Xenon is not good for high beams. They take maybe 10 seconds or so to turn on and then several minutes to warm up, so flashing your highs to pass or something would be torture on them. That's why the OEM's don't use xenon for the highs unless they use a movable shield to change the light pattern from low beam to high beam.
Your right Jason about using them as high beams. I kept my high beams stock and just did my low beams. I'm happy there are more f-bodys with HID projectors now.
well im back again lol, i fix my projectors and i rotated them, now they looks a lot much better than before!
i was thinking to put a plug and play xenon on the h9 high beams, but i guess jason and master are right and its not good, so maybe i'll install a white hella h9..will see!!
Those pictures in the original link were from my car. The setup is not very good (I would NOT sell it/produce it) however it gets the job done and looks fairly factory.
I would like to redo it someday, and I'd probably try something like you've done, since a lot more cars are coming with projectors than when I did this 2 years ago. I'm always learning more about HID lighting, and of course I learned alot (as I'm sure you did) fabricating them.
LOOKS GOOD!!!! I'm sure you're loving the custom look.
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That's great and all, but you don't show the two things that people want to see the most: What you used as a template to cut the hole in the back of the headlight housing, and what you used to mount the projector TO the housing. You have a shot of a mounting plate, but no images or info on how you got the plate attached to the headlight housing!
If you look at the 3rd, 4th, and 5th pictures in that album, they show EXACTLY what I used as a template to cut the back of the headlight housing.
If you look at picture #26 and blow it up, you can see the JB Weld I used to mount the aluminum bracket to the back of the stock housing. I do not have a great picture of this. It's not a pretty showcar setup, but the JB Weld has held the aluminum perfectly for over 3 year now.
__________________ -Dan B
-99 Pewter SS #1673
-East Side Tuned, Custom 90mm 4100k HID Projectors, Custom Leather/Alcantera seats, Export Taillights, 100 dry shot, ESP 224 cam, LTs, etc etc...
-12.77@113.59 Motor Only (2.14 60' on Eagle F1s )
That's great and all, but you don't show the two things that people want to see the most: What you used as a template to cut the hole in the back of the headlight housing, and what you used to mount the projector TO the housing. You have a shot of a mounting plate, but no images or info on how you got the plate attached to the headlight housing!
Hey man, why are you yelling at me for something I posted over 2 years ago! It's not even my car!
Damn, all these old HID threads are popping up kinda makes me want to get back to my HID project. I was going to make a fixed headlight assembly for my LS1 TA from scratch, but I might just have to mount my projectors into the stock headlight housing and call it a day.
Hey, VIP. Glad to see you taking up the slack. I used to always post up bunches of info for headlight related stuff, but haven't in a long while. You really seem to know your stuff as well.
Thanks. I've been looking into retrofitting Hella 90mm H9 projectors into my Formula.
That's been done before so it shouldn't be too hard. I think it was Imperator, TXHorns and Skytower31 that's done those. Do you have the pics from Imperator?
You know most of those links in post 18 are from me, right? Plus I'm in most of those threads. The guy on LS2 was VVS6 and it was me who rehosted his old pics. One of those threads is my headlight project thread for my car. Thanks for including that one.
The one person I don't see is Imperator. He was the first guy I know to mod the Hella's in the stock pop-ups and convert them to HID.
You know most of those links in post 18 are from me, right? Plus I'm in most of those threads. The guy on LS2 was VVS6 and it was me who rehosted his old pics.
Yea...I forgot...
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One of those threads is my headlight project thread for my car. Thanks for including that one.
You're welcome.
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The one person I don't see is Imperator. He was the first guy I know to mod the Hella's in the stock pop-ups and convert them to HID.
Thanks for the link. I've seen it before and have one of the pics but I lost the link to the rest. To bad there aren't any more detailed pics of how they are mounted.
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To bad there aren't any more detailed pics of how they are mounted.
Yeah, he was on LS1.com, then it went away and I haven't heard from him since. I'm always collecting pictures though. If I find any with the Hella 90mm I'll let you know.
Oh, I do have a lot of the 90mm taken apart if you want them.
Hey man, why are you yelling at me for something I posted over 2 years ago! It's not even my car!
Damn, all these old HID threads are popping up kinda makes me want to get back to my HID project. I was going to make a fixed headlight assembly for my LS1 TA from scratch, but I might just have to mount my projectors into the stock headlight housing and call it a day.
The back may not look pretty, but once in the car I think that looks badass. It's just so clean looking. The one thing I might do is add a trim ring around that area where the projector comes through the metal. I would seal it really well (airtight) and then drop a chrome ring of some kind into the silicone to hold it in place. It would give it that finishing touch. (maybe a fresh coat of gloss black as well)
If only there were some way to guarantee the headlight motors would stay working I'd definetely do that. I don't mind popups, but the freaking motors really piss me off sometimes.
Just watch, next time I have a motor problem my fixed headlight thread will jump to the top. It's like clockwork.
ESP 224 cam, LTs, etc etc...
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