I decided to start this project since I was really tired of people who just slap HID bulbs into reflector style housings for the look. All this also does is blind oncoming drivers due to the massive amount of glare, lack of beam focus and lack of a proper projector housing.

So, grab a Snickers and follow along with my retrofit project.

Here are the victims, slated for surgery. Got these bad boys from eBay and one was even pre-broken for me. Bonus!


These are the J30 projectors. They were not the easiest to extract from their factory housing but there are two of them per side. Bonus again! Later on, I plan on retro-fitting another set so all I have to do is install the stepped glare shield to the high beams.


Here's another view of one side of the projectors.


Here, you can see what makes the hard cut line on the HID lights you see on the road. The rectangular piece might be removed after I see how they look.


This is a shot of the non-broken projector light from eBay, complete with the ricer blue bulb.


This is the broken one. Ironically enough, the beam looks brighter without the fake projector. Hmmm.


This is a sealed beam Silvania Silverstar. Note how it is brighter and has a wider beam spread than the above tests.


The broken POS.


This is what happens when you stick a front-dipped H4 bulb into a projector housing. You can clearly see that the dipped portion of the bulb (used for anti-glare in a conventional housing) hinders how the projector is designed to work. Just the opposite, the HID bulb in a non-projector housing is filled with glare and no focus.


This is the bulb I used, note the coating on the tip I was talking about earlier.