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Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:57 pm
by hks180
Was a bit bored so decide to do something .. and was lucky enough to get my hands on some cheap head light .. so here we go ~

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I had one 04 headlight & one 05 headlight, with the 04 headlight the chrome ring around the projector have bit of blue tinge while 05 one is just chrome ... so i've decide to paint the ring to the same colour as the rest of the head light ... Thanks PHAT GT for pulling the head light apart for me .. LOL (he make everything looks so easy)

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I thought about having the good old angel eyes or the Audi style strip but don't want to look too RICE or TRY HARD so i've put some led strip around the projector housing and a strip in front of the high beam and another strip for the parker area. And all these strips will be covered (as you will see later)

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At the same time i've mount all my HID ballasts under the head light (one ballast for the low beam and more for the high beam)

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End product

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Now when i turn the parker on .... this is how it look

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From the front

It's nothing special but just something different i guess ...

Leo

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:03 pm
by moggy
Looks great Leo, seems the placement of LEDs is only limited by your imagination. :wink:

8) Bob.

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:03 pm
by THERB3
Hey Leo,

Your are making me want more of you. LOL

They look good my man, I wish was that talented.

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:06 pm
by Sentinel
Hey Leo - looks good! You got a pic of the whole car showing the lights?

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:10 pm
by Fangin_RX
Holy hell Leo that looks bloody awesome :D

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:40 am
by libsti
good look leo.
how are they for lighting up the road?

norm.

p.s the fish are all doing really good.

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:26 am
by hks180
libsti wrote:good look leo.
how are they for lighting up the road?

norm.

p.s the fish are all doing really good.


Thanks Norm ..

parkers don't light up the road at all .. hehe

With the 5000k low beam it lights up the road better but it's bit boring ... think i like 6000k more
high beam ...i'll only use it when there is no traffic ... haha bcoz it light up the road too well !

** arhh very good mate .. but still i'll come around to check them out soon... been a while **

Leo

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:29 am
by hks180
Thanks Gents ..

Project like this is not hard at all ... if i can do it ,,, any one can .. with some advice from the right people is important ... haha

yeah thats the good thing with LED don't produce much heat and comes in all kinds of sizes .. so it's really up to your imagination i guess ..

Steve - i'll take some better photos of the later this weekend mate ..

Leo

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:05 am
by jdm rsk
leo nice job mate. the only negative would be if the LEDs blow you would you have to dissasemble the lights again to replace them

shane

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:14 am
by Digital
nice work leo!

just wondering mate, how hard was it to get the plastic housing off the headlight? did you put it in the oven?

i'm still wanting to do my blacked out headlights thing, but worried i might stuff it up pulling it apart!

also what did u use to glue it back together? any condensation build up??

looks good!

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:22 am
by hks180
jdm rsk wrote:leo nice job mate. the only negative would be if the LEDs blow you would you have to dissasemble the lights again to replace them

shane


Thats is so so true Shane .... and you need to pull the front bar off to pull the head light out which makes it even more harder ...

so these LED better be good ! haha

Leo

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:30 am
by hks180
Digital wrote:nice work leo!

just wondering mate, how hard was it to get the plastic housing off the headlight? did you put it in the oven?

i'm still wanting to do my blacked out headlights thing, but worried i might stuff it up pulling it apart!

also what did u use to glue it back together? any condensation build up??

looks good!


Michael aka Phat Gt pulled it apart for me in my garage without any heating tool but it would of made the job bit easier if bit of heat got apply to .. so warm it up in the oven would be good ..

it's not hard but you need to know what you doing otherwise you can crack the housing inside ..

i've use the original seal which was still in pretty good condition .. and so far so good ..

Leo

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:57 pm
by teK--
Audi Strip FTW! :)

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:59 pm
by jdm rsk
teK-- wrote:Audi Strip FTW! :)

audi strip no...imo looks shithouse

Re: Little Headlight Project

PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:18 pm
by Fangin_RX
Finally someone agree's, That audi stripe looks terrible