My Headlight Mods: Mini H1, Blacked Housing and LEDs

SO I finally got around to tearing into this... bit by bit.

Can't decide to go JDM look or USDM

Removing the amber side reflector


Removing the amber lens over the parking light and using an amber bulb or LED.

 

Headway on upgrading the faux LED assembly

Drilled out with a 3/16 bit


Using 5mm White LED Round Top 20000mcd Pre Wired 12-14.4v from eBay from seller 'cece718'

 

Suggestions??

 

Also thinking about doing a retrofit on the fog lights as well. Was considering the Blazer fogs because of 'F8Ls' upgrade.


Some photos taken from here:FOG COMPARISON :: Hella, Blazer, Bosch, OEM Reflector

But wasn't happy with the beam pattern as fog lights... but they make a GREAT driving light with a GREAT cut off...but no foreground for fog light use...but after seeing the light pattern from the Hella Micro De Fog Light - pretty sure this is what I'll use:

 

Blazer - great driving lights, great cutoff - no foreground for fog lights





Hella Micro De Fog lights






Comparison of the light pattern - Blazer has awesome cutoff but barely any foreground:

 

I'll like mount them in the yellow lens housing foglights to keep the look I already have:



Kinda like this still using my 3000k HID setup:

 

And thanks to you I have this handy little diagram of how to wire it up. Thanks again!



The method of wiring will allow the LEDs to come on with the parking lights yet turn off when the headlights are on. Pretty sure the headlight with the retrofit Mini H1 will overpower the LEDs.

 

Ya, bit of fog often here along the coast. The 3000k HID kit I have now helps quite a bit when it is foggy. I am getting some 'squirrel finders' tho because the OEM reflectors have really bad cut-off with the HID kit - I have re-aimed the lights to make sure I don't blind anyone. So far no flashers. If I end up moving back to KS, I'll prob wish the lens was clear instead of yellow and swap the bulbs to 5000k from 3000k.

 

Suggestions?? Anyone?

 

I plan on using a router, dremel or hole drill to cut an opening into the back of Thee OEM fog light housing such as shown in the picture above. Then using some sort of bonding material to seal the micro de fog light into the back of the housing.

 

04-05 JDM


06-09



I thought this might look good until SDPD or CHP pulled me over according to CA DMV I have to have reflectors

Soo... I'm stuck with USDM

Now I'm choosing between blacked housing and chrome housing tinted

Roughly looking similar to these below just only the chrome would have a smoked tint:

 

Smoked headlights with LED bar and chrome housing

 

When I had my current headlights smoked with the black trim it looked like the below picture. However below also shows the fact that I had 2 different shades of tint - why i removed it completely.

 

Christmas wrapping paper and stuffing make for good scrap paper:


Thinking if I can leave off the amber reflector and find some silver reflector or make my own out of 3M Scotchlite?

Just use this in the area that I taped off where the Amber reflector should be. I would then have a front 'reflectors'.