Acura NSX w/ Quad Projectors S2000 & FX (Part 1)

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Here’s the long awaited quad projector setup with custom made front headlight lenses for Mike Cruz. Mike came to me looking for a headlight conversion which is part of what I do as my 3rd business. What I do is I take high end factory hid projectors and “retrofit” them into different headlights for various vehicles for the most custom and best performing headlights out there. The only way to get better HID lighting other then the HID Kits that people just install is the harder route which is getting an hid headlight projector conversion done. A lot of people don’t know about this but you guys can read up on it at www.hidplanet.com/forums :)

Mike dropped his NSX off to me a couple weeks ago to finish up his vehicle before it goes down to LA for 3 months.

During the week the vehicle was here, I had everything done already and just needed to test fit the lights and aim them to make sure everything is good. Then I could finish up the headlight.. seal it then reinstall it and aim it one last time. Put his bumper back together and for him to pick his car back up.


THE CUSTOM HEADLIGHT LENSES CONSTRUCTION IS IN THIS THREAD:
http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64133

Stock headlights
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Machining Time!
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Projectors Mounted & Comparing to Stock
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Even with all the machining of the projector, I still had to get some clearance for the rotational function of my projectors and I manage to create such a small clearance for it…
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Headlight lenses finished… everything is cleaned and ready for final reassembly
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Construction pictures… as well as fitting the Masushita hid ballast to the back of the headlight casings. Not to mention a lot of cutting and modification had to be done to the headlight for this to happen in the first place.
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Stock Rear End…
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Modified Rear End for ballasts
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The area behind the driver side headlight, it’s where I plan to mount my relay and switch to turn off one pair of projectors.
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Polycarbonate piece of plastic formed and drilled to mount the relay onto the vehicle. And you can see the wire loom which is part of my wiring harness that runs across to the passenger side to supply the power to the hid ballasts on that side. It runs along the front cross member bumper support frame.
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Had to cut a clearance slot for the headlight since the machined piece I made to mount the FX stuck under the headlight and hits the headlight mounting bracket piece on the vehicle.
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And here it is with it cut out and the stock headlight plug & harness
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I carefully removed and relocated the stock wiring harness including undoing the factory zip ties as to not remove them. For whatever reason in the future, at least it can be put back to stock.
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And I relocated the plug down to the front of the headlight for the high beam activation for the FX bi xenon projector.
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Here’s the plugs from my wiring harness which will plug into the two hid ballast mounted on the headlights.
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Rubber coating was sprayed on the exposed metal where I cut out to prevent any rust from forming in the future.
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Ready for testing! Test fitting went well and time to go out and see if my rotational adjustment.. up and down adjustment and all that is within specs so I wont run into issue when the final time comes around with everything put together.
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Everything went well and time to finish up the rest of the headlight. The stock projectors on the NSX are very long but ROUND, absolutely round like the front lenses on the pictures you saw above. The FX and the S2000 projectors are oval and is about 1” too wide in stock for.. I did a lot of modification.. cutting and etc on the projector and housing while being careful not to alter the actual usable beam pattern. This resulted in a housing full of holes! Hahah… Had to cover it up of course, can’t leave the headlight open.
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To make it more cosmetically appealing the white material was sprayed with black rubber to compliment the headlight housing. In the picture they may look a bit wet since I took the picture before it dried. The latter pictures will show that it matches the housings nicely.
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Headlights all cleaned,. And ready for the lense to go on, just some detailed pictures for you to enjoy before I do put it on.
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Due to carefully reengineering and designing this headlight conversion, and planning ahead of time, I didn’t have to cut the support brackets on the headlight mounting bracket on the vehicle and the back of the headlight had just enough clearance.
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Stock and… LittoDevil’s creation!
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Time for a ride at night! All pictures have the normal quad projector setup on unless other wise stated. And sorry for some blurry pictures as I was in a hurry to take them to vehicles behind me wont have to get stuck behind me
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High beams! Bi xenon feature from the FX projectors.
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At intersection… in front of a van.. and in front of a gas station store.
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Isn’t that just nice? :)
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No light leakage from the side of my custom headlight lenses
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PLEASE NOTE: The beam pattern you see below is not aimed too high as some might unmistakably assume. The ground in front of the NSX dips down into a little valley so beam pattern may look as though it’s aimed so high that it’s blinding everyone :) Just to make sure you guys know that, that’s all hehe.

