My ebay projector headlights....

^ good job 50 - glad the results come out as expected

 

^ Thanks, are you going to try and paint the tips? Curious to see the results of that.

 

well right now i have a condensation issue with one of the headlights. I thought i might have because i saw some gaps in sealeant when i put it in. I'm kicking myself in the ass now for not going over it with new sealeant. So now i drilled a couple 1/8" holes to keep that from happening otherwise i'll have to pull it and reseal the whole thing when its dry. I might give that painting thing a shot today or tomorrow though

 

The video on the link you provided made it look really easy. Cut the parking light wires, use the connectors to connect them, then plug and play. Is it really that simple? I messed up my BHLM so I might just go with a setup like this instead.

 

^ yea it really is that simple ! - looks alot worse than it is but its really easy. Oh and I DID fix the 'halo' i'll have to drive at night to verify that its fully gone. I had to paint a specific portion of the hid bulb in the high temp paint to keep that halo from appearing....took me all day to find out where the glare was coming out and i'm sure my hid bulbs are now toast from the constant painting and stripping but it looks GOOOD. Like how real projector hids are supposed to look like

 

Sweet. I may just do this instead of fixing my BHLM. Plus I like the way these look better!!! Thanks!!

 

alright the best i could do was going from this...



to this...




It might not seem like alot but with a car infront of you, you wont even be able to see it. And unlike spacing out the hid bulb this is better because it doesnt lose light intensity. As you can see it actually increases it by focusing it where it should be.

 

nice. much better than before. try taking a picture 30ft away from the wall.

 

I took this one about 20ft away - i redid the passenger side today and extended the ceramic coverage literally by .5mm. Obviously it makes a huge difference and now i know exactly what needs to be covered on the hid bulb and how much....for 200$ headlights w/ hids and a $7 rattle can spray of ceramic high heat coating you really can't beat it.. I'll post pics up tomorrow of what exactly i covered on the hid bulbs to kill the hot spot.

 

Just curious, what alarm did you go with? And does it use your OEM keyless entry remotes?

Nice work BTW.

Pete

 

I actually really like the way these projectors look.....

Hmmm.....

::digs into wallet::

 

wow cut off is pretty good! hmm....

 

These look awesome man! Good job!

 

Here is the pattern you need to paint on the hid bulb...



Basically it covers half to a little more than half of the 'bulb' inside the hid opposite of the white bar...i painted on 2x coats really lightly than gently heated the ceramic with a heat gun just for a few seconds letting it cool inbetween heatings. I heated it up about 3-4 times before it was stable enough to withstand close range heat from the heat gun with out bubbling. Than I hooked it up to the headlight and let the bulb dangle in open space. Turning on the hid after a couple seconds it really starts to smoke and burn in the ceramic. This is normal. Let it smoke for like 3 seconds and let it cool off for a couple minutes. You will have to do this like 3-4 cycles before you can keep the hid turned on and notice the smoking will stop. The ceramic coating has finally burned itself in and you can pop her into the headlight....

This is the paint i used..

http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=371

and here are the headlights with some eyebrows i threw on. I sealed up the one that was condensing and it seemed to work but the real test will be when it rains tomorrow...

 

...quick tip. Remember that after you paint out the ceramic deflection to clean up the excess spray with thinner or a razor blade. You can always use a razor blade to cut off any excess even after it has burned it. I just painted the whole circle around and than just cut off the excess with a razor. Now i ordered new bulbs because as you can see i probally painted each of these like 10x to get the right deflection so i'm sure they wont last long.

 

I never did post up any pics..... but, Here are mine:

 

Do you think its possible that the hot spot will go away when using 35watt HID's instead of the 55watt HID's?

 

When i had the 35w's and the hotspot was covered than it made the light wayyy to diluted. It was almost like a xenon imitation halogen bulb. I have the 55's on mine and tweaked the ceramic coating on it until I had it down pat. Almost 0 hot spot at 15ft from a wall and the bulbs have been operating perfectly for the last 5-6k miles.

 

Looks good.

 

Well the idea of painting a strip is pretty genius but seems like you have to get it just right to make it work right. What made you come up with the idea to paint the bulb?