headlight customiZing, low/hi beam headlight customizing Options

[350niZmo]

Hey guys, my name is Roy. Im a new member to the celica forums. Im a current member of MY350Z.com and have excellent itrader feedback as well as on ebay. i have the same username on the other forum.

anyways what im going to start doing is customizing/modifying 6G celica hi/low beam headlights. Ive been doing this type of work to all sorts of vehicles from , acura, honda, nissan, toyota, mitsubishi, lexus, dodge, infiniti and other vehicles. ive been doing headlight blackout, led strip installations, halo installations. etc.

Im starting this thread because i want to show the progress im going to be having with starting a special project on my wifes 6G celica. Im going to install a 15 LED white strip into the hi-beams and connect to turn signal and also install a 194 size whie led bulb to use a daytime running light. this is going to be a project with lots of work. i will post be posting pics of how they are now and any progress on the way....the work will begin this weekend 9/18/10.....

This post has been edited by 350niZmo: Sep 15, 2010 - 1:58 PM

[tony55343]

Awesome I cant wait to see i would be interested

[350niZmo]

im going to post a few pics of the last 3 cars i worked on last month later today.

[350niZmo]

This post has been edited by 350niZmo: Sep 18, 2010 - 8:00 PM

[350niZmo]

these lights are from my 2003 nissan 350z

BEFORE
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr303/R...pg?t=1284576868
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr303/R...pg?t=1284576979

after blacking them out
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr303/R...pg?t=1284576886



installing a led behind projector
http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr303/R...pg?t=1284576924

This post has been edited by 350niZmo: Sep 15, 2010 - 1:56 PM

[ZGear]

Not bad! Wish I could see the lights in the 350Z. I'm guessing you did some light sanding and buffing to the SC3's light covers?

[350niZmo]

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This post has been edited by 350niZmo: Sep 18, 2010 - 8:01 PM

[georgie]

can you make em into projectors? (at a reasonable price)

[350niZmo]

i can. I have done to honda civic oem lights. if i do start doing to celica low beams, im going to try on mine first...before i commit to doing for others....just to be safe..send me a PM and tell me what is reasonable price for you...

[easternpiro1]

nice! will be keeping an eye on this! may be interested! there's a guy here that does that, but i think he's overseas can somebody remind me who?

[HectortheRican]

^Espo does customizing, or he has a poll for it. He's in NY

[easternpiro1]

^Espo does customizing, or he has a poll for it. He's in NY

ah ok! thanx... was thinkin of vincent_doggys recent headlight procject but i remember him too.

sorry to threadjack...

This post has been edited by easternpiro1: Sep 16, 2010 - 4:51 AM

[350niZmo]

this is how the hi-beams are now...

the customizing will start this saturday...lol



This post has been edited by 350niZmo: Sep 16, 2010 - 9:02 AM

[SleekCelica]

We should meet up sometime; I'm in South Carolina and would like to see what you are doing, sounds really interesting. I'd love to see what you can do for mine!

[350niZmo]

SleekCelica...

yeah that be cool to meet up...it would have to be during the weekend since thats the time i have the full 2 days to myself and spend it working on headlights.

let me know..

Roy

[presure2]

looks like a cool project.
however, i had to remove the pics that are not 6gc related from your profile.
please host those on photobucket or whatever, and keep the profile pics 6gc related, please.

[350niZmo]

ok. will do Presure2.....sorry for my mistake..still new to this forum..lol

thanks

project starts today at 1pm EST......

This post has been edited by 350niZmo: Sep 18, 2010 - 9:08 AM

[easternpiro1]

ok man... let everyone see those LED's u showed me! man i really wished they were still making the clear lenses!!!

[Spider77]

So it is Saturday, and Ive been reading this post for a bit......cant wait to see some results! And even though Espo has a thread about custom lights, I havent seen any results yet (maybe I should go over and check).

[350niZmo]

here are some pics during work



here is a pic with housing painted black



here is one with led strip installed

[350niZmo]

here is the pic with the oem glass cover back on .....still looks ok but i prefer clear cover....cant seem to find the clear covers anymore....



here are both of them together.....



alright guys tomorow i will be installing these back on the Celica and will wire them up to work with parking lights and turn signals....(i wanna be different) lol..

let me know if you guys have any suggestions, ideas, comments...

