Porsche Headlight Retrofit [from CAD, prototyping to finish)

[redbox986]

The bowl is held in by three "ball in socket", according to something I read. It said if you pop them out, then you can pop them back in. But since the car is 13 years old, and every tab I touch seems to be brittle and break, I didn't take mine out. I actually cut the bowl with it in the housing. It made a mess, and clean up was a real pain.

I see Null posted some great pics of the bowl with measurements. I'm at work, but will try to get measurements of my setup tonight and post.

[B6T]

The Morimoto Mini H1 projectors fit without extensive modification to the reflector bowl, correct?

[redbox986]

That is my understanding (they fit with minimal/no modification to reflector bowl). I wish I had gone that route. I think mine will be OK when complete, but it is a bigger project than I had envisioned.

[Firstorbit84]

Awesome. Thanks for the measurements Null.

[amagalla]

One of the Angle Eye LEDs has gone out on mine. What can I do?

Tony

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by amagalla

One of the Angle Eye LEDs has gone out on mine. What can I do?

Tony

Option 1. Cancel the other side, get fresh xenon bulbs, love & polish the lens, and end it there with angel eyes - they are illegal anyway lolll

Option 2. Get a new set of bezels (so they match!) when this guy who wrote they would be available in spring have them again. Forgot his name suddenly

(#2, you keep the existing hardware, just swap the bezels over (need to reopen the headlight) get on with a brand new shinny set

If you go the #1 route, ensure that the little led ballast is not fried before. I could simply express you one of those and voila.

LED sux (sorry). They forever will, hate the thing and not exactly sure why. Personally never had too much luck with any led - those I've owned anyway. And yes, even my Made in Germany led flashlight toasted during a trek-out Friday late evening far-far-up in the HuangShan Mountain. How more kewl can you be when this poo happens while trekking with friends lolll

From the list of lighting systems available today, personally I prefer fire - it just works everytime

PS, Tony, you want a new set of xenon bulbs while in there, been a while (just did mine a few weeks ago). Instant noticeable improvement

[Nine8Six]

and I know I know, don't ask.

I have all the parts of those projector machined. Got tons finally loll Or surely enough to accommodate about 200kits. Saying 'about'; meaning less those that I'll certainly screw up either under the laser of during anodizing. I should have about 175~180 kits out very very soon

Yes, some with-or-without LED angel eyes options - your choice really!

[Nine8Six]

Hello friends ((using-my-embarrassed-tone)),

I’ve received quite a few pm related to the back-order issue and just wanted to reassure that I am trying everything I can to get things moving. It will happen before the end of this month. We plan and aim for this (around the clock almost here believe me).

I'll be honest, atm I am working aggressively along with mate Andy here on the technologies that we’ll need to get things rolling smoothly. We are currently busy designing secure web services to support the distribution and retail aspects of our little start-up here e.g. dedicated cloud-based server and back-end, PCI compliance for payments, ecommerce platform with group/roles to support both distributor and customer level, stuff like that.

We are particularly struggling in getting some fancy visuals decided for e.g pics of the shop, the new cnc machines, ‘the workbench’ basically. Renderings, videos of the actual products, installation manuals, Our Blog!... arrgg there are tons of things that remains on the To Do list it’s almost annoying. All good fun!

^ We want (neeeed) to get all of that out of the way before moving to assembly and packaging, or manufacturing, and oh... resuming wip from a few projects that we had running last autumn. The day Andy and I will be in full-customer-support-mode, at that point we just won’t have time to give ‘technology’ additional developments - well at least this is not the objective for the rest of this year anyway!

RE technologies; did I mentioned the forced HTTP2 and TLS1.2 / HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) full implementation??? That’s right, our server-side and eCommerce technologies will run on the most secured back-end you can possibly have today - same as your bank basically (backed info, you can run it to SSLLabs or similar tools if you don't believe me). Not to mention local hdd military grade encryption for ours & partner’s solid model part files, nda agreement templates… etc etc... man, not all that easy to start-up :/

All Top Notch as everyone would expect and certainly would hope it to be (I would anyway). Here’s a quick peak preview of the site’s inner peace (static visual).

(ps. any sort of help from the community is always welcome lolll)

[Radar]

I can't wait for these to become available!

[986ohana]

I would love a set of your headlights! Looked for your website but nothing came up

[glenf]

Hello out there, any update

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

Hello friends ((using-my-embarrassed-tone)),

I’ve received quite a few pm related to the back-order issue and just wanted to reassure that I am trying everything I can to get things moving. It will happen before the end of this month. We plan and aim for this (around the clock almost here believe me).

I'll be honest, atm I am working aggressively along with mate Andy here on the technologies that we’ll need to get things rolling smoothly. We are currently busy designing secure web services to support the distribution and retail aspects of our little start-up here e.g. dedicated cloud-based server and back-end, PCI compliance for payments, ecommerce platform with group/roles to support both distributor and customer level, stuff like that.

