BlackAck's Retrofit and Test Fit Round 1 (56K don't) (UPDATED PICS PAGES 7 & 8)
07-25-2007, 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by 97BlackAckCL
I live in the north hills of Pittsburgh, a lot of people know my car around here. Black, tinted out with a stock wing and tinted tail lights. It's been MIA for almost a year ripped apart in pieces. The bumper, fogs and all will be back on in the next 1-2 weeks. What part of Ohio are you from? And how often you come to the burgh? I work downtown.
I'm from Northeastern Ohio. 20 minutes from Akron.
We'll have to have a minimeet with members from this area.
07-25-2007, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by DaInFaMMuS1
i cant stop staring at them....them shits r hot
Tell me about it, I come in through my garage, just so I can stop and stare at the headlights, STILL can't get power to the damn ballasts though! 
07-25-2007, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by 97BlackAckCL
Tell me about it, I come in through my garage, just so I can stop and stare at the headlights, STILL can't get power to the damn ballasts though!
07-25-2007, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by 97BlackAckCL
Tell me about it, I come in through my garage, just so I can stop and stare at the headlights, STILL can't get power to the damn ballasts though! 
Good luck finishing it up! 
07-25-2007, 10:31 AM
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ENGAGE MY VTEC BABY!!!!!!
Thanks for the props BlackAck, I am glad to always help a fellow memeber. I have been MIA, new baby and new house been keeping me busy. I am just glad yours turned out so good, your CF shroud that you did is awesome and has to be one of the better ones I have seen. Hit me up on my email sometime at joseph.j.giguere@erac.com and send me some more pictures. now did you do the color mod to the shields?
07-25-2007, 02:02 PM
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Looks sharp, I like it.
On a completely unrelated note, I had a nightmare where I owned a Miata (
) and someone stole the hood, trunk, and rear window from it when I had it parked in some parking garage.
On a completely unrelated note, I had a nightmare where I owned a Miata (
) and someone stole the hood, trunk, and rear window from it when I had it parked in some parking garage.
07-25-2007, 02:40 PM
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NICE!! Looks really great blackack, props
I can't wait to get my tsx projos in!!
I hope you get the wiring figured out soon, I can't wait to see those things light up.
I think smoking the corners of the housings was a nice touch. It compliments the CF very well.
Now go get the wiring figured out!!
I can't wait to get my tsx projos in!!
I hope you get the wiring figured out soon, I can't wait to see those things light up.
I think smoking the corners of the housings was a nice touch. It compliments the CF very well.
Now go get the wiring figured out!!
07-25-2007, 03:03 PM
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:iagree: x 46.
i'd meant to post in your other thread; your work is pristene, man -- the patience and detail absolutely shines right through. it's one thing to see someone do it well, but it's another to see someone do it right and well, from the roots out, in accord with a plan. takes great discipline to be blind to shortcuts, you've obviously got that.
really dig the engine job, very clean.
rad mounts look good, but will need spacers?
headlights are completely insane -- mike is the retro king; smart to study him. sure he'd be impressed though at your results.
can't wait to see it when finished -- especially the bay.
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i'd meant to post in your other thread; your work is pristene, man -- the patience and detail absolutely shines right through. it's one thing to see someone do it well, but it's another to see someone do it right and well, from the roots out, in accord with a plan. takes great discipline to be blind to shortcuts, you've obviously got that.
really dig the engine job, very clean.
rad mounts look good, but will need spacers?
headlights are completely insane -- mike is the retro king; smart to study him. sure he'd be impressed though at your results.
can't wait to see it when finished -- especially the bay.
kutgw
07-26-2007, 03:57 PM
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Some more pics, better pics of the retro, taken on my trusty 5.0 MP camera before I installed them, looking back, I had better lighting (daylight) then I did when I took the 10 MP pics, enjoy.
Before the cutting
After
Close ups of my customized bezels
Matched corners
Amazed these came out better than I thought
Before the cutting
After
Close ups of my customized bezels
Matched corners
Amazed these came out better than I thought
07-26-2007, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by SwervinCL
The one question that I have/had always had is how do you make sure they are straight?
It seems like that is the toughest part.
Could you shed some light on this for us?
07-26-2007, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by zo4000
Loving the headlights, the cf is a very nice touch...also your pit bigboy looks like my pits long lost brother, skrappy (my pit) gives me the same bored look while i wrench away lol
Guys, as far as the aiming. You mount them to the stock reflectors. You have to center them and make them aim out, but then you can just adjust up and down with the stock aiming knobs.
07-26-2007, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by dragon084
I donno if I wanna get those smoked lenses or not...
how do they look on the car?
Are those them or did you DIY those with tint?
how do they look on the car?
Are those them or did you DIY those with tint?
07-26-2007, 07:46 PM
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Damn that 10MP camera made everything more sic. Good work .
Those shrouds looks good. Where did you get them from? Where did you get that chair from? I ganked a chair just like that from my parents place.
Those shrouds looks good. Where did you get them from? Where did you get that chair from? I ganked a chair just like that from my parents place.
07-26-2007, 08:17 PM
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Please stop teasing me with these pics bro!!! I pine for a custom setup like that. When do we get to see the front end fully assembled?
07-26-2007, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by DaInFaMMuS1
Please stop teasing me with these pics bro!!! I pine for a custom setup like that. When do we get to see the front end fully assembled?
