All cars should just come with projectors. Im not gonna disassemble my headlights to put them in though. Im not skillful enough nor do i feel like paying $1500-$2000 for lights.

As nice as it would be to have that cutoff, its just not worth it for this car. I'll wait until my next car which will come with projectors.

 

^ Audi FTW!

 

My '07 IS250 has AWESOME projector HID's. I love them. The cutoff line is razor sharp. If you drive down a road and there are no lights on...all you see is from the cutoff line down.

The G35's reflector HID's.....blow. They point downward WAY too heavily and still have minor hot spots. Not the best HID's out there, but they don't glare like aftermarket HID's do.

 

All you people that say they glare in our fogs, have you even ever SEEN them on a G35 before? The way our fogs are shaped, are just perfect. Christian, and Jdinh have both seen my car driving down the street. Christian was in front of my and i was following, and JDinh was heading at me. They both said it isn't even noticeable. Blends right into the headlight and just makes it look like one light.

You get in the car though and drive, and it lights up the road 1000X better than the stock halogens. In the rain or at night out in the country, nothing will even come CLOSE to these.



BTW in my 96 Subaru Outback, i put aftermarket HIDs in the headlights. Why? Because the stock headlights blew so much, that even with the brights on, you still couldn't see ****. When im out in the middle of the country in North Dakota, i want to be able to see where im going. The car doesn't have foglights, and these headlights give it enough to the point of a stock bulb. They dont glare either. All my friends said they dont even notice them behind you. Am i gonna install projectors in a car that are worth as much as the assemblies alone? Hell no! I just need to be able to see. So you can pout up with the 'glare' (or lack their off) that car produces (even though nobody has said they are blinded)

Its all about how you aim them.

 

They forgot to mention that halogen projectors are different from HID projectors too.

For a reflector headlight with a PNP kit, all you need to do is make a glare shield. But that doesn't work too well with H4s...

 

Halogen projectors are in fact different than HID projectors. The difference is the distance of the bulb's focal point to the lens. It differs between a tungsten filament and a arc tube bulb.

However, i've seen some aftermarket retrofits into halogen projectors (maxima, fusion) that still retain a razor sharp cutoff line that impressed me.

Halogen retrofits aren't as clean and sharp. I do realize it is heavily dependant on the car and reflector design. G35 fogs do point downward heavily. So there isn't a whole lot of glare there. The headlights, however, on the '03's do glare with aftermarket kits.

But there other vehicles out there with lower mounting fogs which do glare upwards. I've seen some very bad headlights that just don't do well with aftermarket kits. Off the top of my head mid 90's Explorers and early 00's Accords glare like crazy when you put an aftermarket kit in the headlight.

Others are not so bad, even tolerable. Prob is everyone has different standards on what is too much glare, and what is acceptable levels....same as tinted tails. WHat is too dark, and what is "okay"

 

No i didnt. I was busy trying to get it done and forgot. I have 1 pic of the housing disassembled but its just about done. I made it pretty simple.
1. disassemble lights.
2 the reflector comes completely out with the unscrewing of ajustment screws and pulling on the pivot point.
3. cut the reflector from where the bulb goes just enough to mount the projector.
4. I used a piece of 1/8 thick 1/2" by 4ft flat bar from home depot for my mount.
5. Put reflector back in and mount headlight in car to aim and mount the projectors.
6. I just bent the flat bar in the shapes i needed to mount and used sheet metal screws to pivot and aim the projectors.
7. Once i had the projectors aimed i used epoxy to finalize the mounting so the wouldnt vibrate loose.
8. Put factory shroud up to headlight to trim where the top projector goes. Not trimming for the bottom and the projector fits nicely in there.
9. I taped up the projectors with shroud so i could paint the reflector to hide all the work.
10. Painted factory shroud basecoat/clearcoat with ob to match outside
11. Reassemble

 

I do it out of safety of myself. My subaru really was bad. I couldnt see deer when they would bounce out of the woods, in the rain i couldnt even see 10 feet in front of me, it was just BAD. I tried different bulbs, no help. The HIDs are pretty dull, but definitely brighten it up and cut through the rain and stuff better.

 

Good info

 

And this is why I'm doing a projector retrofit... for the low beams anyway, I don't really care if the high-beams scatter light everywhere.

 

The easiest thing to do is put a bixenon projector in the fog/hi location and buy another hid kit for the top low and aim it low as possible for fog

 

^That's a lot of money.

 

Any retrofit is gonna cost, unless you get the projectors for free.
1. Projectors (fxr from retrofitsource) 170
2. shrouds 35
3. hid kit 65 with dsr harness
285 = pure bliss of being able to see everything

 

^I already have projectors. (for almost free)
Also have a HID kit from my last car, and a pair of shrouds.

 

What projectors do you have?