Holy ****e that is hot!!!!!! I def have to do this mod.

 

WOW, Great work EK! More pics! Output pics as well please!

 

nice!!!!!!!!

 

Here's another....



I'm really peaved that I had problems with the aiming, when last time I didn't.

The back of the projector/ballast may be hitting the housing, so I need to meet up with the guy soon, so I can fix this for him. That's why I don't want to take on any more new retrofits at this time until I can fix this for him.

 

Project was finished today, and at least for right now, me doing any more retrofits for other people as well. For some reason, this retrofit was a lot more trouble than the others, and I'm pretty tired of messing with these lights.

The owner was definitely happy with the light output, a huge improvement over what he had before. Sorry, I didn't have a chance to take pics of the beam pattern.

 

wow that car is insane as well as the new lights.........amazing work

 

clean a$$ job, i love it.

 

Just out of curiosity, what part of the retro-fit is the most time consuming? I looks like you just bake the lights to remove the lense. Make a surround out of a coke can, stick in the projector, etc, etc.

I know it's much more difficult than this, I'm just curious, so I know what to expect if/when I decide to do a retro vs guinea pigging the 06' projectors.

 

Opening the headlights is time consuming for me now, because my oven is too small, so I have to use a heat gun.

But there's several things:

1. mounting the projectors. You'll want the beam pattern horizontal.

2. mounting the projectors. too far forward, you hit the bezel. too far back, the dust cover can't close.

3. aiming the lights. not just having the driver and passenger HID being level, but you want the fog lights to still be even too.

4. sealing the lights. Not necessarily time consuming, but when you do this for someone else, you take full responsibility if their light leaks and stuff shorts out.

5. clear lens. If you want to replace the amber with a clear lens, it's a pain in the butt to match the shape. It's not a perfect circle either, so a router wouldn't help much more.


I'm going to slowly work on putting TSX's into my low beam, and RS6 bixenons into the fog/high beam. The potential problem areas I see with that are:

1. The longer base of the TSX = more dust cover mounting problems

2. Creating a custom shield to sharpen the TSX cutoff.

3. Hooking up the wiring harness to power up the fog light (HID) while hooking up the wiring for the solenoid shield. I'm not good with electronics.

4. Doing the soldering for the resistors for the solenoids, to bring them down to about 6-7 V.

5. Mounting the extra ballasts for the bixenons.

6. Doing the electronics for CCFL or LEDs in the clearance strip. (Again, I"m not good with electronics).

7. Hoping that the clearance strip lighting doesn't go out.

8. Aiming 4 projectors.

9. Ensuring a tight seal of the lights.

10. Doing all the installation within 1 weekend. I'll do all the internal work beforehand with extra headlight parts, like the bezel and the mounting brackets.

 

EK pretty much pointed everything out. It is making something that never was intended to fit in our headlights work. There is a lot of adjusting and test fitting which is time consuming. Unfortunately, there is really not much room in our headlights and where the headlights mount. So you have to be real careful and thoughtful in your mounting solutions.

Sure, I could have made this a day project by using a Bosch or Valeo single xenon projectors. However, I wanted a really good set of low-beam projectors and outside of an S2000/LS430 set the Stanley(TSX) is supposed to be the best. The only problem is the backside of the projector is rather porky and long. So getting it to fit and have the beam pushed foward in the headlight Bezel is a chore!

 

have any pic of CCFL light on G???