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Old 01-12-2005, 09:58 AM
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Has anyone ever done a hid retrofit (PROJECTOR) or know of a site for reference. I have found sites for other cars, I need a site for a camaro headlight. I have two hid projectors and I want retrofit them in the camaro headlight. Any info will help.
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i have seen it done, the back of the light was cut out, a perfect circle where the light bulbs are, then it was installed with some kind of silcone sealant that also holds very well in high temps.. It looks awesome.. Maybe someone on here will chime in and give you the website, I thought about doing it with my regular lights!
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Has anyone ever done a hid retrofit (PROJECTOR) or know of a site for reference. I have found sites for other cars, I need a site for a camaro headlight. I have two hid projectors and I want retrofit them in the camaro headlight. Any info will help.
I can e-mail you some pics of my retro-fitted camaro with projectors! I used projectors from a BMW and real HID parts for the retro-fit. I used J-B weld putty for sealing the back of the housing of the headlight. Its a pain to do, but the out come is great! I love the look of other camaro drivers driving towards me and I hit the headlight switch! All they do is look down at the flicker of the HID's. HID flicker kicks ***!!!
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Originally Posted by karkrazie626
Has anyone ever done a hid retrofit (PROJECTOR) or know of a site for reference. I have found sites for other cars, I need a site for a camaro headlight. I have two hid projectors and I want retrofit them in the camaro headlight. Any info will help.
Look for my car under the Thread " MasterOfPuppets Camaro" in appearance & detailing and you will see some of the headlight pics. Summer helped me post the pics. Hopefully this helps alittle.
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Try here.
http://community.webshots.com/album/116863233uyEamc
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ths for the link!

This weekend im goin to install 2 C6 HID proyectors and 2 C6 proyectors i think its going to look amazing!!!

iŽll post some pics next week
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Originally Posted by SOULPOWER
ths for the link!

This weekend im goin to install 2 C6 HID proyectors and 2 C6 proyectors i think its going to look amazing!!!

iŽll post some pics next week

Did you ever get that done? I'd love to see how it looks!
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i will have the pics by monday!!!
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Originally Posted by SOULPOWER
i will have the pics by monday!!!

WELL?!?!?
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sorry bros! iŽbeen busy all week and weekend with some school proyects , but heres some pics, and tonight iŽll take more!!

these pics are from the day that I installed the HID proyectors!!









and these are from the next days!!





cya!!
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Soulpower, are you Spanish? haha no offense, just funny every time there's a "j" in a word, you use "y". "proyects" "proyectors"
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the j and y key are pretty close in the dark, maybe thats the problem. Anybody ever try converting the foglights to HID??? They seem to already have the correct beam pattern.
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I'm very interested to see some final pics. Perhaps a writeup??
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Anyone try this on a Trans Am/Formula? I have a 1996 Formula and I was thinking of doing this. The stock headlights are just horrible and this would be a great improvement.

If anyone has a link to a thread on this forum, please post that. I have tried to search, but nothing.

Thanks, Greg
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Originally Posted by meissenation
Soulpower, are you Spanish? haha no offense, just funny every time there's a "j" in a word, you use "y". "proyects" "proyectors"
sorry i sux in spelling!!

ok ok, prejects, projectors!! LOL Ths man!!

but hey, any comment about my projectors ???
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Originally Posted by scrmnws6
Anyone try this on a Trans Am/Formula? I have a 1996 Formula and I was thinking of doing this. The stock headlights are just horrible and this would be a great improvement.

If anyone has a link to a thread on this forum, please post that. I have tried to search, but nothing.

Thanks, Greg
i have a friendo who did it on his 97 TA, but it needs to be Bi-Xenon.





and now hi is installing the same Vette C6 projectors on his 99 TA... iŽll ask him for pics
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are all 4 lights HIDs? that must have been a GRIP! i'm guessing you cut the back of the housing. what did you use to seal it, if you did? let's see some night pics. very nice work.
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Very nice.

How much time and $$ did it cost you to do something like that?
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Originally Posted by mongoose
are all 4 lights HIDs? that must have been a GRIP! i'm guessing you cut the back of the housing. what did you use to seal it, if you did? let's see some night pics. very nice work.
mm noup, its exaclty the same ligths that the new vette have, 2 are xenon, the others its yellow ligth but maybe in the future i change those h9 bulbs for a plug and play HID h9 and some HID foglights, dont know yet!

what did i use? well i dont remember the name but its seal!! and besides of sealing it, it help to hold the projector to the headlamp!!

and tonight iŽll get the pics!!

ths for the comment!



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Very nice.

How much time and $$ did it cost you to do something like that?
ths man!

time?? like 6 to 8 hrs maybe but to me was a little bit longer, coz i burn one headlamp and have to go and buy a new one but its oks at the end when i turn on the ligths, i forgot about the burned headlamp jeje

money: mmm 500dls with a friend of mine!
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Soulpower, why did you choose the C6 lights? Are they good units, do you know who makes them? Maybe you got a good deal on them so that's why you used them? I'm curious because they are new and I don't know what lights these are nor can there be many available used. Did you get them new?
Originally Posted by spy2520
Anybody ever try converting the foglights to HID??? They seem to already have the correct beam pattern.
I don't know if it would be worth the $300 to do it. I've seen people add white bulbs to it and it looked nice and white. It's also hard to say if there is a HID bulb available that would fit in the socket. Do you know what bulb size it takes?


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