by @ccord10 »
December 10th, 2014
If your doing a low beam only retro then your ready for paint,halos etc. and final assembly. It only took a couple of hours to do this and i have no previous experience, so anyone could do a H1 low beam retro start to finish in a day. i plan on doing a quad with dual halos, demon eyes and painting the housing so i still have a long way to go.
Now on to the high beam reflectors. originally i tried to trim the inside of the shaft like the lows and the projector fit fine but when i checked the clearance with the lens it didnt fit. After comparing other quad retros i realized i had to do alot of trimming to get it to fit well. i ended up having to cut a hole big enough to fit the back of the projector housing through the reflector.
- reflector cutout
i was careful not to trim to much away so that i have enough material to mount the projector, you can see it fits perfectly in the hole with hardly any gap. the notch at the bottom is for the wires to pass through. Also morimotos have a step in the side hence the shape but i also had some generic H1's handy, which are oval, and they fit as well. I want to make a template to make it easier to trim the other side, if i do ill make some scans and post them.
It took alot of time but i was able to get the projector centered and it sits flush on the reflector lens however i still have to do some minor adjustments to line it up with the other projector before final assembly. I may use the spring and bolt method of mounting so that its easier to make adjustments after its mounted.
- bottom
- top
now i have to trim the shrouds to fit which is not gonna be easy because the area around the reflector is at an angle and the shroud i chose doesn't fit inside the reflector opening. i could use a mini gatling gun shroud here to save alot of time but i want dual halos and you cant fit a halo inside the mini gat because of the mounting posts.
- shot of the angle