Clean as a whistle, I know. Seeing it like this reaaaally makes me wish I could have kept the chrome reflectors, but I'm happy regardless. The only thing that is actually black is the shroud, but the sides of the housing reflect the black too. They are still chrome colored, though the passenger side is actually reflective tape where the chrome should be. Anyway, can't wait to get them aimed tonight. Hopefully pictures of that with an actual camera.

 

They look great bro, nice job

 

wow they look superb

 

A++ work, she looks great

 

Thanks guys!

Not a great picture for the contrast of light/dark, since there are 3 other lights illuminating the area, but it's a good shot of the cutoff step on the garage door.
I took a short video and other pictures when I was driving, but they all turned out to be blurry pieces of shit.
The cutoff is great, they are plenty bright, and they look great.
One big problem though:
When I was driving without the HIDs on, my front left turn signal wouldn't work.
Then I had my car running and the lights on when I was aiming them, and the HIDs went out and my front left turn signal stayed on like a normal light.
I turned the car off but left the lights on, and the HIDs came back on, and the blinker light went back out.
Driving home with the HIDs on, using my left turn signal (only the left) made both my HIDs blink like a turn signal, like I was flashing them on and off!
Really don't know what that is about, but I need to take care of it ASAP. I'm guessing it has something to do with the relay. Can anyone who knows about electrical crap shine some light on this?

 

nice projo's! they arent upside down are they?

 

thanks! no but I do really need to get this problem fixed. I have no clue how the low beams can be related to the blinker

 

how do you have your ballasts wired? any weird grounds?

 

The bulbs are plugged directly into the ballasts.
The ballasts are plugged directly into the harness.
The harness is connected directly to the battery, and it is also plugged into one of the stock lowbeam connectors.
This is the standard setup as far as I know.
Everything is tight and ballast->bulb connections are wrapped well in electrical tape.

I do have the high beams disconnected right now. I don't know if that messes things up for the lighting system, but I will check it out tomorrow. Too cold right now. I am also nervous to try different things, because I really don't want my HIDs blinking like that

 

I never did like the single draw harnesses, I'm assuming your harness has relays, but it only has 1 headlight connection?

Something sounds fishy with that harness to me

 

Yeah it sounds a little strange, but that's what I see on hidplanet and various vendors' sites. It just needs the signal from the interior switch, so there's no reason to have it connected to more than one plug.
Are you using a harness on yours? If I can't figure out what's wrong, I'm just going to remove it, but I'd really really really like the protection of the harness. Gonna go fool around with it now.. we'll see.

 

They won't ignite without the relay harness, my harnesses are independent and I have 2 relays run to the battery one for each ballast. You shouldn't need it though, but it def sounds like something is flakey with the wiring.

 

I think they'll ignite, it will just be a heavy draw on the system and wiring to ignite them. At least that's what I've read. I haven't tried it yet.
I just hooked up the highbeams and that didn't change anything.
This is the relay box
I don't really know what any of that means though. It says 12vdc 40a/14vdc, if that helps at all?
The only thing I can think of is the system is set up for a particular amount of juice and it's not getting that amount, so it's screwing stuff up. I have no clue.
I really don't understand how it could be doing this blinker crap.

 

I tried my ballasts right into the headlight wiring and they wouldn't turn on, even with the car on, I needed the relays to get mine to fire up.

 

You're right. I just tried it and they didn't come on. However, my highbeams did. Interestingly, when I actually switched the high beams on as if the low beams were on, the high beams got brighter.
I also found that when I turn on my high beams with the relay hooked up, the lowbeams go off, which they shouldn't do.
So man, it has to be this harness. I'm wondering if maybe they sent me a 9007 harness or something instead of the 9006 (or whatever the correct numbers are). I think I'm going to look for a new vendor because mistakes like that lose my business.
Of course, I don't know if that is the problem, but I can't think of anything else except the harness.

 

Also try flipping the plugs around into the ballasts, reverse the polarity, I had this problem on my 4runner PNP hid kit, I had to flip the clips around to get the ballasts to fire

 

Okay, my memory served me way wrong.
This is a Hella HID setup, with rebased bulbs that were supposed to fit in 9005/9006 bulb holders. Since I have the projectors, I cut off some tabs to fit the bulbs in the projector holders.
This harness is supposed to be universal, and has 9005/9006 connecting plugs.
So the bulbs plug right into the harness plugs, and both the bulbs and the harness should be able to work together.
I'm not sure from where the problem can be arising.

Damn, I should have just started a new thread for these bastards.

