thai

edit well, my old free hosting account got shut down, my new free hosting doesnt allow direct linking, so here are all of the pix.
http://clguy.sphosting.com/index.htm

the steering wheel was very easy to put on. many thanks to justin dyar for the detail instruction. thanks man. **his original post http://www.acura-cl.com/forums/showt...threadid=84374 **

the oem hid was a b*tch to get it to focus properly with our housing, but finally got it to focus right. overall a pretty good week :o).

thanks

Vitamin CL

Those are very nice pics. Especially the wood steering wheel
It is unfortunate that this wheel is not compatible with our 97 steering wheels. I did find a site where I could have mine converted but the cost is prohibitive

Have you considered the projector conversion? Are you pleased with your current set up?

thai

hey thanks for responding. i'm pretty happy with my current setup, but the light isnt blue like you see on many audi or bmw cars, it just very white with a slight blue at certain angle, however, the performance is very good. and no i havent consider projector at all because i have to remove the bumper to take out the light housing out, sorry, too much work, + i got the light to focus pretty good. the problem is that the oem HID bulb is a bit shorter than our 9006 bulb, when you try to swap an oem hid bulb into our housing, light just scatter everywhere because its not focus right, the hid bulb is too short. what i had to do was modified the housing, so that the arc of the hid bulb reach inside the housing with the same distance as the arc of the 9006 bulb would, and now its not scatter everywhere. i have a prettty good beam as you can see in the pic.

MikeSwing

What HID kit did you put in there, how much was it, and where did you get it from? Looks damn good.

thai

mike, the hid kit is an oem lexus is300 bulb and ignitor. i got it off ebay for $250. the kit is brand new, so the bulb will get bluer as it breaks in and shift color.

i got the wheel off ebay too. :o)

1StGenCL

That wheel looks great, wish i could put one in my 97 Hey Vitamin, did you find the place in a car mag that wanted like 500 to do the wheel? Oh as for the bulbs, the will most likely get whiter not blue with time

MaCe

dayum what kinda camera u using that first pic is soo clear ...

ohh and the wheel is tight too

VXCL

how did u take ur pics of the light on the road at night? im havin trouble gettin the camera to pic mine up. flash on or off? thanx

dustbuster4

I really like that steering wheel!

tw1112

nice pics and great setup!

VXCL - You should use no flash I believe because the flash would just drown out the light that is there. What camera are you using?

3.0RojoCL99

what modifications did you do to the housing to correct the scatter

Blacura

thai, looks great man! I have OEM lexus HIDs too (those ballasts are fawkin heavy!), bitch to aim, yours look like they're aimed a lot better than mine how'd you do it

edit: how did you mount the bulb?

edit 2: how much was the wheel? and where can i get a charcoal one?

Vitamin CL

Pat, I came across this website browsing an Acura RL forum:

http://www.american-stitches.com/

here's a pic of what looks like our wheel (97):



I want...

Here's anohter pic of an RL wood/leather combo

Vitamin CL

Oh, I believe they are asking anywhere between $500-$575 USD for the conversion..

thai

camera, the camera used was the olympus c2020 2.1mpixel cam. its pretty old actually. all pix taken w/o flash except for the second pix, which was taken with flash. photography is all about proper lighting i guess.

headlight housing, i had to trim about 3/16" length at the end of the housing, where you put the bulb in. i removed the little circle plastic thing, which hold by three screws, and using the three screw link by a piece of plastic to hold the hid bulb to the housing. its pretty ghetto, but it holds pretty good. sorry very hard to explain.

steering, i got the steering wheel off of ebay for only 80 bucks, really http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&category=6766

try searching now and then for "acura wood steering" on ebay.

lastly, more pix of my car http://illuasian.hypermart.net/cl/

thanks guys

hbryan

I am curious where you got your clear corners, because yours have the reflective corner and mine are all clear. I like the reflective corners. Don't quite know why either.

Blacura

hbryan, good you noticed that! now i want some of those! those look hot!!! are they the integra clears flipped upside down? they might disperse light a little better. your car is hot, those rims are KILLIN! what kind are they?

thai

the corners are integra corner, right to left and upside down. once you re going this way, you cant go back cause you will be doing some triming for the integra corners to fit.

the rims are hp racing evo 18"

thanks for the compliments :o)

Blacura

do you gotta trim the CL or the corners to make em fit?

thai

you will have to trim the bumper, and tie the corner lights with zip tie. thinking of it, i would rather go the other way. however, it doesnt look bad.