******INCORRECT!!!


Morimoto Mini H1 Projector has a 2.5" Lense, where the Hella E55's have a 3" lense! they are not the same!

But the shrouds should come with center rings to make it fit.

On a seperate note im running into a couple issues with my retros I wanted to get some advice. I cannot seem to bolt the headlights into the car the same way everytime with all the wiring from the lights/harness/angel eyes. Could someone take a picture of there retros pulled out just a bit so I can see where you run your wires in the car? I feel like every time i align the projectors right on a bench they arent able to sit that same way in the car.



And also Im still having the same wiring issue im just going to have to try a new harness. When i turn my headlights on they dont come on until i flick the high beams, then they stay on. My low beam and high beam are switched.... Ive repinned several times with no luck.

Now heres the PAIN IN THE ASS. Ive gotten used to the backwards beam, but after over 30 minutes of driving, literally on every ride home from work it happens right when i get to my house, the high beam will not work....cant figure it out, open to diag suggestions.

 

Good to know haha. And yeah that's exactly why I'm staying away from the mini gatling, they are just too small. I've pretty much narrowed it down to either Apollo or Gatling 1.0 at this point. Both seem like they take up a decent amount of space.

 

FYI Gatling 1.0 and 2.0 need to be trimmed to fit

 

^ Also good to know, thanks!

 

interesting.. I never trimmed my 2.0's that I've done and they fit fine, suppose we shall go with your advice though as you have made more than me lol

 

thanks for the correction. long night lol





to answer your question regarding wiring I can get back to you on that when I get home from work. I have pictures on my photobucket that show how I tucked all my harness/ballast wiring. its about as clean as it gets. as far as aligning goes, its a pain but all the sets I've done I've aligned when installed on a vehicle (with the headlights dissassembled obviously to be able to make adjustments). it sucks to do but I know the cutoffs are level at least, which matters most

I'm not 100% sure on the diagnosis of your issues, but I'd probably point to the relay first just because its the cheapest fix and seems most probable cause

 

Does anyone have pictures with retro fit headlights with the E55-R shroud or mini gatling gun??

 

I fed all my wiring from the back of the headlight through one of the holes in the headlight bracket right behind where the wiring comes out. Only a few inches stick through, then when I connect everything and go to put in the light, I just feed the wires back through. Virtually no wires were bunched up behind my lights. Much easier to fit correctly.

 

google my friend

 

e55 shroud. Smooth, oval shape. Silvery front great for making halos look huge



Mini gatling shroud, most common since they come free with mini h1 projectors. Look terrible and small on cobalts imo





side note: I NEED to do a retrofit on my car someday. My OEM projectors are some of the worst I've seen. Maybe I'll take a few days off work next summer to do it.

 

^any output shots of what your current setup looks like stock? just curious. what are you considering retrofitting in place of OEM?

 

looks like my car....

 

are your parking light covers tinted???? looks that way but cant tell lol. if so, yours looks very close to mine!!

 

Tommy, yours suck? my little bro has an Evo X MR and his output is pretty damn good!

 

Yep, they're pretty bad. Some of the worst I've ever seen. Very narrow output, and dim as well. I'm probably gonna retrofit FX-Rs in place since I don't have hardly any room to work with. I wanna fit something big like a TL or LS460 but that will never happen, the turn signal housing sits far too close to the projector.

I should mention that this pic was taken with brand new Osram CBI bulbs as well, some of the brightest bulbs on the market. And the cutoff is nowhere near actually that colorful in person. Oh, and they're single xenon, not bixenon, so I have halogen high beams, though they are fantastic high beams for halogen.
lol didn't even look to see who posted it.
The Evo 9 and 10 use different projectors. The 10 uses a Hella projector similar to the e55 from mercedes, cadillac, etc. MUCH better than the horrid one from my car.

 

oh nice didnt know that.

 

So i'm having an issue, I broke off one of the things that hold the reflector bowl to the housings, Also.. the little white "Tabs" in the same things that hold the reflector, they all snapped on.. is it ok to epoxy the **** out of them so they stay off (The slightest bump to them causes the reflector to come off...?

Also, how do you guys get your projectors level?

 

i put my partially assembled headlights onto the car and manually adjusted them as needed using a garage door

 

also breds2k, heres my wiring. the only thing not in the pictures thats visible are the AMP leads from the ballasts which just run up right next to the high beam solonoid wire from the relay (which is pictured). the ballasts are underneath the black headlight bracket, and the ground is connected in the front on the headlight bracket metal support.

 

Hmm, I'm going to have to figure out a way to keep the bowl in the housing.. see the black "Cups" in the picture? the little tabs in those are missing on my headlight, I snapped them off being too rough. Would epoxy work good?

 

yeah I've heard that happen before. I'm not super sure how they go about "fixing" it. I'm sure you could attempt to try alot of things, I'd maybe PM mkulrey for just a new one honestly if he has any laying around. thats the reason I dont remove them anymore, i just work on the reflectors still on the housing

 

Well i do have a spare set of headlights... but I don't want to open them up too.. lol. Is there enough room to dremel the back of the bowl with it in the housing?

 

you are supposed to clamp your halogen setup down once on a table once you have opened up the lens and tape or mark the original cutoff line on the wall. then when you attach the projector into assembly you reclamp the housing in the exact same spot and line up the new HID cutoff exactly where the old halogen one was.

 

How did you get your retro kit already???

 

I ordered them a week and a half ago lol

Would be easy enough to do if I didn't have to put the projectors into the car to power them, I have no way of test lighting the bulbs in my apartment.