We are particularly struggling in getting some fancy visuals decided for e.g pics of the shop, the new cnc machines, ‘the workbench’ basically. Renderings, videos of the actual products, installation manuals, Our Blog!... arrgg there are tons of things that remains on the To Do list it’s almost annoying. All good fun!

^ We want (neeeed) to get all of that out of the way before moving to assembly and packaging, or manufacturing, and oh... resuming wip from a few projects that we had running last autumn. The day Andy and I will be in full-customer-support-mode, at that point we just won’t have time to give ‘technology’ additional developments - well at least this is not the objective for the rest of this year anyway!

RE technologies; did I mentioned the forced HTTP2 and TLS1.2 / HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) full implementation??? That’s right, our server-side and eCommerce technologies will run on the most secured back-end you can possibly have today - same as your bank basically (backed info, you can run it to SSLLabs or similar tools if you don't believe me). Not to mention local hdd military grade encryption for ours & partner’s solid model part files, nda agreement templates… etc etc... man, not all that easy to start-up :/

All Top Notch as everyone would expect and certainly would hope it to be (I would anyway). Here’s a quick peak preview of the site’s inner peace (static visual).

(ps. any sort of help from the community is always welcome lolll)

[2000986s]

I just stumbled upon this forum in the process of looking for headlights for my silver 2000 s. It looks like a couple different people are selling some things here. There are 64 pages and instead of hunting through them, I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to fill me in on who is selling what and what the headlights look like? Or tell me to stop being a lazy ass and just read the whole thread

[jpc763]

nine8six is the developer of the kit and Pelican Parts now sells the kit (although I believe they are out of stock). It is up to you to install the kit in your existing lights. Here is the install instructions - http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/images/GTProjectors/Porsche_986_996_Headlight_Retrofit_Instructions.pd f

As far as what they look like, here are a few posts in this thread with pictures.

Porsche Headlight Retrofit [from CAD, prototyping to finish)

Porsche Headlight Retrofit [from CAD, prototyping to finish)

This is my set!

Porsche Headlight Retrofit [from CAD, prototyping to finish)

[2000986s]

Wow this looks amazing!!!! I am stuck on whether to do this option or use Jeff's black headlights from xtreme. Of course both seem to be out of stock at the moment... I searched pelican parts but I couldnt even find a listing for the out of stock kit. do you have a link by chance?

Thanks for saving me the time of looking through the whole thread!

[jpc763]

Originally Posted by 2000986s

Wow this looks amazing!!!! I am stuck on whether to do this option or use Jeff's black headlights from xtreme. Of course both seem to be out of stock at the moment... I searched pelican parts but I couldnt even find a listing for the out of stock kit. do you have a link by chance?

Thanks for saving me the time of looking through the whole thread!

Here is the post from Luca at Pelican with a link to the projectors.

Porsche Headlight Retrofit [from CAD, prototyping to finish)

[particlewave]

Originally Posted by 2000986s

Wow this looks amazing!!!! I am stuck on whether to do this option or use Jeff's black headlights from xtreme. Of course both seem to be out of stock at the moment... I searched pelican parts but I couldnt even find a listing for the out of stock kit. do you have a link by chance?

Thanks for saving me the time of looking through the whole thread!

If you're considering the craptastic "LED" headlights offered by extreme, I have a toilet that you can flush $1000 down and save yourself some time and aggravation.

[2000986s]

Originally Posted by particlewave

If you're considering the craptastic "LED" headlights offered by extreme, I have a toilet that you can flush $1000 down and save yourself some time and aggravation.

Damn!!! Really?!?! I have read enough of these forums to take whatever you and nine8six say to heart... but god damn I was so excited for those lights because they look amazing!!! So would you say my best bet is to do that one off pelican parts when they are back in stock? any other recomendations? I just want something that doesnt have amber in it, looks updated, and not cheap.

[particlewave]

Fred (nine8six) hasn't said much lately, but hopefully he will have some kits before long. That's definitely the best route to go.

The headlights sold by extreme have fit issues, LEDs that burn out after little use, cheap plastic everywhere and no UV coating on the main lens (a little sun exposure and the plastic main lens will look terrible). The built in projectors are also made of cheap plastic (even the reflectors themselves) and I would consider them a fire hazard. I "repaired" a set for another member and was appalled by the quality (lack thereof) at every step of the disassembly.

[2000986s]

Wow.... well I really appreciate the heads up because I was completely ready to cough up a grand as soon as they came back in stock. Not gonna happen now!!! So you're recommending that I hold off on doing anything until Fred has some kits available? Are they an easy plug and play or is there a ton of extra work to be done?

[particlewave]

Just to clear up any confusion, Fred makes HID projector kits that must be installed into pre-existing headlights (no ready made options).

That said, the completed headlights have no equal in looks or performance. The install isn't exactly easy, but plenty have done their own.

Mine are pictured below. I installed Fred's Vivo series projectors, along with some smaller projectors (for the dual projector look) and some custom made daytime running lights.