I only really started to Speak and Write english after I was 13 so cut me some F-ing Slack.. ;)

HID Wanna-B are SHIT!

Yeah I have been on HID planet for a while now. I have been mentioning that site all the time here. This is my second retrofit.

For ballasts I don't really care, as you know a ballast is a ballast as long as its an OEM one. I am trying to get some slim Valeo ballasts but they are really hard to find. For shrouds, the world is my oyster for now. :cool:

Excellent project Merc . Its what I wanted to do to mine all along , but .....financially just could justify it . I will be going back though with mine though and doing a similar project with Acura TL projectors . Good luck to ya bud , hope everything turns out perfect .

Hahah , I watched those same projectors on ebay forever .....nice score for $50 . All the ones I tried to bid on kept getting run up at the last second .

AMEN

Consider some F-ing slack cut ;)

Reading forums I have noticed that most people who have been speaking english for 16-30 years can't seem to get that one right anyways, so you aren't doing too bad ;)

What is your first language?

Lol I wish I paid $50 dollars for those!

Cool, another cobalt ss to be retro'd. Hopefully my retrofit will aid everybody in their own. :cssNET:

Haha , guess I misread :red:

I dont have anything to work with at the moment except a couple spare headlight housings , so yeah .....you will be pretty helpful seeing how you choose to mount them in the housing . Another alternative Im looking into is the Bi-Xenon Opel Astra projectors . Those are adaptive projectors though where they follow road in turns , so no clue if those would work or not . I would actually like to adapt the exact set up , and reshape the bezel with fiberglass . It would be easy enuff to do with glass , but scoring a set of those headlights I bet would be SALTY . Ive been snooping around on the Opel , Vauxhal and Holden forums lately seeing whats around .


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...nsam/astra.jpg

Any update pics?

dam how much work would it take to get thouse headlights in the cobalt? looks kinda like the stockers

Update!
 

Well I recieved my projectors in the mail today so I figured I'd start working on the retrofit. :cssNET:

The Hella e55 Bi-xenon projectors
http://home.comcast.net/~dsc220/HID1.JPG

The back of our stock reflector
http://home.comcast.net/~dsc220/HID2.JPG

The back of our stock reflector with cap and rubber cover off
http://home.comcast.net/~dsc220/HID3.JPG

I had to bend this Bulb nose off because it was held in with some crazy glue that I couldn't get off:
http://home.comcast.net/~dsc220/HID4.JPG

What I initially cut off:
http://home.comcast.net/~dsc220/HID5.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~dsc220/HID6.JPG

Then cut off again and smoothed out:
http://home.comcast.net/~dsc220/HID7.JPG

Me hard at work :cool:
http://home.comcast.net/~dsc220/HID8.JPG

The cobalt peeking at its new eyes:
http://home.comcast.net/~dsc220/HID9.JPG

The projector temporarily mounted in the reflector
http://home.comcast.net/~dsc220/HID10.JPG

Note: I will have a shroud around the projector so the extra metal won't be seen.


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Although it doesn't seem like it, I still have lots of work ahead of me.

Looking good so far. I can't wait to see the finished product.

im sooo confuse about HIDs now
so does the HALO kit come with a relay and a ballast?
is the HALO kit safe?
im planning to get them and i don want my harnness to burn

Those HID kits come w/ ballasts. (Not good ones though) You would need to make your own wiring harness for it to be safe. As for the glare they cause, that isn't safe. :nono:

sorry to thread jack...

someone had a side by side pic of those lights with the stock cobalt lights, and they're slightly different. enough so to make it a TON of work to fit those on a cobalt.

we now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...

looking really good dude, are you gonna keep the housing stock chrome or are you going to paint it? I am thinking of painting mine, and what are those projectors off of again?

the halo kit is plug and play :cussing: lmao! no mods at all i put them in my bro's SS in 10 mins tops ;) but mercury is right that his glare ie nasty! mine looks more like a projector, but my brother like to light the whole entire road up so he aimed his up higher anyways :)

them be some sexy pics!
i cant waite to see the beam patteren when your done

Your's truly happens to work for a certain German automotive lighting supplier that is being featured in this mod. And of course I am always on the crusade against plug & play.
Hella does make an aftermarket completely self contained 90mm Bi-Xenon projector with ballast and bulb. But they will cost you an arm and a leg and they are bulky and then you have to get them into the lamp. What you're doing I hope will turn out awesome and will give me some ideas for when I finally attack my own lights.

A few technical notes: that silver shield piece that goes around the reflector is called a bezel. And the "bulb nose" is actually called a "bulb shield."
Be careful cutting into the reflectors. They are made of a material that contains glass fibers. Use a full respirator, protect your eyes, and clean up all the dust. Don't want to breathe that garbage in.

Be sure to use the original lens cause it has the legal markings. But I didn't say that ;)

Another thing, try not to leave any optical surfaces out to collect dust. (ie. the bezel and turn signal). It can cut down on performance and look bad.

Bondo the reflector so there are no ridges..

That is a good idea but the reflector might not be visible.. I am debating on shrouds

HID kits are for ricers.

Nice retro mercury. Use ABS like I do. Forget about bondo.