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How-To Retro-fit 04-08 Headlights



Yea I tried a heat gun on an old set of lights for my 97 and well.. The fvcking corner light bubbled and melted. Yep it was totally cool.

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Don't be dumb and heat it up to much ;)

I prefer using the oven..heats it evenly and minimizes the chance that'll you'll burn the plastic


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Classy Pontiac said:
I personally cook all headlights at 250 for 15 minutes.
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Excellent. I just got ADecker's retrofits that you made. I need to take the lens off to paint the shrouds, clear the corners or tint them, and the halo fell off so I'm gonna see if glue works. The halo is still wired.

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After our headlights are retrofit, do the adjustment screws still function at all? Some cars they do, some dont.. but I dont wanna mess with them until I know if they'll be of any use.
 
Ehh somewhat.. Depends on how you retro them.. If you take note of the of the stock halogen beam.. On let's say a wall or something.. And make sure you mark the position of the headlight on whatever your using then retro whatever projector you use and match the projector beam with the stock halogen beam.. You'll still have minimal adjustment... Also this is how most guys retro headlights for cars that they don't actually have in front of them.


Now if you just take them apart and cut and hack away then no the adjusters are damn there useless to you.


But you always want to test the headlight itself and makes sure the cut offs are where you want them before you permanently mount them and resell the lens.

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Alright, I hit a deer a few months ago so I had a new left headlight made. I got it in around the middle of June I think, and it took me awhile to get around to installing it. Tried and found my ballast was shot from the deer impact... so I waited again for a ballast. Finally got the ballast today, was super excited to get it all together and finally not have one retro headlight and one stock headlight. Got it all put together in time for dark, and... it seems like it's way out of aim. I have a really hard time believing he aimed it this bad when he made it, cause everything else from him has been great.

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You can see the right side cutoff at the lower edge of the garage door there, the left cutoff is just about at the roof line. I asked about the adjustment screw to see if I could maybe fix it myself.

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This is after maximum adjustment with the screw... cutoff moved down quite a bit but after a test drive is still very much in people's mirrors and oncoming traffic. It also seems to have slanted the cuttoff a little which isnt helping matters.

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This is at about 20ft... first two were from around 50-75 ft.

I really dont wanna lose my lights for another month and a half, not even sure what's wrong with it. What could possibly cause this? Is the projector really aimed that bad? Anything I can do without taking it all apart?
 


GrandPrix06GT said:
Literally just finished them today and put them on.



Is it needed or worth it? Probably not, but I had my mini h1 retrofit 1st n bought fxrs to upgrade and just put the minis in the high beam spot.
It looks cool but probably never use them lol.
And its a lot of time, patience, trial and error.
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Amazing headlights you engineered there. Love the side marker mesh/grille 10/10:th_thumb-up::th_thumb-up::th_thumb-up:

I have a pair of new oem's on their way to me right now. Got them to replace my beyond buffable hazed over factory headlights.

Now I wanted to go projector but the spyders just seemed too good to be true and the reviews sucked so I just went with oem....now I see these write ups and I am excited to try this out.

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I want to do both high and low beams. Which size fxrs are those, the 2.5" or the 3"? which shroud should I go with around the fxrs...I want to make sure I get ones that fit in the housing.


Stef
 
Hey, send me a PM. I can get you set up with the correct parts you need. FXRs are not the best projector to install in these housing as for size is an issue. If you are interested just shoot me a PM
 
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