MooJohn
Well-Known LVC Member
AFAIK, I'm the second person to do this swap. It was a huge PITA but well worth it in the end.
These are the Morimoto Mini Stage III bi-xenon kit (4300k bulbs, 35 watt) from TheRetrofitSource - $270 for everything. The first step is to put the headlight in your oven for 12 mins at 225 degrees -- once you find an oven large enough to hold our giant light!
Unlike most cars, you won't remove the lens itself but instead the reflector housing comes off. It took a lot of prying / pulling but it will eventually give way. Then you're left with this:
In that picture I've already moved the bulb shield. The projector is simply inserted in the hole where the bulb went and is held in place by a large retaining nut. This perfectly locates the projector without any cutting and allows the stock aiming screws to function.
I used black silicone around the edge of the assembly and pressed it back together. Then I laid another seal of silicone around the perimeter. Better safe than sorry!
Naturally it was dark *and* misting rain by the time I finished but here's what it looks like in the car:
And an awful test of the resulting cutoff (better pic is somewhere -- I'll find it asap. Please ignore the junk!):
These are the Morimoto Mini Stage III bi-xenon kit (4300k bulbs, 35 watt) from TheRetrofitSource - $270 for everything. The first step is to put the headlight in your oven for 12 mins at 225 degrees -- once you find an oven large enough to hold our giant light!
Unlike most cars, you won't remove the lens itself but instead the reflector housing comes off. It took a lot of prying / pulling but it will eventually give way. Then you're left with this:
In that picture I've already moved the bulb shield. The projector is simply inserted in the hole where the bulb went and is held in place by a large retaining nut. This perfectly locates the projector without any cutting and allows the stock aiming screws to function.
I used black silicone around the edge of the assembly and pressed it back together. Then I laid another seal of silicone around the perimeter. Better safe than sorry!
Naturally it was dark *and* misting rain by the time I finished but here's what it looks like in the car:
And an awful test of the resulting cutoff (better pic is somewhere -- I'll find it asap. Please ignore the junk!):
nly a white man can cut a foot off the end of a blanket and add it to the top and think it is longer