96 Civic H.I.D. retrofit! PICS!

I think i`m posting this in the appropriate forum. I just wanted to share the latest mod to my car. All work was done by me over a 1 week time period. ;) Here is my retrofit I did a few months back. I paid $150 for TSX clear lense projectors with brand new Phillips bulbs. I retrofitted TSX projectors since they are pretty easy to retro and are lighter in weight than most bi-xenon projectors. I did not want the hassle of a bi-xenon like I had with my other retro with E36 M3 projectors. Plus the bi-xenon are a little heavier I think. I did not want the extra weight to make the reflector vibrate while driving. Thus far the TSX`s work so well I am happy with only having a low beam. I also painted the cutoff shield flat black to prevent excess glare to make the cutoff a little sharper. Other parts include jb weld,2.5" ace pipe flanges,3" pvc piping from Home Depot,satin high temp paint,Krylon fusion plastic paint, and other stuff i`m forgetting. Below I posted some pics I took yesterday of the retro, enjoy! :





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Questions/comments welcome.



Scott

Great job Scott! looks great.......

Thanks Angelo! I received and read your message. Right now I am trying to keep busy with work. I will get around to trying a machine on the car in about a month or 2. I really want to get a 2009 Honda FIT so I need to pay off some debt before the first of the year.

Wow a Fit! nice indeed for mods....:xyxthumbs

When are you going to do an H.I.D. retro in your Mazda Angelo? I`ll help you if you decide to go for it. My friend that I bought my projectors from also has alot of projectors/bulbs/ballast from many different makes/models he will sell to me really cheap. It`s not as hard as it looks/sounds. Let me know. Thanks again for helping me clean the headlight lenses!

Someday in the future maybe, don`t know when yet.

It looks like a really clean retrofit! I was actually thinking of getting this done for my DC, hehe.

Thanks alot for doing it PROPERLY with projectors and not just throwing a HID bulb inside of a reflector... I see that far more than I care to mention these days.

Yay, no plug and play kit nonsense!!!!



Amazing job! Very very clean.

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

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Originally Posted by Denzil

It looks like a really clean retrofit! I was actually thinking of getting this done for my DC, hehe.

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It would be a piece of cake to do an HID retro in a DC Teg. S2000 projectors can be substituted in place of the stock oem projectors. It looks really good on teg`s too!

Looks pretty nice, makes me wish I had HID`s http://1person1million.com/img/149/r...dc/biggrin.gif

Looks great. Glad you did it the right way and not just drop-ins.

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Originally Posted by ej96hatch

It would be a piece of cake to do an HID retro in a DC Teg. S2000 projectors can be substituted in place of the stock oem projectors. It looks really good on teg`s too!

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Cool, I`ll look into that! The last time I looked into retrofitting years ago, I had no idea that the S2K projectors could be used in place of the stock OEM ones, hehe.

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Cool, I`ll look into that! The last time I looked into retrofitting years ago, I had no idea that the S2K projectors could be used in place of the stock OEM ones, hehe.

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I wonder if the S2K projectors will also swap in place of my stock projectors as well. :think2