Aarkon's Build Thread

[Mounce]

All that MAY did was paint the bezel and put in a clear corner lense if I read his posts right.

But yeah, I'd love to take your lights off of your hands Ryan but I also can't afford them.

 

[Capote]

All that MAY did was paint the bezel and put in a clear corner lense if I read his posts right.

But yeah, I'd love to take your lights off of your hands Ryan but I also can't afford them.

Oh yeah, you're right, but he still had to go through the same process for taking them apart

 

[dmanns67]

The fogs are at $200 and headlights about $1000. Crazy right?

Is $200 what your selling your retro fogs for or is that just for parts?

 

[Aarkon]

Is $200 what your selling your retro fogs for or is that just for parts?

Its what I have in parts for them minus the bulbs I would sell them for that plus whatever shipping would be

 

[dmanns67]

Its what I have in parts for them minus the bulbs I would sell them for that plus whatever shipping would be

$200 is not a bad deal. What HID bulbs does the projectors take? You said that you did not have to modify your bumper cover right?

 

[Aarkon]

The hids are just regular h1s and I did have to take a dremel and widen the center hole too fit the projector bowl but it was so soft It only took a min.

 

[dmanns67]

The hids are just regular h1s and I did have to take a dremel and widen the center hole too fit the projector bowl but it was so soft It only took a min.

Thats not bad. At least the fogs still mount in the OE location. Did you have to have a harness or adapter to run the H1 HID?

 

[Aarkon]

Thats not bad. At least the fogs still mount in the OE location. Did you have to have a harness or adapter to run the H1 HID?

No actually all my lights are still running on my kensun ballasts from my old setup with no flaws

 

[Aarkon]

Got the new projectors and im already pissedoff because they are not the shrouds I wanted so im build these to sell

 

[Capote]

Sucks man [emoji30]

 

[Blckshdw]

Got the new projectors and im already pissedoff because they are not the shrouds I wanted so im build these to sell

They are usually pretty good about fixing goof-ups when you let them know...

 

[Aarkon]

It was a closeout but didn't list these stupid eyelid shrouds anywhere on the site

 

[Aarkon]

Started on the second set of fogs

 

[Capote]

Started on the second set of fogs

doing the same thing again?

 

[Aarkon]

[emoji106] doing the same thing again?

Ya pretty much just different halos

 

[Capote]

Are you doing SMD, CCFL, or Plasma?

 

[Aarkon]

Im sticking with the cob leds just going to 6000k

 

[dmanns67]

Im sticking with the cob leds just going to 6000k

What about a set without halos [emoji14]oke:

 

[Aarkon]

What about a set without halos [emoji14]oke:

If I can ever get a set of the projectors with the right shrouds I will be making those as well

 

[Aarkon]

Think I found my new turn signals

 

[Blckshdw]

Those look promising. Got dimensions handy?

 

[Aarkon]

The dimensions of the bar are 7.5 long 1.75 wide 1 inch tall

 

[Blckshdw]

So what are your plans for the next set of quads? Different paint job? Different shrouds? The turn signals are a little short, but I'm sure you can make them work.

 

[Aarkon]

Im definitely changing up the shrouds but am keeping everything blacked out still have to find some clear corners and what lights im going to put in there if any the signals will get pulled apart and painted as well and fitted into a custom housing I have also been think of how to make the projectors look black as well so during the day it looks like there is nothing there

 

[Ric_Whit]

Aakron,

What kind of projector did you use for the fog light mod and where did you buy them??
Sorry if I missed it.

 

[Aarkon]

Aakron,

What kind of projector did you use for the fog light mod and where did you buy them??
Sorry if I missed it.

The projectors I used are the Morimoto matchboxs and I had too custom build them unfortunately no one offers anything aftermarket for our foglights

 

[Mounce]

Aakron,

What kind of projector did you use for the fog light mod and where did you buy them??
Sorry if I missed it.

Link to them in case you didn't find them on your own.

http://www.theretrofitsource.com/components/projectors/morimoto-matchbox-bi-xenon-fog-light-projectors.html#.VKMuqJTAA

 

[Ric_Whit]

Aankron,

Thanks for the info


Mounce,

Thanks

 

[Aarkon]

Got the new projectors and they are huge

 

[Blckshdw]

Got the new projectors and they are huge

Fun times ahead for you sir!

 

[Aarkon]

After doing a quick mockup im afraid the new projectors are too bit to do quads and only good for low beams. I seem to remember the reflector bowls being deeper or maybe I have been spending to much time on foglights. But I may have a deal for a couple ls owners

 

[Aarkon]

Then I started playing around.

 

[Mounce]

Got the new projectors and they are huge

What kind of projector is that?

 

[Aarkon]

They are the d2s 3.0

 

[Capote]

I knew they looked huge, I was worried that was gonna happened to ya

 

[Aarkon]

Matchbox quads

 

[Blckshdw]

After doing a quick mockup im afraid the new projectors are too bit to do quads and only good low beams

Quitting =

You're allowed to take forever to get it done (like me for example) but you can't quit and give up

 

[Aarkon]

You know I dont quite but too put these in the highs the bezels will need more cutting than I want to do for appearance reasons the matchbox fit almost perfect for an easy retro I wonder how thos would perform[emoji27] but I may use these for now to build a couple pair of ls lights for members

 

[Blckshdw]

Cutting the bezels to fit is one way to make them fit Other options would be to do most of the trimming on the shrouds, or using some mod bug steroids, build your own custom shrouds for the high beam projectors, or a uni-shroud for both. (that was my initial grand idea with the vacuum forming :blush: )

But I'm sure a lot of people like your first idea (selling completed retrofits) better

 

[Aarkon]

Ya but remember lt lights have that bar through the middle and I had to cut the shrouds on the other ones to fit them these I would have to take huge chunks out of the bezel and it would look goofy I think it will be easier too order a new smaller set and actually me and matt where kinda talking about vacuum forming a clue days ago I kinda wanna look into that but for now ill just build a couple of lights for the guys on here but I would need too know if they want anything custom