the wonderful dedication of maxima owners, nice work.....looks great.

 

Well, the setup I have now is HID's into the outermost projectors, which are the low-beam bowls, and then the stock infiniti 9005 halogens for the inner high-beam/running light projectors. The maxima has 3 wires going to each cluster: ground, low beam 12V, and high-beam 12V. So there are 2 12V wires going to each oem light, since the stock 9004 bulbs are dual-filament (one high/one low beam). When the daytime running lights are on, the module switches the high-beam circuit into series (connecting the two high-beam bulbs in series), reducing each to about half the voltage, and therefore reducing the "high-beams" to about half brightness.

I'm going to leave the setup this way, since it retains the DRL/highbeam functionality (and I like how it looks). You could certainly if you wanted to, also put HID's into the two inner high-beam bowls, but you will have to do some rewiring, since HID-ballasts won't like running on 6V (when the DRL's are on), and you also can't "flash" your high-beams since the HID's take a few seconds to warm up to full brightness. But IMO, leaving the inners halogen is fine.

As far as the "fog lights" down below, I actually no longer NEED those to see at night which is pretty nice, so I end up leaving them off most of the time. The other nice benefit to this is that the HID's only draw about 35W each, and with the 65W fogs off, it's alot less unnecessary load on the electrical system. I've debated rewiring to have the fog-lights as the running lights a la Audi/European style, but I'm leaving it the way it is for now.

The projectors did end up fitting pretty well into the housings, and I'm really happy with the finished product. It's not hard to do if you can fiberglass and are a little mechanically inclined, but it is time consuming. But absolutely worth it in the end.

Here are a couple pics of the finished front end:






And a gratuitus shot of the car after finally being washed after a month of rain:

 

Nice work!
On the clear lenses did you buy it from a ebay store or just a regular joe?, if its a store you mind sending me the link, I searched ebay and found nada. Thanks

 

we dont have DRLs..?

he must have manually wired up the running light feature on the inner set of lights

 

Canadian market Maximas do have DRLs, because it is required there.

 

Yes, cosmodynamic is the seller on ebay. Shipped super quick! Here is a link to another set: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/89-94...item1e59227367

 

Yes, forgot to mention that, mine is a Canadian model and did come with DRL.

 

car looks great man! they look real clean!

 

I have these head lamp housing. This is a great setup. Hope to get your advice on converting mine.