Porsche Headlight Retrofit [from CAD, prototyping to finish)

[Barteur]

Really like mine also. Fountain de jouvence for our cars!

[rfuerst911sc]

Another mini update on the replacement seals . Just received an email from the supplier the tooling will be 5k but he feels like the numbers of 986/996 out there that may need these seals is great enough to move forward with the project. He has ordered the material to make the dies he estimates we are 8 weeks away from having a first piece article !!! He is going to make one side first I can't remember if I sent him a driver or passenger side ? If the fit is good he'll then do the opposite side. I may have to send him my old seals to get the other side but that's not a problem. Who knows with a little luck maybe these will be available by year end or a little sooner !

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by Barteur

Really like mine also. Fountain de jouvence for our cars!

"Fountain de jouvence". Is below what you had in mind? lol



hope you are done with the other mods (IMS) you've been doing to your box. Summer rocks at that time of the year back home (I'd pay a lot for open roof rides in the mountain roads right now)

[Pdwight]

I love those headlights...the best !!!!

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by Pdwight

I love those headlights...the best !!!!

yea... they are alright. That mini h1 optic throws out a pretty sharp beam and that 35watts xenon is just perfect for this Porsche style headlight/lens angle design. Works, and it won't cook up your lens!

Surely they could be better. Recently tried a (true) 55watts hid kit on those. Brutal daylight blinding stuff but the heat is phenomenally high. Not only you can't touch the projector itself, it is difficult to hold your hand 1 inch away without getting burn after 2-3 secs. That poor porsche hood-style lens wouldn't last a month without a little brown burn

Unless there is a way to shield that 55w heat in a way, using mini exhaust PC fans? lol, 35 watts hid in these is pretty much what it is.... for us anyway

They are 'okay', and they look guud (i also think!)

[Pdwight]

I spent most of my life in the Professional Photo Finishing industry, we had a mirror on our lamp houses called a "Cold Mirror" , it was a piece of glass with a Dichroic coating, it looked slightly silver to the naked eye but was 90% transparent to infrared light, this passed the heat from the 4 500 watt bulbs out of the back of the lamphouse and not into the optics that projected the image onto the photographic paper. Most halogen bulbs that have a built in reflector have this coating, if you look at one with a night vision viewer the silver reflector will appear to be transparent. Im not sure if any of this technology could be used for HID lamp houses....but I was thinking about it while I read your post about the 55W envelopes and ballasts.