wait a sec... park lights? lol, what happened to them?

 

the ccfl halos are wired to parking lights. so are the yellow leds on side where the orange reflector used to be. I will also re-wire the 7440 signal light to parking. so yea, i got parking covered.

 

my writeup won the august scionlife tech article contest! sweet!!

 

Excellent write up and congrats on winning the contest. I personally have opened up headlights and modified the internals and repaint the casings. It's an overwhelming amount of work for the unprepared.

 

Congrats! It looks great! I'm hoping to finish my retrofit over the weekend.

 

I definitely agree with you. It's a lot of work.... I can't count how many times I've said "now I know why they charge $1300 to make these!"

 

yay UC davis engineering starting my 2nd year there in just a few weeks =)

 

congrats, i was hoping you'd win. well deserved.

 

how difficult was the wiring? did you have to create your own harness, can you go in detail with the wiring process? would be nice if you modified pictures with circles to indicate where you are going to mount the ballast

 

congrats, im still lost in my research, but i wont' give up!

and yes, it'd be nice if you went in detail in the wiring process. very very important heh

 

^^^true . bmw headlights are a sunuvaB!tch to take apart even with baking the the ligth as suggested. it took me at least two hours to extract the projectors from a 2005 5 series housing. i still waiting for parts but i will start my own post from start to finish if maximus doesnt do a complete walk through

 

Congrats on being the victor of our tech article contest, maximus96! Keep an eye out for an email from me...

Kaeon and Mikochu, don't worry, you're not out of jobs... yet.

 

updated with a couple of daytime pics. i was in a hurry and didn't have time to snap more. as far as the wiring, I wired the stock inner turn signals into parking lights using a relay. the CCFL are also wired to parking, as well as the side yellow LEDs. the HID are wired with a relay to the stock 9006. the eyebrows are wired to the turn signal, but seem a little dim during high noon. the rest of the time it seems bright enough.

i got a favor to ask, can somebody confirm that when your lights are all off, and you pull on the light stalk to flash the high beams, does the low beams come on too? it does on mine now with the HID but i can't remember if it did before. I can't flash people anymore now because the rapid on and off puts a lot of stress on the HID ballasts. thats why i have the Hella supertones in to replace the stock horns.

 

Yea it does.

 

maximus,

that plate above your radiator what purpose does that serve.fill us in

 

thats Dr. Isotope's "alternative radiator cooling plate". he got a thread over at drag coeff. $30 shipped. made of ABS plastic, i just painted it silver. its mostly cosmetic, covers the gap between the radiator and grille. suppose to also direct more air thru the radiator instead of going up and over it.

 

awesome!!!!

hey maximus how about a distant shot at night to see the aggressive look of the eyebrow and the halos... please

 

awesome!!!!

hey maximus how about a distant shot at night to see the aggressive look of the eyebrow and the halos... please

 

ahh crap, i got screwed with financial problems and housing for the next 6 months... i'll have to put this project aside now T__T

 

that looks really good. how is the cut off of the light?