i accidently blackout my headlight

[bronzemaxell]

low beam





high beam




road shot




U turn of previous road shot

[DrLove]

Finally what happenned to this project? still have your HID? Did you change your corner to black? It would be nice to get some new pics of this project !

[bronzemaxell]

my hid is working beautifully, i love driving at night, in term of performance, gives enough width and distance in wet weather and dry weather condition, i don't have to guess where the lane divider is in rainy nights, cus i can see them now.

maybe i can snap a few more picts at night again.

my corners are still OEM, i have no intention to black out at this moment.

i still have extra spare part to do another retro, infiniti fx35 bixenon projectors, i am thinking do another one for spare, or maybe anyone else interested, sell at $250 or $300 range, no bulbs, no ballast, but everything else.

[DrLove]

Thanks for the infos man!

I start thinking about doing mine, but I would like to keep the chrome look...I want them to look OEM, not JDM or civic stuff... but I wanna keep my highbeam.. I was thinking about trying to find some aftermarket headlight and make them fit on the stock headlight.. I guess it would be pretty hard to find something similar that the gen 1 headlight transparent plastic would fit well or that I can cut to make both fit together.. sorry for my bad explanation..

somebody try to use another headlight to fit on the gen1 lara?

[agent007]

DIY is not that hard and bronze is very informative and I used his step by step and completed mine...sorry i have posted them up bronze i know you asked how they came out but been real busy...

[bronzemaxell]

here is another retro i did

it is gen 4 camry, Fx35 bixenon, (low and high beam hid) with chrome shroud,
picture taken with no front lense on yet.

[DrLove]

I want mine with lots of style..

something like that


or something chrome...with high and low beams..something who no makes the HID looks like in a giant hole...

I will think about it to see if I wanna try something or not! [/list]

[bronzemaxell]

ok, here are a new highway snap shot
sorry for some blurry pict, the car was moving fast.

[bronzemaxell]

here is a some more pict of retro in progress incase people have no access to HIDplanet.com

1. bake headlight, preheat to 200 degree F


2. i put a piece of garden brick on the grill to avoid headlight to metal contact


3. baking headlight at 200 degree F for 15 minutes


4. lense came off easily with a few pry, nothing melt =D>


5. trying on a shroud that has high beam reflector bowl as well


6. fitment ok at front, but back of headlight need some cut for the projector


7. bixenon RS6 projector


7.1. bixenon RS6 projector wall shot beam pattern at 25 ft.


8. RX330 AFS projector


8.1 RX300 AFS projector wall shot beam pattern at 25 ft



9. Both projector is powered by toyota ballast, philips D2S bulb



i chose the bixenon RS6 projector becaue personally i think it outperform the RX300 in term brightness.
headlight with projector mounted on original reflector bowl, no headlight lense put on yet










i copied JnC's mounting idea
i believe i can do roational adjustment and up/down with in the reflector/projector itself, but i can do left/right, up/down adjustment using the oem headlight screws.

when i powered it on, i saw a lot of glare on the wall, anyone have an idea how to contain the light within the projector, glare is due to light escape from projector, hitting the reflector.






i accidently aquired a pair of LS430 projector, the width is twice as my sh!tty RS6



anyway, resume my retro here

too much glare on oem reflector housing, so i paint the whole thing to black










here is my custom made shroud, $7.xx for twin pack at walmart, plus a $4.xx bezels cofee cup also from walmart.








































this is the bottom view of the headlight, i drill a hole for future rotational adjustment, thanks JnC again.

[SleeperSolara]

Yeah i've been readin' your post about bakin' and mountin' for my retrofit.