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First of you shouldn't be using a heat gun to seperate lenses from capsules. Sure it works but by the time you get one area melted enough to seperate and move on the area you just worked on like you've already said adheres itself back together. Put them in the oven the whole lense sealant melts uniformly, just my opinion though you can do whatever you want but it takes me about 15 minutes max to peel lenses using my method.Quote:
Originally Posted by laferri2
I can't use my oven; I have a bird and the fumes would likely kill it. My BBQ runs way too hot and would melt it, so I'm kind of stuck. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by cleangtp
On the plus side, the next lens should only take maybe a third of the time; I was attempting to use the heat gun to melt a whole side at once, which wasn't working. I started melting and prying five inch sections and holding until they cooled and it went much faster. I spent two hours on the first lens allowing the glue to melt and reseal and it basically turned into a rock hard gloppy mess.
I'm not so worried about the broken tabs as I'm going to use butyl tap and run a bead of adhesive sealant along the lens when I'm done, which should make it watertight and well sealed.
it wont give off any fumes..... they dont get hot enough to make a smell
are there any places or people that will do these retrofits if "said customer" buys the parts and ships them to the person who will make them...im not the best handyman but the $1000 dollar estimate seems a bit high for professionals to do it...i can install the ballasts and hid kit myself, but as for retrofitting the projector kits...uhh, i don't wanna know how many pairs of headlights i'd end up going through ;)
^ google lightwerks but it's going to cost you a arm and a leg and big thing is there is no guarantee cutoff would be straight since a) most of them wont actually have a grand prix. b) retrofittng requires most of the adj to be set while on the car before they are sealed,
Alright I already have so I wait to see what the damage comes out to...thanks for the reply though...
Litewerks will cost you your whole wallet and your left nut....:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Carlton
any other retrofitters for 04+ you would recommend ?
Yeah we need someone...were stuck with screwing up our own project, spending more money than we want, or buying terrible fog lamp type projectors housings...if nothing else I'm thinking throwing my wallet at it...I'm not looking for just aesthetics...I work an early morning shift and while the headlamps are ok and I'm running hir bulbs, they aren't what a great projector setup can be
Nope none off hand.... there's been a few guys here to do nice 04+ retrofits but they don't want to help anyone out and make some extra money... I won't name any names! They don't want to do it because they know it sucks and isn't worth the chump change they'd make doing it imoQuote:
Originally Posted by dengnath
I think you 04+ guys are stuck between a rock and a hard place:th_thumb-down:
Sounds like I should hand my debit number to lightwerkz....if they can do a great job around 600 ill consider if more....well idk
On that note if someone who doesn't wanna make chump change wants to name how much profit they want to make, throw a number plus materials and ill consider....8128811356 call or text
For reference lightwerkz just quoted 1400 dollars :S
Pfffffff and people bitc h about me charging $250 that's why I say get out of my face with your complaining......Quote:
Originally Posted by Carlton
I just got quoted 950 from light works for a quad..... bit**ches
950 was just the labor on mine thats ridiculous
You'd need 1 pair bi-xenon morimoto H1 projectors and mini gun shroudsQuote:
Originally Posted by Carlton
1 ddm slim ballast or raptor ballast HID H1 kit
1 9006/HB4 bi-xenon trs relay harness
1 pair of good clear lensed headlights
That's it..... litewerks is out of their minds!!!!!!
Oh ya and 1 pair mori H1 bulbs wouldn't hurt either it's a def upgrade to ddm's bulbs
N E 1 have pix of there finished products? Drunkie did't you do a write up on this already?
TOh I know virtually what I need its the fear of screwing up the handiwork involved lol...and the reason I fear is I get frustrated and impatient and I believe ill crew them up..and yesthere are writeups on here with very nice looking results but they also show me where id screw up lol...