Ok, here we go. As promised, Instructions on how to retrofit your integra with HID projectors.. before we begin, a few things:

1. I am not responsible for whatever you do to your car, All this is, is a guide to help you along on your path to HID lighting perfection. Have patience, take your time, and your project will turn out fine

2. Using these instrcutons, in conjunction with Skafia's instructions, should give you a pretty good idea of what needs to be done.

3. Thank you to Patrickgsr94, Juicyfn, Dan GSR, Latindc2, Billyhoe ( for the HID kit and a kickass price ), Skafia for providing me with some kick *** instructions, and HIDplanet.com; without all of you guys, I'd still be trying to figure out what pieces I needed to put this project together

HID kit (Mine was from A Lexus IS300.


Projectors that are going to be installed (mine are from an Audi A6)


Car: 95 teggie, Gs-r


The website that showed me the light about retrofitting......


Before you begin: test your HiD kit by connecting the positive wire to the positive terminal on your battery, and the negative wire to the negative terminal. If the bulbs light up, you're golden

<U>Tools needed</U>: Toolbox with all of the common tools along with 8mm-12mm sockets, all weather sealant, about 8-10 bolts (around 4-5 inches in length but not to big of a diameter, corresponding nuts, locking washers, A drill with various drill bits and a dremmel.

NOTE: This project will take about 12 hours from start to finish, so be sure to plan ahead.

<U>INSTRUCTIONS</U>

1. Remove your headlights from your car (I'm going to assume that you already know how to do this; if you don't then I probably would not attempt this project if I were you.



2. Remove all of the rubber tubing, plastic bulb holder rings (held with 3 small screws), and rubber bulb boots from your headlights, as well as the leveling indicators (little tube with green liquid inside).


3. Once all of the rubber and plastic is removed from the back of the headlights, bring them up to your kitchen. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees, and then turn it off. Place your headlights inside of the oven for about 6-8 minutes, or until the glue that holds the plastic headlight casing to the housing is soft and mushy.



4. My cat couldn't figure out why i was putting headlights in the oven........


5. But he didn't give a sh*t anymore when he saw these.......


6. Remove the headlights from the oven and carefully pry the plastic headlight covers away from the housing ( be sure to free all of the clips around the housing first)


7. Remove the shrouds from the plastic cover if you want to paint them black ( it looks cool, and it also cuts down on HID glare ) If you choose to do this use Krylon paint.



8. Headlights apart....


9. Now its time to seperate the headlight bracket from the plastic housing. Unscrew the aiming bolts (shown in the picture, there should be two on the back of the housing.). Theyt are long, so make sure you unscrew them all the way.


10. Pull the headlight bracket out of the housing, and unscrew the stock oem low beam reflector housing from the bracket. Then unscrew the stock oem projector from the bracket.


11. Now unscrew the high beam reflector from the bracket.


12. This is what the bare bracket should look like.


13. Now grab your drill or dremmel, and drill along the bottom of the oem projector housing The goal here is to completely remove the oem projector housing from the bracket (you can see the holes that i drilled all along the base of the projector housing). Be very careful with this part because you dont want to break the bracket while you are trying to drill off the oem projector housing. Also, drill right at the base of the projector housing and no further out, because you will need the rest of the bracket to drill holes into later.


14. When the stock projector housing has been completely drilled off, this is what it should look like....


15.
Blue guy: "HIDs are ghey....."
Brown guy and grey guy: "YOU'RE ghey.... HIDs own j00, biiiiaaatchhhh !"


16. Now this is the most crucial part of the entire process...... The idea here is to get your new projector onto the bracket, by drilling holes into the bracket, and putting bolts through the projectors, and into the brackets, like so.......

You want to use bolts that are not too big in diameter, but at least four inches long (if they are longer than 5 inches, you will need to break off the ends of the bolts inorder to get them to fit into the housing), so that they will reach from the projector, to the bracket.
The new projector will come with mounting holes already pre-drilled, but you might have to drill into the existing holes to make them larger, depending on the size bolts that you bought. For more info on this particular step, see Skafia's instructions at http://www.skafia.com/itr/hid/ . Also, I used locking washers on the other side of the bolt, so that when I put the nuts on and tightened them, there wouldn't be too much strain onthe bracket itself.
I used 5 bolts to mount each projector to its respective bracket, but you can get away with 4. I wouldnt suggest using any fewer than 4 though. So I think this part is pretty self explanatory. You just basically want to mount the projector onto the bracket, by marking potential drill points on the bracket that match with the holes on the projector. When you are sure that your drill points on the bracket are aligned with the holes in the projector, drill the holes in the bracket, and put the bolts through the projector, and into the bracket.
Last but not least, make sure that the edge of your projector reflector sits no more than 2-2 1/2 inches from the bracket......any further from bracket, and you will have problems putting the HID ignitors into the housing. Also, when the projectors are finally mounted, make sure that the bolts are nice and tight by using locking washers, along with the nuts.

IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE THAT THE PROJECTOR IS MOUNTED STRAIGHT, BOTH VERTICALLY AND HORIZONTALLY , or your HID beam pattern will be screwed !!!!

17. This is what your brackets should look like with the new projectors mounted on them ......


18. Now screw your high beam reflectors back on, and this is what they should look like....


19. Now following reverse order, put your bracket back into the plastic housing, and screw the aiming bolts back on ( remember that these bolts are long, so you want to screw them in pretty far). but also make sure that the black plastic tab in the housing goes throught the hole in the bracket to hold it in place. Screw the aimingbolts, until you are satisfied that the bracket is straight, both vertically and horizontally ( the aiming bolt on the bottom is for vertical adjustment, and the aiming bolt to the right and left of the housings are for horizontal adjustment).
Now warm up your headlights in the oven again to soften the glue, by preheating the oven to 300 degrees, turning it off, and them placing both the housings in the oven, as well as the clear plastic headlight covers. Once the glue is nice and gooey, press the headlight cover and the bracket together very firmly, until thhey are back together, and the tabs around the housing snap back into place. Then place healthy amounts of all-weather sealant around part the edges that join together.

20. Give the sealant an hour to dry, and Wallahhhh......Retrofitted Integra headlights !


Now for the good stuff.......

Integra headlight with painted shroud and new projectors....


There's the beast.....


Beautiful HIDs.....and no crappy glare like the plug and play kits.....


So pretty.........


Me rolling around with a couple of buddies, trying out the new HIDs.......( I know, i need to dust the dashboard !)


Thanks for stoppin on by.......


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for a good write up bro

 

nicely done

who tossed all that sand on your dash o.O?

 

Nice write up.

 

very nice write up....now go clean your dash..haha

 

nice

 

Haha i like all those random pics you threw in

Damn your dash is dirtay!

 

that was a nice write-up..

 

nice write up... makes it easier for me to do them now!

 

wait...did you end up getting D2R or D2S bulbs?

 

I got d2r bulbs, because the kit is from a lexus IS300 which uses reflectors instead of projectors. But the are pretty much the same as d2s ( the base and everything else is the same). The only difference is a painted shield around part of the d2r bulb, but a few strokes of a razor, and the shield was history

 

ah job....

 

Good job on the retro...

 

Can we make this a stickY?

 

Beautiful write up bro NOW DUST THAT DAMN DASH

 

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I agree. Excelent writeup, but your dash is a little dirty.

 

lol Latin DC2....how could I forget your help ? I added your name to the thanks list

 

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hmm what's going on here, are the high beams on in this pic? That doesn't look anything like A6 projector cutoffs... doesn't look like much of a cutoff at all really.

 

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hmm what's going on here, are the high beams on in this pic? That doesn't look anything like A6 projector cutoffs... doesn't look like much of a cutoff at all really. </TD></TR></TABLE>

same thing i was thinking... my silverstars have a better cutoff than that... although nice write up... i want a retrofit myself

 

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Are u using any harness?

 

Great write up makes it easier for me to do it to mine w00p, i also agree with almost everyone in this that your dash its dirty also is it me or your low beams seem higher

 

awesome write-up, thanks, always thought about doing this, just always thought it would be a crap loud harder...

 

Actually, looking at the pic again, it almost looks like the beam pattern from a bi-xenon projector on high beam function, in addition to the stock halogen high beams.... but A6's aren't bi-xenon.

 

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lol yes, the A6 projectors are not bi-xenon (check the projector pics up top), but the reason for the skewed cutoff was because of the bulb fitment. I've never tried d2s bulbs because my kit came with d2rs, but the bulbs have slight movement in the bulb holders ( I'm assuming because the bulbholders are made for a d2s bulbs, and the base of a d2r bulb seems a tad smaller). Also, The bulbs are supposed to have the wire facing down, and mine moved when I tightened the ignitors because of the above mentioned problem.
At some point I will have to modify the bulbs, so that they dont move in the holders at all, and then I can get the bulbs to stay in the projectors the way they are supposed to.

Either that , or just buy the right bulbs

 

sicktastic write up.
daddy like!