well, im tired of having huge frog eyes ruining the lines of my car. i like how people have done the NSX jobbies and made the pop-ups low-rise. i think they should have limited the raised height to something like the NSX things... the low slung lines of the mk3 are completely ruined when the stock headlights come up... so i wanted to do something cheaper but use alot more fabrication if necessary to get some low-rise popups with projectors for low beams and reflectors for high beams.
last night, i modified a 2006 Suzuki GSXR 750 headlight... Drastically. the whole projector casing is a big metal contraption that bolts to the rear of the plastic housing of the Gixxer. my roommate was messing with it and broke it. so i decided to play with it. i broke away every single bit of bracketry and framework that didnt have to do with the body of the projector itself. i ground down the edges with my die grinder.
at that point, it was just really deep since its a 65w halogen light for the highbeam function. stock, it has a VERY narrow beam pattern. thatd be worthless as a driving light so i had to find a way to modify that. i sectioned the projector lens mounting base to move the parabolic lens closer to the light source to make a wider angle. this didnt work as well as i had planned. it ruined the light pattern and didnt spread it as well as i had liked. it ended up revealing some dark spots created by the tip of the glass bulb.
well, how bout the reflector/rear of the projector? maybe i should section that. nearest the bulb, the reflector is concave to spread the light. however, the closer you get to the projector lens, the reflector portion became cavern-like. the sides transitioned from concave to just straight-sided.. making a hall-way effect and concentrating the light to a small spot. i cut the concave portion of the reflector right where it began to be straight sided. then i placed the concave reflector right that much closer to the projector lens. with some final adjustment on the vertical axis to place the center line of the bulb Below the cut-off, it came out with very wide and very uniform beam pattern... perfect for a low beam.
the end product is much smaller and compact and i did it all with stuff i had laying around.
but now i would have to make another and find a way to put it in a housing i can install in my car... which brings me to my question; has anyone made custom housings to fit projector assemblies from other vehicles? also, has anyone made combined projector and reflector units for dedicated high/low beam lights?
i didnt want to go the NSX route, mainly because they are freakin expensive and hard to find... but if i can modify a projector beam for a motorcycle and alter its entire beam and light output... i could put something together to make use of it.
here is the GSXR headlight housing. imagine the odd shape the projector had to have to fit in this housing
Here is the Gixxer projector in its simplest form with everything cut away and shaved down
Here is the rear of the projector. you can see where i cut the reflector down. i inserted the concave section of the reflector inside of the straight-sided section to serve as a retainer. its pretty solid. i reassembled the cut sections with 2-part epoxy so they can be individual pieces again and screw together like they did originally.
but i can get another gixxer headlight to do this process again. im just looking for insight on making a housing to mount the projectors in.
last night, i modified a 2006 Suzuki GSXR 750 headlight... Drastically. the whole projector casing is a big metal contraption that bolts to the rear of the plastic housing of the Gixxer. my roommate was messing with it and broke it. so i decided to play with it. i broke away every single bit of bracketry and framework that didnt have to do with the body of the projector itself. i ground down the edges with my die grinder.
at that point, it was just really deep since its a 65w halogen light for the highbeam function. stock, it has a VERY narrow beam pattern. thatd be worthless as a driving light so i had to find a way to modify that. i sectioned the projector lens mounting base to move the parabolic lens closer to the light source to make a wider angle. this didnt work as well as i had planned. it ruined the light pattern and didnt spread it as well as i had liked. it ended up revealing some dark spots created by the tip of the glass bulb.
well, how bout the reflector/rear of the projector? maybe i should section that. nearest the bulb, the reflector is concave to spread the light. however, the closer you get to the projector lens, the reflector portion became cavern-like. the sides transitioned from concave to just straight-sided.. making a hall-way effect and concentrating the light to a small spot. i cut the concave portion of the reflector right where it began to be straight sided. then i placed the concave reflector right that much closer to the projector lens. with some final adjustment on the vertical axis to place the center line of the bulb Below the cut-off, it came out with very wide and very uniform beam pattern... perfect for a low beam.
the end product is much smaller and compact and i did it all with stuff i had laying around.
but now i would have to make another and find a way to put it in a housing i can install in my car... which brings me to my question; has anyone made custom housings to fit projector assemblies from other vehicles? also, has anyone made combined projector and reflector units for dedicated high/low beam lights?
i didnt want to go the NSX route, mainly because they are freakin expensive and hard to find... but if i can modify a projector beam for a motorcycle and alter its entire beam and light output... i could put something together to make use of it.
here is the GSXR headlight housing. imagine the odd shape the projector had to have to fit in this housing
Here is the Gixxer projector in its simplest form with everything cut away and shaved down
Here is the rear of the projector. you can see where i cut the reflector down. i inserted the concave section of the reflector inside of the straight-sided section to serve as a retainer. its pretty solid. i reassembled the cut sections with 2-part epoxy so they can be individual pieces again and screw together like they did originally.
but i can get another gixxer headlight to do this process again. im just looking for insight on making a housing to mount the projectors in.
