Planning my Projector retrofit

Looks nice man. Have you wired up the LEDs?

Is it just me or are both of the light patterns higher on the outside. It looks like each headlight's beam pattern slopes inward and down.
 
hey TRD, when I was pondering about my own retrofit...and some further customization of the headlights with LEDs, I came upon a very important question. Will your led strip handle the inside of your oven? Or do you think the plastic resin surrounding each LED will/can handle the 300-350 degree heat?!?!?
 
wahooo! got it done... sorta, i still need to wire the LED's in which ill try to do tomorrow but i have school so i may not get a chance to get them hooked in, then im leaving to Cali for spring break so... we'll see. so first of all some more teaser pics.

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ohhhhhh i see the light!!
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even more light :)
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i was going to go find a long gated wall but i started to smell something burn and i was thinking it most be the epoxy must not have dried enough so i came back home

so yeah ive been on this thing all flipping day! i think i even forgot to eat and drink i was so into it!

to answer yall questions, awpsome my buddy actually conviced me to cut the wires and put some connectors on there. my OCD kills me when i have to modify something like that. the light a lone amost killed me haha this was a project in a half

clemson yeah it was the curveachure of the glass that i think made it look like that. is a straight line now its freaking sweet!

SQMD i was thinking about that a lot too and i actually used a heat gun to get it all back on there. with two people it make it much easier! and as far as i know the LED's still work.

if i get everything done tomorrow ill snap some more pics, not sure how its going to go though cause we tried to polish one of the headlights and it made it kinda cloudy so i gotta work on that tomorrow too.

My over all opinion about these... wow! just what i wanted as far as light, my liittle drive to attempt to find a wall was Amazing! this is just what i wanted as far as light output, nobody flashed me and the cutoff looked to hit right below a cars side mirrors. i think thats enough for one post lol!

ps. do you guys like brush gurad like that? lol i think it looks kinda cool
 
omg. sick. Did you use the regular Gatling shrouds or smaller ones?

I wanna see some pics of them on the truck in the daytime!! They look great man.
 
thanks guys if i give you any advise... give yourself more then 3 days to do this. i think i seriously spent amost every hour on this project this weekend. it better last lol! its possible to do on your own but much easier with a buddy

omg. sick. Did you use the regular Gatling shrouds or smaller ones?

I wanna see some pics of them on the truck in the daytime!! They look great man.

yeah i used the regular ones, at first by just seeing pictures i didn't like them that much but now when i see them in person.. lol i keep going downstairs to go look at them :P

but ill be snapping some pics tomorrow if i can. one of my headlights is now cludy from an attempt to polish it. i want to make sure everything is good first.


Badass man. Those look fantastic. You should do mine for me. :p
thanks man! i dont know if i want to ever do this again lol unless i got a week of free time at least lol i cant wait to get the LEDs working i just went out and plugged them to a 9volt battery. holy awesomeness!

BTW 5000k is the bomb! i love it! it looks like a natural white on the road and a brilliant white from head on
 
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I like your brush guard like that (how else would you show off your retrofit? :naughty: ) it's like a beefy bullbar!

and the lights look awesome man! I'm sure the pictures don't do it justice
 
thanks man! i duno i may finally just ditch the guard. ive been wanting to do it for a while now, i think i could get a good $200 out of it around here. i just have to find a way to mount the PIAA's

but yeah i havent even got to look at them in the day time yet. cant wait till this project is over! my hands hurt, ive got epoxy all over the place... no mas! :gun4:

BTW did you get enough pics?
the wiring is pretty simple, i just had to cut my hi/lo adapter and make some conectors for it other than that its good! let me know if you need some more shots of anything but the inside of the light housing, never goin there again i hope !
 
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will do.. maybe..... haha ive gotta catch up on all my school work now. I didn't even touch a book this whole weekend lol

but yeah man, even the lowbeam its phenomenal! i useually have to drive with glasses at night but this light output makes such a huge difference i actually could see with out my glasses! love it!

thanka again for you help any everyone else too!
 
Nice job. The output looks great as does the cutoff. Well done for sticking with the process. I know what you mean about being so into a project that you forget to eat and drink. I did that one day and actually blacked out. :lmao:
 
thanks spongerx! i think i got lucky as far as aiming them. i only had to move the pass side down a little to get it even and that was it! plus that little important piece i broke did its job with a little superglue. sweeet


anyway here are some quicki day shots
sooo dirty :(
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Looks good. Glad you got it finished.

I didn't realize your 4Runner was blacked out...blacking out the reflective area of your headlight would have looked killer. Granted, I highly doubt you'd want to go back and do it now...but I just had to mention it.

HIDs, properly installed such as yours, produce some amazing light over stock bulbs. I love mine. :D
 
thanks man! yeah i actually was going to black it out originally. i was thinking a flat black for the reflector and a black chrome on the shroud but i thought about it and really didn't want to have paint start flaking off or crap like that so i convinced myself not to do it.

anyway got the LEDs working, I need a cooler camera to take these dark pictures. or some more time to clear it up on photoshop i even had a tripod and it still looks grainy but low and behold, this is all i can get for now


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hey thanks alot man! i really appreciate that!

i did my first sorta long drive today and everything seems to feel and work solid! now its gonna sit for a week as i go down to cali for spring break... give it time to really set and hopelly last
 
Sweet so those LEDs being used as turn signals? Or just parking lights?
Try get photo with everything on and projectors as well
 
Retrofit looks great TRD... you got me wanting to put this on the top of my list! (must get shocks first, must get shocks first...) :bash:
 
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Where did you get the LED light strip? That is soo cool looking I think I'm going to have to do something similar with my projector retrofit (whenever I get around to it). It'll be awhile before I get to it, unfortunately, but I'm planning something quite a bit different from any other retrofit I've seen out there so far......
 

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