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Old 03-11-2004, 12:25 PM
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Audi RS6 ECE projectors into H4 EL housing





Look what I found

Painted one side with 500F enamel paint


No light escaping


VS

Hopefully I can use this like how it is after aiming.

I drove like this to back of the plaza near my house to see how the beam pattern's gonna be like.


Yeah, the right one is fuzzy. I fooled around with the shield too much and never got it back to normal.







For you who's gonna tell me to get some rims, those are my winter hubcaps.
These are the summer rims.
Old 03-11-2004, 12:28 PM
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tiiiiiiiiight
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Sweet .. The headlights look badass...
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looks good
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Kinda looks like an Impala...but still looks good though!
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That's some clean retro-fitting! How long did it take to do?
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nice man....
i dont like the fogs and acura badge on the front.
other then that it looks sick.
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nice write up. dope 5 lug conversion
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looks good...
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pimpin... i like your car

nice job on the retrofitting
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thats fuggen tight
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good job mcguyver...
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seems complicating! looks good though
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nice! how much did those HID's cost you?
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Looks good. Reminds me of a Legend.
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that was a damned good job man! ahhh..someday i too will be able to figure that out.
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thats freaken NICE! no write some more words so we can figur eout what we need and how much it costs! haha
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IMO:
for the Afro-Engineering work
for the actual look
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Default Re: (aLL STaR HYBRiD)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by aLL STaR HYBRiD &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">IMO:
for the Afro-Engineering work
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? what does that mean?

I am not a fan of the black housing. Looks too aftermarket. Conversion is very nice though.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B CRUZ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">nice write up. dope 5 lug conversion </TD></TR></TABLE>
bwahahahahaa!

nice work
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by cre18 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
bwahahahahaa!

nice work </TD></TR></TABLE>

true :rofl:
wheel covers with 5 lugs.
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Don't make fun of my wheel cover They have Acura logo in the middle.

Thanks.
Total cost? mmmm I think I paid around $380 for the whole kit and I sold my old H4 HID kit for $270. The light output is amazing compare to the old H4 5,000K bulb in the stock housing and now I have highbeam.

The Acura logo on the grille is suppose to be there. Well, it's a homemade grille but stock one has the logo in the middle also. Without it, the car looks like a 4th gen Accord
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That looks perfect! Mean to be. Your car has attitude now
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props on a well done retrofit
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Nice dood, what kind of bixenons are those? I'm looking to do the same thing very soon.


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