Thread: HID\Projector Retrofit advice and tips

Originally Posted by cleangtp

You can get a pair of brand new oem style headlights for $70ish with headlight brackets at...... Rockauto, amazon, ebay, pretty much anywhere....

04+ doesn't have headlight brackets. And It's not often you find a pair for less than $100 unless someone is being very generous on ebay and selling them used and in bad shape. However, asking to break even for the price of new headlights on used headlights is too much I agree.

Originally Posted by jmoore4294

04+ doesn't have headlight brackets. And It's not often you find a pair for less than $100 unless someone is being very generous on ebay and selling them used and in bad shape. However, asking to break even for the price of new headlights on used headlights is too much I agree.

Orly?

2004-2007 Pontiac Grand Prix Headlight Pair | eBay

This is what I've bought before and will probably buy again.

Also Aftermarket lights > OEM for retrofits only because the glue is easier to break apart on the aftermarkets

$6 dollars less? Come on Drunkie.

Originally Posted by jmoore4294

$6 dollars less? Come on Drunkie.

You said used for $100 or less. These be brand new!

Originally Posted by Koniig

Mine is turning out borderline disastrous. After taking the headlights comletely apart, the reflector "layer" (for lack of a better word) just keeps breaking. It's that piece of **** like plastic ceramic-y material. Broken twice on me. Once in a line seperating the high and low beam reflector bowls.

Also what's the best way to mount these *****es? Should I just epoxy these things in place?

JB Weld the reflector back together. Put foil tape on the back with a layer of JB Weld and it'll be strong as hell when it dries. You'll need to sand it all down and paint the reflector to hide it though. Happened to me, I'll post pics later.

Shrouds painted, here is a pic.


Sanded with 400 grit, cleaned with swiffer wipe and mild soap\water. Dried. Applied two coats Dupli-color adhesive primer, two coats metalcast base coat, five coats anodized red. The slight graininess is the jewelcoat showing in the picture. For some reason my camera makes them look a little orange. They do have a little "orange peel" effect going, but that is common with the metalcasts unfortunately. Still looks good.

Still having trouble with the wiring I'm trying to diagram. The relay harness ties up one of the stock outputs to power the ballasts. I can't figure out how to power the highs. There's no output on the harness for the highs. Do I need a second 9005 relay harness?? I'm almost certain I'm missing something simple (because I don't know much about car wiring) as no one else mentions having any issue with this.

Originally Posted by laferri2

Shrouds painted, here is a pic.


Sanded with 400 grit, cleaned with swiffer wipe and mild soap\water. Dried. Applied two coats Dupli-color adhesive primer, two coats metalcast base coat, five coats anodized red. The slight graininess is the jewelcoat showing in the picture. For some reason my camera makes them look a little orange. They do have a little "orange peel" effect going, but that is common with the metalcasts unfortunately. Still looks good.

Still having trouble with the wiring I'm trying to diagram. The relay harness ties up one of the stock outputs to power the ballasts. I can't figure out how to power the highs. There's no output on the harness for the highs. Do I need a second 9005 relay harness?? I'm almost certain I'm missing something simple (because I don't know much about car wiring) as no one else mentions having any issue with this.

You just wire the solenoid wires to the highbeam wires.

What I did was soldered a 9005 connector to the end of the solenoid wires and just plugged them in. Worked fine for me. This second time around, I'm keeping the stock high beam while also using the solenoid for the bixenon feature. So splice the black solenoid wire with the black wire on the car, and the red wire with the whatever the positive wire color is on the car. I would advise against using the pigtails they send to splice into the high beam wires. They are crap and the first time or two you plug/unplug them, they will come apart. Mine did anyway.

Originally Posted by laferri2

Does the relay harness 9006 input plug into the stock harness 9006 output, leaving the 9005 high and sidemarker still powered in circuit?

Yep.

Originally Posted by laferri2

Shrouds painted, here is a pic.


Sanded with 400 grit, cleaned with swiffer wipe and mild soap\water. Dried. Applied two coats Dupli-color adhesive primer, two coats metalcast base coat, five coats anodized red. The slight graininess is the jewelcoat showing in the picture. For some reason my camera makes them look a little orange. They do have a little "orange peel" effect going, but that is common with the metalcasts unfortunately. Still looks good.

Still having trouble with the wiring I'm trying to diagram. The relay harness ties up one of the stock outputs to power the ballasts. I can't figure out how to power the highs. There's no output on the harness for the highs. Do I need a second 9005 relay harness?? I'm almost certain I'm missing something simple (because I don't know much about car wiring) as no one else mentions having any issue with this.

You stole my idea bro! Lol, just playin'. I'm in the middle of my retrofit and I did the Gatling 2.0 shroud. I just painted my cutoff red too today. And baked and took apart the housing. But I didn't sand my shrouds though, just cleaned and put the metalcast over it. I'll post up pics when I get mine done.