E30 Bi-Xenon Kits? Headlight upgrades?
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Slightly off topic, but I'm contemplating playing with headlights more so than I have before.
I took on my first headlight project a few weeks ago and was greatly pleased by the results, and I had a fair bit of fun while working on it.The headlights in my truck have always been just okay, and as many of you likely know, I don't have great eyes so I typically chase down the best lights I can get. Nissan never provided these trucks with projectors so I decided to crack my set open and make some things happen.
Stock headlight for reference.

Armed with an inexpensive set of Mini H1 Bi-Xenon projectors and an oven I got to work.
Baking headlights has always scared me, but after doing it I would comfortably do it 100 times more.
Trimming some bits allowed me to slip the projector through the existing bulb hole, and I routed the shutter wires up through a grommet type tape that was sealing a hole.After putting the projector in you need to make sure you've got everything level, as those cutoffs are going to be hell to rotate once you get the lens back on.
Back in the truck they went, with a halogen bulb for testing purpose. Level out the cutoffs and the mark everything well so you know where you need to align it in case it spins again.Lows (truck is at a slight angle)
High
TLDR;
Lights are fun
Buy things from TheRetrofitSource, they blow DDM kits out of the water.
I should crack open some E30 headlights and play.
Bi-xenon's are sweet, this thing absolutely pours light out of the front with the highs on. -
nice! glad to see others benefit from proper lighting. your pictures arent working, though, and i really want to see them!
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Pictures are working on my computer and on my phone, not sure what could be going on with your end.
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i get blank boxes (Chrome) on my phone
busted links (Microsoft Edge) on my PC -
Pictures are working on my computer and on my phone, not sure what could be going on with your end.
I'm guessing they are hosted on google photos? It seems that hotlinking images is not allowed, you'll have to upload them on here. The garbled text is the image ALT tag, but I tried copying the URL you used and I just get a
as the replacement still. -
The Google Photos thing makes sense, I guess I thought It was just copying the image and hosting it here but I now realize that didn't make sense.
Switched em over to flikr links, should work now. -
nice work! looks like you went with the 3800k? I love the near halogen color, and they are brighter than the whiter colored bulbs.
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nice work! looks like you went with the 3800k? I love the near halogen color, and they are brighter than the whiter colored bulbs.
Thanks! Those were the halogen bulbs I used for testing before committing to buying xenons. I went 5800k per my usual.
These look great. any pics of what they looked like on the back of the headlight housing?
I don't have any pictures of the backs, it honestly looks the same as stock though.
I forgot to add the pictures with new bulbs in, so I threw those up in the original post.
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