so yes.. you read it right!




had these retrofits in for the longest time (way back to when I owned by LT), but was never a true fan on black headlights on red.. not that it looked bad, but in general i was just sick of black after owning a murdered out car










so sold I sold them.. now onto the build.. decided I wanted to keep it OEM appearing with a few custom touches..



so i painted the cutoff shield red to give this effect during the right lighting




and then there was that ugly orange side marker.. now whats a guy suppose to do with that.. painting it any color would look shitty... so chrome plating it was! now I got this as a result! much better











will be installing tonight once I finish putting the lenses on!

 

Sofa king ghey!













Jk they'll look good..

 

Looks sick with the red reflection on the projectors

 

Looks good

 

They do look good and im a fan of chrome on red

 

Ohman, I want me some retrofits so focking bad.

 

funny title lol they look good

so shiny you can see your camera phone in the reflection.

 

Very nice looking, side reflector was an awesome touch.

 

got them put in! better daylight pictures to come tomorrow





parking lights on shining through sidemarkers







flash on (notice red cutoff shields)









flash off

 

Very nice. Are we finally gonna get to see em on the front of your car?

Edit : I'll wait for daytime pix

 

LOVE painted shields! red is the only way to do it, blue looks like some dweeb has stuck some 85w autozone blue halogens in there.

 

havent seen too many pics of cutoff shields painted (even on hidplanet) but I think the cutoff shields look really good either as an accent color if you have one, or colormatched to the body of the car.. they look dumb if its neither of those colors lol

colormatched is probably my favorite (just so happens red is also what I've been painting everything as well) lol

 

they it alot on hidplanet, the 4.1+ gens of mini h1's come powdercoated black and look SWEET, and actually do have a more crisp output with a tad less fuzziness around the cutoff, painting makes a difference!

 

i thought the 4.1's were the only ones to come powdercoated black..

i have the 5.0's and they werent powdercoated black at all

 

Damn man, they look sick!

 

didnt know they made anything above 4.1! ive stopped trolling hidplanet.

 

yeah they made the v5.0's now

apparently the have a few "improvments" such as:

27mm nut to tighten projector into place, instead of that wierd nut thingy lol
foreground limiters built in
"improved" plating in the reflector dish

 

I really wanna see the 5.0 in person, they've been needing a foreground limiter for a long time. I bet it helps a lot

 

it does!!

I had the 3.0's on my last retro (i think). and honestly I couldnt tell whether or not I had my HID fogs on or not, there was THAT much foreground light from the 3.0's. It was insane, not necessarily in a good way

now with the 5.0's I can easily tell the difference of when HID fogs are on or off.. basically turning the fogs on (adding all that foreground light) is my way of making this retro seem like my last one with the 3.0's

 

wow that looks a lot better than i thought it would, not a fan of the shrouds, but the rest is ****!

 

It's gotta be a lot better to see long distance with that. I know when I turned my brights on with my minis, they didn't do much, my halogen brights on my Evo are much better than those were.

 

went out and snapped some pics

 

Think when.I take mine.apart this winter imma paint mine Neon Green. Look good though man

 

raw as f#%$

 

looking gud