ripperbone

heres the write up for hid install
Club RSX.com: Aftermarket HID Kit

and this is where i found the wire to cut for the headlights flashing
2006 XD 6000K HID Kit Install Guide - Club RSX Message Board

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Taco15

buddy just took my car to his shop to meet up with the mobile detail guy.

buddies gonna work on his bro's prelude AND install my double din and run the rca wires to the back of the car.

cant wait to get it back this afternoon.

i'll post up some pics tonight.

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Mrs. Taco

got it back this afternoon. car looks amazing. the piioneer dvd player work great too. its fast and very user friendly. I'll take some shot tomorrow when the sun comes out.

its dark here by around 6pm because of the time change. ohh the k20 looks sexy again.

Calesta

Do it the right way and drop in HID projectors. Kits always throw a ton of glare- I hate driving at night with the kit wannabies on the road.

At the very least, get a kit that attempts to be beam corrected.

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Taco15

didnt know there was a different style. what do mean projectors? the ones the wife has are the ballast ans replace the factory bulbs.

i'll look into them and see how much they cost.

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Taco15

didnt have tiome to shoot anymore. The outside looks great but was full of condensation this morning The Pioneer sounds great. cant wait to get the rest of the audio stuff in there.

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E_SolSi

well that cleaned up well

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ripperbone

nice

makes me want a double din even more

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Taco15

They are so cheap! Right now they have reduced the 6 disc dvd player they have. Can remember the model but it looks wayy better than this one. Unfortunatly the preouts and voltage is pretty lame.

you can find them online for about 350 used up to $450 new. Newer model single din cd players cost that much.

I love it.

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Drake

Looks awesome Taco. That in dash looks damn good in there.

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AHHVTEC

i have just normal hid in mine and they work great but if i have to do it over i will retro fit, clubrsx is only good for parts other than that dont waste your time there. and wait until you get insurance on it your gona love that lol

Taco15

ok just to be clear I'm still stuck on Calesta's projector Hid's.

i'm not replacing bulbs, nor putting blue covers over my bulbs.

I'm installing a kit that comes with ballasts and hi intensity bulbs. It cost me 150 installed. anymore money than that is not worth it to me.

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Taco15

is this what your talking about CAL?

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AHHVTEC

i think he is talking about a retro fit kit, it uses a real hid projector from a oem hid kit like s2000 ect ect. you take apart your stock housing and put those in it

Calesta

Yes, I'm talking about a proper retrofit. You take the projector from a car that designed to have HIDs and then mount them into your stock headlight housings. It's a lot more trouble if you're not comfortable working with plastic, but you get MUCH better light quality for driving at night, don't have to mess with someone's chintzy re-based HID capsule (that's what ALL the direct swap kits are) that may or may not line up correctly, and you won't throw glare all over the place and blind people. Trust me- I've seen too many HID kits installed into cars that really don't need to have them. They blind everyone on the road, don't have good beam patterns, and just generally piss me off.

If you replace the headlights with projector housings like you have in your post, then you'll do slightly better- but those housings are still designed for incandescent bulbs, not HIDs. No matter what a retailer tells you, there's no way for an HID capsule to produce the proper beam pattern when just mounted in place of the stock bulb in a headlight made for incandescent bulbs.

I was going to retrofit HIDs into my truck and into Katie's xB, but the stock headlights on both have so far been really good without need for extra output. If and when I do though, I'll drop in a true bi-xenon (high and low beams) HID projector from an Audi or BMW. You can find them on eBay all the time for the price of a mid-range plug-in HID kit.

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Taco15

ahhhh ok. i'll look and see if i can find some projectors.

the shop just threw away some aftermarket smoked headlights with projectors in them.

My buddy has some projectors in his civic with the same 6k as the wife but its not the same. Mrs Taco's are still by far bright during night driving.

You got any idea what the best projector i should look for? I'm sure some of them are bigger or smaller and some will make the install dificult.

Anything in particular i should look for from the back of my Acura?

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AHHVTEC

i like the acura tsx setup myself

Calesta

Pretty much any OEM HID projector will work, but the Audi and BMW units tend to be pretty popular online. Most of the older Acuras use D2R capsules, meaning that they're not really in projectors- they were built to be inside of reflector housings like how normal incandescent lights operate. D2S capsules are what you'll find in projectors like the BMWs.

An easier and cheaper way to do it would be to get an aftermarket projector headlight housing, remove the low beam projector and then mount a true HID projector in its place. That way the installation is easier, and you're not looking as hard for a way to mount a projector inside a large headlight housing so that it's not just floating somewhere in the middle. OEM projector measurements are readily available online- so you can match up the projector diameter to the housing hole.

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Taco15

damnit i knew those headlight we threw away would be good for something! crap.

thanks Cal. I'll look around and see if i can do that pretty easily.

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Calesta

I'm sure you can find a set with damaged projectors on eBay for next to nothing.

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ripperbone

heres a write up someone did for projectors
HOWTO: HID Projector Retrofit

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Taco15

damn. I'm gonna try this first. I like the way they look and seems very straight forward and cheap. thanks man.

i used to think that buying it 'smoked' would be the only way.

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ripperbone

i did forget to tell u that if you use the hids in your stock lights without projectors you need to get some x-clips
Modified X Clips - FREE with XenonDepot HID Kits! - Club RSX Message Board

I do recommend the projectors but I didnt do the projector install and my hids dont have the glare i have seen in other cars.

there is a company that sells the headlights with the projector retrofit. or does the retro fit
custom HID conversions, HID kits, LED, CCFL specialists - retrosolutions

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Taco15

i read on the same club rsx that you can do it with a dremel to make them a little wider. I;m gonna do the black housing before the HId's dont have the money yet.

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