96 Civic H.I.D. retrofit! PICS!

You'll also want to invest in a wiring harness so you don't draw power through your stock wiring harness and risk damage to it and possibly other components of the car. Harnesses are about $50.
 
ej96hatch said:
really, what's your name on hidplanet? I found most of the info on hidplanet before I did my retro.
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"v_eight".



No one on there seems to know what the deal is with my Element's headlights and swapping S2K's into it, but i'm sure it's easily possible.
 
What model Element do you have? Do you have the regular version or the SC? The SC comes with halogen projectors I think. The SC should not be too hard to retro IMO.
 
HID is the way to go that's for sure.



One thing I've done is change bulbs and side markers from Xenonmods.com and from Hoen-usa.com. This way, you can taylor the look you're after!



Deanski
 
JohnDeere said:
that paint looks great, what did you use, i want a nice big ole fat list dear
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The paint I used on the outer plastic chrome trim is Krylon fusion in satin black, and the paint I used for the middle where the projector is Dupli Color "Engine Enamel" flat black I believe. The chrome part around the porjector is a 2.5" chrome pipe flange from ACE hardware and the chrome flange is jb welded to an aluminum/light metal stove drip bowl that goes under the coils of an electric stove to keep stuff from falling down. That's why I used the high heat since it will get kinda hot.
 
I am using Phillips 85122+ bulbs with OEM BMW ballast. I believe the ballast are Hellas. I'm already thinking about buying another set of projectors from my friend soon. Haha Maybe some FX35-45's or AFS RX330's with E30 clear lenses. I'm leaning more towards the Rx330's at this point because of sharpness/color/light output.
 
ej96hatch said:
What model Element do you have? Do you have the regular version or the SC? The SC comes with halogen projectors I think. The SC should not be too hard to retro IMO.
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This is it (with my girlfriend):

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And yes, it comes with halogen projectors, but I want clear-lens HID projectors. :D
 
OTG Vinyl said:
This is it (with my girlfriend):

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And yes, it comes with halogen projectors, but I want clear-lens HID projectors. :D
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Are the lenses in the halogen projectors not clear? You could always just buy an H.I.D. kit that fits the bulb type and it should yield good results. There was a guy on honda-tech selling an element sc with an hid kit. Here is the link: Honda-Tech.com: Vehicles for sale: 2007 Honda Element SC TEIN HID . Let me know what you think.



Scott
 
Awesome job. I have TL Bi-Xenon in my 97 civic.



Have any pictures of the cutoff against a wall? Did you do the color mod so you get more color at the cutoff?
 
ej96hatch said:
Are the lenses in the halogen projectors not clear? You could always just buy an H.I.D. kit that fits the bulb type and it should yield good results. There was a guy on honda-tech selling an element sc with an hid kit. Here is the link: Honda-Tech.com: Vehicles for sale: 2007 Honda Element SC TEIN HID . Let me know what you think.



Scott
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A lot of people have just put standard halogen-based HIDs in and say it's "good enough", but I want to take the extra initiative and have a D2S based bulb, so I must swap bulb holders anyways. I might as well just pull the entire projector and put in an S2000 setup. And no, the stock lenses are purplish.



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