Official Headlight/Retrofit Thread

[Shameless]

Needs skirts and moar low... and 4motion valance. For starters. Haven't touched the ride height since I raised it after I broke my oil pan.

Going to try and find an amber LED bulb for the turn signal and paint it white, so the housing doesn't reflect amber in certain lights. I need to adjust my cut off still. They're pointed at the ground about 60 feet out atm. Also gotta drop the grille fogs in but its too cold for me to bother with all the wiring for those yet.

All in due time.

[DEEMAN]

hi there thanks for all the advice guys i have decided to basically create my own morimoto type bixenon vibes as i had an H4 xenon kit already which basically works with an electro magnet that pulls the light backwards to change the focus to go bright...so ia have stripped everything down cut the cut off plates added hinges now busy creating the spring action that will return them to dim when you switch back i also used stainless steel profiles which i cut out at work to mount the whole situation to...(lucky to work as a draughtsman at an engineering firm) will post pics soonish please dont be too harsh as this is my first try at retrofitting and anything creative like this...all i can say is pratley steel putty was my friend especially when cutting the original shrouds...

[rodgertherabit]

Sounds like a lot of work when you can get a set of old hella bixenons for under $75

Looking forward to pics of your FrankenProjectors haha

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Pics pics pics

[rodgertherabit]

Since this thread is lacking Raw info and I get asked this All the time, I figured Id ad this here (could be a FAQ as well)

Here is a basic idea of how a Headlamp Projector works. The Main Key is the Lens. A Convex lens is able to refract/focus light rays very well. Any light rays that hit the "top" part of the lens will be refracted downward and any light passing thru the "bottom" of the lens will be refracted up.

Here is a diagram of how a Convex lens works. The Arrow'd lines are light rays.



As you can see the light that passes thru the bottom of the lens (that would be refracted upwards) gets stopped by the cut-off sheild, thus allowing only the downward light rays to pass thru to the road.

Bixenons: These are same structure as Single xenon or (low beam) projectors. The only thing that differs is that there is a solenoid (basic electric motor) attached to the bottom of the cut-off shield allowing it to articulate like a hinge. Once the solenoid gets power from the car, it activates, pulling the shield down to allow ALL the light rays to escape from the reflector thru the projector lens. This is also known as a "FULL BEAM" overseas.

Here is a diagram of the physical structure of Headlight Projector. The Yellow Light Rays are better represented in the diagram above.

[Shameless]

Oh wow that's cool as hell.

Guess HID's in headlight fogs is okay then.
Tri-xenon would be over kill but they'll last a lot longer.... Decisions.
I'm just sick of all this wiring!

[DEEMAN]

ha ha it is allot of work but you cant get that in south africa...the cheapest quote i got for something similar to what i wanted was $320 but last night i fitted the mechanism for switching dim and bright and quite frankly it only worked like 80% and that just wont do, so i am back to taking greg's advice and just removing the cut off from the stock fog light.

[Shameless]

I didn't like that bottom diagram. It was bugging me so I combined the two.
It's a little sketchy but it works.

[rodgertherabit]

Thanks alex, that diagram is better. I was gonna do it but didn't have much time, just wanted something up there since it was relevant

[rodgertherabit]

A few updates now that Im getting help with taking care of my Grandmother.

OEM HID Retrofit... Before and after, still need to fit the shrouds but everything is snugly mounted inside the fully untouched oem housing. Just look at the difference in lens sizes!



And some More Indy Silver Evo-Xs with fogs

[Miller7204]

Old news

[DEEMAN]

the indy ones are cool as hell

[Pssst...passed you]

Working on Chantha's headlights I see

[rodgertherabit]

Haha yeah be is gonna go nuts when they are done

[DEEMAN]

ok se here as an image of well how far i got this weekend mind the rough edges still need a second coat of paint as well and still need a uh...well the cover for the projector what do you use there?
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