Ive always loved the look of HID and aftermarket lighting on cars. On my old explorer, I had the diamond cuts with high temp harness and hyper white 80 watt halogen bulbs. On my new explorer, I wanted to do something new and go beyond what I used to have. Eairly on I decided to buy one of those 9007 HID kits on ebay that are plug and play but after doing some homework I found that they are actually illegal and dangerous to operate due to the amount of glare and stare light they give out. I then decided to fork out the extra money and do it the right way. (Plus I love the way projectors look!)
I bought a kit off ebay that consisted of the projectors, 4300k D2S bulbs, ignitors, and ballasts. ($350 shipped) I also had to buy a new set of diamond cuts because my old set on my old truck got smashed in the wreck ($100 overnighted, Thanks sideswiped for the awsome deal
Now to the pics
It was a friday nite and instead of going out with my friend and such, I decided to stay home and work on this project. I started around 8 and ended at 12 so i got 4 hours in of measuring, cutting, recutting, and playing around in. Heres what I have so far...
Diamond Cut with projector sitting inside with lense on, this will be about what it will look like when it is all done (Plus the shroud)
Halo Eyes from Advance Autoparts
Shoud that will go around the projector, had to be trimmed at the top
Lense on again with projector inside
Lense off, projector inside...test fitting
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Rear before trimming
Rear after
A lot more trimming to go, the whole inner circle needs to be cut out.
BMW Projectors I am using
Ballast and ignitors with 9006 plug. I already have a 9007 high power harness so I will just cut off the 9007 plugs and splice these 9006 in and bam...power to the ballast. The only easy thing to this project!
More to come tomarrow night when I get more progress! I will try and show I mount the projectors and seal everything up
I bought a kit off ebay that consisted of the projectors, 4300k D2S bulbs, ignitors, and ballasts. ($350 shipped) I also had to buy a new set of diamond cuts because my old set on my old truck got smashed in the wreck ($100 overnighted, Thanks sideswiped for the awsome deal
Now to the pics
It was a friday nite and instead of going out with my friend and such, I decided to stay home and work on this project. I started around 8 and ended at 12 so i got 4 hours in of measuring, cutting, recutting, and playing around in. Heres what I have so far...
Diamond Cut with projector sitting inside with lense on, this will be about what it will look like when it is all done (Plus the shroud)
Halo Eyes from Advance Autoparts
Shoud that will go around the projector, had to be trimmed at the top
Lense on again with projector inside
Lense off, projector inside...test fitting
....
Rear before trimming
Rear after
A lot more trimming to go, the whole inner circle needs to be cut out.
BMW Projectors I am using
Ballast and ignitors with 9006 plug. I already have a 9007 high power harness so I will just cut off the 9007 plugs and splice these 9006 in and bam...power to the ballast. The only easy thing to this project!
More to come tomarrow night when I get more progress! I will try and show I mount the projectors and seal everything up