DownrangeFuture
Electronic Repair Genius
This **** is a god damn nightmare...
Fyi...
Yeah, man, or send me a PM. I can take pics of things or try and explain things differently if you need me to.
This **** is a god damn nightmare...
Fyi...
Well, it's easy. If I had just done the projectors, and re-installed it was a piece of cake. Especially the electrical, I'm extremely experienced with 12v electronics anyways, but it was completely plug and play with the TRS kit.I am really considering taking this mod on. I just made BD43's headlight mod wire. What kind of problems are you running into? I'm not a mechanical expert, nor an electrical expert for that matter, but thought the OP was fairly straight forward.
I got it this past weekend. Thanks.Yeah, man, or send me a PM. I can take pics of things or try and explain things differently if you need me to.
Well, it's easy. If I had just done the projectors, and re-installed it was a piece of cake. Especially the electrical, I'm extremely experienced with 12v electronics anyways, but it was completely plug and play with the TRS kit.
My main problems were with things that the OP did not do, haha. The shrouds, the halos, the LED strips.
First there was not instructions about the halos, there is a channel inside the shroud, so I logically thought that the CCFL halos installed inside the shroud and then fit over the projector. So, that is what I tried... as I installed them I broke both of them So $25 down the drain there.
The I installed the LED strips, and it has 3M adhesive on it... but as I went to bake the lenses to re-adhere them I took the lenses out they had started to peal up. So I spent two more times baking and pulling my lenses out trying to get them to stay in place. I don't understand, because the surface was cleaned extremely well. So those were just being a POS too.
The the shrouds, as stated were too big. So I trimmed them down considerably, may too much, I dunno they look alright. I was considering getting different shrouds to match better but really don't want to take it all apart again.
So after baking/taking apart my lenses 3 times, I just decide to reinstall them. So the straight up plain installed of just the projectors, ballasts, bulbs, wiring was straight forward and easy. It's the other junk that caused me a little headache.
http://www.600riders.com/forum/fz6-mods/40376-dual-h4-hids-vs-h4-h7-i-can-use-some-input.html
great thread - thanks for the level of detail!
ok, so I have my kit and my bike sitting there looking at me and I have two main concerns: wiring (like everybody apparently, thank god) and shrouds.
basically I just don't know enough about the bloody shroud things - I mean obviously they are non-essential, but how bad does it look without them?
and more to the point (since I got ccfl as well) how much did you trim them to get them to install? And do I have any options aside from going out and getting a dremel just for this?
thanks.
will let you know how I get along.
Go here:
Bi-xenon Morimoto Mini Stage III Kit (H1) - Complete Retrofit Kits from The Retrofit Source Inc
Select the following options:
Adaptor plate: H4 (and put a note you'll need H7 as well in checkout)
Ballasts: Either, but I have the 35w ones
Bulbs: Whatever color you want. 4200k is a normal headlight color, and 5000k is pure white. Anything higher will look blue to purple. The XB35's are the really high pressure ones used in the luxury vehicles. There is a benifit to brightness and the intensity of the flicker zone, but I didn't feel they were worth the extra $30. But that's up to you.
Angel eyes: Up to you. They'll auto select the ones that fit the shroud you pick. Any color you want, as long as you wanted white.
Projectors: This is for the cut and which side is the lower side, for oncoming traffic. If you drive on the right side of the road, pick LHD. If you drive on the wrong, err, left side, pick RHD.
Shroud: I got the graphite, but get whatever you want. Keep in mind you'll have to either cut the reflector or the shroud to get even the mini's to fit.
Wire Harness: H4/9003
And I've thought about some LED trim. I might do it. the retrofit source stocks side emitting LEDs, which are really what you'd need. Instead of emitting perpendiclar to the tape, they emit parallel to it, that's all it means. So you can stick them on the inside of the lens cover with no fuss. Get black heat shrink too, for your wires. You could even wire them up like I did my mirror. Running/blinker Audi lights! Woot!
Alien did you have a question in there?
You will want the H7 BiXenon Wiring Harness, which gives you High and low beam. You need the H4 and H7 bulb adapters in order to tighten the projectors to the headlight assembly.Yes
DownrangeFuture said on his post what we must choose on the order form on adaptor plate H4 and H7 with an note on checkout and wire harness H4 .
And theretrofitsource in my question what to choose on the order form said me only for H7 on adapter and wire harness?
I am confused.....
I pulled the spades out by depressing the punchout and slowly pushing the spade out of their connector. I put liquid electrical tape around the wires and up to the locking punchout on the spade. I will try to post up pictures tonight.What did you end up doing concerning the spades that didn't line up? I have the exact same issue.
You will want the H7 BiXenon Wiring Harness, which gives you High and low beam. You need the H4 and H7 bulb adapters in order to tighten the projectors to the headlight assembly.
Those are the correct options on the form.
I got the mini gatling gun shroud and just had to trim a little off around the edge closest to the reflector lens on both shrouds.
I didn't get the angel eyes since the headlights will be always on, but is a personal choice.