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I have finally finished the install... I was waiting on some parts for the support, but turns out they were N/A. Anyways its not the best write up, was too excited to get it done and not stop to take pictures but I think it should do.
5x7 Hella projectors from ECS, they are ment to fit a MKI so they will need to go under the knife.
Here is how they look out of the box before cutting
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Some pictures aren't the best...
Stock sealed headlight and setup
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Now for the projectors, the black plastic mounts need to come off. The pivote points can come out with pliers.
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After the mounting frames are off, the light grey tabs that the black plastic frames were held onto need to be cut off. As you can see the chrome frames that hold the headlight in place before will be used the same way for the holding the projectors. That way they can still be taken out, aimed, and that OEM Plus look to them.
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You can see that the metal tabs need more room to be able to sit flush around the projector. Also the plastic tabs are in the way of the headlight buckets, when installed.
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Next is to cut out the holding buckets. As you can see the back of the projector is almost or about the same size (5 inches to be exact). What I did was cut out where the circle is, since its the diameter of the back of the projector.
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After that is done, the same thing will need to be done to radiator support. The seperate headlight buckets sit on top the radiator support buckets and the depth of the projectors will hit the radiator support buckets, so these need to be cut out also.
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Then some nice flat black paint over the bare metal from cutting
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Now everything can be put back together. Don't do what I did and lose one of the clips for mounting and aiming the headlight bucket. I did how ever find it much later on... I had mounted the projectors in the radiator support before I had mounted it to the car. Its much easier and plus too it will allow you to see if there is any clearance issues.
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The Hella projectors take H1 series bulbs. I decided to spend alittle more and buy the H1 HIDs from VVME.com, they were under $80 shipped. The bulbs are 8000K, they have a hint of blue to them, almost like factory xenons but with a little more blue hue. Regular H1 halegon bulbs will work out just find, but why not thow some HIDs in.
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Hooking up the HIDs to the headlight wiring harness is really easy. Know because I swapped motors from a 90' Jetta GLI, the headlight positive wire was solid yellow and the ground was brown. It will be different if you are still using the stock wiring harness. Yellow headlight wire to blue wire from HID and brown headlight wire to black wire from HID. There won't be any high beams, so all I did was cap the end off with heat shrink to protect it just incase I might want to add more lights later on.
The final results...
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5x7 Hella projectors from ECS, they are ment to fit a MKI so they will need to go under the knife.
Here is how they look out of the box before cutting
Some pictures aren't the best...
Stock sealed headlight and setup
Now for the projectors, the black plastic mounts need to come off. The pivote points can come out with pliers.
After the mounting frames are off, the light grey tabs that the black plastic frames were held onto need to be cut off. As you can see the chrome frames that hold the headlight in place before will be used the same way for the holding the projectors. That way they can still be taken out, aimed, and that OEM Plus look to them.
You can see that the metal tabs need more room to be able to sit flush around the projector. Also the plastic tabs are in the way of the headlight buckets, when installed.
Next is to cut out the holding buckets. As you can see the back of the projector is almost or about the same size (5 inches to be exact). What I did was cut out where the circle is, since its the diameter of the back of the projector.
After that is done, the same thing will need to be done to radiator support. The seperate headlight buckets sit on top the radiator support buckets and the depth of the projectors will hit the radiator support buckets, so these need to be cut out also.
Then some nice flat black paint over the bare metal from cutting
Now everything can be put back together. Don't do what I did and lose one of the clips for mounting and aiming the headlight bucket. I did how ever find it much later on... I had mounted the projectors in the radiator support before I had mounted it to the car. Its much easier and plus too it will allow you to see if there is any clearance issues.
The Hella projectors take H1 series bulbs. I decided to spend alittle more and buy the H1 HIDs from VVME.com, they were under $80 shipped. The bulbs are 8000K, they have a hint of blue to them, almost like factory xenons but with a little more blue hue. Regular H1 halegon bulbs will work out just find, but why not thow some HIDs in.
Hooking up the HIDs to the headlight wiring harness is really easy. Know because I swapped motors from a 90' Jetta GLI, the headlight positive wire was solid yellow and the ground was brown. It will be different if you are still using the stock wiring harness. Yellow headlight wire to blue wire from HID and brown headlight wire to black wire from HID. There won't be any high beams, so all I did was cap the end off with heat shrink to protect it just incase I might want to add more lights later on.
The final results...
