E30 projectors are not made for HID, and most of the time the bowls are tarnished from age and have poor output. The output of these compared to an HID kit thrown into the projectors is night and day.
Originally posted by tjts1
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E30 projectors are not made for HID, and most of the time the bowls are tarnished from age and have poor output. The output of these compared to an HID kit thrown into the projectors is night and day.
Sorry I told you I didn't like your clear lenses on the other forum, but there is very little glare with this setup. I have tested it myself with someone else driving my car while I drove past it in another. Maybe sometime down the road I will do something about it, but for now I am satisfied, and bi-xenons are awesome to have. -
sweet install but what I dont understand is that OEM headlight with projectors work just fine. The only benefit I see for switching projectors would be to have BiXenons.
Sweet install and I hope you dont take my words wrong.Leave a comment:
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Clean cutoff
Fuzzy cutoff with lots of glare.
The FX35 projectors are excellent headlights but sticking them behind the DOT E30 fresnel lenses murdered your beam pattern. Oncoming traffic is going to hate you.Leave a comment:
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They appear much brighter in the pics than they actually are. It is just a wedge bulb, like what is used in the sidemarkers, I am just using them as a parking light. I always liked how the city lights were on my previous E36's euro ellipsoids, so I wanted to carry that over to the E30. It looks awesome though, I love it!Leave a comment:
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Nice work man, turned out great.
How effective are the fogs (high beams)?Leave a comment:
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I'll see what I can do as far as a write up goes. With the pictures I have, it probably won't be all that great, but I guess it will be a good starting point.
The good thing about retros is that there is no one way to do it. Everybody has their own take on how to do it.Leave a comment:
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FX35 Bixenon Retro into US Ellips
First off, let me just say that I am not doing a write up on how to do a retro in E30 headlights, so please don't PM me for one, I just dont have the time right now.
Now, onto the setup. I know this is not the ideal setup, but I had all of the parts lying around, so it's what I'm going to use until something needs replacement.
-FX35 Bi-Xenon Projectors
-4300K Sylvania Bulbs
-E30 Lenses
-DDM ballasts/igniters
So, tonight, I did my first test fit with these, well, actually, just the passenger side. I wanted to check the rotation adjustment of the projector and ensure it was fairly straight. Turns out, it was pretty much spot on!
Here's the cutoff, notice the crap, stock, sealed beam low-beam on the left.
Mounted on the car.
Close up.
Rear shot.
To finish off the back of the lights, and seal them from the elements, I ended up using fiberglass. The pics you see aren't the absolute finished product, but you can get the idea. This wasn't the original plan, but I am satisfied with ow it came out, and in the end, you will never even see the back of the headlights.
Now, here are the results with the lights completely assembled and back on the car. The stock lenses did make the cutoff slightly more blurry, but it still looks pretty good considering the lenses being used. I should also mention that the spread on these is WIDE, which is great. I have seen many ellips, both Euro and US, with HID kits, and they do not even compare to the output of these. Side by side with my E90, my retro on the E30 is pretty comparable, I might even give the E30 a slight edge. Here's some pics.
These are taken about 10' from the garage, with the car on a slight, upward slope.
Lows
Lows and Fogs
Highs
And, as a bonus, here are the "custom" city lights, in the now worthless high beam housings
Here is how I made the city light "bulb holder"
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