ZorroAMG

Hey everyone,

Ok, so for the longest time I wanted to do a projector retrofit for my car and even though I am buying a C63 in the spring-ish, I couldn't put this off!

I ordered both style of lights from Ebay and want your help deciding which lights to go with. I am leaning towards the chrome/clear as they look the most factory of the two, but the vader option is sorta pimped too.


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I will also be putting the eyelids on the new lights to make the "94-95" style blend properly with my non-facelifted hood...


Lights chopped in




Or take apart the lights and paint them body color



Now once I've chosen and installed the lights, if the output of the light is not a PERFECT cutoff, I will be doing a projector swap. Glare is ghey.


Thoughts? Comments? Questions?

ZorroAMG

I also chopped the new style Brabus Bullitt grille that I will custom make for the car. Both lights for comparison...

LoveLEE143

The second photoshop you car almost looks like the front of a Bently Arnage

ZorroAMG

Lol...

berti_00

black for sure,,,,,,,, it looks sick

CrazyCripple

Now just looking at all the photoshop work you have done, i had an idea. How good would it look/be to fit the lens from those oftermarket lights in to the euro ones and the cristal clear glass too. Just a thought
*IMHO* that would look great too , but i have no idea if they are interchangable. (glass that is) the lens and the body without a doubt will have too be modified.
Just a thought...

crr1612

pre brabus grille, i say clear lights...post grille install, i say black

Saijin_Naib

Body-color on both counts.
Whats happening to the set you dont use?

watut

Im buying the set he doesnt use...lol jk

ZorroAMG

They WILL be for sale so yeah you can have the ones i don't use..

watut

black ones with bentley grill

Hakk403

Black ones IMO, the clears look too japanese econo-car to me, the blacked out one looks HOT.

Bigpete123

I'm 50/50, either one will look okay. If it were purely a looks thing though, I personally would stick with your current headlights. Obviously the projector-style lights will give you better output when you're said and done.

Please Zorro, don't do the grille. IMHO, it really doesn't look good.

Federic0W124

i say the black because it flows with all you've done to the car.
and yeah. sell me those euros if you're done with them.
my 500e needs a new set

rooney2006

black for both, but take them apart and paint them body color. it looks like it blends better. i can't decide if i'm a fan of the bullitt grille though. the actual brabus car though is unbelievable.

BrabusBenz300E

I guess leaving the car as is isn't an option? I guess black housing and stock grille

ZedStyle

of the two, black is better, but i really don't like how the silver lenses contrast so much with the black surround, and think your current setup is sleeker than both options...
for your car i would go with these smoked ones, they would be perfect:



http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/94-95...em110171694374

oh yeah, the brabus grille is hot, but the photoshops look too much like a 300C, with the new headlights!

lastwizard

Black cool stuff I like Brabus grille and black light your fog light is cool

ZorroAMG

Awww efff, Zedstyle, the smoked ones are the newest and 3rd version of the lights and I like them but I wasn't going to buy 3 sets at once to try them out lol.

Besides I can smoke the clear ones myself....hmmmm....

ZedStyle

i know! if i get a set they will be smoked, but i'm waiting to see what kind of cutoff you get with HID's.... don't have loot to be experimenting with lights! smoked are the best of both worlds though, you should hit them up! i don't like the black, the more i look at them, he more the silver bits stick out..

ZorroAMG

Cutoff is WAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY (did I say way?) better than what I have now and its not even that bad now.

They are 95% what proper HID cutoffs look like

Saijin_Naib

You have tried? Take some pics? Whats the beam pattern/brightness like? Are they worth it?

ZorroAMG

I had the dude at the HID store hook up the projectors with the proper H7 HID bulb and it was GREAT...pics will follow, Daniel-San!

Saijin_Naib

So the projector can work with h7 HIDs? That is promising... I want 6000k for main beam, and 3500k Amber HID for the fogs!

braknstuf

I like the black, but they seem to be just a little flat compared to the gloss of the car - might consider painting them as previously mentioned or tinting them - perhaps from the inside like some other member did thier tail. Additonally I like the brabus grille - though it may go better with a chrome grill. Just a thought.