Wow! What an awesome first post! Just jump right into "douchbag" mode.
Forgive us if we don't take the advice of someone who can't even construct a coherent and intelligent sentence.
"Kelvin rainbow colors"... Jeezus Pleezus... Kelvin refers to the color temperature of a given light source. Most modern OE automotive headlights fall into the 3500K to 4600K range, with the halogens typically falling on the lower end of that, and HID falling on the upper end of that particular range. Light sin this range are often referred to as "warm" or "neutral". Yes, any idiot can go get 6000K+ bulbs that have a nice blue to purplish tint.

I don't need to go to any other site for "real world info".

 

Wow. The amount of ignorence (lack of knowledge or information) is reaching epic proportion in here.

 

I think that the people whom are against retrofitting need to start reading and posting here

http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/forum.php

 

Mike, the feeling is mutual.

 

I'm surprised you switched sides.

 

The people against it have probably never heard of that site.

 

The taliban have forums too, but I'm not going there to give them my 2 cents . But on a more serious note, I'm not saying Its impossible to do a satisfactoy retrofit with superior components, tools, and expertise. One thing I will say is I won't entrust my safety, and that of my fellow motorists in dimestore components, jb weld, and crackpot jury rigging. Enough with this rubbish. Merry Christmas Everone!

 

The Retrofit Source does not sell dimestore components and JB weld does the job when you can not afford a 20 thousand dollar injection molding machine. With TRS and JB weld it is quit easy to turn out superior components. Merry X-mas to you too.

 

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You realize I didn't cut apart a hunk projector housing and glue it back together, right? And these projectors are Morimoto H1's with mini gatling gun shrouds, no? They also have custom lexan lenses, all of which is recommended by hid planet. I don't have to guess how they compare to my oem lights since my Z parks next to the XJ at night.

I give up. Good luck, Mike.

Merry Christmas, all!

 

This thread needs more retrofits. Not a jeep...but a retrofit...





Note: this was not the final adjustment.



Look, I'm not blinded!

Now for those that are just putting them into a housing...






Hid kits in non-HID projector housings is dumb, it doesn't look cool, in fact, it looks like ****. It is unsafe. The light is bright, yes, but not focused and shines everywhere. The above examples also show fairly useless color temps as well.

 

I get what you are saying, but you are confusing technology with quality. Sure, they dont have $500 in plastic surrounding them, but the optical technology is the exact same. That is why you use a special housing + lens to focus them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_(optics)
2000 BCE -- the first optical lens.

You think this is is some sort of new witchcraft?? Its called science like I mentioned before.

And by blind, you mean like if one was using a halogen housing/reflector with a xenon-gas bulb? I dont even think its possible because of how the projector encloses the HID bulb but I doubt that will make much sense since you dont really seem to have the while logic thing working for you.


EDIT:

Also I would like to b*tch one more time about how freaking small these 7x6 housings are!! The projector lens is about 1mm from the headlight housing lens but it looks like its gonna work.

 

Teaser!
My dumb a$$ friend stepped on the other housing about 20mins after I finished my last cut on it. SO, they are at least half done. Waiting on a replacement housing to show up so I can basically do everything again :/

 

Very good. Link to the housings?

 

Thank you very much for this! I'l definitely be doing my own within the coming weeks! Going to black out my housing and paint the projector shroud black too to fit in with the color of the Jeep without sacrificing any output.

 

Damn that's a big projector. Are you going to run 55 watt bulbs?