Fog retro question

[DenaliAK]

Bud you are way over engineering this..
Think K.I.S.S = Keep, It , Simple, Stupid,....

rubber door trim...
Run something like this around the back side of the Large housing to seal the P1 inside.

Theres all kinds from round to blade edge, from 1/4 to 1" thick..
Rubber door trim Noone will ever see it and all you need it for is to keep the inside of the outter glass lense clean on the inside.
Its never going to melt.....

I am real curious to know what those fog shells would look like with some chrome paint on the inside walls and maybe even paint the outside of the P1's chrome..
would probly enhance the total lumen output greatly .

Yeah, I'm good at over-complicating things. I managed to over-complicate my Fusion projectors pretty much to death...lol. It would be simple to keep the mount like it is in that pic, just plain-jane and KISS. And I may go that route. That's why I was talking about Home Depot and finding something to finish it. There are a variety of ways to seal up the back, I just need to go shopping.

Oh, and why did you have to mention painting the inside of the housing chrome?? Geez. Now I just MAY try that....

 

[DenaliAK]

Ok, new update.

I made a trip to Lowe's and just wandered around waiting for a light to go off in my head. I found a rubber coupling that attaches 3" hose to 2" hose. Hmm. Right shape, close to the right size...what the heck.

Coupling fits like a glove in the fog housing. Projector fits perfectly inside. I'll have to cut a notch out on either side so I can get to the adjustment screws, but this will work out just about perfectly. Won't be 100% water-tight because of the screw access, but there's no getting around that. I can get a 2" cap for the end and just make a small hole for the wires, JB weld the rest of it and it'll be close to weather-proof. And now that I have a plan, everything has been tested to fit...it should go quick the rest of the way. At least until I have to install them in -25 windchill. That's going to suck.

Latest pics so you can see what I'm talking about:

Housing with fog attached but "bare":

Coupling next to housing:

On housing and enclosing projector:

Front shot "after" (the light in the projector is because there is no bulb in it yet, so the back is open. I'm also not totally squared up with the light so it looks a bit crooked):

Should get my bulbs in the next day or two. Then I have to install the whole thing, which I am not looking forward to....at least not the work. I'm looking forward to it being done, I just don't want to freeze my butt off.

 

[felixgun]

Damn... projectors in the fogs are gonna look sick!

 

[chauncey0337]

 

[DenaliAK]

^
lol

So that's what you look like....

 

[Rivieraracing]

I'm sure you can find some plastic plugs to fill the holes that you make for the adjustment screws that you can take out whenever you want to adjust them, I'd take the finished product to Lowes and see what they can get for you there to fill them!!

 

[chauncey0337]

^
lol

So that's what you look like....

Nooooo! I'm not quite that handsome, lol.

 

[DenaliAK]

Finished.

Thank God. They look pretty good, too.

Last pics until install:

Both done. You can see a gap between the projector and the housing/coupling. That will become basically invisible when I cap off the end after putting the bulbs in (which I haven't received yet). I discovered that it's nearly impossible to take a pic of two projectors in the same photo without them looking a bit crosseyed. They are actually almost dead-centered, one is a hair off.

I JB Welded the coupling to the housing, trying to fill in most of the gaps to keep dirt/water out. It is not totally water-tight, but should be enough to keep the lenses clean.

One better shot:

Will post final install and output shots when I can. It's currently 3 degrees with about -25 windchill and I hope it warms up before the bulbs arrive because crawling under the truck and working in that cold is no fun.

 

[kses123]

Looks great! Damn, that's cold! I have been complaining because it's in the 50's here in NC. I couldn't make it out there in such cold weather!

 

[DenaliAK]

Looks great! Damn, that's cold! I have been complaining because it's in the 50's here in NC. I couldn't make it out there in such cold weather!

Indoor projects like this keep me sane in the winter. Gotta keep busy or you slowly go a bit nutty. Not sure what I'm going to do next, but I need to come up with something, because I have about 4 1/2 more months of winter to get through....

 

[BillBlatt18]

man I wish i could get these and have you do mine!

 

[rippinitup]

great job man. they look awesome

 

[kses123]

man I wish i could get these and have you do mine!

I told him the same thing, lol!

 

[ezdaar]

yup, agree.. Depending how they look lit up, I might replicate this setup..

 

[kses123]

Indoor projects like this keep me sane in the winter. Gotta keep busy or you slowly go a bit nutty. Not sure what I'm going to do next, but I need to come up with something, because I have about 4 1/2 more months of winter to get through....

I was thinking about LED drl's. Not drop in bulbs, but custom ones.... I'd want it to look as factory as possible. I'm just entertaining ideas.

Hella makes these universal LED drl's. Maybe somehow opening up the DRL lense and stuffing this inside?

These are from TMTuning.com. THey have low beam, high beam, fog and DRL modules.

 

[DenaliAK]

yup, agree.. Depending how they look lit up, I might replicate this setup..

Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing the output. The job itself is really easy. And, there's really two ways to do this. The projector that came in the halo housings I'm using is identical in size to the P1 bought seperately. It is set up as an H11 halogen projector, though. So, you basically just swap the HID version directly in. You could keep it with the halo if you want, and that'd make it really, really simple. You woudn't have to do anything else. I don't really like halos, so I opted to remove that, which made things way more complicated.

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Keith, those bottom ones look interesting. I've yet to see a truly bright automotive LED lamp, though. They look good and clean, but lack depth from what I've seen, but one of these days soon someone is going to get it right.

Have you seen the new BMW laser headlights?? Let's see people retro THAT....lol

 

[kses123]

Check this out, Scott!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhYYDatxWtE

 

[DenaliAK]

Found my end caps and got my bulbs in today. Pretty slick little setup. Only problem with this is to adjust the angle of the beam you have to take the endcap off which isn't exactly making adjustment easy. But, hey. It'll work.

And this is a blurry phone pic of why I am in no hurry to go lay in the snow outside and do the actual installation just yet. I think I'll wait for the weather to shift to, well, anything slightly warmer:

And I thought this was a pretty good example of my TSX's cutoff:

 

[DenaliAK]

Test-fired them tonight. Both work. Very hard to tell final output on the vehicle from my buddies living room floor....lol. Got all fired up to try to get them on the truck, though. Temps are supposed to be in the low 20's tomorrow...I can probably work in that if the wife doesn't need the truck for kid hauling. I'm crossing fingers that I'll get a chance to install tomorrow, though.

 

[chauncey0337]

Can't wait to see output pics!