09TcSedan

chrome dont look bad at all but i feel that the black gives it a more meaner look,specially with painted shrouds? i think they are called.

riceburner

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Black over chrome headlights all day

09TcSedan

i agree. i picked some chrome retros up and they are chrome,but i dont have the ***** to pull them apart and paint them haha

ssblackstealth

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my summit white 2010 with retros......

J-Jeezy

those apollo 2.0s?

retrofit specs????

padlock

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man these shrouds are a bit of a pain to fit into the housings with 3" FXR's. They look SOO good though! (note: still have to paint housings black).

Omiotek

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panameras are the best imho.... will be doing those to mine here shortly... debating weather or not i want to put a halo behind the shroud.... not sure how to do it right though. i dont like the whole epoxy method.

padlock

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^go buy some 8/32" x 2.5" bolts with proper hardware and do like my following picture shows. Cut off the extra thread afterwords (not pictured). I agree that epoxy is some ghetto **** for attaching projectors (I will however be using it to seal the holes/gaps up with). I'll be running halo's in mine as well, but I havent got to putting them in yet. I have some aiming to check first

Omiotek

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thats what i ment lol. i know how to put in the projectors. all mine are secured 100% with bolts and then sealed in back. i see dudes epoxing halos in.... need to find a better way as thats not how i do things.

turbosmart4

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So how much more/less cutting to the reflector bowl will I have to do if I install evo s preojectors?

mkulrey13

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Pad whats your setup for aiming, Ive seen cut plexi to align them ive seen just lay it down on ground.

kdub1492

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Mine have always came out well by laying them on my kitchen table lol

J-Jeezy

When we did mine, we
had to trim about about 1/4" off the back of the headlight bezel itself, aswell as 1/2" off the shroud in order to get them to clear the headlights and maintain adjustability.

On a side note, I'm already saving up to do another set with rx330s, converted to bixenon w/ custom shield, 55 d2s ballasts, and 5000k koito d2s bulbs. Should be fun, don't think I'm gunna go all crazy with the accesories though (ccfl halos), probably just paint the shields and call it a day lol.

padlock

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I always take like a stranded 16 gauge wire apart and use the copper strands (looped around something like a twist tie) to hold the halos in from the back. there are two unused screw holes in the clear portion of the shroud that I'll use this idea on for this set
thats a good question. its one of those "You'll find out when you do it" type things..

as of right now my setup for aiming is tossing them on the car and going to town.. its long and tedious but as of right now its all I got going for me until I make up a test bench in the garage when I move to my new place in june

turbosmart4

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Ok thank u , that helps so much

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no problem



seriously though, its hard giving advice like that. I didnt know how much I was going to have to trim off the housings to fit the FXR's until I just went to town and started getting crazy with the dremel. its just the name of the game when it comes to mounting anything other than the MH1's. I would imagine it wouldnt be much more (if any more) trimming than the FXR to fit the EVO-XR's but thats just a complete guess
















and this ladies and gentlemen is why this thread exists.. look at the light output and beam from left (3" 50w 5000k FXR) to right (stock OEM trash). :

CannonBalt

It went better with my theme. I used plastidip btw lol

EXsoccer1921

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i think both look good. but it really depends on the car color and like you said the theme they have going on. cf, blue, and chrome kind of clashes. with the black it all flows. but without the cf i bet the chrome lights would look great too.

i have oem chrome retros on my car, all black. and i love it cause it's oem appearing, but a retrofit. just one of those things that people wonder "does that come stock?". however. i love black on black as well.

09TcSedan

i agree.

SPDDMN36

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Finally getting somewhere, need some more warm days to get the paint done.

TxBlueBalt

What's a good projector for someone that's never done a retrofit before, something easier? I have heard mini h1, do those have good output? Thanks for any advice, I'm a noob at this.

padlock

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considering probably 95% of the retrofits on here are done with Mini H1's its probably safe to say that the easiest projector you can use is by far the Mini H1 as far as installation is concerned. light output is much better than stock halogen no doubt. are there better projector options for output? yes, but they take A LOT more work to install. MH1 is a very good projector for your time/money/skill level

574

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So I have one retro done and the other one is almost done... see "jonathan is a dick" thread. And I have ran into a problem because my car has no power... what can I connect to 12Volts so the projector will come on, I can aim it and seal the headlight? If anyone could tell me what pins to connect that would be

padlock

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^just use the test lead that TRS supplied you to run your ballast.. then its just as simple as connecting that to a battery or whatever you have available

TxBlueBalt

Oh ok, thanks. Right now I have gen 4 projectors with whatever HIDs they came with from ebay, so most likely crap. Would I notice a big difference between those and mini H1s? Also the headlights got scratched pretty badly so I have been looking to do a retrofit with my stock headlights.