bryant

First off, I put this in the crx forum because I do own a crx and its has 9006.

*I dont know if this will work for all 9006's but it did for the CRX OEM headlights.*

Okay, here goes:

Tools Needed:
-Ratchet
-10 mm socket
-Long extension
-Phillips head screw driver
-OEM HID kit
-Stock headlights
-Dremel w/Sanding disc and Sanding wheel
-SiliconeII glue

Alright, First you will need to take off your bumper so that you can take out the headlights. If you dont know how to do this please use the search function its been talked about many of times.

After the headlights are out take out the stock bulbs. on the Main headlights 9006 one (low beam) you will have to trim the black plastic thing all the way to pull the bulb out. Then gently, but still with some force pull that thing off. If you break it www. hondaautomotiveparts.com has replacements for you.

Now get your dremel and out with disc sanding blade on. (pic below)



Next you will sand off the things that keep the 9006 bulb in place. So that it will look like the pic below.



You could sand those other plactic things off if you really get picky, but there is no need to. Next, use the disc sander to grind down into the housing. Be very carefull not to go to deep because you will not have anywhere to mount the HID bulb onto. The pics below shows this done. See how far it is. Not very deep at all. maybe a couple CM at most.



The point of this is because if you look at the pics below the HID bubble does not line up with the 9006 filament, (the OEM HID bulb is on the left and 9006 in the middle) therefore you need to grind slightly down to make the OEM bubble line up with the 9006 filament. Take your time, its better too take to little off then too much.


(Pic, courtesy or MTK Komander)

Here is another pic to help show the sanding into the housing. A is stock B is the sanded one.



Next use the circular sander. (shown in pics below) to make the stock 9006 hole bigger to fit the OEM HID all the way into. Take your time, its better to take too little off then too much.



After all that has been done, you probably have a lot of plastic dust and stuff all over the place. Plus some is most likely in the headlight as well. I searched HT and found that you can bake your headlights at 200° for 8 min. and another 2 min. at the same temp. if that is not long enough. Then pull the clips off and pull apart the glass from the housing. Be VERY careful! I tired this and when pulling the clips I broke the glass off and just decide not to go any farther. I went to a Friends with high pressure air and just all the junk out instead. I wish I could have gotten them apart that would have made it tens times more simple to clean. But oh well.

Moving on, Get out your glue. SiliconeII (pic below)



I got it for $3 and some change at my local Home Depot.

Apply glue on the on the housing, dont get stingy! (Pic. below)



Then put your HID bulb in the hole, The part with the return wire goes on the bottom. (black/brown thing on the outside of the bulb, refer to upper pic above by MTK) Pic of it done below.



Now add more glue on top of the bulbs base and the housing. to that is stays in place, we don't need HID bulbs flopping all over the place.

The glue will get tacky in about 30 min. but let it dry for a full 24 hours before doing anything else. While you’re waiting for the glue to dry, now is a good time to hook up the ballast.

First cut off the 9006 plug from the harness. Leave a couple inches of wire just incase you ever want to go back to 9006. Now wire up your ballast. red to red and black to black.

After that, find a good place to mount the ballast. Make sure you still have enough slack to connect up your HID's. I used zip ties, kind of ghetto but they hold in place real well. (Sorry, no pics of that)

Okay, once the glue has set for 24 hours, reinstall your headlights and bumper. Hook up the HID ballast to the HID bulb. Close the hood and turn on your lights and test them out. If everything lights up like it should then fine a wall and adjust your headlights. There is a page online on how to do this the right way. But I dont know the link. Use google and you should be able to find it.

Good Luck, have fun and dont get to pissed off. Remember Its better to take to little then to much, Except for on the glue part. If you have question then please post up.

*Disclaimer* This is a DIY mod, that means you did it, I in no way take responsibility for anything you mess up on, brake or errors in my post.

I tied to fix all my spelling errors and such, so bare with me if you have trouble reading something.


[Modified by Bryant, 6:54 PM 3/18/2003]

poison

damn good tutorial bryant

importfan85

Thanks for the info, I'm might try this in the future.

