Cleans Official Retrofit Thread. Pictures of Work.

[cleangtp]

Hey clean..... i can't get a straight answer on what to use. What do you use to "glue" your projectors to the reflectors and housing?

I don't do retro's involving a "refelector shield" for gp's so I'm not sure I can answer that for you dengnath. IMO jb stick would mold around the projector bowl nicely to hold things securely but that is totally up to you!

[cleangtp]

Someone explain to me why there's 6000 different methods on retrofitting 04+ projectors that one looks like this.....



With a good size hole cut in the reflector and the projector sticking so far back in the housing.....

To this washer/locknut method and the projector not touching the lense whatsoever....






Second way would allow total rotational adjustment from the back of the projector and it's plenty far away from the lense it isn't going to melt anything. Two totally different methods is what I don't really understand...... 04+ guys should be doing with method number 2 imo....

[SeanGTP]

With that in mind, can't you retro 04+ headights, and then once sealed, the owners would be able to rotate them on their own?

[cleangtp]

With that in mind, can't you retro 04+ headights, and then once sealed, the owners would be able to rotate them on their own?

Exactly that's what I'm getting at the 2nd method would allow for that.... I don't not for the life of me see why the projector has to sit that far back in the first method.........

[Tommyp2010]

from what I've been told if you don't cut out a bigger hole in the back you won't have room to put the shroud on, plus some people like to have the projector sit more flush with the back of the headlights.

[cleangtp]

from what I've been told if you don't cut out a bigger hole in the back you won't have room to put the shroud on, plus some people like to have the projector sit more flush with the back of the headlights.

You'd have plenty of room to put a shroud on that.... Not to mention you're only going to gain roughly an inch buy cutting the hole bigger and then on top of it you make mounting it wayyy more difficult. Only way to mount it then is to gob it with jb stick....

[OmegaRed]

ill be a test subject, im gonna order some mini's on friday and ill try both ways and take pics of the projector in the headlight with no cutting... maybe it will work fine =)

[dengnath]

he cut he just cut a lot less.... he uses the washer as the back of the bowl instead of the original back of the hole.

[Tommyp2010]

thinking about going for round 2 of this since round 1 didn't work out so well. where do you guys get your headlight housings? The one's I had last time had some really hard sealant that was extremely difficult to pull apart, the OEM ones I did one time were much easier and had a nice soft sealant.

[Fivefingerdeathpunch]

TYC's off rockauto or amazon,

bake em for like 11-15 min, then pry apart.

[OmegaRed]

i grabbed mine off amazon, things i learned doing my retrofit today

1. you DO have to open up the hole or the projector wont fit in the housing
2. patience patience patience
3. i have a new found respect for cleangtp, if i did this multiple times i would kill myself

[jmoore4294]

In all fairness, the other 6000 ways came BEFORE someone was smart enough to use that washer.

[OmegaRed]

Yeah I tried the washer thing, wasn't working for me, so I got creative and used a pickle jar lid... worked PERFECT

[jmoore4294]

Yeah I tried the washer thing, wasn't working for me, so I got creative and used a pickle jar lid... worked PERFECT

Do explain. That sounds interesting. I'm thinking of redoing my retro. My driver side isn't aligned correctly (apparently when you adjust the headlight up and down it rotates slightly clockwise or counterclockwise).

[cleangtp]

Sorry guys I took a new job opportunity and really haven't been around much or been doing any retrofits. I'm really pressed for time to even do them anymore. I will be doing myself another set in the very near future though.

[Bio248]

opened this back up for the kids...