Give me a call.

Slight update, the 5S power steering belt works for the BEAMS. I'll be replacing the serpentine belt soon and I'll let you guys know which belt fits that.

Other slight update:



This post has been edited by richee3: Sep 26, 2011 - 6:57 PM

nice, but u need the hood..

Soon, within the next few paychecks

Dan is making out like a bandit on these deals.

Hope you sort out the troubles with the BEAMS...or find a great, cheap deal on a 3SGTE.

Thanks, Brian! Your continued optimism and enthusiasm is greatly appreciated. The bumper came from Zake. It was local and both the price and color were right. We weren't about to pass it up. We're going to try to get it on the car as soon as possible, but the BEAMS remains my first priority. I'm about to get the factory airbox for it, then I'm looking for a good GT4 hood.

This post has been edited by richee3: Sep 27, 2011 - 12:29 PM

Well, Chris and I were planning another BEAMS swap next Spring, using my Greytop. But I cracked it open a few days ago and based on what I saw, the inside-y parts of the Greytop aren't so clean. In throttle body doesn't worry me. It can be cleaned. It's what's inside the intake manifold that doesn't look so good and what's worse, where the oil flows into the head. I cleaned out the main opening but you can still see some of the little chunks of... whatever they are sitting inside the head. The inside of the valve cover looks just as clean as the Redtop, but the rest of the Redtop is cleaner. Looks like I have plenty of spare parts...





I'm still waiting to find out how much fuel pressure I have before swapping out any more sensors. Otherwise, I've been looking into the VVT-i components. I'll swap out the cam angle sensor soon, per Dustin and Stephen, and after that, I know the OCV is fine since I've changed that out, then I'm concerned about oil pressure. There's a filter before the OCV that the guys with 2ZZ's like to clean every 30k. Problem is, it's much more difficult to get to on a BEAMS than a 2ZZ. Those guys can take a single bolt out to get to the filter, I have to crack my motor apart. My problem could be that the filter is clogged up but I doubt it. It could be that the VVT gear isn't quite working right. If you take the timing belt off, the gear locks up and needs to be unlocked. I know my gear isn't stuck advanced all the time or else the car would be useless at any speed in any gear. I think it's fuel pressure related but nonetheless, I'm doing my research on VVT-i.

excuse me a moment....

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SEXY

I like.

You lucky sumbitch. Awesome.

if you decide to open them to do the mod, let me know....

Glad they finally arrived; it was beginning to wonder if that deal really was too good to be true.

Looking forward to seeing them on the BEAMS.

I'm glad they made it too. It took over a month and an eBay claim to get them here, but I got them for $460 shipped. Steal or steal?

Noberto, I picked up some H1 HID bulbs for when I put the lights in so I don't have to cut into my factory wiring. Leave my ballast plugged into the 9006 plug, plug my H1's into the ballast, call it done. I have H1 bulbs and pigtails with the lights, but I'm going to avoid opening them up if I don't have to. But with HID's, we'll probably have to open them up. Did you mod yours for LHD?

More big updates coming soon. More than just the projectors and GT4 front end.

This post has been edited by richee3: Oct 12, 2011 - 11:42 AM

Photo borrowed from manphibian:



That's the beam pattern of the projectors, for future reference for anyone who is unfamiliar with the LHD conversion. As you can see, the lights will be shining directly into the eyes of oncoming traffic. I've seen several posts from several members saying they went with regular bulbs and oncoming traffic never flashed them, and a few even saying it doesn't matter with HID's. To be responsible, everyone should do the mod. However, as expensive as these things are to replace, I'm thinking we're going to put them on the car and see how the beams look and give them a test run and if it doesn't work out, I'll open them up and do the LHD mod.

This post has been edited by richee3: Oct 13, 2011 - 5:33 PM

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I did not convert mine for a few reasons.

My car is lowered. Everyone elses lowbeams are highbeams in my face.

The lights are so low to the ground they don't get in anyone's face.

