Now that finals are over I am finally going to put the projectors that I have been putting off for more than a year. These projectors have no cutoff shield, but the projector bowl seems to do a good job of not dispersing the light, which surprised me, you be the judge.
dark photo


here are two without using flash but show more of what light is being let out



picture with full flash being used

soft flash


Do I need to create a cutoff shield of my own, or is the light acceptable? All of the scattered light shown on the pictures looks dimmer in person.

 

I would use a cutoff, as the further back you go the higher that glare will go.

 

ok, looks like I will have to fashion one out of sheet aluminum. One more question, How do I do the color mod for these projectors? Is it just placing washers on the bottom 2 screws????

 

take a picture of the projector and i may be able to help you it looks as if you have a set of highbeam projectors youll need to get low beams tho

but before we go into all of that take a picture of the projector

 

here ya go, bad pictures, but I hope they help anyways(HID projector). They have NO cutoff shield, so I was thinking of making one for them

 

the big issue right now is fabricating the cutoff shields. I bought some small sheets of aluminum from the Depo and I am going to take another go tomorrow at fabricating these babies. So far the light isn't too dispersed by the stock glass, and adds stealth (in my neighborhood it isn't good if people know you have something expensive in your car, it won't stay on for long)

 

I finished with most everything and my headlights are on my car. The only thing I wasn't able to finish was the fabrication of a cutoff shield. Oh well, it is worlds better than my last setup, when it comes to light output and glare as well(relatively small glare. Only nighttime will definitely tell though

 

update: finished fabricating cutoff shields, gonna wait till nighttime to test it out, so far looks good though

tell me what ya think.(I know the drivers side projector is a little off to the side, will fix that later.)

 

after you get those sheilds on you gotta take off that glass if not its gonna kill your cutoff foreals and get some shrouds and flat black paint to dress it up

 

It's not even that'll kill your cutoff. It'll scatter the light and cause glare. Looking good though!

S

 

A bit off topic...but...Mr Blue Sky do you like ELO?? hahahaha...

The Max looks beautiful btw!!

 

how did you know I like ELO??? hehe. Thanks for the compliment on the car.
BTW, are you going to go to the big oxnard meet on january 27th??? here is the link if you are interested http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=502349

BTW this is how the headlights look when the lights are off, you can hardly tell there is a projector in there, which I like

 

here are some cutoff pics at 5 feet from the wall.

 

looks good and bright

 

looks good but i thought that youd be one to shohw what you got

its flat (the cutoff) flatter than i expected

 

I like those. I never thought about buying them though.

 

The actual retrofit takes a while due to the small vertical space in our headlight. HID gives so much more output than regular halogen, that I feel it is worth the time I invested. If you're going to go and get HID, you should also buy some HID projectors and retrofit them in, HID kits in reflector housings are known to cause glare(even in OEM HID) and they can possibly cause accidents. That is why most auto manufacturers are using Projector headlamps in their more high end applications, and especially in SUVs(which are notorious for blinding oncoming traffic due to their height).

BTW: I just colormodded my projectors yesterday, and I am loving them even more now.

 

i can sell you those lenses that will make you love them more

20 shipped

 

Sorry, have to post ***** so that I can get some advice on my speedometer problem. Just bought a 88 maxima

 

Looks good