Rollmodel

where do you mount the ballasts??? i cant find anywhere, can they get wet?? .....this is very confusing... dont know how anyone says its easy and just plug and play

DirtyBird222

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well what kind of car do you have first camaro or trans am, what year, and ect. i can really help ya or someone else can if you give us some info! you are gonn have to find a nifty place to mount it and might have to fab something up! its plug and play as far as connecting all the wires and crap!

Rollmodel

it is a 2001 trans am....i think i am set with how the wireing goes...except for two of the wires but will try to get some pics of that up...i just dont know where to mount the two ballasts, and if they can be somehwere where they might get wet when it is raining.

01RedT/A

Use your head man. they arent "plug and Play" when your piecing two kits together that were never meant to go tegether. First of all, the ballasts need to stay relatively dry. a goo place on the trans am is on the front bumper support. remove your headlight bezel, and you will see the beam. it has a little lip that holds the ballasts (at least mine) like they were made for it. they should be safe there unless your doing some submersible work with your t/a . You can screw them down, or use some 3m double sided 3x3 squares (works great on my two retros).

Rollmodel

prob wouldnt be a good idea to mount em on top of the turn signal houseings then huh?

01RedT/A

no, those have a tendancy to crack over time, and will eventually need to be replaced. the last thing you will want to do is spend time trying to get your expensive ballast off of it.

DirtyBird222

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and if you want to keep it really dry put it in a heat resistant vacuum bag! haha jk! It's hard to find a place on our cars that can stay relatively dry during wet weather! I'm gonna make a little housing for mine when i get my projector housing complete so it will keep a lot of the wetness out!

Rollmodel

well just stuck em up on the best place i could find, lights are great, really bright....thanks for the help guys

01RedT/A

post up some pics!! and some beam shots! like said many times before, power is nothing without control.

Rollmodel

here is the final product....before i adjusted them.

Rollmodel

01RedT/A

point those bad boys at a wall or something flat from about 25 feet out.

this is what my old retro looked like













and the money shot, this is why i went with projector style hids:




i have a differnt setup now, bi xenon d2s projectors (valeo) but no pics since my digital camera is in al. w/ my girlfriend.

JasonWW

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Very nice! I'm surprised the Valeo's fit. Don't forget to snap some pics for us!

01RedT/A

trust me, it was really really close.

JasonWW

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Oh yea, I keep forgetting.
Here are some pics of ballasts mounted.

Also, good ballasts will be sealed, cheapers one are semi-sealed. Another good reason to go with high qaulity parts. Anyway, you can also make some splash guards, just cover the top, sides and wire connectors of the ballasts.

01RedT/A

here are some updated pics. they arent the best to show the setup, but you can kinda see what i did. they were taken at G10 in atl. the silver ws6 is my buddies car, and hes running my old setup. these pics havent been touched up at all.

70Stang

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Hey, RedT/A!

I am the guy with the black WS6 in that last picture. I talked to you at G10 about your HID setup. You ever goone do that how to write up?

I think I got all the details from you, but your setup looks awesome...you should share the knowledge with the board.

Thanks again!

01RedT/A

awww crap dude!!! i totally forgot!!! sorry about that. it would take quite a while for a full write up, but im here for help for anyone who needs it. basically, 9and this might sound stupid) but its all about measurments. figure out what you want to use (projector wise) and get the dimensions of it. then, remove you stock sealed beam bulb and start to measure the stock housing. the rectangular piece of metal that actually clamps the bulbs to the housing is a good way do judge wether the overall hiegth of the projector will be too tall to fit well in the housing. also, the thickness of alot of projectors where the bolt holes are are about right to be clamped in the same way as the sealed beam light. it is very easy (at least to me ) to fabricate brackets to hold a projector to the stock fixture. also the beauty of doing such is you can retain your stock adjustment screws. if anyone needs some help, id be mroe than happy to try and lend a hand.

JasonWW

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Here's an old write up by VVS6 on his HID projector setup. It's so old though that the pics are not there.
http://www.ls2.com/forums/showthread...5&pagenumber=1

I'll add the pics (I saved them) to the last posts.

Rollmodel

went to go for a ride this monday night, turned the lights on and only one of em was workin....been working a lot lately so havent touched it since...came home today and they both came on..? any thoughts...something getting wet and causing this? any suggestions would help..