I have been thinking of adding driving lights to my 88GT. I was debating on where to mount them, but it looks like the most common place is above the front wing. (the air supply to the radiator) First off, I really don't want to do any drilling of any kind. Is there a way to attach the lights well enough that they won't fall off without cutting holes? Also, does adding the little round lights affect cooling much? I was always told not to put something in front of the radiator like that, but it seems the many others do without problems.

What are good lights to get? I was thinking of some thing hopefully less than $60, I'm a poor starving college student.

Last thing: Is there a good way to run wires under the ash tray? I had thought of mounting the switch in the ash tray cavity so that you'd just flip up the door and hit the switch. Can you run wires like that from the front? How many starving college students will i need for that operation?

Wow, i ask a lot of questions!! Thanks guys!!

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You might be able to bend up a bracket that will mount the lights to some support metal just above the air dams under there. I've seen it done on a pace car and it looked as if the bracket hanged down vertical and even was slotted so you could adjust the height of the lights in the opening.

Don't know what's good to buy for lights, not into those.

Yep, you can run wires under the console. You will need to unscrew the 4, 7mm screws under the ashtrays and unscrew the shift knob, if your's is a manual, to remove the shift console. The wires could be ran competely under center console and you could probably tuck them up between the carpet and radio console and into the footwell to avoid unbolting anything else. Drilling a hole and running the wire thru a grommet thru the front firewall would be the safest approach and same for up in the spare tire well. Make sure to use the recommended gauge wire for the lights. For the switch you might be able to drill a hole in one of the ashtrays for a toggle switch. Hopefully this gives you some ideas...

Brent

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There is a front fire wall too? That sucks, i was hoping that there would be some sort of way to run wire through it without drilling. What kind of wire did they use to make a bracket? I have a huge supply of the steel that they use for campaign signs. I had also thought of making something that would wrap around the center part of that opening, but hadn't figured out what else to anchor it to.

Thanks for any help, I was really hoping not to have to drill any holes, but i'll have to check on that one.

BTW, i'm still trying to figure out some time ago how someone had talked about a code that is on the front fender sticker that would tell me if my automatic tranny is a performance one, or just a gas saver one. I know that it is stock. if anybody knows what i'm talking about please respond, cause i have no clue.

Thanks all!!

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Open your hood and look on the inner (spare tire compartment side) fenderwell. There should be a small (5x8?) piece of paper completely taped over that has a bunch of codes on it. Those are the RPOs (I think that's what their called). One of those should tell you (once it's decoded) which tranny you have.

What code am i looking for? Or is there a web page where if you type them all in will decode them all?

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If you open the hood and look over next to the steering collumn you will see a gromet with some wires through it. I snaked some wires there.

Good luck.

Bill Adamson

I used a small aluminum clamp that I got at the hardware store. It's about 2-1/2 inches long, with about a 1/2 inch lip and about 3/8 - 1/2 inch high. It's shaped like a squared "C". The bottom edge holds two screws, one at each end. I placed the light, attached to its mounting bracket, to the back of the facia opening. The top of the clamp slid over the mounting bracket and the bottom of the clamp slid underneath the facia lip. The facia lip and the light bracket were sandwiched between the top and the bottom of the clamp. Tighten the screws. The clamps can't be seen and allow the lights to be adjusted. Mine have been on for about four years and haven't fallen off yet.

My lights are mounted to the metal brace behind the front duct. I just added a spacer plate to lower them. They are the projector type of driving lights and the front edge is even with the back of the duct. You don't need to mount them in the duct, just right behind it. Note this will cut down the side angle of a fog light. Mine are driving lights.

I was thinking of mounting them on the two vertical metal braces that are in front of the radiator. Looks like a good place to do it. I see what you mean about the side viewing action though. I was thinking of getting the projectors too. Are they meant to throw light on the side or just forward?

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Just forward. Sometimes they're referred to as a pencil beam. True driving lights shine a very narrow but long light whereas real fog lights shine a very short but very wide beam.