Well i'm too cheap for projectors but i thought angel eyes would be just fine in stock headlights. Guess what it is!
First things first, go to
here and purchase your angel eyes. While you are there buy some other stuff from Josh. Good guy with great custom stuff for great prices. (/end shameless plug)
Now i picked up a second set of headlights so that i could work on mine on my own time, its not necessary. I would junkyard it or do what i did and get them from the org, theres always a set floating around, just snag it.
Now the first step is to detach the mounting bracket from the headlight itself.
next comes the fun part, baking apart your lights. I suggest only doing one at a time just in case. Josh sends you directions however they are for baking them apart to install his clear lenses. So i had to modify it a little. "Now if you want to try to keep your lens, you can put the headlight in the oven for 3-4 min. @ 350-400. When it is warm, you then pry with a screw driver all around the edges. By doing this, you may/will brake off most if not all of the edges of the headlight housing." Thats from Josh's instructions. Keep it at 350 and take a wooden spoon and place it in between the oven door and the oven. This prevents heat buildup and allows for more even heat. After 3-4 minutes take it out, you dont want the lense to melt!
Start crying now, cause what you have to do is take a nice sturdy flat-head screwdriver and break away most of the outer edge of the plastic so that you can get to the seal of the headlight. This is about what it will look like. (try to be more careful than i was and mind the blurry pics)
Now just slide the screwdriver around till the gasket breaks loose. Pat yourself on the back you just finished the hard part
Now set the headlight aside and grab your shiny new angel eyes.
Use a small flat head and CAREFULLY pry the plastic housing off of them. The tubes are glass and WILL break if you aren't careful. Tada!
take the wires from the angel eye, cut them in the middle. Do something to mark which is which so you can attach them to the same ones when your finished. I dont know if it matters but better safe than sorry. Now grab your empty headlight.
And fill it with somthing pretty:
Line up the angel eye so that it is equidistant from the bulb and the housing. Then mark where the wires touch the top. Also mark on both sides of the tube on the bottom. To drill through the top just be sure to go at an angle so that the lense will cover the holes. Now feed the wires through the holes in the top. Then use a peice of copper wire (just strip an ordinary peice of wire) and CAREFULLY wrap the wire over the tube and down through the two holes. Underneath the headlight twist the wires together and fold them flat. I used electrical tape to hold them down. Essentially it was black and it hides it well.
Now reconnect your angel eye wires and hook up the transformer. Make sure it works before you seal the headlight.
On one of the headlights you are going to have to extend the angel eye wires to reach the transformer. this leads to the angel eye taking 15-20 minutes to warm up so if one is duller than the other when you fully wire everything everything dont worry. as long as it turns on your fine. Now to seal the headlight use "GE's silicone 2. 100% silicone sealant. black. window & door." It can be found at Home Depot. Line the housing with it and press the lense on. let it sit for 24 hours before touching it. Be sure to not skimp on the sealant, its jsut silicone you can always just slice off the excess.
Tada!
Now install them in the car and wait for night. thats when they look their best.
o and if you sport an Ekset sticker they actually glow brighter (not really but do it anyway)
Tada!
I may run 18s, but I can do your taxes in 10 seconds flat.
that looks pretty good man, thanks for the idea.
That's a complete waste with the stock diamond covers. But atleast there's a write up now. Thanks.
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Lance Sharpe wrote:That's a complete waste with the stock diamond covers. But atleast there's a write up now. Thanks.
yes its a waste to use angel eyes but it illuminates the headlight and that was the goal
I may run 18s, but I can do your taxes in 10 seconds flat.
Be alot cheaper to use LED's - www.oznium.com or www.superbrightleds.com
I gotcha tho, sorry to come off as a d*ck.
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It's cool....ya as soon as i finish some secret wiring u'll understand that i used both...*wink
I may run 18s, but I can do your taxes in 10 seconds flat.
Do they have that yellow/orange in real life? When I take pics of my dash that I painted red my camera turns it that same orangey color.
no they are solid red, my sig is about the closet my camera could get...it looks comcastic!
I may run 18s, but I can do your taxes in 10 seconds flat.
that looks real nice bryan!!!
great write up too!
is the ekset sticker glowing due to the angel eye in the 3rd picture from the bottom?
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no its the reflection off of something...i wish
I may run 18s, but I can do your taxes in 10 seconds flat.
thats tight
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That is sweet buddy; it got me wantting to do the same with green; but i think i would totally mess my lights up; i ant the most skilled person, but then again you have good instructions, i may have to get a set from joshua soon, sweet man, love the look; great job.....
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I Have to say they look really good in person bryan i have two leds in both of my sunfire headlights and there just as bright as bryans and easier, but i do like angel eyes mmmumm......
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