Ok so heres the plan getting projectors to fit into a second gen. bacisaclly there is a lot of cutting. wel not too much so having a dremmel would actually help a lil. anyways to do this you will need a good set of projectors (i got mine from a bmw 325 which served well) so you will need to take the projectors apart on the bottom there are 3 screws that are hell to get out unless you have the screw driver to take them out with. after that you will need to take the projector lense and mount apart from the reflector bowls. the german rflector bowls are made of plastic and a coating of aluminium or some type of reflector paint which rubbs off with windex if you wanted to clean them. so for this problem i went with my asian counterpart and stole the reflector bowls out of them. (any asian projector reflector bowl will do if it looks like the picture above) now if i were you i would take out the lense from the projector bracket (CAREFULLY BEACUSE YOU COULD CHIP THE LENSE) with a screw driver(a small one) and clean with windex and put up for safe keeping because you would not wanna loose them or worse break them. now that you have your asian bottom and your germain top now all you have to do is to join them. what i did before i joined them is that i marked 4 dots fpr every individual post and drilled them with a metal bit.

 

once theyre joined you will need to set the projectors asside. moving on to the light housing, you will need to separate the glass lense from the composite plastic backing. i heard that you could put it into the oven for likr a coupple of mins to melt the glue and it should pull apart easily. but i didnt do that i broke it off by (heres the fun part) smashing the glass to bits. this works well (if you just got ripped off by someone on parts or if the gas in your area is too high) to releive stress.
once you have the 2 parts or pieces apart you are gonna need to cut off the backing however you would like to have your projector fit. you can also spray paint the inside of the housings to whatever color you would like i did mine black. now there are a few ways to mount these the way i used was to use 4 of these corner thingys with holes and set one on every corner to mount into the housing with screws from the outside. once it is in you have a few ways to put a cover on top of the lamp housing you could 1. go to a glass shop and have them make custom ones 2. cut a peice of thick glass to fit or 3. cut a peice of thick lexan to fit. choice 3 is the least dangerous and the most cost effective if your on a budget.(with these gas prices we should all be) now slap every thing together and you should be good to go. sealing em is up to you i havent sealed mine but i will before the winter

Things needed to do this fabritomization:

metal screws (a box)

drill (trigger speed sensitive)

2 elipsoid bmw projectors. you could use other but some instructions will not apply

dremmel

metal cutting disks

metal drill bit

philips screwdriver

??? screddriver for the bmw projector housings or do as i did and use a flat head and screw in the opposite direction until the screw breaks the plastic.

 

this here is a picture if the lense and the retaining clip.



this is the before ans after pics of the light pattern alternated. with it likt the stpck position youll get the staircase effect so i cut it out bu smoothing it out in the after picture.

after....

 

now for the questions and comments.........

 

and then the light patern.............

 

a projector inside the stock housing? it just emits a giant bright blurb? or is better at night now?

 

Don't use a car to show beam pattern. Park the car about 10 feet away from a wall on level ground. That'll give us a better idea of what the pattern is. You're way too close to that car that it looks like round blob of light.

S

 

ok ill do that for yaws then it looks better now tripple g although oe of the cutoff lines os a lol crooked youll see in the pics ill post them tonight.

 

yeah id like to see a good night shot on a wall. im sure the output is better, but is it blinding to on coming traffic?

 

Here You guys go also i would like to say that these are hot HID they are standard 9005 bulbs! Also if you look at the bottom of the wall in the trashcan pic theere is a secont like from the fog projectors i have also installed. I think that im projector crazy.

 

Are these an actual HID kit you have now, or are they just the bulbs that say HID? The cut-off looks really good to me. Got a little hump on it, but definately cleaner than the cut off on my volvo. I'll have to look at these pics when I get home on the LCD screens. My work monitors suck because they are so dark.

S

 

his pics are pretty dark any way

 

Exactly why I want to see em on an LCD.

S

 

Cut off looks very good! I like. Are these true HID projectors? Ballasts and all?

 

theyre not HID'S theyre 9005 bulbs.....i got the hump out now i guess the car hit a bump and fixed its self i was gonna change it but i couldnt find my screwdriver. but oh well they look good now so thats that.

 

Halogen projectors? Oh well, better than stock I guess...

 

but you did, and you cant un see what you've already seen can you?

 

They show up much better on an LCD. His pics are really dark on the CRT's I have. On my home LCD's they show up very nice.

S

 

Lookin good! My only question is why you chose to flatten out the cut-off instead of keeping the stepped cut-off? The step was intended to throw a bit of light higher on the right side of the road to illuminate signs better.

 

didnt like it too much the step was kinda weird to me but if i want i can put them back in.

 

That looks pretty good for halogens

 

That's cool then. Looks like it has a nice colourband along the cut-off, it must make some cool flicker. Over on HID Planet, they were playing around with bending the cut-off shield a tiny bit to widen and bring out the colourband more ( more flicker too ), but it also makes it a bit less crisp. I wonder how it would look with halogens.

 

thats what i had to these with the cut off sheild had to move it up and down foward and backwards but i got tired and stopped at this point there is prolly more light colourband to be had if it is played with it more.

 

That is some nice light coming out of those projectors. right now I have a hold of some pretty sweet HID's and am going to modify my stock housing to fit a stock infiniti metal HID reflector. I am still waiting to get a spare pair of headlights from the junkyard, so I don't have to risk ruining them and not being able to use my car.

 

well the headlights just keep getting better i finally scored on a pair of infiniti j30t headlamps"dual projector" and im gonna try to put em in the stock housing so i can finally have high beams........i told you that ill be back......

 

do you even have a car to put those in? lol

 

wish you luck on this new project. Our housings seem to have enough space.

 

right where it hurts huh??

i can still prepare, and prepare i will gotta get thar turbo kit and stuff too.


I CAN ALWAYS SELL THEM TO THESE YAHOOS FOR A GRIP O CHEESE THO!!!

 

haha not meaning to hurt your feelings or kick you where it hurts. lol

 

its cool tho dont trip found one for 1295 its an 88 but i can get a 95 for unda a grand

 

Whats wrong with the 95?