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S2000 LOW BEAM ON ONLY!
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S2000 & FX both on for QUAD Projectors
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HIGH BEAMS!!! :) Please note the FX has more of a hump to it for high beam, but it does light up even light everywhere else above the cut off line while some may not notice that.
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Drivers view :)
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Came up on a hill at a stop sign.. thought this was cool to light up with a sharp line on the trees :)
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Ballast mounts nicely behind the headlights and you can see it with the front hood open :)
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Just to refresh…

STOCK & QUAD HID’s :) Which lighting would you like to drive at night? 
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Both pictures were accurately taken above with the same settings and as distances as close as possible to teach other. You can tell that the lightings on the buildings are relatively the same and the difference is the light output :)

Lighting For The Next Generation!

The continuation of this headlight conversion follows the custom headlight lenses that I created here: http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64133

Best Regards,
Larry Wu
LittoDeviL Performance
[email protected]
 
Would you consider creating a kit to sell? Great job btw.
 
Great job - very skilled & incredibly detailed write-up!

No disrespect - the only detractor is the price - comment certainly not a refelction on value of the work involved, which is obviously quite intense! (MikeC, the car owner reported $3K in the original post on the Northwest forum )- but just general net value. It's really a lot of money for lighting!
This is similar price to the complete 2002+ factory HID light assemblies, but of course you still have the added body component changes (hood/bumper) to deal with going that route.
 
Great Job Larry - glad you've dipped into the NSX market, i'll definately be looking to you for help with my retrofit when I start cutting up the stock housings :)

But I have a question.. Why not use two sets of FX bi-xenon projectors, and have all four projectors on for low beam, and all four activated for high beam? To me that would be better utilization of the projectors.

Clearly, the s2000 projectors are one of the best in terms of light output and cutoff quality, but I think that would be overpassed by the "awesome" factor of four projectors acting as both low beams and high beams?
 
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That looks awesome. Any idea of what that would cost to retail?

Also does the lucky owner have any of the dreaded headlight shimmy?
 
I just stumbled onto this thread now after looking at mike's nsx thread....

Seems as if there are others out there doing retrofits as well. I have quite a bit of experience in baking headlights and installing angel eyes, etc since I too have a 3rd side business/hobby doing custom electronic work primarily for the BMW community.

We specialize in doing angel eye installs, clear corner mods and of course the retrofits. Just completed a complete s2000 retrofit in a 2001 Prelude so I can appreciate the hard work it takes to get this completed!

Great job on the NSX - I saw your work first hand and it does look very nice. Looks like I'll have to surf over to HID forum to see what's over there.


kudos,
rick
 
Wow, that is a fine line! Cut off line that is. Looks great.
 
I hope 2 vendors start making these!!! And then a pricing war starts and we get them for less than $300 bucks and I will buy a set!!! :biggrin: j/k

But seriously, I want a set.
 
I'd love to have a set of these to retrofit onto my Alltrac. Maybe figure out a way to shorten those really long housings too?

Anyone have a set of OEM headlights they want to give up?
 
+1 for FX housings! Very compact for the light output you get! Love them...

I can certainly appreciate all the effort and time it took Larry. I just did the FX projector mod on my Tacoma and I can't believe I didn't do this years ago. It's a 1000% improvement than what I had before.

I'm not convinced it's all that necessary for the 91-01 NSX headlights yet but if you have a DD that isn't on projectors then you owe it to your eyes to retrofit those puppies!

Here they are on my pickup
http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/...ta Tacoma Double Cab 4x4 TRD/FX-R Projectors/
 
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