MaXiMaGiRL

dual projectors in my cefiros.

VIP Maxima

very nice, ur doing it urself?

MaXiMaGiRL

yeah. being my first time trying this, i spent like 7 to 8 hours doing it because i didnt want to mess up anything and wanted everything neat and clean. and i only did the passanger side, next weekend im doing the drivers side.

nguyen925

wow thats how i invisioned my headlamps would turn out one day. did you have alot of trouble wiring up the angel eyes with the projectors?

MaXiMaGiRL

well, u see, i havent have any trouble doing so cuz is not done yet. i finished the final baking of the headlights a bit over an hour ago, and i was so tired i just wanted to come to bed and put it on and the only thing i connected was the hid. besides, i have to buy more wire to ground the angel eyes, and that will get done tomorrow. glad you like it

nismos14

iTrader: (56)

They look odd, almost too close together.

PhilipBarrar

Hey once your done could you list a parts list and steps involved in making these?

MaXiMaGiRL

all the information you need can be found here

http://forums.nycmaximas.org/showthread.php?t=13638

that is a copy of the original link from maxgtr2000 which is the original creator of this mod, but i dont have the link he made right now.

i used some different parts, for example, i used 2 pairs of projectors instead of 1 and additional small fog lights. i didnt use pvc tubing either, and at the end, i just didnt finish doing the instructions cuz i had a pretty idea of what needed to be done since i've been researching this mod for weeks now. hope that helps.

MaXiMaGiRL

yeah, i thought so too when i saw it done last night after i mounted the headlight in the car and took the pictures. since this weekend i'll be working on the other headlight, i might want to go ahead and fix this one as well.

nismos14

iTrader: (56)

I would spread'em apart maybe an inch or so. I'm not really feeling the angel eyes, but I'm sure they look better when their on. Do you have any pics without them on?

QuiksilverMusic

I love em. I think once theyve been spread apart a bit, theyll look even better. Ill definately look into doin this nice little project once i get the headlights.

Flava_24/7

iTrader: (46)

I dont think she does, she stated before she wasnt finished when nguyen925asked if she had any troubles wiring up the angel eyes.
As far as them being to close together, they kinda have to be. There is just not enough room to space them out without having the projectors sitting cocked to weird angles.


MaXiMaGiRL,
Have you created the wiring harness yet? Do you plan on having the lows on while the Highs are on?
Are they both actual HID projectors or are you running one halogen projector?
If there both HID, your running two sets of ballast per headlight?
Have you checked your beam patterns yet? Running duals you want to make sure the projectors are mounted exactly the same so there beam pattern is level with each other.
You should wire them up and test before you consider them done, get them mounted and wired to find out that none of them are level with each other and then have to reaim the projectors.

Iron Scimitar

iTrader: (38)

I thought of this project 2 years ago. I didn't have the ***** or the $$ to do it.

Good luck w/ it Wut kinda projectors are those from? I agree w/ everyone...they are kinda close together.

MaXiMaGiRL

well, i cant spread them much more because the beamer projector (used for low beams) is mounted exactly in the original bulb hole from the headlight. it didnt fit correctly, so i dremeled the sides a bit and was able to fit it tight. also, since the 7 series projectors wudnt take the 9007 hid bulb i have, i had to dremel that to take off all the extra metal and make it fit tight as well. since i wanted the beamer projector exactly where the original hole was, i had to work myself around the tiny space left to put the other projector, thats why they came out too close. i think that if instead of using a 2nd projector i had used small fog lights, they wud've been a bit further apart. but still, i wanted to give it a more personal touch and not do what most people are doing, thats why i went with a second projector instead. pics with the angel eyes on, i owe them to you till this weekend. havent have time to wire them yet.

MaXiMaGiRL

the ones for the low beams are 7 series projectors, the other ones are from a 00 accord aftermarket headlights that i had bought for another project, but didnt do that, so i opened them up and used those projectors instead. and yes, is pricey. maybe i wud've paid a lot less if i had send it to maxgtr2000 to do it for me, but there's not better feeling that knowing you did it yourself, and thats what i feel proud of, that most of my mods i've done them with this 2 still a bit unexperienced hands.

D-Bo

iTrader: (9)

Nice mod... Looking forward to finished pics!

MaXiMaGiRL

wow, a lot of questions. ok.

no wire harness yet/no bulb installed on the 2nd projector yet, till im done with the second headlight. so far im just running my regular hid bulb on the beamer projector only, which will be the low beam of course.

yes, i plan on having the highs on with the low beam, which i will control with another switch just like my strobes and my fog lights (i have a gxe)

1 is hid projector, the other is halogen projector. even tho i'd like to install another set of hids in the halogen projector, if i do, i'd run another set of ballasts. of course, i wanna do that very carefully. if i do put hids on the halogen projectors, it will be just for show, maybe to just have them on for a couple of minutes and thats it because i dont wanna mess it up and i dont want to blind others with 3 sets of hids driving all the time.

yes, both beam patterns are fine, leveled and working good. i did check before i mounted the headlight. i tested my hid on one of them and a flash light on the other. they leveled fine.


now, i have a question for you. when i opened the accord headlights to take out the projector, i was surprised it was glass because i thought that since you can only put halogens, it wud be some kind of plastic cuz after all, those are the cheap aftermarket lights. so ok, is glass, just like the 7 series projectors, then why is it that i can only put halogens on those and not hids? since is glass also, it wont melt. then what wud be the problem with it? thats where im still a bit confused. thank you.

MaXiMaGiRL

thank you much. glad you like it

D-Bo

iTrader: (9)

Like Karim, it's something I've always wanted to do myself...

Flava_24/7

iTrader: (46)

HIDs actually run cooler then halogens, except at the initial warming up period. You can run HIDs in there if you wish, it just that the beam pattern may not be the same as with the halogens. The light may be a bit scattered due to the sheilds inside the projectors.

Iron Scimitar

iTrader: (38)

Are the bimmer projectors bixenon?

MaXiMaGiRL

oh, ok. because some honda owner once told me that you cudnt run hids on halogen projectors because they wud melt, and when i opened it up and saw glass instead i was a bit confused, but thanks for clarification.

MaXiMaGiRL

yes they are. maybe in the future i put bi-xenons hids there as well, thats something i've thought of, but still, is only a thought.

Metal Maxima

iTrader: (30)

If you are doing this yourself, why do I only see picture of the completed project?

MaXiMaGiRL

because since i was by myself, i had nobody to take pictures of me while doing it. im a hard believer that if i want to learn to do something right, i must do it myself. and i want to be able to say without hesitation that most of the work in my car has being done by me, thats why i'd rather go the extra mile and research different mods and stuff so i can be able to pull it off on my own. Dan, if i have my cousin around when i get to do the other headlamp, i'll ask her to take pics and post them for you. how u been by the way? i havent seen u around in a long time. i hope you are doing great.

MaXiMaGiRL

ooh, btw, i do have some pics while doing them. of course you dont see me cuz i took the pics, but i'll post them later on to show some of the work in progress.

Metal Maxima

iTrader: (30)

Get the damn pics up already, Kay! They look pretty d'amn good.

MaXiMaGiRL

ok, here they are the rest of the pics.

just out of the oven





items needed





testing the angel eyes with a 9 volt battery, to see how they will look on the projector.

MaXiMaGiRL

right in the middle of the work, i stopped to snap this pic of the headlamp on my lap. i know it was a bit messy, cuz at that point, i was still drilling a lot to make the other projector fit.

Black Maxima

Hand pornography, gross. NWS

Nice project and I'm sure it will look awesome once it's done.

alicious

iTrader: (8)

looks good, especially like the angeleyes

MaXiMaGiRL

here are the pics of my final work. the 2nd headlamp did it in half the time and the fitment was much much better. since i already had the experience of the first one, this one wasnt hard at all. it was a lot of fun to do it, with the exception that i almost get cut with the dremel saw.

some pics.

fresh out of the oven

MaXiMaGiRL

almost there






test fit

MaXiMaGiRL

finally on!!






no, the angel eyes are not blue, they are extremely pure white. the pic distored the color a bit.

86maxima96

iTrader: (10)

wow, looks awesome in the cefiros! definitely some nice work

ethnic6

iTrader: (5)

hmmm I think it should have been maybe half an inch apart, so u could see both individual eyes instead of the figure 8 going on there, but still, very impressive and an awesome job, looks great

bigpulve+

iTrader: (11)

I personnaly really like they way she did it that figure eight look. Looks really good with them on. Nice job maximagirl.

MaXiMaGiRL

thank u guys. i swear i tried to make them as separate as i could, but if you see in the first picture, there wasnt enough room i could play with to move the second projector. i wanted to have the main projector stay where the bulb is supposed to go, so that left me very little space to play around with the other one.

maxgtr2000

iTrader: (29)

I wouldn't say I created the mod, I just saw Homermac do it on his I30 and I figured I could do it on the maxima. As maximagirl can probably tell you this is not really an easy mod, quite a bit of work goes into it because it is basically a light hack, hack, test fit, hack, test fit, rinse , repeat. Time consuming. Cefiros are a little less forgiving because there is not much space, especially in the back because the aiminig housing is fully enclosed except for where the bulbs go. Props to you for trying this. P.m me if you need any help on the lights or harness when you get ready to do it.

BTW my original thread HERE.

MaXiMaGiRL

well, i guess we're just doing what others and others (very few tho) have done in the past. lol. omg, you have no idea, oh yeah you do, of how long it took me. so damn time consuming yet so worth it at the end. my neighbors looked at me weird cuz every time i wud go outside and test fit the open cefiro on the car to see if i was aiming the projectors correctly.

the 2nd headlamp was done in half the time tho because i understood your write up much better and had done 1 already. and yes, is more uncomfortable doing it in the cefiro headlight because of the lack of room, thats why mine cam out as a very close number eight. lol. well, i can be a little different too, that's no biggie. thanks for the original link, and thanks for the offer on bothering you if i ever have any questions. glad you liked my work.