HID Projector Retrofit

[Raptor Retrofit]

Tell you what man, after the holidays are over Ill start building them, install in my truck, take a bunch of pics and if you like them they're yours.

If not no big deal, Im sure someone else will want them.

 

[White608]

Sounds like a great deal to me

 

[whtrapta]

I installed non-modified Recon's into my 2010 yesterday and I figured rather than start a new thread, I would add to this one so the people researching these lights have a contrast in "out of the box" versus "modded and awesome".

I have to say that the light pattern seen by your modded set has the exact cut-off that my factory HID's have in my 2011 Lincoln MKT, where as there is ZERO cutoff on the Recon's out of the box.

If I position the brightest point of the Recon's beam.... onto the area of a vehicle driving 20-30 feet in front of me....I am lighting up a 20 foot diameter circle of light from each headlight that completly bathes the vehicle in secondary light.

Street signs 20 feet in the air are lit, 30-40 feet on either side of the road are lit...the factory Recon projectors are a complete joke and have no control over light bleed.

this is what you expect:



This is what you will have:



Just played with microsoft paint to simulate the effect, but that is what it looks like with totally stock Recon "projector" low beams.

I couldn't afford the upgrades Duc did and I will say the Recons are better than stock, but ignore the word projector in the stock design and realize that you get ZERO cut-off unless you do the mods Duc says.

Jeff

Holy crap! I get pretty good cutoff with my hid lights in the stock housing. My last car had real bixenon with projectors. My moms car surrently has them. I think my lights work better and brighter than them with almost the same light control

 

[DubbsFaris]

Ducati,
Ill pay you for that right now...just give me your paypal info. done deal...I HATE my lights.

In fact, make it 700.00 Merry Xmas!

 

[soundman98]

Man I have been researching this , does no one make This style Halo , projector housing that will take HID's without all the work you went to ?

unfortunately, i can guarantee that there are not, and probably won't be any prebuilt housings on the market..

i looked for the same thing for my 01 eclipse, and to this day(10 years later), the aftermarket headlamp options are nearly identical to what is available for the raptor-- i believe my eclipse has 4-5 designs, 2 have 'acceptable' output, all of them stink, and none are hid compatible. that was why i ended up doing a retrofit..

 

[Raptor Retrofit]

Ducati,
Ill pay you for that right now...just give me your paypal info. done deal...I HATE my lights.

In fact, make it 700.00 Merry Xmas!

Hahaha, I hear ya man, projectors are the shit. Im getting a new camera tomorrow and will take some better night pics of mine.

If White doesnt have his truck when they are done you can have them and I ll build him the next set.


Just ordered the parts.

 

[DubbsFaris]

Done-

If you need to get ahold of me-

email me at [email protected]

 

[DEADEYE]

Guys, I have my stock headlights just laying around and have been thinking of retrofitting them with bi-xenon projectors. No led's no ccfl's just a top quality projector and HID setup. Would anyone be interested in purchasing them ?

Parts would run about $300, Im thinking $300 for labor and guessing $50 for shipping so $650 ? I would build them, have you ship me your headlights and I would ship out my finished headlights the same day. It would be like a week turn around instead of 3 or 4 months.

I may just build them anyway and list it as a garage sale item.

Sorry for the late re. Looks like you are going to mod your stocks and then post some pics. Look forward to seeing them. Looks like I am at least second in line. I am going to look for some good projectors to mod my stocks as I already have the HIDS Installed.

 

[Raptor Retrofit]

Sorry for the late re. Looks like you are going to mod your stocks and then post some pics. Look forward to seeing them. Looks like I am at least second in line. I am going to look for some good projectors to mod my stocks as I already have the HIDS Installed.

Cool man, heres a list of the products Im using if you want to try and do it yourself.

Projectors - Bi-xenon: Morimoto Mini H1 4.1 - HID Projectors from The Retrofit Source Inc

Ballast - Morimoto 3Five Ballasts (35w) - HID Ballasts from The Retrofit Source Inc

Bulbs - H1: Morimoto 3Five - HID Bulbs from The Retrofit Source Inc

Shroud - Gatling Gun 2.0 - Projector Shrouds from The Retrofit Source Inc

Relay Harness - Bi-xenon: 9008/H13 - Relay Harnesses from The Retrofit Source Inc

 

[whtrapta]

These are my HIDs with the stock housing. They don't have the cutoff like a projector, but nothing can recreate that. But its really not bad. This is from about 50 ft.