2010 GT Projector Retrofit

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Dec 30, 2010 | 10:08 AM

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ridingt

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Haha, yah, I posted this up over there, and I did a search and found out I wasn't the first one.. ha. I wish I found your thread earlier to pester you with a few questions before diving in myself... LOL.

My gatling shrouds didn't fit without trimming using the FX-R's... =[

btw, how did you get the housings open? Dremel? Bake? another secret? lol

Did you have the gatling gn mini shrouds or the larger shrouds? I used the bake method but of course ford had to put the ****tiest glue in there. It took about 10 heat cycles and prying to get each headlight open about 40 min a headlight. It was a pain in the *** everyother headlight I have done has only take about 10 min max to get apart.

Dec 30, 2010 | 07:03 PM

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chutoyy

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THEY HAVE MINI SHROUDS?!!?

I tried baking at the usual 225 for 15 minutes and it didn't do anything... so I decided to up it to 350 for 30 minutes... still nothing... then I tried ~415 for 20 minutes... Still didn't budge, but my clear bra started to wrinkle... Maybe it's a convection oven thing...

oh well.

Dec 30, 2010 | 09:31 PM

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THEY HAVE MINI SHROUDS?!!?

oh well.

nope was just a **** load of prying the glue never melted it just weekend enough to pry apart a small part at a time.

Dec 31, 2010 | 05:16 AM

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nope was just a **** load of prying the glue never melted it just weekend enough to pry apart a small part at a time.

oh.. lol okay, I guess dremel wasn't a bad way to go...

Feb 2, 2011 | 11:23 AM

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JiveFive0

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great job on this, do you have any problems with water or moisture getting in the light?

Feb 27, 2011 | 03:50 PM

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great job on this, do you have any problems with water or moisture getting in the light?

Whoops. Late response... I did initially because I rushed the sealant... (I used silicone) but rubber butyl will have no problems sealing and gluing your headlight together. =]

Feb 27, 2011 | 03:51 PM

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Erm.. White balance is off, my lights are NOT that blue.

Output shots...

Taken f/3.5 @ 5sec
Low Beam

High Beam

Here's the most recent update on my car...
Finally bought a proper set of HIDs... 55w Morimoto 5k's

TRS Love.

Feb 27, 2011 | 04:44 PM

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Red Jay

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holy **** dude. talk about caught in the headlights...lol

Mar 2, 2011 | 12:48 AM

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Digital_Synapse

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I cant see the new pics.

Mar 2, 2011 | 01:18 PM

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Humm.... Weird; anyone else have the same problem...?

Here's one...
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._7588943_n.jpg

Mar 8, 2011 | 07:51 AM

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CHDS PNY

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wow those are bright and nice!

Mar 8, 2011 | 02:35 PM

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natecydoubleg

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really nice cut off for the beam, i am probably gonna get another set of headlight to try this, and if i get it right i can swap it and do another one for someone else here

Mar 17, 2011 | 11:55 PM

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laserred38

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God I need me some projectors. That output is amazing!

Jul 11, 2011 | 01:53 AM

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rpolk10

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I am also doing a retrofit on my OEM headlights with the FX-R projectors. I ran into a problem, I don't understand how you pulled off the high/low beam reflector bowl. I can't tell from the picture how you did it. Advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.