And I wasn't willing to take apart the 800 dollars I spent on them to fix it, with the chance of damaging them.

I look at it this way, when people can learn to turn off their highbeams, or stop running these ridiculously blinding (Lows & Highs) HIDs. Then I'll adjust mine to not hit the 2% of people I see at night driving a simliar lowered vehicle.

Though I respect where you are coming from...

This post has been edited by rave2n: Oct 13, 2011 - 6:20 PM

is there not enough lateral adjustment in the lights to direct them to the right? I mean, I don't know how these lights work, or if there is any adjustment at all, But as far as I've moved my lights at times and seeing how the beams get affected, you would think there would be able room to shift these bad boys over..... thats a shame you have to take apart something so expensive

since I have the car now for 6 months with the white hid's in them. I've only been flashed about 2 or 3 times. It only blinds oncoming traffic when you about 50 feet from them. By that time they don't even have enough reaction time to flash you. yes the cut off goes much higher than that. I didnt convert mine because I bought mine new from the dealer. Also because I hate the fact that trucks blind you, especially the ones with hid headlights and foglights

stop whining you little girls

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The last two posts = pure win.

I did not convert the headlights for LHD. Like 95% of the rest of 6gc with projectors, I didn't just spend that much money so I can tear it up. I might still open them up later.. Depends on how we feel about them.

Anyway, moving on: The insidey parts of my Greytop!





As you can see, it's mostly clean, except for that crap where the oil flows into the head. No idea what that crud is, but I don't like it. At any rate, I'm still working on tearing the head down to find the VVT filter. I don't care about the VVT filter on the Greytop, I'm just trying to get ahead if I ever decide to take the Redtop apart. That way I will know where the filter is. I'm about halfway through, but I put that project aside last night for this:




Murrka: Whurr Chevy runs deep!


Fortunately, the girl somehow gets drunk when a camera hits her hands and magically sobers up as soon as the camera leaves her hands, so this is the only picture of me working on the car and fortunately for you guys, it's blurry:


She did about 90% of the install, I did 100% of the complaining. Then instead of taking pictures or being fascinated or any of the usual stuff that people do after modifying their cars, we went to bed. No lie. "Wow, projecto- zzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZzzzzzz." Just like that.

Better pictures coming this evening, but they won't be anything special. We all know what a black Celica with projectors look like, but I'll post them up in a "Look what I did! I spent my money!" way.

This post has been edited by richee3: Oct 14, 2011 - 4:19 PM

Even has camo on the Chevy. You secretly from Texas??



I take that back.. if you were it'd be lifeted so high it wont fit in your garage.

You haven't even begun to see the camo on the truck. It's everywhere. Even inside. It's not lifted though and barely fits in my garage as is. It's a mile long. But the other half of the garage is a mess of Celica parts and storage space for the IS.

Went to bed, right...

[insert CB high five]

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Oct 14, 2011 - 7:52 PM

They look

Ferdi- honest truth. Sleepytimes. Brigette and I are about 72 years old. We go to bed at 8... No lie.

Rave- thanks! Your car was one of my examples when I was showing Brigette what her car would look like with projectors

This post has been edited by richee3: Oct 14, 2011 - 8:21 PM

Do USDM cars fitted with stock projectors/hids have the beams cut off on the opposite side of these rhd projectors?
I've driven a new g37x, and it seemed that the cut off line was completely level.
Is that just because its new technology or...?

Our Camry is the same way- the cutoff is level. I assume it's done that way so the same lights can be sold in any country without having to modify anything. But since the JDM projectors were only sold in Japan, the cutoff is there and it's pretty noticeable. I got my HID's in the projectors tonight... I get the feeling I'll be meeting some displeased motorists. I'll give it a few night drives to find out though. I'm still not in love with the idea of opening these up.

great thread richee! so is the graytop goin in the blue one? i think i missed that going through the pages, hopefully the motor cleans up well and works good for you good luck my dude!