Great job on the retro-fit! Has anyone done one in a sleek headlight like c-west? I'm going to try it in the near future, but just curious if anyone has already tried it.

:bigok: those look good

great Job, driving is so much better at night with this setup vs any other. It's the same as the doner car with the proper light height being maintained with the popups.

Mike

LOL.

that looks awsome!........looks like alot of work!

I'm very impressed with all the work that was done to accomodate some of those projector headlights. It's all very impressive.
However, I'm surprised you went through all that trouble... I mean, you told us you had HID's in the stock housings. This wasn't enough? I mean, did you not see better at night?

I've done the direct comparison between projectors and reflector style housings. To be honest, I prefer the reflector style housings. They bounce light more effectively than those projector style housings.

Everyone wants the cutoff with the projectors, but it's probably one of the worst things that you could ask for.

I don't know, maybe it's just my eyes, but I definately prefer the stock housings in the FD with HID bulbs in them.
I get alot better lighting and I don't have that dreaded cutoff everyone seems to want with projectors.

Regardless, nice work with the retrofit.

lates,

The whole point is to improve the FD's lighting but without blinding all the incoming drivers which happens if you follow the easy way(stock housings + hid bulbs).

You might wanna check these links:


http://faqlight.carpassion.info/headlamp-faq.htm

http://faqlight.carpassion.info/hl-aiming.htm

http://faqlight.carpassion.info/projector-unit.htm

http://faqlight.carpassion.info/hl-c...egulations.htm

EFS.O,

Yes, this goes without saying. You don't want to blind oncoming traffic. This doesn't happen with our cars though.
Since the upgrade to HID's I can actually see alot better right in front and alot further down. My headlights are aimed properly. I have yet to get a car flash me his/her headlights so I know the aim is setup properly. Just to make sure I lined up in front of a white wall and made sure the lights weren't too high.
I find the Projector style lights very annoying! You get all this intense light right in front of you and then you can't see any road signs because not enough light is "reflecting" off the lense. You can't make out a sign until you're practically 50ft away from it.
Even worse if you have a projecto style housing without HID bulbs! In my Mazda3 I have to drive around as much as I can with the high beams. Even aiming the stupid projectors high doesn't help much.

I wished the manufactures went back to reflector style housings. I see alot of new cars with the bloody projectors. :(

Lates,

I've had my Catz HIDs installed for three years now with similar results. No one flashes me, and I love the increased light output. I've also followed family members on various trips and made it a point to ask if they were blinded at all by my lights, and never received a negative report.

I took a look at your CATZ HID thread. It looks alot like my setup.
I got my kit from XenonDepot. 4300K Philips system. I wanted OEM quality and found it in that kit.
Absolutely phenominal! Highly recommended.

I saw a chinese kit on Ebay for $200 (no longer listed) Catz is $600 and Belloff is $1200. I thought of buying used projector HIDs but not enlosed in the OEM glass but trying to make a non pop up kit. Are any of these kits SAE street legal?

From what I was told, HIDs that aren't factory installed are illegal in the US. That is why Catz went out of business a few years ago. Hearsay, but that's what I was told by a Catz distributor I'm friends with.

Oh, myabe that's why it's not on ebay anymore. I thought it was cheap chinese junk that didn't last and they took the money and ran "lol". I didn't know Catz went out of business as I found a site that still sells them. Belloff is pretty expensive and if I remember correctly the one or two people that got it when it came out werent happy with them. I found another dual beam zenon solution but if projectors are a narrow beam then they may only be good for high beams.
http://www.xenondepot.com/images/pro...6054-S_lrg.gif

What do you guys think of the sale going on in the thread labeled CHRISTMAS SALE ---Visionbulbs & Prolumen HID CONVERSION... Its under group buys. I might purchase these becuase I personally dont like the look of the single projector. If I were to do that I would go with a JDM non-pop up kit.

anyone know if the m3 lights will fit?

Which m3? Alot of people go with the hella 90 mm lights because of fitment, but the lightout IMO sucks balls..

e46

bump for such a detail write up :D

Looks like you can now buy a HID kit for this:

http://www.xtralights.com/index.asp?...S&Category=190

I'm still waiting on a sleepy eye HID setup:(

Those are just generic projectors.

Yep, but you can buy a HID option (I think):

http://www.xtralights.com/index.asp?...OD&ProdID=2035

Or use these kits:

http://www.xtralights.com/index.asp?...it+pair&Page=1

Looks like those headlights David posted could save alot of the fitment and labor involved in making a set like the original poster did. What size are those projectors? Maybe I could just retrofit a decent Hella HID projector and do the apropiate electronics part.

How do HID kits compare to this?

they dont ;) https://www.rx7club.com/potential-advertisers-223/god-said-let-there-light-854663/

hid "plug in h4" kits actually make your vision worse as there are some really bright spots, some really dark spots, and really poor throw (distance of the light disbursement). So basically, as your eye adjusts to the super bright spots your iris closes, and you end up having worse overall night vision even though your lights are brighter (though you can see the two spots directly in front of your car really well) :D . So really the projector retrofit is the only way to go if you want to see better. If you dont care about seeing, and just want bright blue lights, by all means... get the plug in kits :rolleyes: