About a year ago after meeting some friends at a Dyno shootout for charity,
I saw alot of Evo's and liked the headlights..

So I got to looking at my girlfriends car and thought, why the hell not?
Heres what I came up with.. These are the OEM headlights..













The lenses need a little polishing and their good to go..
They look like *** because I did these in a day, but you get the idea..



about 2 hours from beginning to end.. I've got this shlt down to an art

Fast forward to today..

I bought a set of the cheapest pair of headlights I could find on eBay to use as a base for an hid projector retrofit ..

This will be an anniversary present for my girl.. 2 years of putting up with my shlt

Just got em in the mail today..


I plan to use a stick on lens protect setup, the current headlights I did a while back will be sanded/polished up to look like new and sold on craigslist..

I'm thinking full blackout.. That's what I did on my Tacoma when I retrofitted that with a projection HID setup.. All the chrome reflective housings were painted satin black.. The lenses are not tinted, that's just how this effect looks..



The stuff from TheRetrofitSource.com should be here tomorrow, so I did a little baking today

300 degree's, 5 minutes..






















Now it's ready to be mocked up, cleaned, painted, ect..
I want to sit everything together and see what looks best..

I mite edit a few pictures with the parts and put up a poll to gauge some opinions..

More coming soon..

 

parts delayed a day, tomorrow hopefully..

I think I'm just going to paint the reflective headlight bulb black and call it good.. keep it simple..

 

...good job on black out. Interested in seeing retrofit.

 

Very interested to see the retrofit as well! But you know you can buy HID housings for 200 bucks on ebay right?

 

If your happy with poorly made jdm wannabe crap, thats cool..

I can spend the same money and get the results and performance I want for about the same price tho..

I'm not really a fan of the Cedia styled headlights either

 

laggin on updates.. I'm about done with it so I'll just copy and past what i have..

If it doesn't mesh up timeline wize, thats why

I have it sat together..

I have the shroud (round dealy) taped into place, I'm thinking I need to paint the reflective surface where the stock bulb reflected off of all black and keep the BMW shroud chrome and call it good..
here is what they looked like unmodded..
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Here it is with the chrome still around it..

opinions?
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So I decided to black out the bulbs reflective surface to clean things up a bit..
And I think I've got what I'm looking for after a quick mockup..

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Everything is just sat together..
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I felt that clear inner lens outdid the projector, so I opted to dumb it down a little bit so it's more balanced/flows.

modded on the left, stock on the right..
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should mesh well, haven't sat it together, but I have an idea it's about right for a balanced look..

here's the unmodded turnsignal lens, I think this combo should look decent..
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here it is in mock pre cleaned stage..
I have the solenoid wiring ran through where the 9007 bulb shield
was then through a small hole that I'll fill with shoe goo

I think it turned out fairly balanced (projector/shroud vs. turnsignal)

I thought about modding the turnsignal to be a separate high beam, but time killed it..

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made a little progress today..

all setup for aiming..
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right in the cutoff
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I did a little more fine tuning after this pic.
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E46 shrouds..
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I just need to figure out where I'm going to hang everything as far as my relays, ect..

 

ok, here it is.. This is upto date..
It's 2 something am here and I just got done sealing these *****es up..

all I have to do is clean em up, no biggie..
horrible pic, oh well, money shot coming tomorrow

Been up for 23 hours roughly
I'm cleaning up and goin the *** to bed..

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what projector your using? could you list the items your using for this conversion?

 

FIN

 

Mini H1 projectors, E46 shrouds, TRS wiring/relay harness..

www.theretrofitsource.com is having a 25% off sale currently, a good deal to be had..

 

Great Job!
I have a similar set up but i have Cedia headlamps !
I have clear lens Tsx projectors , E46 shrouds

 

I like the look, where did you locate that grill?
the stocker just doesn't go with the car in my opinion..

is that an OZ lip?