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Old Nov 12, 2006 | 04:29 PM
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Maxima R34 Type Dual Reflector Headlights INSTALLED

The moment you've all been waiting for!





Headlights are 9006 low beam and 9005 high beam. They come pre-wired with an adapter to change our 9004 connector into a seperate low/high setup. All you do is plug in the connector and you're good to go. The headlights even come with new bulbs.

To bolt in the headlight, they included a small bracket that bolts into the 2 mounting holes on the outer side of the headlight/corner area. The new headlight then bolts into the bracket. The other two mounting points on the inner part of the headlight slip right into the stock mounting holes.



As far as fitment goes, it sits flush with the fenders, body and grill. And they do "bolt right in", HOWEVER, they do not fit perfectly. The mounting points were a little bit off and I had to cut away some of the plastic in order for the grill to fit. Not hard, you just need 30 seconds and a razor knife or drill of some sort. You need to enlarge these two plastic mounting holes. You'll know what I mean when you try to bolt on your grill (it won't really fit that well).



Disclaimer: I apologize for the low quality of the pictures but my new 8mp digital camera I bought from newegg broke, and instead of sending me a replacement camera, they sent me a refund. Go figure.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 04:29 PM
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The headlights are TRUE DUAL reflector. The separator in the middle does NOT allow any light to pass through.





Fitment is pretty GOOD.



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Installed pics:



Corners


High beams:


Low and fogs:
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 04:34 PM
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Looking good! First person to install them too, very nice
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 04:34 PM
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those look MOTHER F'N SIIIIIIIIIIICK
WOW, they are even plug and play like stated, the harness is already done!
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 04:38 PM
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how is the beam pattern? they look great!!! give us a head-on shot of both.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 04:38 PM
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Very very nice!!! Take some pics with the good closed from the front.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 04:38 PM
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VERY nice....must see more
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 04:43 PM
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sick man now i got to have them
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 04:51 PM
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Excellent, somones ganna make a lot of money... Thanks for testing them out for us. I must have logged on at least 20 times today to check if you had tested them.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 04:54 PM
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Nice. I'll definately have to pick up a pair of these. Please let us know how the light output is when you find out.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 04:56 PM
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omfg... they look awesome ! Best looking headlights i've ever seen on a 4th gen ! cant wait for ppl to retrofit them w/ projectors !
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 04:58 PM
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they fit better than cefiro 1piece i guess? did you installed these in the parking lot?
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:00 PM
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ewuzh, did you notice if the lens is glass or plastic?
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:04 PM
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those are sex. now that annoying gap the cefiros left won't be an issue for me. i'm getting these if the lowbeam pattern is decent.
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ewuzh, did you notice if the lens is glass or plastic?
i'm 99% sure its plastic... not many manufacturers make headlights w/ glass lenses anymore.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:05 PM
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and now to see the AE'd ones.....
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by NYC32798
ewuzh, did you notice if the lens is glass or plastic?
Lens is plastic.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:08 PM
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and now to see the AE'd ones.....
yea lets hope its a black maxima as well.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:12 PM
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i wonder if you can change the bulbs
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:13 PM
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sick... great shots
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:15 PM
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**** is sexy.. good job

then i scrolled down to see "plastic" which made me less angry at myself for not waiting for these. i wanna see the black versions installed as well...

get diamond bumper lights to go with your lights. youll be 3x happier when u see the difference
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:15 PM
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Look goods. I want to see the black housings and I'm also wondering about upgrading the lights....
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:17 PM
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sooooooooo tempted but i wont be able to use my D2S bulbs.
i may have to get even more creative.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:17 PM
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I wonder what the difference is between the ones that acekogyo is selling and the ones that racinghouse is selling. Ewuzh, who did you buy from?
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:25 PM
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WOW!! HOORAY for the guinea pig!

Very nice job, excelent pics man. I am interested!! The smoothness of them gets me hooked!
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:26 PM
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Wow not bad at all. I didn't think they would look to good, but I was very wrong.
Good to see new products still coming out.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:31 PM
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So its safe to say the test was a complete success?
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:33 PM
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These are the acekogyo lights. They are most likely the same thing.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:39 PM
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Night time:

Beam pattern is not very good. From the factory the lights were aimed really low. Good thing there was an adjustment screw on the back so I raised them up. Unfortunately light output is not better than the stock 9004. There seems to be a hotspots in the beam pattern. Because of this, I say these are an ideal candidate for a projector retro.



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damn that looks like some pretty horrible output..... next project is u to be a ginuea for a retrofit in those head lights............hehe
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:46 PM
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I was getting ready to order a set until I saw the light output. Now I'm not sure. Would you say that the output is worse than stock?
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by whitemax21
I was getting ready to order a set until I saw the light output. Now I'm not sure. Would you say that the output is worse than stock?
From my recollection from memory, the stock lights outputed two bright globs of light on the ground.

The new lights output what seems to be 2 bright globs from each healight. The inner most bright glob from both headlights combines into one bright spot in the middle.

I haven't had a chance to drive around yet (downed several beers after finishing), so we'll see. My initial impression is that overall light ouput might be worse than stock, BECAUSE there are bright spots and everywhere in between doesn't seem to be lit up that well.

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Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:51 PM
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sick lights dude
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:52 PM
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and i was gonna be the black housing guinea pig. damn u beam pattern. any retrofitters wanna help a guinea pig?
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:54 PM
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for dubbya

Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:55 PM
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i dont have any retrofitting plans in my future rite now, so if the output isnt worse than stock or not MUCH worse than stock i dont think i would really mind getting them anyways.
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They look so nice

Those in black + HID projector low beams = perfection.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:57 PM
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Lights & fitment look great! Just get night pics of the front to see how they look.
Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Tatanko
They look so nice

Those in black + HID projector low beams = perfection.
Already in the plans

Originally Posted by Geo T
Lights & fitment look great! Just get night pics of the front to see how they look.
I can't take pics of the lights at the from the front. Camera phone sucks at taking night pictures. A side shot is the best it can do. A front angle shot just results in two big globs of light. Can't tell what anything is.




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