Ok as many of you know putting a HID kit into the stock reflector headlights and fogs produce glare like crazy. Granted i have 55 watt 4300k xenon in my headlights and 35 watt 4300k xenon in my fogs. So I've decided, in the next few months to retrofit both my headlights and fog lights, and since the fogs produce 3x as much glare as the headlights, i decided to start there (plus its cheaper). So i picked up an aftermarket fog light assembly from ebay (it was really bad quality (ie glass on backward, not sealed to be watertight, etc) so beware on those if ya'll buy anything like that), and Blazer projectors (from The Retrofit Source).
So here are fogs and blazers.
I plan to cut a hole in the back of the fog light (with a Dremel), remove the reflector, and glue (using jb weld) the projector flush to the back of the fog light, then seal it all in with high temperature silicon.
The projector was wider than i thought, i almost had to cut to the far edges of the fog light assembly..
So after cutting the back out i got it to be as tight as possible to the projector, this is before i glued it.
Then i glued it (jb weld) and sealed it with silicon, this high temp silicon wasn't easy to smooth (picture makes it look worse than it really is), plus i applied WAY to much, oh well i guess its now EXTRA watertight.
Plus there is some red silcon near the glass, the low quality ebay fogs i got werent sealed around there, so I had to use more silicon there to seal it. ALSO when putting the hid bulb in the projector, the hid bulb's return wire is facing up, and it blocks some of the light exiting the projector. If you take sandpaper and remove the notch that prevents it from rotating all the way, and flip the bulb 180 degrees so the return wire is facing DOWN the light output is much more intense.
Here is the front of the fog projector after its been glued.
Next was the install on my highlander.
And now the important part, the output of the new projector retrofit.
Here (for comparison) is what the original fogs did with hid's NO low beam headlights
and HERE are the new outputs with projector fogs only NO low beam headlights, they are (even though they shine from the bottom of the car) just as bright, or not brighter than a standard car's headlights
Now to show how well the main headlights aim the light here is fogs AND the 55 watt 4300k headlights, a rough cutoff is maintained.
Not sure if the pictures at the end do justice, these lights are totally ridiculous at lighting up EVERYTHING on the road, I love them
thought i'd post it in case some1 else is interested in this.
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