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My headlights are due for a changing. The driver side housing reflector that goes around the bulb has broken off and is bouncing around. It's done for. Was thinking about installing these into those housings. Any issues using the lens of my existing OEM style? They're not the clear aftermarket ones. I also like their texture as it will be the most stockish appearing.

 

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Damn, the only clear ones I like are out of stock everywhere. Looks like I'll need to use these.

 

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How do yours look? After driving home late from a track event last year I never realized how lucky I am to be alive with such ****ty factory headlights at 75mph. But I struggle because I don't want to change the look so far off it looks out of place. Yes, I'm getting old and to the point of liking things "stockish"

 

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i didnt use hid, rather led

got them from headlight revolution, who said they actually test them

i already had clear lenses

light scatter yes.

The problem with LED bulbs and to an extent HID, is that the lenses are not designed specifically for HID or LED. Then, the bulbs themselves are not the right depth, the LED diodes are on the sides rather than wraparound so in a stock lens the light isn't reflected the same way it would be with incandescents. With that said, they are 1,000,000 times better than even the best incancescent bulbs I could get locally and I tried them all. Only issue I had was that the connectors were junk and I had to modify them to properly connect to the vehicle harness, but it was easy and took maybe 10 seconds per connector. Check them before final installation.

Not looking to just do a bulb swap. I'll be doing an entire projector assembly to get the correct throw of light.

 

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Doing some further research on this, looks like the aftermarket now has retrofit units that stab through the hole where the original light would go and it locks into place, minimizing cutting/fab. Now I just need to figure out if I've got the 5" needed inside of the headlights I posted since I can't find any of the original style with totally clear lenses.

 

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a projector?

Yeah they’re pretty cool looking. Then lock on the back with a big nut.

 

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Semi old thread but any chance of getting that link now

They're all over ebay. You can get HID ones or LED ones. I scrapped the idea right now until I can get some scrapped headlights to measure some spots so I don't end up with a bunch of stuff I can't use. (Mainly socket to plastic clear front cover of the housing) They look promising though as very very easy install.

 

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Conversion results are quite pleasantly good on mine. You’ll recognize the aftermarket one piece units from Fleabay of course.

Which ones did you go for? LED or HID?

 

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Problem is the “crystal” style that closely matched factory are impossible to find right now. There’s a bunch with some sort of little separate light with them but I think it’s ugly as hell. I know a few people have said not to use the OEM style lens because it’s not perfectly clear. I’m debating on trying it.

 

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I have finally gotten around to doing my install. You are correct, you cant get clear lens type headlights so I went with regular factory aftermarket smoked lenses to match what I already have.
I'll se how it looks, but really HID with this lense cover type should be better than my crappy aftermarket H4 lighting.
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Very cool. Can’t wait to see your result. Did you use LED or HID ones?

 

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HID projectors. You need the projectors to get good light. Sticking LED bulbs in these terrible reflector housing would just blind oncoming traffic and not improve visibility for the driver.
This is what I have, these are slightly newer, it has a better bulb locking ring setup.
Bi-Xenon: Morimoto Mini D2S Stage III Retrofit Kit | TRS

The have LED projector retrofits as well now. Yeah, LED bulb in stock housing is a bad idea.

 

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I finished my install of the HID projectors in the aftermarket tinted housings and the light pattern at night is great. The pattern looks real good from the drivers seat and the light is SOOOO much better than the old Halogen setup. I need to use the factory screws to fine adjust the beam, but that will be easy. Even with everything costing so much more nowadays, this is still a must if you use your Fox at night.

Do you have any links to parts used? Any issues with the factory style front plastic. Some where mentioning the factory look was bad and they had to be totally clear.

 

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Curious to know myself. I'd like to do a HID retrofit in a set of OE fluted lenses to keep them "hidden". Was concerned the cutoff line would be affected

Exactly, There's just something that makes me cringe with damn near every aftermarket light for our cars.

 

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Thats because there arent any classy aftermarket lights. They all try to put some stupid extra leds, or some design inside the light housing making them look bad. If I can get away with doing these behind a fluted lense without light scatter, I am all for it.

Myself as well. I drove home from the track last year at 11pm and at 70 I felt my lights were sketchy. Made me realize how lucky I am to be alive when I was doing freeway pulls at 1xx speeds in my early 20's in this ****box.

 

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The flutes in the lens don't effect the light pattern that I can tell when driving. I will get some pictures at night and post everything up that I used. I would have to look again at night to see if the headlights have glare when you look at them.
I'm real happy so far with the result and would do the exact same thing again.

Got a link for the projectors you used?

 

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That looks awesome. And the small refraction lights the housings enough that it looks stock. I like that!, thank you.

 

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I wonder if the original ones I posted are any good. I don't love this ****box enough right now to blow close to $400 on the lights.

 

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working on mine right now. Fox lights need 230 degrees for about 45 min. Go from the bottoms because you will screw the housing up a little separating them. It’ll seal up fine though with rtv.

 

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With and without the OEM style refractor lens is hardly any difference in light pattern.

 

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I've got an old set of lenses with the reflective surface gone on the inside of them, I wonder if replacing them with a projector style lens like this and using an HID bulb will work??

Yes, it would. That’s what I’m doing.
I’ll have the second light assembled tomorrow then I’m waiting on an adaptor that’ll be here Thursday before I can get them fully in. I also had a broken headlight adjustment bracket so I need to track one down.