Donovan, looks awesome! I was curious as to how you were making out. I was going to try the bleach trick on my headlight buckets to remove the chrome, my grill will be fabricated pieces.
The HIDs look great, I was always weary of those since I never seem to see a set that has the light directed correctly, they always seem scattered. I plan on using the HELLA E code conversion lenses for the wagon (H6054), with some nice bulbs. But, I may try the HID if they are available.
Looking forward to more progress and updates!
Donovan,
I love the way the lights turned out..very trick. Man, those suckers are bright too, I must say. I'm running Hella H4's and they don't hold a candle to them...pardon the pun. 🙂
After having the grilles de-chromed, how will they be finished?...just curious.
I may still try the bleach method for the headlight buckets since you say it was working. I'll just get the smallest bin I can find to put them in. I'll be painting all the trim, black epoxy, black base, the clear with a flattener in it to make it semi/satin.Thanks for the kind words Jim.
The bleach process actually did work fairly well, it was just time consuming and required changing out the bleach about every 2 days as it lost its effectiveness. At approx 8L of bleach at a time, you can see how it wouldn't take long for it not to be cost effective.
I'm not sure if the Hella conversion lenses you speak of are similar to the H4 conversion ones or not, but I used the H4 conversions for a couple years on the car and was very disappointed with them.
You mention "light scatter", I found that exact problem with them, even with good xenon halogen bulbs in them. Your wagon takes the larger 5x7 housings tho, so maybe you'll have different results with them than I did.
Hopefully most of my hiccups are behind me, and I can make some good progress in the next coupl'a days.
Thanks for checking back!
I may still try the bleach method for the headlight buckets since you say it was working. I'll just get the smallest bin I can find to put them in. I'll be painting all the trim, black epoxy, black base, the clear with a flattener in it to make it semi/satin.
I have seen some of those conversion headlights on fleabay, haven't heard great things about them and I hate when the light get all scattered. I have Sylvania silverstars right now for those 5x7 housings, and they work well. A few of my Jeep buddies run the Hella 5x7 conversion so you can use a brighter new style H4 bulb, and claim they work well, I may just try them out at a later date.
I look forward to you updates as always, keep it up!
Yep, that's exactly what I did. Good plan.Believe you me, they'll be left outdoors behind the garage to do their thing.
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