Got the projectors in today! I already started:


The Projectors:



projectors inside my Camry headlamp:


another angle of projectors inside my Camry lamp:


back view or projector in my headlamp:


Only thing is, one of the bulbs was a Philips D2S, one was an Osram Xenarc......aren't the Xenarc's 5400k?

ahh, an earlier generation E39 projector, those things have really thick cutoff color band.

osram 4100k bulbs are also refered to as "osram xenarc" if you look at the base of osram bulbs, they have that printed on them.

What do you mean by a thick color band? Like a deeper color?

So.......what do you think as far as light escaping on these? There never was a shroud on it to begin with...just that cosmetic lense. Also I noticed that the reflector has a certain angle to it...maybe this is to keep access light from coming out??

I actually like using that e39 projector more than the current ones.

SeeFu:


Really? Cool......why so?

it's got a thicker band of color.... almost twice as thick as most of the other projectors i've seen. same colors(blue/purple) but just a thicker band. light escaping on those is pretty bad. i have a friend that used those projectors without a cover... pretty glarey, from certain angles...

that "cosmetic lense" is also a diffuser...

you can make something like that to soften any stray light or you could make one that totally blocks it. but i wouldn't recommend going without one. it's not a pretty sight.

I went ahead and added one.........check out the picture in the thread about light escaping.

hey how are you guys? Well i have a set of the E39 projectors in a honda accord OEM headlamp. At first all i did was put the bare projector in and make a wall around with the projector coming through the center. This sucked cuz light still strayed around the projector wall thus projecting a ring. So what i did was use the chrome housing of the BMW and cut around it so not only did i have a chrome cosmetic trim but also a cover so stray light wouldn't escape. Pliep helped me alot. But most of these guys pretty much know what they're talking bout. Thanks for the help guys.

Well here's a picture of what I did:




I don't have the newer E39 projectors, so these came a lense ring rather then chrome....so I had to make my own.

Here's the final pics:







I'l have some night pictures later when it gets dark.

DJ, were you able to remove the front lens of the BMW headlamp harmlessly ? nothing broke ? how did you do it?

Al:

The front lense frame was just clipped to the back part of the housing. All I had to do was release about 8 clips...the ones at the top were melted with heat to secure it, but they popped off easily as well.

Nothing broke, maybe one or two clips cracked out of 10 or 16....but everything can be put back together.

which year of camry do you have? Isnt that camry has only H4 reflector only? Did you get aftermarket headlight??

I have a 2001 Camry, it has a 9005/9006 headlamp set up......I used the factory original headlamps for the retrofit.

I have some aftermarket headlamps too that I have as backups.

whoa.. I did not know that they change from H4 to 9006/9007 because my camry just look the same as yours.

Where are you from??

Yeah, there is a Camry Generation 4, and there is a 4.5. They both have the same body style, but the 4.5 has diamond-clear taillamps and diamond-clear headlamps with separate high and low beams. Gen. 4 is from 97-99, Gen. 4.5 is 00-01.

I'm in Texas/USA

Night pictures!

From the front:



On the wall....I still need to adjust the left side a little bit:



Ground lighting:

Sorry, I disabled the link to the daytime pics, let me repost:

ah.. can I possibly put Gen 4.5 headlight into my Gen 4 body??

How hard is it to mount the projector in the Gen 4.5 headlight?

I don't know.......I've heard that the 4.5 headlamp is slightly bigger then the Gen. 4.

It shouldn't be too hard to actually mount the projector......it's getting it even and aligned that's the time consuming part.

where in tx do you live dj?

Houston

Wonder if I can just get a projector mounted in my OEM H4 housing.

Well it's best to use clear headlamps with projectors, at least thats my understanding. Your lense is textured which may interfere with the beam. I'll present this question to the forum and see what the consensus is on that.

Nice work!. I'm in houston also. I just finished mine.

Cool, but your picture isnt showing up..........

Dang, all these people in Houston doing retro's now. I'm in Houston too. I did a A6 conversion in to a set of APC (crap) headlamps on my civic. I'm also the source for some of the pics they use here. visit me at http://texas.hybridgarage.com