07-26-2007, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Nakamichi
Damn that 10MP camera made everything more sic. Good work .
Those shrouds looks good. Where did you get them from? Where did you get that chair from? I ganked a chair just like that from my parents place.
Those shrouds looks good. Where did you get them from? Where did you get that chair from? I ganked a chair just like that from my parents place.
07-27-2007, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by SwervinCL
Soooooooooo. how do you do the aiming? Or is that a trade secret.
I answered that a few posts up 
Originally Posted by me
Guys, as far as the aiming. You mount them to the stock reflectors. You have to center them and make them aim out, but then you can just adjust up and down with the stock aiming knobs.
07-28-2007, 08:51 AM
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As requested, here's some cutoff pics. Some of you guys aren't following the HID ballast thread, so I threw them up in here.
The result of a week of frustration and depression, oh and 4 YEARS OF WAITING
Using the ww lip box and CF hood as the backdrop, dark garage. Only one of my Phillips 6000K d2s bulbs lit, they are freakin BRIGHT!
Not so great picture of the light
Better cutoff picture
The result of a week of frustration and depression, oh and 4 YEARS OF WAITING
Using the ww lip box and CF hood as the backdrop, dark garage. Only one of my Phillips 6000K d2s bulbs lit, they are freakin BRIGHT!
Not so great picture of the light
Better cutoff picture
07-28-2007, 06:23 PM
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Inspection expires on Tuesday, I gotta get this bitch together so I can get to inspection quick. 
07-29-2007, 08:18 PM
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Some updated pics
Got the harnesses customized so they'll actually WORK with my stock 9006 low beam harnesses, the female plugs that came on the wiring kit were too small and didn't line the pins up right, so yeah no juice to trigger the relay on and off. Hacked them, made new harnesses from my 4runner's old headlights, soldered them all up, insulated them, then silicone sealed the hell out of em, and they work great now, just gotta mount the ballasts, but after that, they are all done. Tell me what you think, feels SO good to have them all wired up right and working finally.
Passenger side was second to be wired.
No lights on in the garage, that's all projectors. Still don't have the fogs mounted yet, so that's all headlights
Finally removed my 4 year old glow pedals, and replaced them with 2 x 6" green led bars hooked into the illum/dimmer to turn on and off with the guages. Looks a LOT better, and now they match the guages and all my interior lights. Still got 4 more bars to mount in the interior, but those are gonna be switched
Passenger side, you can see one of my helms manuals chillin on the floor, shows how bright they are.
Driver's Side
Crappy far away shot
Over the roof view of the light output, just headlights and corners
Headlights, highs and corners
They are ALIVE!
Hit 2 big milestones today, got the ballast wiring harnesses finished, AND got my hella horns and hella relay wired up in place of the stock horns. Had to do a hack job on all 3 wiring harnesses for the horns, but they are LOUD!!! 120 DB x 2 yeah they're deafeningly loud, we were testing them out in the driveway. I feel bad for any asshole that cuts me off. There's no way I could ever blow my horn at a pedestrian now, but you cut me off, you'll hear me
Stock wiring harnesses wired to the new hella supertones
New relay to replace the stock one.
That circle on the right says Hella, I now have hella horns and hella gen 3 hid ballasts
Passenger side was second to be wired.
No lights on in the garage, that's all projectors. Still don't have the fogs mounted yet, so that's all headlights
Finally removed my 4 year old glow pedals, and replaced them with 2 x 6" green led bars hooked into the illum/dimmer to turn on and off with the guages. Looks a LOT better, and now they match the guages and all my interior lights. Still got 4 more bars to mount in the interior, but those are gonna be switched
Passenger side, you can see one of my helms manuals chillin on the floor, shows how bright they are.
Driver's Side
Crappy far away shot
Over the roof view of the light output, just headlights and corners
Headlights, highs and corners
They are ALIVE!
Hit 2 big milestones today, got the ballast wiring harnesses finished, AND got my hella horns and hella relay wired up in place of the stock horns. Had to do a hack job on all 3 wiring harnesses for the horns, but they are LOUD!!! 120 DB x 2 yeah they're deafeningly loud, we were testing them out in the driveway. I feel bad for any asshole that cuts me off. There's no way I could ever blow my horn at a pedestrian now, but you cut me off, you'll hear me
Stock wiring harnesses wired to the new hella supertones
New relay to replace the stock one.
That circle on the right says Hella, I now have hella horns and hella gen 3 hid ballasts
07-29-2007, 09:08 PM
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Night pics outside the garage
Pulled her out of the garage and took a couple pics of the beam output, hard to get on camera but wow do these projectors project that light
You can really see the TSX projector cut off on this one
You can really see the TSX projector cut off on this one
07-29-2007, 09:43 PM
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Yes those are the stock pedals, I had them on under the stupid glow pedals
07-29-2007, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Nakamichi
Love those TSX cut offs 
Those are some fancy floor mats. High roller!
Those are some fancy floor mats. High roller!
I have brand new laser cut black floor mats, I just haven't put them in yet. I gave my old mats to my girl cuz hers were shot. They were aftermarket too, but she needed them more, and they were universal. And I already had a new set. I stole a pair of those paper ones from sears when I was gettin tires on my 4runner. You like them though? Thinkin about keepin em when I show the car