Diaita's HID Retrofit
Color flicker.
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Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 373
From: Mass.
Its really nice to see someone doing this the right way using projectors and not just stuffing them in the stock housings. Serious light output but a clean beam cutoff so you wont blind everyone. Well done sir.
I despise when people put HID bulbs in halogen housings, and call it good enough. Sure it puts out more light, but it makes it no better on the road right in front of you where you need it. That said, I get satisfaction when I turn on the Rigids and can see their blinded reaction. 
Alright! Pulled some screws, and did some baking.
Here's how the lights came:
Unclipped the chrome bezel, and removed the four metal clips that hold the lens to the housing:
Removed all the hardware from the back, put the headlight assy on a cookie sheet, tried(semi sucessfully) to explain to the better half what I was if to, and set the oven to 250F:
8 minutes in the oven, and a butter knife(pry tool) later:
After pulling the lens and black inside trim:
Here's how the lights came:
Unclipped the chrome bezel, and removed the four metal clips that hold the lens to the housing:
Removed all the hardware from the back, put the headlight assy on a cookie sheet, tried(semi sucessfully) to explain to the better half what I was if to, and set the oven to 250F:
8 minutes in the oven, and a butter knife(pry tool) later:
After pulling the lens and black inside trim:
I tried explaining to her what I was doing. "Don't make a mess"
Anyhoo, I did get further the other night, but didn't upload pics...
This is with the original projector removed so you can see the reflector bowl:
I didn't take a picture of it with the 9005 bulb support parts, but I'll do that as I'm disassembling the other side and edit this.
Here is after I hole sawed the hole from the 13/16" to 1-3/4" for the projector base:
Still needs to be tidied up, but trying to make sure everything fits first.
It fits!
I had to sand out the hole slightly after the hole saw, but only slightly. The back of the Mini D2S 3.0 fits nearly perfect into the reflector bowl of the original. A bit of high heat silicone will set it very well, so very happy about that!
Anyhoo, I did get further the other night, but didn't upload pics...
This is with the original projector removed so you can see the reflector bowl:
I didn't take a picture of it with the 9005 bulb support parts, but I'll do that as I'm disassembling the other side and edit this.
Here is after I hole sawed the hole from the 13/16" to 1-3/4" for the projector base:
Still needs to be tidied up, but trying to make sure everything fits first.
It fits!
I had to sand out the hole slightly after the hole saw, but only slightly. The back of the Mini D2S 3.0 fits nearly perfect into the reflector bowl of the original. A bit of high heat silicone will set it very well, so very happy about that!