George they look great and I'd like to come by some time after the holiday and see them in person.

 

I was thinking the same thing.

 

Me three.

 

This is because the ricer noobs have HID bulbs in their OEM housings. this creates a TON of glare because the reflector housing wer never designed to tolerate that much light output. The projector optics i'm using will give an output similar to high end mercedes, bmw, lexus and the like. The projector focuses the light into a specific pattern designed NOT to put light above a certain height (aka the cutoff line) The corvettes headlights are already sitting at the legal minumum headlight height of 24". By aiming the high part of the cutoff at 24" (zero degrees elevation) your light will not be in the mirrors of eyes of oncoming or same-direction traffic.

ABS is one of thosee joyous plastics that can bee easily "welded: to itself using MEK (commonly available at hardware stores) You will need to melt some ABS shavings in the MEK, then use it as a glue to melt your new pieces to the existing shroud. You will obviosly need to sand down the finished product but when the MEK dries, the ABS beecomes one solid piece. A note about adding in that area though, there is a VERY small clearance from the projector top to the bottom of the lens, you may not have a lot of space to work with. Make sure to test fit your design.

 

I honestly think people are going to mess up their shrouds by trying to tweak them. They look pretty good as they are, if you are concerned with the top of the projector being exposed, the EASY fix for that is paint an eyebrow on the lens.

 

Very good point.

 

I will be painting my lens.

thought on lens painting: lay a LOT of transparent scotch tape (the type in the green) over the lens. with a pencil, draw a line where you want the paint to start. then gently cut away the tape from the section to be painted. This will also let you see if your paint line will affect your output.


First road test tomorrow!!

 

I don't really want to change or "tweak" the existing shroud. Just something about it that I don't like. Just like to have something closer to a C6 style shroud.

 

Yea, if I paint the lens I will test it by taping off where it is im going to paint to see if it would affect it any. Can't wait to see the road test

PS..I may even go to my friends place who does vinyl graphics and see if he has something that I could use as a eybrow instead of paint. I know some of that vinyl is pretty shiny and it would be removeable


Im not trying to knock anyone for doing it if you pay for them you can do as you please. I know that George had said there wasn't much room to make the shrouds similar to the C6. If you can make it happen, then by all means do

 

can't wait to see the finish product ...

 

Is all the noise about shroud not covering the tops of the projectors because of sun possibly damaging them or just for asthetics?

 

BRILLIANT!!

 

I decided to do some more data gathering. First up: projector pattern width with and without the shroud. First, I measured width by placing the projector 1 foot away from a flat wall measuring half the useable width in the pattern then with some simple trig calculated the beam width.



The projector itself has a useable width of about 120 degrees... something I consider more than adequate for a sports car. Installing the shroud decreases the width to about 110 degrees, thought a lot of this is due to the lens distortion on the outer edge.


Another subject: the high beam bulb upgrades. This is a test of the 55w halogen base and the HIR bulb. HIR bulb is on the left, base is on the right. This shot is of them on the floor because I didn’t have a good wall to shoot them as comparison shot at the same time. Exposure was set to -1 to show the pattern rather than brightness.



LED strip option. It has been advised that these strips are heat sensitive so I will NOT be mounting these in front of the projectors. My suggestion for these is to mount them across the top either just behind the projector cutouts or all the way to the rear. These test strips have a white circuit board but the ones with the kit will have a black circuit board to blend with the ABS. For best results I would paint an eyebrow on the lens to hide the strip from view except from the front.

Test shots with various settings






And onto the grand finale: the first ever SLC prototype mounted.

Notes: The original design called for tight tolerances, however I’ve learned that it may be better to increase these tolerances to allow for end-user adjustment. This will be reflected in the production version. The prototype is a little “rough on the edges” however it’s purpose is to test performance, durability ease of installation and various adjustments.

The SLC frames and projector mounted;


The following outdoor pics were taken at -2 exposure to better show the outline of the lights and the pattern. For some reason this drastically affected how the camera picked up color. The HID kit used is a 6000K 55w HID and the highs beams are the base model halogen.

Low beams only:






Pattern at ~15’


High beams:



High beam pattern at ~15’


Lows and Highs:


high/low pattern at ~15’ exposure and ISO setting reduced to show pattern comparison. This is VERY bright.


First road test notes:
The beam pattern is significantly wider than my E55 projectors. It is by far the most stable setup I’ve yet installed. The pattern has a rather large step and a sharper cutoff than the LC 2.0s.

 

Sweet, looks good!! Now the real question...when do they start shipping

 

And the other real question... what's with the dog?

 

The dog is actually an animatronic, laser canon equiped sentinel. Crime is pretty bad in Houston area.

 

I am going to run the prototypes for a day or two while i wait for the final version of the shrouds to be finished. If there is any tweaking or adjustments that ned to be done, i want to know about it before i send them out.

you know me too well.

 

i know some others dont, but i dig those LED strips.

 

George, is there a HID high beam option? Also can these be made to run all 4 lights at once when the high beams are selected?

Or can you just install aircraft landing lighs in them??

Yes, I want to disturb the dead.

 

HID high beams are not an option due to clearance issues. I'm checking to see if there's a way around this, but so far no luck. The Hi-4 relay circuit will be included with the base kit.