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post Oct 20, 2006 - 1:26 PM
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Special thanks goes to first my gf (Becky) who bought these for my birthday..and everyones favorite: John aka Myzneyes and Chanh

Disconnect the positive terminal...

First was getting the bulbs in:
have the blue piece go in the side slot. bulb slides in easy.
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save your plastic washer that comes with the bulb and this is why...without this your bulb isnt secure but i used the plastic washer and cut it into a C shape:
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next put washer behind bulb harness like this:
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should be nice and secure like this:
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next hook up the connectors thats with the relay, use the existing H1 harness (pop off the exisitng rubber piece) and plug in the 2 connectors from relay...do this on the drivers side.

next mount the relay and the ballast somewhere...heres where i did mine. plug in rest of wires, negative and positive, etc etc

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next is the passenger side: because i have abs, i wedged it between the abs and in the frame.
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plug positive back on...should be easy from here..heres my finished results, night pics will be on later:
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post Jan 7, 2014 - 4:25 PM
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Got these installed today. Still waiting for my fingers to thaw out but hey, it's done and over with.

Verdict: They will work but require slight modification to the HID bulb. H1 bulbs have small tabs on them to align the bulb. H1 HID bulbs have these too, but the design of our headlight housing allow the bulb to only go in one way, meaning the tab on the HID bulb won't line up where it's supposed to.

Note the tab at the base of the bulb. There's one on each side. These must be removed.

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I had to continue working to take the tabs off after I took that picture. They need to be completely flat.

After you have removed those tabs, the X tabs need to be aligned vertically on the bulb. It's a tight working space but after some careful maneuvering, you can get the bulb and adapter fitted into place and get everything put back together.

Crappy picture but if you stare at it long enough, you can start to see everything.

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I actually found this install easier than trying to hold the plastic C rings in place as the original how-to shows. Well worth the $7 I spent, and these can be found for as little as $4 shipped.


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Posts in this topic
- LewFX   My how to: install HID for JDM Projectors   Oct 20, 2006 - 1:26 PM
- - Chanh55   Looking good!   Oct 20, 2006 - 1:30 PM
- - Mynzeyes   w00t! good job man. I'll add some of the p...   Oct 20, 2006 - 1:31 PM
- - tomazws   Nice! I didn't do it side ways because th...   Oct 20, 2006 - 1:37 PM
- - LewFX   more pics!!!   Oct 20, 2006 - 2:20 PM
|- - azian_advanced   QUOTE(LewFX @ Oct 20, 2006 - 2:20 PM...   Oct 20, 2006 - 4:05 PM
- - Chanh55   Whoa sexy!   Oct 20, 2006 - 3:08 PM
- - Culpable04   Nice !! I hope this helps others to instal...   Oct 20, 2006 - 3:14 PM
- - tomazws   Lew you're funny... you actually went to a par...   Oct 20, 2006 - 3:17 PM
- - kamax   wont it be find if the white touch the plastic? be...   Oct 24, 2006 - 2:09 AM
- - presure2   good job man! added to the stickys!   Oct 24, 2006 - 8:17 AM
- - tangcla   I wouldn't recommend putting the ballast on th...   Feb 10, 2007 - 6:00 PM
|- - celicume   QUOTE(tangcla @ Feb 10, 2007 - 4:00 ...   Feb 13, 2007 - 6:34 PM
- - tangcla   The way I secured my globe was just to bend the re...   Feb 13, 2007 - 6:49 PM
|- - celicume   QUOTE(tangcla @ Feb 13, 2007 - 4:49 ...   Feb 13, 2007 - 7:12 PM
- - tangcla   Park it close to a wall, you see the circle mark o...   Feb 13, 2007 - 7:58 PM
- - tim86   wow those are bright... can hardly tell theyre the...   Feb 14, 2007 - 7:45 AM
- - Valo666   Jeff, your gf bought em for u for ur b-day?...can ...   Feb 17, 2007 - 9:18 PM
- - DeW_H0e_GT   bringing this back.... so u guys didnt use the ...   Oct 24, 2007 - 12:05 AM
- - LewFX   i got the h1 harness from my seller   Oct 24, 2007 - 12:07 AM
- - Projek_01   new cutoff pictures please!! what if you g...   Mar 14, 2008 - 12:28 AM
- - Rayme   Did you fix the cut-off / beam direction?   Mar 15, 2008 - 2:01 PM
- - azian_advanced   just to add... it was difficult find a good spot ...   Jul 2, 2008 - 11:37 AM
- - azian_advanced   RE: My how to: install HID for JDM Projectors   Jul 2, 2008 - 11:42 AM
- - richee3   I've been running HID's in my projectors f...   Jan 3, 2014 - 7:15 PM
|- - ILoveMySilly97   QUOTE (richee3 @ Jan 3, 2014 - 4:15 ...   Jan 3, 2014 - 11:42 PM
- - richee3   Will do. Turns out the Honda guys have been having...   Jan 4, 2014 - 1:34 AM
- - richee3   I received the adapters today. Test fitted with a ...   Jan 6, 2014 - 4:20 PM
- - richee3   Got these installed today. Still waiting for my fi...   Jan 7, 2014 - 4:25 PM
- - ILoveMySilly97   Nice find. Ima have to do this too.   Jan 7, 2014 - 4:29 PM


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