Atrus_SS

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I'm planning a HID projector retrofit in the next few months. I have a pewter car, and one of the things I'm debating is whether I want to leave the projector and stock lamps chrome, or whether I'd want to "whistler" either or both to the body color.

I am not really interested in doing a traditional black whistler - it's just not the look I am going for on the car.

Anyone done this or have opinions?

sweetbmxrider

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I think the pewter headlight will look great. I could go either way with the projector. I think chrome might be the better choice though.

Atrus_SS

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I am leaning towards painting all of the lowbeam bucket pewter, leaving the curved portion of the highbeam bucket chrome (like a standard whistler), and then leaving the projector chrome. The projector will take up most of the lowbeam bucket.

I did manage to find these pics:

jrob56

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I think whistlering the housings body color would look good, same pattern as traditional whistler leave reflector chrome and leave the projector chrome.

lilpb1

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this is what i did; its not the entire housing but something different.

Before



After

Image98

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Wish i had stumbled upon these ideas when i was looking for headlights. Wheredo you get the projector itself?

lilpb1

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theretrofitsource.com has everything need to make the conversion.

Image98

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I am looking into it for sure. Lights super hard to separate?

lilpb1

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The lights were easy 5-10 mins. in the oven at 250. The hardest part from the retrofit was the trial and error of aim and setting the projectors to line up.

Image98

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Ill research into it. Any tips on lining them up from your trial and error? LOL

lilpb1

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Mount the projectors on the housing in a way you can adjust the projector. Mount them on the car on a level surface match that both headlights are level and the projector cut off are both even. Then glue or epoxy the projector to the headlight. After this there no looking back.

maxplusten

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what shroud is that lilpb1? im getting ready to help a friend do some here soon and been trying to figure out what our options were as far as fit. What projector you running?

Atrus_SS

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What projectors and shrouds are you running?

I was planning on going with the Morimoto mini-H1's. They essentially "bolt" in with a little modification to the stock light housing. Yours look like they are different.

lilpb1

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The projector will make all the difference but some are bi-xenon and they take up alot of space.

Yes mine are different; Im running a TSX projector with the E-46 shroud. The difference between the Morimoto mini and TSX is there cut off and sharpness but the mini's have come a long way from when they were first develop so they can hold there ground; I might eventually do quad projectors and use the minis as my high beams.

maxplusten

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Ive heard good things about the tsx, probably what ill eventually switch to myself, did you have to do alot of cutting to get the shroud to set right?

Atrus_SS

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x2 - that was my biggest concern over a retrofit was getting it aligned. I liked the mini's just due to their simplicity. Bolt into the 9006 "hole" and move on. No significant cutting/aligning/bonding.

Mine's not a DD, and really, isn't driven at night THAT often, so I think the Mini will be easy and make me content. Anything is better than the crappy stockers!

lilpb1

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Not really once you get the proper projector alignment you can mount the shroud and cut little by little. There's plenty of shrouds that will work without modification but ultimately it's up to you which one you decided to go with.