Sup guys. Im ImagioX1 from Hidplanet.com and want to show you a mod I did to the TL projectors. Reposted from HIDplanet.
We here at HIDplanet are all about getting maximum performance out of our headlights. The TL projectors are know to have one of the greatest high beams of all bixenon projectors. Today I made a quick tutorial on how to modify your already awesome TL projectors to have a much wider high beam than stock! Yeah MUCH wider. Nearly reaching the edges of the lowbeam. Its very easy and doesnt take much time at all. The edges of the modified highbeam are not as bright as the exposed portion but is still very good at lighting up the sides of the road close to you very well. Its good that the sides of the high beam are not as bright as the center too because that keeps the close range light from blinding you and sacrificing you long range distance vision.
First thing you want to do is disassemble your TL projectors and put the parts in a safe place. Keep the foreground limiter plate out as thats what we'll be working with first.
At the bottom of the limiter plate we will find two little "wings" on either side of the plate( marked with a yellow star in the image below). These are the high beam width limiters. We want to remove these little wings by cutting them off on the lines marked with red in the image below.
Once cut your limiter should look like this.
Installing the limiter back on the projector we see that there are now two large gaps for light to escape beneath the shield.
Light escaping
So what we want to do is block that light. I found it easiest to drill a hole in the OEM shield so that we can mount a custom shield unto the bottom of it to block that light.
Cut a piece of aluminum flashing the same length as the OEM shield and bend it to fit the curve of the oem shield. Drill a whole in the center and mount it to the OEM shield as shown below.
The finished product. As we can see the gaps are now closed. We want to test the solenoid movement and make sure that our custom shield does not impede movement in any kind of way and that the solenoid is able to pull the shield fully into the lower position.
IF everything is moving smoothly with no binding then you are ready to tune the projectors for maximum color and enjoy!
Highbeam
More pics of output coming soon!
We here at HIDplanet are all about getting maximum performance out of our headlights. The TL projectors are know to have one of the greatest high beams of all bixenon projectors. Today I made a quick tutorial on how to modify your already awesome TL projectors to have a much wider high beam than stock! Yeah MUCH wider. Nearly reaching the edges of the lowbeam. Its very easy and doesnt take much time at all. The edges of the modified highbeam are not as bright as the exposed portion but is still very good at lighting up the sides of the road close to you very well. Its good that the sides of the high beam are not as bright as the center too because that keeps the close range light from blinding you and sacrificing you long range distance vision.
First thing you want to do is disassemble your TL projectors and put the parts in a safe place. Keep the foreground limiter plate out as thats what we'll be working with first.
At the bottom of the limiter plate we will find two little "wings" on either side of the plate( marked with a yellow star in the image below). These are the high beam width limiters. We want to remove these little wings by cutting them off on the lines marked with red in the image below.
Once cut your limiter should look like this.
Installing the limiter back on the projector we see that there are now two large gaps for light to escape beneath the shield.
Light escaping
So what we want to do is block that light. I found it easiest to drill a hole in the OEM shield so that we can mount a custom shield unto the bottom of it to block that light.
Cut a piece of aluminum flashing the same length as the OEM shield and bend it to fit the curve of the oem shield. Drill a whole in the center and mount it to the OEM shield as shown below.
The finished product. As we can see the gaps are now closed. We want to test the solenoid movement and make sure that our custom shield does not impede movement in any kind of way and that the solenoid is able to pull the shield fully into the lower position.
IF everything is moving smoothly with no binding then you are ready to tune the projectors for maximum color and enjoy!
Highbeam
More pics of output coming soon!