Thread: retro fit

Originally Posted by SilvaMan61

i dont ****ing care what your expireince is with retrofitting you dumb prick. i came into this thread to LEARN about it. which is exactly why i said go somewhere else. it isnt ****ing hard. your just a few clicks away from having your own thread in which you can whore out your work and expieriences. this thread isnt the place for it.

You need to grow up really my friend! If it bothers you that bad don't read it nor post about it. If that's to hard for you then you must have the mentality of a 2 year old. If I had a nickel for everytime someone posted something not worthy of a particular thread I'd be rich. You wanna come in here at me with your trash mouth it's simple don't respond to me........ I'm not a little boy I'm 14 years your elder... I can promise you that you will not tell me what to do!!!!

Originally Posted by SilvaMan61

im going to be going the same route you are. im thinking ill go with the graphite shroud for fear of the gatling looking to ricey and flashy. does anyone know if the other shouds listed will fit well with minimal modification?

Letting you know if you think gatling shrouds are minimal modification you're mistaken. You have to hack about half of it away to get it to fit and epoxy to the projector base helps keep the shroud from coming off. You may get the e46-r's to fit decent but any of the shrouds are going to require a good amount of dremeling.

On another note I think some graphite or gunmetal shrouds would look killer. I'm not digging the shiny chrome either really. I may go all black shroud and housing. With black corners it should look good!

Originally Posted by machinegunsquid

The internet just exploded....
Angry people resolved their differences and got back on track without a thread closing, or a ban..

Thanks to both of you for putting it back on topic, and chilling out.
I think a black shroud, with housing and corner would look most epic.

I think black gtp's or gp's in general are epic. Wish that was the color of my gtp. Chrome on the front of a red car just doesn't look good imo. I had the front of my car repainted when I put the GTX hood on and the body shop matched the front bottom piece the darker gray of the rear piece where the Pontiac is. It would look good to match the shrouds that darker grey. I don't know all black is pretty tight I think.

I don't see how anyone could get FX-R's into a gp housing really without some major dremeling. The morimotos are a tight fit themselves. The back thread on the projector housing doesn't allow for a lot of torque using the lock ring they give you if you use the nylon washer to seal the back of the housing. I use the nylon washer, usually getting the lock ring about 3 or 4 threads on. I use the 3 tipped washer they give you with the dome part fitting against the back of the headlight housing. Then fit the 1 tip washer TRS gives you against the washer dome. It locks it down considerably tighter. You have to cut the back of the housing flat with a dremel starting out though. It's a lot of finicky, tedious bs to deal with really.

started off with tsx, then sold the tsx(retroed them in a dts) so i cutup my ls430s i had in my dts(wasnt selling them since i paid $800 for them)
added black corners, and no they are not that blue just camera phone sucked. phillips 85122 d2s of course. oh and a crown vic with homemade shrouds(a6 projectors)






my photobucket has exceeded its bandwidth so i cant get anymore pics

Originally Posted by machinegunsquid

The internet just exploded....
Angry people resolved their differences and got back on track without a thread closing, or a ban..

Thanks to both of you for putting it back on topic, and chilling out.
I think a black shroud, with housing and corner would look most epic.

Probably one of the first times I've ever seen this happen on a forum.

Anywhoo...My searches for headlight housings are becoming a pain. I remember when you could pick up a pair on Ebay for $50. Now thanks to the junk projector craze, you can't even find them not paired with the corners....which I don't even need.

Yeah, I'm thinking with the money I'd save for aftermarkets, I can deal with the issues in order to save me $150. LOL

Originally Posted by Reptile

Probably one of the first times I've ever seen this happen on a forum.

Anywhoo...My searches for headlight housings are becoming a pain. I remember when you could pick up a pair on Ebay for $50. Now thanks to the junk projector craze, you can't even find them not paired with the corners....which I don't even need.

I'm a great guy, easy to get along with but a 20 year young lad cussing and popping his mouth off at me isn't going to fly. Especially when I'm trying to help people. I can care less if I ever sell another set of retro's no skin off my back.

With that being said you can pick up a set of stockers on ebay for roughly $60 shipped but they're not black housings. However that's not a big deal that's why they make paint. You can get black housed lights for $103 shipped on ebay just saw that today.

If you don't want the corners or brackets I may buy them off you, always nice to have a stock pile of parts around.

PONTIAC GRAND PRIX HEADLIGHT HEADLAMP 1997 1998 1999 LH - eBay (item 270500010206 end time Mar-06-11 11:35:48 PST)

97 98 99 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX RIGHT HEADLIGHT NEW - eBay (item 270321120457 end time Mar-12-11 09:32:40 PST)

Originally Posted by Ricky21

Does anyone know where I could get just the clear plastic cover for the housing? I have a set of stockers laying around minus the clear plastic lol I think it would be sweet to try to make a set

I doubt you can find just the lenses, shoot for what it's worth buy a $66 dollar set and sell brackets, corners, and bulbs. You could keep your corners and use your stock gm brackets which are much better imo, at least the adjusters.

When I mount the Morimoto's they're level but that doesn't mean when you put them in the car they will be depending on where your adjusters are set at. The adjusters on black oem housings aren't very good.

Just believe in yourself you can do a set of these retro's if you have some decent tools. I have the attatchment that the japs use to do nails with on my dremel. It makes getting into small places easier. Can't beat 160 piece bit kit from dremel for $29.99 at home depot. Has everything you'd ever need to do these lights.

I will have some output pictures pretty soon, just waiting on the snow delete mod to happen. There's 3 feet of ice at my garage door right now. I recommend 880 hid fogs with morimoto's pure awesomeness!