Hella 500 HID Conversion & Mount Behind Satoshi *How To* w/ pics

here are the picks of mine on the first gen.
a few of the bracket:


heres how the bracket mounts to the grill:

and the lights mounted to the bracket:

heres mounted to the grill with a little extra support so they dont vibrate:

finished product:


all in all pretty easy. had to do a little minor trimming on the bracket to clear the AC lines and then it went right on. i put some male/female connectors on the leads from the lights so that the grill can be removed as an assembly as well

 

Thats a really nice look Lee!! She's gonna turn a lot of heads!

 

^^^ x2!

nice work there lee

 

Looks good Lee!

 

thanks everyone

 

sweet!

 

Well I was working on the bracket Sunday and made some good progress but I think I might have to scrap it and start over if I can't figure out a way to make it work.

I notched the angle iron so my lights could tuck back since they are so deep and that all worked perfectly.



Now the only issue is the height. If I use the current setup they will hang too low. However to get to the height I need the light mounting hardware needs to be above the horizontal bar. That would create a problem because it would then be hitting the grille brackets that attach to the truck.

Hmm back to the drawing board to make this work somehow

 

Just wired my Hella's up behind my grill and I'm wondering what am i suppose to expect from these? because i tried them tonite and it was pretty disappointing how they preform. My fog lights where brighter than these things. Did i do something wrong? Looks like i need the HID upgrade sooner than i thought.

 

Nope I don't think you did anything wrong. I'm swapping out my hellas. For the price though they get you the look you want. But for better light definitely follow Klipps HID retrofitting.

 

never even tried em with the halogen bulbs, but i can tell you that with the 55w ddm hid's in them, there's no way you'll be disappointed with their output

 

i wanna see some pics!!

at least upload them into your gallery.

 

i have a question. i also have the hella 500 lights. on the lights there r two wires, black and gray. where do the black and gray wire connect too? thanks

 

did u just buy the lights themselves or did u get the kit with the relay and switch and the rest of the hardware?

 

bought the whole kit. with all the hardware. the instruction does say anything about the two wires on the lights. i was thinking maybe the black wire goes to ground and the gray goes the negative. not sure

 

you mean positive. ground and negative are the same thing. and thats what i would assume. sounds right seeing as how black is ground 99% of the time in an automotive setting anyways

 

to make sure. gray= positive and black=ground.

 

im not positive, seeing as how i haven't seen or installed these lights before, but if it were me that is how i would connect it

 

thanks

 

Very Cool.. Nice work Klipp I suscribed and will be doing my 2010 soon..

 

not sure about that one, but i think the you can get a switch like the fog light push switch that'll fit perfectly. check with your local dealer