 

Do you mean when plugging the ballasts in directly to the stock wiring?
If it is plugged in oppositely, is that going to mess anything up?

 

God I'm confusing the crap out of myself.

Okay, so:
These are D2S bulbs that were rebased to fit in 9005/9006 holders.
The power connection for the bulb is direct to the ballast.
The ballast gets its power directly from the harness.
The harness is connected to the battery terminals, one OEM plug, and both ballasts.

So whatever connection plug (9004, 9005, 9006, 9007, etc.) it is should not matter. That's just for mating the connectors correctly.
However, a 9005 bulb draws more power than a 9006 bulb, so maybe the harness is setup differently for that. But at the same time, this harness is supposed to be universal, plus the actual power draw is going to be determined by the ballast.

So I'm back to not seeing how this relay harness can be an issue.

 

So you're using a 9006 HID kit? OK, that clears up my main question. Try flipping the wires around going into the ballasts from your harness, see if it makes a difference. You could also try flipping the wires coming out of the ballasts, it shouldn't mess with anything, just wont work if it's backwards but I'm wondering if they're backwards now and that's the issue.

 

Whatever. I just ordered the dual harnesses that you linked me Chris. I guess I just won't be driving anywhere in my car until I get this sorted out. I don't like not using turn signals, just another reason to get pulled over.

 

Well it's an OEM ballast and bulb setup. Someone along the way just rebased the bulb so it will fit into the 9005/9006 slot on the housing. The wires and everything for the bulbs and ballast are still OEM.
So what I did was stick the loose plugs from the ballasts into the harness 9006 connectors and tape them up nice and tight.
This all must have been wired correctly with the harness because everything fires up and works normally if I just keep the headlights on. It's only a problem once the blinkers or high beams are used.
So if it were a polarity problem, wouldn't the lights not come on at all?

 

Alright, a little more testing. This is it for me until the new harnesses come in. I don't want to think of what I'm putting these components through.

Passenger side: Did work reversing the polarity when plugging ballast directly to OEM connector. However, the light was dim and yellowish.

Drivers side: Did not work at all unless plugged into the harness. Tried reversing the wires and not - neither worked.

So I tried having the passenger side plugged directly and the drivers side plugged into the harness, despite one side being obviously dimmer. Then I tried the turn signal, and sure enough, the drivers side HID started blinking.
FML

There was something I did that caused the high beams and the HIDs to come on at the same time, don't remember what that was. Don't want it anyway.

Hopefully these new harnesses will work, and this small fiasco will help somebody in the future. Until then I'm praying.

 

ive notice the forum has been extremely slow lately...

 

not alot of people actually doing things worthwhile with their CL's, thats my deduction.

 

Here's another worthless project:



4th order bandpass, 1 cube net sealed, should be around 4 cubes net ported. The tuning will be what it needs to be so it peaks with the car. Should be interesting, even though I know most of you guys aren't interested in audio builds...

 

not much some can do in a financial crisis.

 

Too damn cold to be motivated to hunker in a garage at the moment, I'll get motivated as soon as it gets above freezing

 

actually, i plan on doing a crazy audio setup as well... got 2 monsterous ppi amps ready to pound the daylight out of infinity kappas goodness...

 

Kumar you've had those amps sitting for how long now?

 

Please tell me their not the old school white PPI Art amps? If so, and you've had them sitting for awhile, I'm driving up there to get them... I've been looking for one of those amps for awhile to power my tweets. Unfortunately, I just can't afford 1 nor can I find one... What are you planning sub wise? Also, processing, front stage, etc?

 

nah.. 1000.4 and 1500.1

havent started even thinking about details on the audio setup yet. alot needs to be done under the hood first, then the 5lug conversion, new coilovers, interior then system i think...

 

Started a thread about my issues in the Problems & Fixes section.
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?p=11645946
I think something is very wrong

 

Tried on some electrical tape to see how some eyelids might look.. yes or no?






And one of my 4 corner LEDs was flickering a lot, so I pulled it out to see what was up, and now it won't work at all

 

barely notice teh eyelids, make em thicker..

 

nooo i dont think it looks good at all


if you just blackhouse them it will have a lot cleaner of a look

 

Nah I don't want to blackhouse. I would have done that when I had them apart!
Funny, I was thinking maybe making them thinner. I'd rather them be hard to notice than really obvious.
I'm leaning toward no on them anyway..

 

just go with colormatched vinyl instead, the black doesn't seem to fit.

 

i like it, mostly because its barely noticable. and your retrofit looks amazing.

 

no on the eyelids. but the retro really is sick. should've blackhoused imo