Lead Headlight Fabricator Seeking Input - LEDs, Carbon Fiber, the Works!

As INSPIRE, who helpfully responded, our projectors are bixenon; capable of both low and high beam. The projector has a built electromagnetic solenoid (magnetic coil) that runs off an electrical current (high beam). Once a current runs through the circuit the cutoff shield is retracted to expose the bottom portion of the projector. Light is refracted and you have your high beam. When time permits, I'll mount these up to a Prius and aim it. For the HID owners, these will fit but with minor modifications [IF ANY] ... to what extent, I don't know. I'm going to make a relay harness with 'plug n play' in mind. If the Prius' headlight systems are advanced in terms of warning and detection, we'll have to play with heatsinks. (I hate heatsink cause it requires drilling into the chassis to mount these suckers. They get incredibly hot)

INSPIRE, bixenon projectors are the cheapest I've seen. This can be partly due to the market but when projector retrofitting was in it's earlier years (4-5 years ago), the E46s were going for 100/projector. Now for the same price, you get two projectors, bixenon pigtails, shroud, etc. I still remember when the S2K were $375/set and TL BIs were $475/set.

 

That's correct. Same "shield" as in the HID reflected headlight but incorporated into the projector.

 

Of course ... this is just a demo prototype for Toyota. The purpose of this project was to test the capabilities of the Prius' headilght. The second project will be more function than form.

 

The E55 and E46 (for that matter) are pretty darn good in terms of size vs performance. Of course they don't compare to the beefier TLs but nonetheless, are quite adequate. For those who seek additional clarity and cutoff sharpness, you can do a clear lens mod and a shield mod.

I'm getting an urge to retrofit into the signal (top reflector) and move the signal to the "city lights" (orange reflectors). Imagine 4x (four) low beam source and 4x (four) high beam source. Overkill anyone??????

 

That's a possible idea but will require a great deal of work. The use of microcontrollers, software simulators, circuit boards/memory bank, etc will greatly add to the cost of the retrofit. If you can somehow generate a public response for LED chasers, I can incorporate that in the upcoming project. We're currently working on the 2nd set that will look more stock.