What should I do to make my car look better
Well since ur not going to lower it I say convert to the one piece headlights and an aftermarket grille, not a whole lot u can do. Oh and paint your lowers to match your car, that will give it a lowered effect.
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Headlights
You can go the cheaper route (as most do when upgrading headlight) and buy ecodes. Or you can spend about double or triple(?) the cost and get OEM Valeo housings.
For ecodes, they have chrome and black housings. The black housings can look really nice on a silver car, not so sure how it'd look on dark green. ImTheDevil has them on his. You may want to search through old Meet threads for pictures of his or maybe someone will be able to pull them up for you.
Chrome:
99-01 AUDI A4 / 00-02 S4 B5 EURO ECODE CHROME CLEAR SIGNALS PROJECTOR HEADLIGHTS | eBay
Black:
99-01 AUDI A4/S4 B5 1-PIECE BLACK ECODE PROJECTOR HEADLIGHTS | eBay
CCA4 wrote a DIY for the job:
2-Piece to 1-Piece Headlight Conversion - AudiFreaks
The cleanest route for wiring the headlights is with new harness connectors, like these from ECS:
Audi B5 A4 Quattro 1.8T > Lighting > Headlights > ES#86 A4 European Headlight Wiring Harness - A4UROWIRINGKIT-A
If you search through part-outs here, Audizine's classifieds, and VWVortex Audi Classifieds you should be able to source them for $20 shipped. At a junkyard, they may ask $5-10.
Once you swap to clear corner headlights, you'll probably want to swap out the orange side markers which are $20 shipped on eBay.
Exhaust
Swapping the resonator out for a vibrant resonator from Magnaflow coupled with a Magnaflow 14815 or 14816 (same muffler, different tips) sounds really nice on 12V V6's.
(Will also look better..but not really the point)
You can go the cheaper route (as most do when upgrading headlight) and buy ecodes. Or you can spend about double or triple(?) the cost and get OEM Valeo housings.
For ecodes, they have chrome and black housings. The black housings can look really nice on a silver car, not so sure how it'd look on dark green. ImTheDevil has them on his. You may want to search through old Meet threads for pictures of his or maybe someone will be able to pull them up for you.
Chrome:
99-01 AUDI A4 / 00-02 S4 B5 EURO ECODE CHROME CLEAR SIGNALS PROJECTOR HEADLIGHTS | eBay
Black:
99-01 AUDI A4/S4 B5 1-PIECE BLACK ECODE PROJECTOR HEADLIGHTS | eBay
CCA4 wrote a DIY for the job:
2-Piece to 1-Piece Headlight Conversion - AudiFreaks
The cleanest route for wiring the headlights is with new harness connectors, like these from ECS:
Audi B5 A4 Quattro 1.8T > Lighting > Headlights > ES#86 A4 European Headlight Wiring Harness - A4UROWIRINGKIT-A
If you search through part-outs here, Audizine's classifieds, and VWVortex Audi Classifieds you should be able to source them for $20 shipped. At a junkyard, they may ask $5-10.
Once you swap to clear corner headlights, you'll probably want to swap out the orange side markers which are $20 shipped on eBay.
Exhaust
Swapping the resonator out for a vibrant resonator from Magnaflow coupled with a Magnaflow 14815 or 14816 (same muffler, different tips) sounds really nice on 12V V6's.
(Will also look better..but not really the point)
Why don't you want to lower it?
Convert to the Ecodes Skythe posted, add an S4 or RS4 grille. If possible convert to a facelifted bumper (99.5-01) for the added foglights, clear fender markers. Not much else without lowering it.
