Morimoto Mini HID Retro Installation Questions

COMPLETED mine today,, and my pass side highbeam was stuck, now it is working fine

 

post pics broski

 

here is my retro... i blacked out the housing and the apollo shrouds clear lens mini morimoto d2s with morimoto 500k bulbs and 35 watt morimoto ballasts. i just finished last night and took my time with shit it went smooth lol and it looks fantastic better than even i thought it could! and the last two cars i have owned have had bi-xenon adaptive front lighting. these minis blow them away the pics don't do them justice. thank you retrofitsource.com nate in particular. great customer service and very helpful.

 

whoopsie pics. the fist pic is the high beams and the second pic is the low beams then a shot of the housing.

 

lol i'm actually thinking of selling them and going for q45 projectors and 55 watt morimoto ballasts and 5000k bulbs again or just the clear F X R projectors i'm a modding machine lol. those Q45's are the shitwith all clear lens!they would run around a thousand bucks but it would look killer and the light output would rockbut they are rare so i would have to pull the trigger soon.

 

dude. if i get these i might need ur help hans. can you get better pics and perhaps take off those black case things on the outside? thanks

 

i will try and get some pics tomorrow when the lighting is better. the apollo shrouds are a much better fit than the gatling shroud i had originally had tried to fit in there. those avs covers look slick in person it looks like i ripped the headlights out of a bently gt and put them on my taco lol.

 

Hey stunt man. Your retrofit looks really good. Looks like your adjustment may be off just a little. The passenger side light is too high. The cutoff should look like this below. Notice that there is only 1 step up in the cutoff. I'm not trying to be a smart @ss or anything. I'm just trying to help. You will notice a big difference in the output of the retrofits if the cutoff is aligned properly.



See the difference?

 

Huh. So lower my passenger side a little so that there is only one step up. Cool thanks I will do it tonight. Do you have the minis and what temp bulb do you have. lol I'm about to do another retrofit this time with fxr's but the q45 ones are so rare.

 

I have the Mini D2S. Apollo shrouds. I am running Phillips 85122+ bulbs. They are 4350k. I was running the Morimoto 5000k. The Phillips bulb is a big improvement in light output compared to the Morimoto. The Morimoto bulb had more of a blueish tint which looked better, but I was going for output. I don't care about the color.

Here is my thread for my retrofit.

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/lighting/113559-bhlm-retrofits-done.html

 

here is my setup

morimoto mini ds2 with 6000k morimoto hid

install was easy just took my time and used 2 sets of lights to make a perfect set,

 

@ Coastie31:

When you did the install of the gatling shrouds, did you have to trim them or anything? I plan on doing the same thing I just haven't had the time to install it yet. All parts are staring at me from the box

 

i did not trim anything, i felt that there was plenty of room and i used some 5 minute epoxy to put them on, when you do, put the epoxy on the light itself not the shroud, you can do it like that, but have a q tip ready to clean up the epoxy,

 

Did you put the epoxy on the top of the projector or on the reflector bowl? I remember playing with the parts and seeing that the gatling shroud "clicked" into the projector. Am I right?

 

Looks good c0astie. I pretty much flipped a coin when I was trying to decide between the gatlin gun and the apollo shrouds. Our trucks look great with the retrofits on them.

 

i got the last set of gatlings from nate last week, they gatling supplier is not longer making these, so this set was from the discount pile, they had a couple issues, but you will really have to look to see. my shrouds did not click in they were big, so that could be the other problem, so i mounted them as far back, so it worked fine for me, i epoxied them and let them sit, they cured then i put everything back together once they sealed up, then baked them one more time to gas them off and they are all done and look awesome, i am so glad i did this mod.

now here is the question, between steps on the projector, what is a good measurement?

also i have 35w ballasts in right now, but have 55w ones too, should i go with the 55w or the 35w?

 

Here you go.

 

i think i am set up pretty good, i will take a pic tonight and post it for so input. the question i also have is how high should i be set up, i have a 3 inch lift with 33's i want to make sure i am in a good area. after i take some pics tonight i will get some measurements.

 

I haven't done any left / right adjusting on mine so I really can't comment on the measuerment between the steps. Mine converge into one step as they get further from the truck, so according to the post above on aligning everything, I need to correct this.

I say give the 55w ballast a try and see how much difference it makes. I have heard some people say that it would generate too much heat, but I've also read of people running them for a long time with no issues.

 

here is a crappy phone pic