I am considering withholding all information of how I did the mod so I will have a more unique escort and fewer people would be inclined to do it, but I´m not going to be an asshole about it so I´ll let you in on the 411. This mod is totally killer. It does for the look about what a set of new wheels will do. However, it´s very very dfficult to fabricate a bracket to hold the new lights, and in my case it required modification of the old bracket, the bumper, part of the frame of the car, the corner lights, adjustment of hood height, grille height, and significant modification to the original E36 bracket. If you´ve got a spare few days to toy around with different ideas and enjoy a challenge then you´re good to go, but this is definetly not to be taken as a "bolt in" mod by any means.
In terms of how they line up with the grille and bumper, they´re perfect width-wise, not quite as tall as the stock lights, but still look good, and run into the bumper when the bumper "ramps up" to the grille. You have to cut the bumper a little bit to get them to fit right. If I get a camera I´ll show you what I did. Brackets are a pain in the ass like you wouldn´t believe. Took me 2 days to get the brackets to fit right and I´m still working on fine tuning the beam trajectory.
Then the high and low beams... those are easiest part of the job. there are two sets of bulb holders in the E36 headlights I used, and you have to do a little splicing of the old wiring harness and you have to create a new ground for a bulb and you´re set. Took me about 2 hours to complete all the electrical work and it´s very clean and straightfoward.
The way it looks is great. I got the blue tinted halogen low beams and it makes the escort look really mean. If I can ever get the angeleyes in those headlights I´ll be as happy as a pig in shit, but I´m pretty happy with the results as-is.
The angeleye rings I got on ebay for a pretty penny, and they´re really nice quality and such, but I don´t want to destroy such a nice pair of lights to get them in so I may not do it.
Here´s a pic of the rings. If I had a camera I could show you what they looked like lit up. They´re really good rings.