Easy HID retrofit

[criffaaa1]

criffaaa1, I looked back at the pictures of yours, the holes on mine lined up much better than that.

Yeah I contacted him, sent him the pics and he's sending me a new set, its either the plates or the projectors that are off. If these don't line up I'll be contacting trs.



sent from my Crifftastic $3

 

[mharders]

He was telling me he did send out some of the older style plates to some people on accident but, he is sending them the new designed ones to fix the mistake. New style should have a slight sliver cutout on left and right side of the plate to house the new projector

 

[chrisreed822]

That's what I got, they just didn't fit "just right" around the edges.

 

[TheAutumnWind]

Interesting. This is less expensive/easier than I had thought originally. Maybe HID's are in my future...

Thanks for sharing! Looks fantastic.

 

[TheAutumnWind]

Can anyone make suggestions for ballasts and bulbs? I've heard DDM Tuning 35w are nice, and others saying they are junk.

Morimoto XB35 bulbs and ballasts are the other recommendation? Certainly more expensive (3X) going that route.

I'm planning to be looking @ ~4000k-5000k

 

[YukonXL04]

Definitely Morimoto XB35 bulbs regardless... I love mine, they are considerably brighter than any of the other aftermarket bulbs I have run.

Im running their 3five kit in my H1 projectors, and their XB35 bulbs with VVME 55w ballasts on my TL projectors.

 

[08grey]

Your running 35 watt bulbs with 55 watt ballasts?

 

[YukonXL04]

Yea, their XB35 bulbs are rated to work fine with 55w. and actually on their color temp spec its actually at like 45w or something.

TL projectors with the XB35 bulbs and 55w are freaking awesome.

 

[08grey]

Wow. Had no idea you could do that. Cool.

 

[TheAutumnWind]

Definitely Morimoto XB35 bulbs regardless... I love mine, they are considerably brighter than any of the other aftermarket bulbs I have run.

Im running their 3five kit in my H1 projectors, and their XB35 bulbs with VVME 55w ballasts on my TL projectors.

Ok, so the VVME ballasts are for your lows?

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Yea, their XB35 bulbs are rated to work fine with 55w. and actually on their color temp spec its actually at like 45w or something.

TL projectors with the XB35 bulbs and 55w are freaking awesome.

Interesting. I was concerned that 55w would put too much heat in the housing and burn stuff up. I skimmed your quad retro build and it looks like you have no problems. I'll likely run the VVME 55w ballast with xb35's thanks to you