Dual Projectors w/HIDs on a GTA
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Cool thanks for the info man. How did you separate the lens from the housing? Did you do the oven trick? If so...can you elaborate?
I wish I could find a set of H6054s H4 housings that have a plastic lens. Most of the ones Ive found are glass...and some of them have glass reflectors too. Separating them didnt go well... haha.
Im going home today, and taking a look at the parts that I have sittin around. I have a set of pop up lights that Im not using, and some spare buckets. So maybe I can do mock up at my APT and then transfer to the car so Im not goofing around in the dark every night. Ill start a new thread and post my progress so I dont hijack yours. There arent enough PROPER HID conversion threads anyway.
J.
I wish I could find a set of H6054s H4 housings that have a plastic lens. Most of the ones Ive found are glass...and some of them have glass reflectors too. Separating them didnt go well... haha.
Im going home today, and taking a look at the parts that I have sittin around. I have a set of pop up lights that Im not using, and some spare buckets. So maybe I can do mock up at my APT and then transfer to the car so Im not goofing around in the dark every night. Ill start a new thread and post my progress so I dont hijack yours. There arent enough PROPER HID conversion threads anyway.
J.
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Re: Dual Projectors w/HIDs on a GTA
On another set of lights I had, I tried heating the edge with a torch while working around it - BAD IDEA. The heat wasnt nearly uniform enough and crack, bye bye glass. The oven works great.
About the plastic lenses, I agree that there are really none available without glass. I personally like the glass, but here's how you could do plastic:
Remove the lens. Make a mold of the underside of it out of plaster of paris. Take a piece of Plexi/Lexan that is much larger than your lens and build a frame around the edge of it. Stick the Plexi/Lexan into the oven, same way, until it is almost ready to melt. Then quickly remove it and force it over the mold - it will shape to the mold and you have a direct duplicate of your glass lens in plastic.
I was really surprised, too, about the lack of info there was on true retrofitting of HIDs into these cars. That's one of the reasons I went ahead and posted this thread. Get some ideas/opinions flowing.
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Old thread, I know but a lot of the pictures seems to be broken. Could you update this to fix them? Or is the problem on my end?
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Not sure what's going on, some of the pictures are working fine but some are not - they're all on the same webpage...you can send me a PM with what pics you'd like to see and I can send them to you, or the links if you'd like.
Just let me know.
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