Would pay homage to the original Celica Alltrac grill too. The biggest one starts cutting into lines surrounding it and looks too big. Hey, wheres the guy looking for ideas for accessories to fabricate?

 

That’s me, it would be interesting but it would involve people cutting their bumper. Unless like tokyotexan said and do a full replacement grill

 

Here's a possible alternate location, maybe looks worse but bulbs wouldn't get shattered by rocks once a week.
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I actually really like this one. You could keep the fogs and add driving lights.

 

Looks aside, does anyone spec a big reflector driving/fog light anymore? It feels like everything has moved to small, high intensity LEDs these days.

 

In the wheel Photoshop thread they had a cool integrated set of lights. May be in the same spot as some sensors but I hope not since I'd like to fab up a mount there.

 

That looks like where the crash bar sits so you might have problems trying to flush mount them there.

In the OP I think the second size fits that space the best, the gap around the 5" makes it look like an afterthought and so does the 6" overflowing the area. Finding 5.5" lights might be tricky though. But then comparing them to the headlights, which are quite small, even the 5" ones look a little disproportionate.

 

I plan on getting this front crash bar sometime in the future, it’s made by tbperformance. It should help with room and probably can add mounting points if you know how to weld or your friend does.

 

Looks good, I like the original post for fog light location. If there is enough space behind the grille, all it would take for the aftermarket would be to come up with a grille replacement (preferably in carbon) with cutouts for the larger foglights. Sounds easy enough...here's looking at you @Cptnslo

 

I personally have no problem cutting into the black grill plastic to do a nice integrated light upgrade. That grill will certainly be a readily available replacement part if you ever wanted to go back to stock.

Here are a few more versions, and a closeup of the grille. 5.75 is a standard headlight size, used on many older cars with 4 headlights.

JW Speaker makes some very high quality lights in many sizes. Not cheap though. Products – J.W. Speaker
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Absolutely. This is how it should have been from the factory. I'll take mine with French yellow tint please.

 

And some with the lights moved inboard. Again, not sure if any of these location will work, depends on what's behind the grille, and obviously you don't want to reduce the airflow through the radiator and intercooler, etc.
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I like the 3.5" look best

 

Yeah, that looks pretty oem, they should have been that way from Toyota.

 

Standard diameter on LED projector fogs seems to be 3" & 2.5" . I don't know how the performance is affected if you drop to the 2" that look to fit a Corolla opening. But although listed as fogs, these have low and high beam patterns,
so they'd be driving lights, and the stock location is going to put the beams pretty low.
I'm not ordering anything until I know the depth behind the grille. Doubtless these are not DOT legal.

Edit; there is depth to fit these in the stock fog location if you spend some time on grille trimming and bracketry and don't mount them to low.

 

Standard diameter on LED projector fogs seems to be 3" & 2.5" . I don't know how the performance is affected if you drop to the 2" that look to fit a Corolla opening. But although listed as fogs, these have low and high beam patterns,
so they'd be driving lights, and the stock location is going to put the beams pretty low.
I'm not ordering anything until I know the depth behind the grille. Doubtless these are not DOT legal.

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IDK, I love the old school "rally" look with the huge foglights. The Evo 4-6 and the GC Impreza come to mind. I understand the LED projectors would probably have a better output, but doesn't have the "look" I prefer.
I would just go with the 5.5" halogen housings and retrofit a LED/HID projector into the housing and bam, best of both worlds.

 

90mm is about 3.5", and that's a standard size for commercial vehicles. Here's a JW Speaker version available in fog light, high beam, etc.

90mm LED Headlight - Model 93 - LED Headlights | Aftermarket & OEM Headlights | J.W. Speaker

J.W. Speaker's Model 93 5-in-1 Function 90mm LED Headlight offers customizable mounting options for direct 90mm drop-in light replacement

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I dig it!
Having them anywhere else in the grille seems to either get in the way of the intercooler or crash bar. This looks pretty darn good though imo

 

Man. I'm really like the 4.0 to 5.0 inch sizes in the factory location. Hoping someone here can make this happen and do a job that's clean looking in this regard.

My choice of light would the the Wagner 4509 sealed beam. They're aircraft landing gear lights, If memory serves they're 4 inch diameter. 13v light, 100 watt spot beam (11 degree beam angle). They would be triggered by the high beams. This is the setup I ran on my old Jetta nestled behind the lower grille opening. HUGE amounts of down- road light in rural areas.

They're cheap too.

Wamco 4509 PAR36 Landing Light Bulb | Aircraft Spruce ®

Wamco 4509 PAR36 Landing Light Bulb Wamco 4509 Par36 Landing Light Bulb.

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Man. I'm really like the 4.0 to 5.0 inch sizes in the factory location.
My choice of light would the the Wagner 4509 sealed beam.

Yeah, I think I like the 4”-5” size the best.

According to the spec sheet on your link, those old school landing lights are 4.5” and 100 watts- that’s 8 amps each, I hope to find some LED lights instead.

 

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Here is an imagine of an E210 for some comparison.

I like the look of 5” in the OP

 

I'm going to compare the output of some bi-LEDs to the 5" 100W H1 Hella FF1000 driving lights I now have on the WRX before I decide whether to hack out 5" holes in the grille. I like the big look, but want the best light. Also putting a big light means some additional weight and a different mount style and will need some structure added behind the bumper cover/grille to keep them solid.

Edit- I tested my FF1000's against a cheap 3" generic BiLed as pictured in post 13, and a NHK IV+ Bi-Led retrofit projector and they both made the Hellas look sad. I guess I'm going LED.

I'm curious what the color temp of the OEM headlights is? Might not want a blue and yellowish front beam assortment.

 

Just give me some big ass old school Piaa halogen housing ones 😍. I'll figure the rest out!

 

I'm a big fan of lights

 

Did you build or have a shop build the mounts for the lights? That setup hits good.

 

They're okay I guess.

One thing to note is if you're putting driving lights in where the fog lights are, they aren't going to work correctly if you use the stock wiring because fog lights turn off when the highbeams are turned on.

 

What about this? With a frame and a decent mounting point you may not have to cut the bumper too much. Photoshop wizards please!

 

Light pods hold to much ice and snow up front where I don't need the weight.

 

They're fugly, but I adore the look of the body-molded light pods:

 

Mother of god

 

@rallycorolla that thing is the sun with a side of Subaru.

 

Still not as bright as the lifted trucks I see on the highway at night 😔

The duality of man

I contain multitudes 😌

 

I’ll obviously wait to get my car and investigate the actual space for mounting extra lights, but I did find these PIAA LED driving lights, about 5” diameter.

They usually show them with fugly black grilles attached, but turns out those snap off easily.
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Piaa 05572 White 5-3/16-Inches Round LED Driving Light Lamp Kit with Mounting Brackets and Wiring Harness and Relay and Switch, Pack of 2

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I should have time to start working on some CAD tomorrow for these

 

rallycorolla said:

They're fugly

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