My suggestion for doing projector retrofits in the low beams is this: You will have to make clear lenses, correct? Closely examine the JDM projectors and notice that they have the amber parking lot on each side, hidden behind some diffusers. My suggestion is to smoke the edges of your clear lenses so as to hide the corners of the lights, similar to the JDM lenses. Otherwise you see inside too much of the headlight and it doesn't look right.

@Richee: I'll look into it definitely. I won't be customizing JDM projectors until we really get the hang of it, so clear lenses with the US headlights - much like someone else had here, I think RoyO or Wolfie? But I'm thinking all accent bulbs would be LED anyway and would stay mostly hidden because the white wouldn't make a reflection.

Out of curiousity, the headlights would be plug and play right no wiring involved ?

Yes, direct bolt on - if you choose projectors they'll need whatever type of bulb goes in the projectors...although I assume it wouldn't really matter since they just focus light. I'll look into it once things get going.

Well whe n you get into it let me know. I have a expensive set of HIDs in there right now lol. I want them to fit.

I'm very interested but would like to see a finished piece before I purchased anything.

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Good ideas, & good luck!!

So since I don't know a thing about how lenses are done, please overlook the duuuhhh factor of my q's

(1) If someone sends you light assemblies with cracked // broken lenses, { but housings are good } is your service able to replace the lenses & return them? Or am I too far off what you are doing?
(2) Would you have the assembles already, & assemble them as they are ordered?
(3) How would someone know if the assemblies are good enough for you to re-use as a core?

Reason I ask is maybe there are quite a few who would like just stock U.S. DOT lenses, or clears to replace cracked // busted lenses, but not wanting HID or projectors..??..

Also, just wondering--
how difficult would it be to have a Celica dragon etched onto clear lenses?
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Or 6gc etched on clear lenses, same design as the stickers?



This post has been edited by Bigblock: Aug 14, 2010 - 3:11 PM

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To answer all your questions:

1- As long as the housing is good, there'll be no problem.
2- Either we would charge you a core charge for a brand new set of headlights, or you ship us ours at your cost, and we ship them back at our cost.
3- Pictures would suffice for use as gauging whether or not they're good enough. If the pictures don't tell the whole story then we'll ship them back and refund your shipping charge.

Celica Dragon/6GC Lens - It would all be hand carved dremel work as that's the only tool I could think of using to etch into glass - plus, it came with a glass etching bit

Update for everyone, I'm having trouble finding an exhaust shop to setup my exhaust, but once that's all said and done, we'll begin working on these.

Thanks for the update. Good luck on that search. Keep us in the loop!

Interested in Clear Lenses! if u ever get this sweet deal going

Would it be possible to do a projector/angel eyes/clear lens retrofit on the lows only, and then only applying a clear lens to the highs? If so, I'm down. Most likely out of my price range but we'll see.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Aug 26, 2010 - 10:02 AM

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This is what I was talking about:



Notice how the lens over the sidemarker isn't clear like the rest of the lense. That might be something to look into.

I would buy a set of these

any news?

so whats the news on this??? i just want regular headlights but with a clear housing instead of the glass our headlights currently have....

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Would buy these.

LOL!

very interested can't wait to see some finished products

any breakthru yet?

I have to vote no unless the price is seriously lower than the $750 or so I can get an OEM projector set for and the craftsmanship is equally good. Do you think you can do as professional looking a job? What would be the rough price range for projectors with clear lenses and turn/accent sides similar to the OEM look?

Hey guys, I know it's been a while.

My exhaust has been done for some time, but I've been dealing with some personal tragedy, so I haven't been doing much in the way of this project - even my 3D gauge cluster has been coming along slowly. The garage has been a mess, I missed a couple paychecks in-between jobs, so money has been tight, and as I said, I have some personal issues I've been dealing with. Things are beginning to look up however and I hope to resume work on this project soon, given the interest shown (even by the amount of votes and not replies), I'd love to do this for the community. I have a feeling I'm going to need to invest in at least a few tools (heat gun comes to mind, and some way of molding or shaping glass..possibly also taken care of by a heat gun) before I can really get cranking on these.

The first set I'm thinking will be a high gloss black housing, clear lens, projector retrofit, possibly angel eye around the projector. I'm really hoping I won't have to invest in a set of JDM headlights again in order to do clear lenses.

@Swissferdi: Anything you want is possible. So yes.

@Richee: I have JDM projectors, so I knew what you were talking about. My signature is way outdated.

This post has been edited by Espo: Oct 21, 2010 - 1:55 PM

count me in for some low beam projectors with or without angel eye...

glad to hear things are lookin on the up & up for you. I'll be waitin for this project!

update ....??

Is this still going to happen?

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