Round 3!

Okay, so I ended up doing a headlight retrofit project on my '98 5.9L ZJ, just like with my past Jeeps.

First set on my 1996 ZJ Laredo:


Second set also on my 1996 ZJ Laredo:


Second set on my 1996 ZJ Limited:



For the 5.9L I ordered a Stage III Morimoto MH1 Projector conversion kit from The Retrofit Source. 4300K in color since I like factory white light and the highest lumens as well. All photos are with my POS cell phone, so I apologize for the lacking quality.

At lunch yesterday:


I'm slightly pissed as I got some melted glue from the lens/housing on the chrome portion of the housing. But, whatever, this is my beater anyway so I'm not too concerned:


After 4 hours of work today I am finally finished. I JB welded the spring clips higher as recommended:



Also somewhat hard to see here but the wires for the solenoid were easily visible. With the need/want to finish this project TODAY, I decided to take extreme measures lol... tinfoil wrapped around the wires so it blends a bit nicer:


Final product while the RTV was drying:


Ran the wiring harness, got the ballasts hooked up:


And here they are installed:


I'll grab some DSLR shots later, as well as output and cutoff shots. I'm incredibly happy with this setup and want to thank The Retrofit Source and specifically Nate for sending me the parts.

 

Here's a quick vid I took a little bit ago. Just to show the setup at night including cutoff and highs. For some reason it seems the driver side high is had a slight hiccup on the one activation. You'll see it in the vid:

 

Video I just took at lunch here at work. Daylight, so it's easier to see the setup:

I took DSLR shots as well so I'll upload those this week.

 

Thank you for properly retrofitting for hid's !

 

Beautiful, I can't wait until i get to this point with my jeep. More important stuff to deal with first.

 

How much was all this?

 

Tom, the proper way has the best light output so I don't understand why people just do PnP kits in stock housings?!



Thank you much! I feel ya. Anything "important" on this got done when I purchased it. I held off as long as I could



The Morimoto Stage III MH1 kit (MH1 projectors, 4300K HID bulbs, ballasts, relay harness, shrouds, misc. hardware, etc.) runs around $300 shipped. The housings were $65 shipped on eBay. It took me approx. 4 hours of work, but I have done this several times before on my different Jeeps through the years.



Here are some shots I took this week. Pardon the slightly blurry shots. I had to hand-hold all these as I left my tripod at home. I used my Nikon D2x. For the night shots I used my Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 VC lens. For the day shots I used my Nikkor 70-300 VR II lens.












Parking lot shots...
Low beams:


High beams:


Low beams:


High beams:


Low beams:


Low beams: