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So I decided that I would start another retro for my 2008 ST mainly due to the fact that i wanted a bit more light output and better aim. I removed to much of the bowl on my last build so my aiming was never perfect, now that i learned my lesson, i have decided to start fresh, new housings, new retrofit. If you're looking for parts to do your own or just want HID or LED lighting and other miscellaneous things, let me know. I own and operate dropgearz.com and i work for The Retrofit Source. I'm also doing a quad retro for my best friends 2014 Ram 1500 and one for my 2013 Rocket Bunny Scion FRS
Parts list:
-Morimoto Mini D2S 3.0
-Osram CBI D2S bulbs
-Morimoto Matchbox 2.0 Projectors
-Morimoto 5500k H1 XB Bulbs
-Morimoto XB55 Ballast
-Morimoto XB35 Ballast
-Morimoto XB LED XSB 100mm Switchback Halo
-Morimoto XB LED XSB 80mm Switchback Halo
-Morimoto XB LED XSB 60mm Switchback Halo
-Morimoto XB LED XSB 18" LED Strips (possibly two sets)
-Morimoto XB LEB XSB 24" LED Strips
-Morimoto HD MotoControl Relay H13 (2)
-Morimoto custom made H13 male > H13 female/H13 Female Splitter
-6 50w 6ohm Resistors from Amazon.com (1 per low beam, 1 per high beam,
and 1 per turn signal)
-Will be doing a custom sequential turn signal mod for the Parking
light/reflector
-194/T10 base leads
-3157 base leads
-Retrorubber
Tools being used
-Dremel 4200 and its attachments
-Flat Head Screw Driver
-Phillips Screw Driver
-Stove
-Heat Gun
-Black Spray Paint
-Gold Spray Paint
-Painter Tape
Alright, so i'm mimicking my quad setup, but I'm rearranging a few things this time. Mainly the position of a lot of the leds for a cleaner look. So first things first, one must first take the headlight apart, sorry I didn't take any photos of it, but I set my over at 220 degrees and baked the headlight housing for 9 minutes each. Use a flat head screwdriver to pry them open and remove the lens. I then spent time removing the factory glue from the lens and housings.
Next I popped the bowls out of the housings using a flathead and by applying pressure slowly to each clip until it popped off. The turn signal bulb can be removed by simply unscrewing the phillips head bolt on the back of the housing.
So here comes the fun part, and that is removing material from the bowl to make room to fit the projector through. I bored out the H13 mounting points and inner ring to make the spacing wide enough to fit the Projectors bulb mount through.
Realized the hole wasn't wide enough so i bored it out some more.
Next step was test fitting the projector again and then test fitting the shroud. I had to trim the length of the factory bulb seat down so i could then mount the projector.
Trimmed
Testing the first set of Halo's
I'll post more as i go along
So I decided that I would start another retro for my 2008 ST mainly due to the fact that i wanted a bit more light output and better aim. I removed to much of the bowl on my last build so my aiming was never perfect, now that i learned my lesson, i have decided to start fresh, new housings, new retrofit. If you're looking for parts to do your own or just want HID or LED lighting and other miscellaneous things, let me know. I own and operate dropgearz.com and i work for The Retrofit Source. I'm also doing a quad retro for my best friends 2014 Ram 1500 and one for my 2013 Rocket Bunny Scion FRS
Parts list:
-Morimoto Mini D2S 3.0
-Osram CBI D2S bulbs
-Morimoto Matchbox 2.0 Projectors
-Morimoto 5500k H1 XB Bulbs
-Morimoto XB55 Ballast
-Morimoto XB35 Ballast
-Morimoto XB LED XSB 100mm Switchback Halo
-Morimoto XB LED XSB 80mm Switchback Halo
-Morimoto XB LED XSB 60mm Switchback Halo
-Morimoto XB LED XSB 18" LED Strips (possibly two sets)
-Morimoto XB LEB XSB 24" LED Strips
-Morimoto HD MotoControl Relay H13 (2)
-Morimoto custom made H13 male > H13 female/H13 Female Splitter
-6 50w 6ohm Resistors from Amazon.com (1 per low beam, 1 per high beam,
and 1 per turn signal)
-Will be doing a custom sequential turn signal mod for the Parking
light/reflector
-194/T10 base leads
-3157 base leads
-Retrorubber
Tools being used
-Dremel 4200 and its attachments
-Flat Head Screw Driver
-Phillips Screw Driver
-Stove
-Heat Gun
-Black Spray Paint
-Gold Spray Paint
-Painter Tape
Alright, so i'm mimicking my quad setup, but I'm rearranging a few things this time. Mainly the position of a lot of the leds for a cleaner look. So first things first, one must first take the headlight apart, sorry I didn't take any photos of it, but I set my over at 220 degrees and baked the headlight housing for 9 minutes each. Use a flat head screwdriver to pry them open and remove the lens. I then spent time removing the factory glue from the lens and housings.
Next I popped the bowls out of the housings using a flathead and by applying pressure slowly to each clip until it popped off. The turn signal bulb can be removed by simply unscrewing the phillips head bolt on the back of the housing.
So here comes the fun part, and that is removing material from the bowl to make room to fit the projector through. I bored out the H13 mounting points and inner ring to make the spacing wide enough to fit the Projectors bulb mount through.
Realized the hole wasn't wide enough so i bored it out some more.
Next step was test fitting the projector again and then test fitting the shroud. I had to trim the length of the factory bulb seat down so i could then mount the projector.
Trimmed
Testing the first set of Halo's
I'll post more as i go along
