Here's my current project, putting
these in
these. I haven't seen another Intrigue with a projector retrofit done to it.
The HID project started off with putting an 880 HID kit in my stock intrigue fogs. The output was terrible and really did nothing to help with the view on the road (they did blind people though), lesson learned!
I found out about these cool things called "projector" fogs made by Blazer (the OEM manufacturer of many GM fog lights...the stock fogs on the Intrigue were made by Blazer). The Blazer projector fogs were OEM on some corvettes (different mounting brackets of course) and happened to use the same 880 series bulb.
Here is the output of those projector fogs:
My fog lights suddenly out shined my headlights. I needed to change that. I learned my lesson with the fog lights, HID bulbs just don't work in a Halogen reflector. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately?) they do not make projector headlights for the Intrigue.
Every aftermarket projector headlight that I have installed at school has been crap. Halogen output was dangerously dim and HID output was not all that bright. They mostly use the same projectors, you get what you pay for.
So I came upon a site called HIDPlanet.com People were installing projectors inside of their headlights (retrofit), and the output was amazing to say the least (as it should be).
So, without further ado, more pictures....
Lens removed with heat gun, 9006 bulb removed, and bulb shield removed. Hole drilled for projector high beam solenoid.
Projector mounted to headlight reflector.
Wiring for HID ballast.
Gatling shroud trimmed.
Shroud installed.
Head on pics (these were taken before I installed the shrouds):
Both halogen and projector high beam wired to stay on at same time, fogs rewired to stay on with high beam as well.
Output pics:
Projector low beam
Projector low beam + Blazer fog
Projector high beam + Blazer fog + 9005 Halogen high beam
Working on putting amber lumiLEDs in place of side marker before I put lens back on. Can't wait.
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