SteveeeO

wanna put some pics of how the beam looks? I heard that it doesn't work very well in the stock headlight housing

"I tied to fix all my spelling errors and such, so bare with me if you have trouble reading something."

nice tutorial


[Modified by SteveeeO, 10:10 PM 3/18/2003]

bryant

I will get some right now.

*runs out side with camera*

shorti

hurry!
:D

bryant

Alright, here is the beam pattern:




On the street I need to aim them up a bit so they light the road up better.but so far they look real good. I'm proud of myself

EF-9SiR

lets see them!

ghettocrxsi

adding to my favorites list.. and things to do... good work.. More people need to do write ups on DIY mods. I made the one for the gsr cluster install into 88-91 civics and crxs

EF-9SiR

whats the temp on those bulbs? good work dude.

Shawn C

iTrader: (1)

very cool. whats the "ballast"? the 2 little boxes that come with them? Any idea of how much you spent on this all together? complete parts list ( what do you mean by OEM HID kit?)? Great job, man


[Modified by 22lbGS-R, 10:01 PM 3/18/2003]

bryant

ballast are the two boxes yes.

I have the Acura TL HID's I got them from a friend. (OEM Reflective type, D2R bulbs)

bryant

I'm not sure. But the glue will only take up to 400°. So I hope its less then that.

poison

damn, that beam pattern is MUCH better.

.ShawnD.

how much on the kit .. any cheeper then aftermarket??

shorti

can you take these pics for reference?
1. high beams only
2. low beams only
3. high and low

what's the difference in colour like?
you didn't put hid's in your high beams did you?

MTK Kommander

wow.. from just our little PM convo, you did a perfect beam pattern correction for yourself.. if u wanna get really hardcore about it, you can open up your housings, clean everything off and make an in-housing glare shield for them.. more DIY!! haha.. good job man, im proud of you too.. that **** made me smile to know my help is working..

bryant

High and low beam on stock CRX/Civic headlgihts are seperate. I just have stock 9005 bulbs in my high beams.

Thanks MTK, your help worked out great along with a little search online of some links you posted in some older post. I learned a ton about HID's and how they accaully work. THe headlights acaully has a sheild built into the housing, sorry no pics, that i think is why it give out a pretty decent beam pattern.

This is what it looked like when i first started. All I did was glue the bulb on the out side of the hosing with absolutly no mods:




As you can see the beam pattern was utter crap, and I'm pretty sure my stock headlights lit the road up better then this did. Plus you can see the black square in the middle where I had no light at all. That really didnt help out anything, but me not being able to see anything.

With the mods done I think it turned out damn good, and I am very pleased. Thanks MTK for your help

bryant

Yes it was cheaper then aftermarket, but I cant say by how much. That the main reason I got them is because a friend sold them to me for a price I could not pass up. I would love to see how a 9006 kit compares to mine. I'm sure it would work better with no mods, but as I said, I got mine for pretty cheap so I did what I had to do

CRX A4

I have a 9006 kit on my car, but i also have projector headlights, so the beam is a little different, How much did you pay for you kit?

My friend got my kit at dead cost, i ended up paying $125 for a 4300k mccolough 9006 HID kit

i could not refuse for that price, they are amazingly bright, however, since the projector headlights (came with the car) have a very bad beam pattern, i can see the birds in the tree's at night, Thanks APC

bryant

Someone who must have had the projectors before you, must have taken the block off plate out. With projectors your supposed to have a cutt off beam an HID in projectors work mutch better. Also if you have D2R bulbs in the the projector housing thats probley not helping either.

sporkcrx

Why do people sell their OEM hid's???

bryant

Dont ask me, but sometimes you can find them in junkyards.

.ShawnD.

that totally understandable .. can you point me in the right direction to get ahold of some stock HID kits .. or a link or somthing .. ive always wanted to get some .. just dont feel like paying 5K for "brighter lights"

good work man

kHoA DoGG

oh damn, tight, HID made simple... gotta do that soon.