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Old 02-17-2008 | 09:04 PM
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heres an idea

take this

and our headlights. anyone have the patience and the money to make something so unique as this. i might be considering it. three prejector retro
Old 02-17-2008 | 09:27 PM
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what car is that?
Old 02-17-2008 | 09:36 PM
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Old 02-17-2008 | 09:41 PM
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Man, the ballasts, wiring and components would be expensive to piece together, but it's doable
Old 02-17-2008 | 10:26 PM
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theyre also LED headlights, not really sure how that all works out but supposedly it's the first production car to have it
Old 02-17-2008 | 10:28 PM
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oh, hi I upgraded your 4th gen LS



Old 02-17-2008 | 11:37 PM
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no.

dude you have enough to worry about with your build. i wouldnt even bother.
Old 02-18-2008 | 12:58 AM
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find that projector, as a start........ but honestly, thatll be ALOT of money, patience, and WORK......... in this case the price of originality is WAY too much for me to justify


but hey if you wanna........ by all means, have at it
Old 02-18-2008 | 11:58 AM
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if i had just about everything else on my car placed to perfection the way i wanted it, and had alot of $$ to spare, i'd give it a try.
Old 02-18-2008 | 12:36 PM
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There's no way to fit all 3 of those into the low beam housing, you'd have to hack the center out and make it one big housing, that'd be a LOT of fabricating and hiding, I don't think the reflector would handle it anyway. But good luck trying
Old 02-18-2008 | 12:58 PM
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I read into these things a bit. They use liquid cooling so the LEDs don't fry and the housing doesn't melt. That would take some serious engineering for any retro and probably wouldn't work in the end anyway.
Old 02-18-2008 | 02:34 PM
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I read into these things a bit. They use liquid cooling so the LEDs don't fry and the housing doesn't melt. That would take some serious engineering for any retro and probably wouldn't work in the end anyway.
Did some reading on these as well, and couldn't help but chuckle envisioning someone trying to put these into a CL
Old 02-18-2008 | 02:48 PM
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my boi bought some LED headlights....they were shit
I am now realizing he needs retrofitted projectors to make them really glow
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Old 02-18-2008 | 04:43 PM
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i dont think your gonna have the technology or the steady hand to pull off a procedure like this.

lolz
Old 02-18-2008 | 05:21 PM
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i ment 3 projectors for the whole headlight and yes a reto such as that would be real expensive yet very unique. we spend money left and right on bullshit things. iv spent close to 4g on my head i havent even built yet. driving with 3 projector reto would look sick. those headlight look sick themselves. iv seen em in person
Old 02-18-2008 | 08:29 PM
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yeah, maybe 2 sets of TSX to cover lows and 1 set of TLs on the inside to cover lows and highs, but really I mean they all have the same coverage area, so... I think you see where this is going
Old 02-18-2008 | 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by G22_Powered_YA1
yeah, maybe 2 sets of TSX to cover lows and 1 set of TLs on the inside to cover lows and highs, but really I mean they all have the same coverage area, so... I think you see where this is going
There's not enough room in the back of the headlight to support 2 sets of TSX in the lows, you would be better off, just doing a dual projector setup, high and low. The reflector itself would not support the weight of 2 projectors in the low beam compartment either. It's a great idea, but also where would you wire the 3rd set of ballasts to? You already have to wire relays into the low beam wires just to power on one set of ballasts. Not saying it's impossible, but extremely difficult and impractical.

Old 02-18-2008 | 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by 97BlackAckCL
There's not enough room in the back of the headlight to support 2 sets of TSX in the lows, you would be better off, just doing a dual projector setup, high and low. The reflector itself would not support the weight of 2 projectors in the low beam compartment either. It's a great idea, but also where would you wire the 3rd set of ballasts to? You already have to wire relays into the low beam wires just to power on one set of ballasts. Not saying it's impossible, but extremely difficult and impractical.

yeah I was just throwing it out there, if it were me id settle for 1 set of TLs and call it a day
Old 02-18-2008 | 10:56 PM
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Old 02-20-2008 | 02:03 AM
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the new big body LS is BANANAS
Old 02-20-2008 | 08:21 AM
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i dont think your gonna have the technology or the steady hand to pull off a procedure like this.

lolz
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