Finally done!! time to brag a bit.

all lights off


CCFL on

 

HID and CCFL on

 

Very Nice job man

 

side shot, these are dim, i didn't have a tripot with me so had to use fast shutter. its way brighter in real life.

 

clean 10chars

 

We neeed a freaking write up on this ****. Its irritating me, I'm jealous as hell.

 

I waaaaant those. So badly. I feel like crap when I drive the 6th Gen one night and then the next night I drive the 4th Gen with the crappy lights. So jealous that my dad pays for that car.

 

yea a write up would be good...maybe i'd be the first with that in a g35 in the headlights n fogz

 

ah sorry i didn't take pictures of the process so i can't do a proper write up. but if anybody have any questions, i'll be very happy to help where i can. basically what i did was:
1) bake headlights at 200* for 10 minutes, pry apart front lens, and tape up the ridge where the glue sits so i don't get dust and debris inside.
2) using a dremel with cutting disk, i cut off the back portion of the light where the 9004 bulb goes.
3) cut a piece of sheet metal to size and cover up the back side which is one big rectangluar hole after cutting, the metal also serves as the back plate where the projector mounts
4) cut a hole in the middle of the sheet metal plate where the projector will stick out. drill 3 holes like - =, like 3 out of 4 corners in a rectangle.
5) use jbweld and glue the backplate to the headlight housing and let it cure overnight.
6) mount the projector to the backplate with three 3" bolts and wing nuts. the two diagnal bolts/nuts will be the up/down and left/right adjustment. i did that to center the projector inside the headlight. i used the stock adjustment screw to make the final aiming.
7) seal up the back where the projector sticks out with sillicone so no water gets inside the headlight.
8) once the projector is mounted and secure, heat the headlight glue again and put the front lens back on.

i assume you guys know how to wire up ballasts to light the hid bulb.

and there it is. simple as, well, building HID lights from parts.

 

Damn they look awesome, you should consider making more to sell for a small profit.

 

ive been wanting to do this so bad, i just dont know a thing about hids so i dont really trust myself.

 

by the way, how long did it take you to do this install, and what are ballasts? ive never heard of them before. also, did your projectors come with the harness to wire them up or did you have to buy an hid kit as well. and my last question, with a kit, can you change to diff bulbs whenever you want, like change from a 6000k to a 12000k using the same kit? sorry for all the questions, but i dont know much about hid's.

 

Looking great. Another succesfull HID project completed.

 

THAt LookS SICK!!!!!

What car did they come from,
total cost

 

lovely.

yea what type of projectors.

i need a list of all the parts to collect to do my set.

ballasters, igniters, bulbs, projectors- i know i'm overlooking something. shrouds?

oh you got a PM.

 

That looks hot. Great Job

 

thats a great cutoff line. what projector did u use?

 

lookin good. I just got an HID conversion kit and plan on doing projectors aswell.

which projectors did you use and how much did you pay for them?

 

Looks really good!!

Your car looks familiar... A little TOO familiar

 

lol tha'ts what i thought. i'm also curious what kinda hid setup you went with.

 

heard TL's the best

 

That funny cuz i thought the S2000's were the best projectors

 

very hot dude - major props. i need to stop looking at these bc it puts me one step closer to dropping another $400+ to do this awesome mod.

 

That is hot. Very nice.

 

They have a VERY sharp cutoff line, but different people have different opinions on which is actually "best"

 

Looks real Goooooooood Always wanted HID's but with my car been parked on the street of Brooklyn with the projects just a few blocks away its just wouldn't work for long....

 

Ye, which projectors did you use? do you have highbeams?
Please list all the parts for the retro, not including bulbs and ballasts.

 

how much would you charge to do this to mine?

 

wow, sh!tload of questions. let me post some pictures first.
some daytime pics after a wash this morning - everything off



CCFL rings on. they're pretty bright even in middle of the day. CCFL is way brighter than the cheaper LED based angel eyes and OEM bmw angel eyes that feed thru a fiber optic cable.

 

everything on

 

never nice, but i would like a nicer shot of the cut off

 

i used TSX projectors in this retrofit because i got a great deal on two sets on ebay. i'll be doing my tC next. i spent about $350 a set including projectors, ballasts, and bulbs. the S2K projectors have a sharper cutoff than TSX, but are $300-330 for just the projectors alone. TL projectors are even more expensive. TL projectors are bi-xenon, tsx and s2k are low beams only. the best projectors out right now are the LS430s. brighter and wider than S2k and tsx but around $400 for just the projectors. All these are made by Stanley, and output from all of these are better than the german counters parts like hella and bosch.

so for me, this retro costed me about $350 which is waaaaaay worth it considering sh!tty HID kits are almost $300. for the maxima, i used tsx projectors, bmw ballasts made by bosch, and osram 4100k bulbs. you can plug in other bulbs with higher kelvin rating, but they are usually cheap asian bulbs that won't last very long. however, phillip makes 6000K bulbs, the ultineon or something. they're bluer but a whole lot more expensive. all OEM manufacturers use either phillips or osram 4100k bulbs. the blue and purple you see from audis and bmws is from the color band at the cutoff and usually visible from far away. upclose the light is bright white.

as of right now i don't have time to do retros for others, yet. i still have my other car to do. maybe at a later date i can offer the service in the forsale forum

 

well done! now can i borrow em for a few days to see how they look on my car?

 

i'd be scare that you won't return them once you tried them on...

 

here's an update with some pictures of the cutoff

 

a job well done. Amen!

 

The last pic should be you sig.

 

you mod those tsx's @ all? doesnt look it in the pics, if not you should. you can get a ton of color w/ tsx'x and still have a razor sharp cuttoff. you can either shimm the shield or put 2 washers on the nipples at the bottom of the projector. either way gives lot of color.
the pic below is a set of TSX's w/ shimmed sheilds i did for another org member. mmmmmmmm color


(MDX's in sig)

 

i can vouch that TL and MDX projectors have the most distinct cutoff lines of reasonably priced cars.

 

I must say, they look VERY good... I like them more then my factory HID's.. I am certainly impressed.... great job man!