[Spider77]

Yeah, it would look alot better with some clear lenses! The OEM type just break it up to much.....I cant remember who, but someone here used to make clear lenses....All in all, the lows with this, projector and clear would look great!

[350niZmo]

yeah i asked around and the members who used to make the clear lenses stopped making them....

i think they should go back to business and start making them again...cuz i know i would buy a bundle of them and sale them along with my package deals...lol

THESE ARE MY NEXT PROJECTS..:

*have 4 low-beams*

**buying some clear front turn signals and customize them to have about 15-30 LED's in them**

***Lowbeams with projectors and LED strip***

This post has been edited by 350niZmo: Sep 18, 2010 - 7:59 PM

[HectortheRican]

this is how the hi-beams are now...

the customizing will start this saturday...lol

That's what I wanna do to my highs

[350niZmo]

this is how the hi-beams are now...

the customizing will start this saturday...lol

That's what I wanna do to my highs

whats stopping you?....you gota do what you like ...lol

[HectortheRican]

this is how the hi-beams are now...

the customizing will start this saturday...lol

That's what I wanna do to my highs

whats stopping you?....you gota do what you like ...lol

I don't have room too D: Since I have to take the bumper off to get the the highs and I live on college campus, I have no room to work. I can only do small things

[350niZmo]

oh damn. yea that would get in the way. why not go an easier route like buying some yellow transparent vinyl and cutting it to size of hi-beam and sticking it to it? its alot easier and you dnt have to remove bumper for that one.

[Spider77]

yeah i asked around and the members who used to make the clear lenses stopped making them....

i think they should go back to business and start making them again...cuz i know i would buy a bundle of them and sale them along with my package deals...lol

THESE ARE MY NEXT PROJECTS..:

*have 4 low-beams*

**buying some clear front turn signals and customize them to have about 15-30 LED's in them**

***Lowbeams with projectors and LED strip***

What do you mean by 4 low beams? As in running all 4 lights with low beam bulbs, or replacing the highs with lows?

[350niZmo]

im thinking as running all of them as low and high beams...basically installing a bi-xenon kit for my lows and highs....

so what im looking for is to have 4 running lights and 4 high beams...lol

kinda stupid but i wanna try it

[HectortheRican]

oh damn. yea that would get in the way. why not go an easier route like buying some yellow transparent vinyl and cutting it to size of hi-beam and sticking it to it? its alot easier and you dnt have to remove bumper for that one.

True.. but the highs aren't a flat surface, I'll get folds in the vinyl

[350niZmo]

not really.... if you take your time and use a heat gun or hair dryer it will NOT fold...cuz thats how i did mine...i got the exact measurements of my highs and then placed the vinyl over them and with a heat gun....or small torch (you can find these at any walmart store) and heat to vinyl so it takes shape of hi-beam. after a few seconds peel the vinyl from white pad the apply on hi-beam and slowly spread with a squeegee or credit card...lol then you should be good to go...

[HectortheRican]

Thanks!

[350niZmo]

cool no problem...hope it works for you...let me know when you tried it.

[350niZmo]

JDM headlights came in today...finally i can replace that broken driver side headlight...and yes i will be customizing these as well this weekend...

[chacha]

i would love the 4 headlights with projectors with bi-xenon...only option i would suggest is to make the high beam switch (if you turn on) work with initiating the turn on of the bi-xenon to switch to hig beam on all 4 headights if high beam turns off...all 4 headlight go back to low beam. of course it would require an adapter with male and female caps along with wires extended to make install clean and an EASY WAY to revert back to oem if i want oem lights backon the celi SIMPLY by disonnecting the adapter/wires off the oem light plugs of the head lights low and highs...

