Well my retros were from Boostjunkies and were hellish to say the least. He broke one of my lenses and swapped it with another lens from a different company, warped the hell out of the lens with a heat gun, there was silicone everywhere...etc.
So I took them apart, kept only the projectors and threw everything else in the trash. I bought a new pair of headlights to start over with.
I'm working with the following:
- Gattling Gun Shrouds
- Valeo H7 Halogen projectors with HID bulbs
- Black housing headlights
Here is what the other headlights looked like, good from the front:
Until you get closer:
Or turn them around (they STILL leaked):
Before hating on the Valeo H7's because they're halogen...here is the output:
The process:
In the oven you go:
The lenses off the bowls:
I chose to pop the reflectors off:
Then I started dremeling:
Mounted them briefly:
But chrome was not for me and I wanted to "customize" the shroud to my likings. I chose a paint that was flat black, but it was so flat it looked gray.
So that brings us to today...I stripped that one down and re-did it and got the second one mounted as well.
My problem now is that I cannot get the reflectors back into the headlights. Maybe I'm not strong enough?
My Retrofit....re-doing a disaster
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