roadworthy, or getting a certificate for the baja conversion?
getting a roadworthy should've involved using the old baja approval papers, in which case they wouldn't care what kit was on it.
However trying to get a newly fitted close eyes kit approved would probably be much more difficult.
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