[350niZmo]

i would love the 4 headlights with projectors with bi-xenon...only option i would suggest is to make the high beam switch (if you turn on) work with initiating the turn on of the bi-xenon to switch to hig beam on all 4 headights if high beam turns off...all 4 headlight go back to low beam. of course it would require an adapter with male and female caps along with wires extended to make install clean and an EASY WAY to revert back to oem if i want oem lights backon the celi SIMPLY by disonnecting the adapter/wires off the oem light plugs of the head lights low and highs...

i agree with you...im gonna do some extensive research about how to modify the wiring and see if i can do that for mine.

[KAOS]

Roy;

My name is Jeremy - welcome to the Forums!

I've also created a custom set of headlights, (WITH the clear lenses)... they're a work in progress as is everything else with my car. LOL.

I'm wondering if you have any DAYTIME pics of where you mounted the LED strip in the HIGH beams? The reflections are very decieving...

Here are mine; the car is completely dissasembled now so I won't have pics of them working for awhile but you can see I put in a LED HALO around the projector





Here's how they looked when I got them, but the houseing was falling apart and the projectors were loose inside the headlight, so I re-worked everything from scratch and then sealed them up good.



I'm looking forward to seeing your final product.

Aaaand I might be going a different route with my high beams... so they might be up for sale soon if I make up my mind.

[350niZmo]

thats what im about to do to my jdm low beams....not sure if i should since i dont have any clear lenses.

[KAOS]

thats what im about to do to my jdm low beams....not sure if i should since i dont have any clear lenses.

Yeah I don't think a projector would work behind the OEM glass very well at all...
It would break up the beam pattern way too much to be useable.

[350niZmo]

yea thats what i was thinking....man that sucks....guess im stuck till i find a pair of clear lenses.

[350niZmo]

im thinking about trying to modify a pair of Dodge neon lights to fit on a celica....hmmm now im curious...

[sunwukongg]

or maybe modify these

[350niZmo]

or maybe modify these

hey .... it wouldnt hurt to try....im gonna look on ebay to see if i can find a cheap pair and see what modification needed to make them fit the 6GC

[sunwukongg]

sweet haha thatd be freakin awesome. projector headlights are toooo expensive. but the look is great. i wish they made more aftermarket headlights for the 6gc with a lower cost. im getting bored of the cheap look. i want something thatll catch it up with the times and make it look more modern. hah

[SPID33]

idk it depends on the price i think... but i did a few pics to see how the would look on the car but idk......

[sunwukongg]

idk it depends on the price i think... but i did a few pics to see how the would look on the car but idk......

didnt turn out as well as i was hoping..lol

[vile_v]

E39 M5 Projectors.

If you decide to make custom headlights, you should really devote some time into making a custom bezel for the projector... I really wish i made them now. lol.

[yellowchinaman]

To be honest your main obstacle is having clear front lenses.

[350niZmo]

To be honest your main obstacle is having clear front lenses.

I AGREE.....we need clear lenses

[dustin15brown]

I had custom projectors for a while:

[350niZmo]

do you still have them?

[350niZmo]

alright guys...what do you think of this idea.....im gonna try to get a pair of 2003 WRX oem headlights with the clear lens and modify those to fit the celica...

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR...tGfAEBOOQfKAzw=
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ...jCaVkniFYlCMeg=




it will be a different look but will look a little better than these....lol



This post has been edited by 350niZmo: Sep 23, 2010 - 2:57 PM

[richee3]

In my opinion, the clear lenses are NOT the biggest obstacle. There are members here who can have molds made and get those made. The biggest problem with any projector retrofit is the shroud. That's why Dustin's custom projectors look the best. He had a good shroud.

[350niZmo]

im fine and have the time to make my own shroud...i just want to find someone that can have the lens made for me....if i can find someone to make me the pair of clear lenses then im set to go....lol

[SPID33]

I had custom projectors for a while:

THESE ARE SEXYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY....... I WISH I HAD A PAIR

[ChfNix]

^^ I agree, if you could make something like this I would be interested!

[UniqueGT4]

nice bro

[350niZmo]

Im gonna have some OEM projectors coming in the next month or so. once i recieve these, i will begin to modify them as well. black housing, with LED daytime running lights, and led side markers and led parking lighs, maybe blue halo also.

keep checkin up with updates..

thanks everyone