kos11-12

Thanks for sharing , very clever mod !
Maybe painted in silver or dark silver,
Actually those are not so expensive ....compare to the Hellas Bi Xenon...

xeps

I had looked at the retrofitsource stuff before and just wasn't confident in which projectors to get, etc..

Nice that someone figured it all out. Another project to add to the list...

pete917

I know this is an old thread, but I have just stumbled upon it. I think the results look awesome. I have a 74-89 shape 911 coupe. I know yours was a 964.

Are the bucket sizes similar. I definitely want to do a project like this, but I am trying to do it without cutting any holes in the headlight bucket.

Many thanks

Porschekalle

that looks amazing, I did a similar mod back in the days, but will go by that yours has a cleaner look.
Thanks for sharing

jakekooser

nugatory1 I think I am missing something. I also have H5 lights on my 86 and I bought a set of the Morimoto d2s mini projectors from the retrofit source. I would like to do my headlights like yours but I am not understanding how you mounted the piece you made from the flashing with the aluminum to the H5 bracket, it's not clear in the photos. Also, how is the glass being held? I did not get that exact lens, although I may now that I see and like it better, but my lens is from a VW beetle headlight and it's not fluted at the top. My H5 rings don't fit over the glass and I also don't see how you're keeping it from falling out.

I know this is an old post, but can you help me out?

STUARTQ

Jake, Nugatory hasn't posted on here for almost 2 years, I suspect you won't get you're answer.

Thats a shame because it looks like he was quite handy! He did a great job on the head light conversion.

jakekooser

stuartq,

that is a shame, because I could have possibly saved some loot doing it with my existing H5's. I'm about to 'win' a set of H4's from ebay and then I'll do it the same way others have documented on this forum and others. Probably have a friend of mine make me some cones out of aluminum as he works with the stuff all day.

thanks for the input.

HiWind

Would like to see what you make jake

BHCfarkas

Now your car looks like Johnny 5.

nugatory1

There is still some interest on this mod – so here is some more information.

To answer some questions:
Any flickering?
No flicker of any lights at all. I added a relay kit so the headlight switch just activates the relays and the lights run straight (fused) off the battery. Interesting to here the issues with d-zug in terms of warning lights . I think this may be due to not adding a relay kit. The running current with bi-xenon is very low, but igniting the light takes a bit of oomph. Everything I read stated that a relay kit was required.

More mount info?
I made a mounting plate that sits in the H5 adjusting bucket. It is held to the bucket from the rear with a plate (B) and a washer (A) that are bolted to the mounting plate. The “custom bucket” is mounted to the plate with 3 brackets (C). The bi-xenon projector was screwed to the big hole in the center of the mounting plate. Finally the lens was adhered to the “custom bucket” with butyl windscreen sealant (sticky stuff). I was a little concerned that the lens was only held on by adhesive, but the adhesive is very good and the painted rings around the headlights that mount to the car also wouldn’t let them fall out.






Bucket size?
I bought the smallest projectors I could find and they were still a tight fit in the 964 headlight bucket. I am not sure if earlier cars had a similar sized bucket.


I am currently changing up the colors – decided the car looks too wide eyed. Also, there is an issue of having too good of a light cutoff (see image in first post). Road signs such as stop signs don’t light up if there is no light to reflect. I am adding a LED strip that should give some ambient light that should correct this.

So… I will have an update to this, but my car had an engine event (more on that later as well) so this has not been my top priority.

Nugatory

JV44HeinzBar

+1

HB

Ds1

I think I'm going to attempt something similar to this after being at an air-cooled VW-Porsche show today and realized I actually like the look of those VW lenses better than the H4 lenses. I think I'm going to go LED though... I'll post when something happens

It will be MUCH cheaper than a H4 pair to replace my Sugar Scoops, anyway...