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Headlight Conversion Question

Started by CCmatters, April 29, 2013, 05:29:44 PM

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CCmatters

Ok so my current stock headlight is scratched from being dropped by a previous owner.  So one of the first things I would like to do now that I got the bike is do a headlight conversion to update the look by a lot.  Would it be difficult to convert to something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20LW9Qeq3-U

And could I use my stock wiring/headlight LIGHT itself(if that makes sense)?  Plus would a retrofit projector fit into a F headlight housing?  Is there any other brand of bikes who's headlight housing would work better?  I have made my own retrofit headlights myself for a car a long while ago now as shown here:







So I have a basic knowledge of how it all works and I think I am capable of pulling at least the retrofit off if i were to go that route.  A retrofit for a bike seems like it will be at least 1/6 of the cost as it was for my car.  It costed me over $350 USD for me to do the retrofit to my car 100% MYSELF. lol.

jacob92icu

Lots of members do this conversion, but the problem that always comes up is the headlight hits the fender when the forks are compressed. One thing you could look into is dual helo angel eye headlights. Many people like those, but they are a bit on the spendy side. As for an answer to your question, all you have to do is make up a mount to mount the F headlight onto the E without the fairing and the connections are the same. However you will have to find a place to put all of your wires that usually go into the headlight bucket on the E models.
I am into buying bikes that people have given up on and fixing them up!

RIP Patrick Lajko, I miss you man.

CCmatters

What headlight housing do you think would work good with dual projectors?  The only thing I don't like the sounds of that for is that when I did my headlight conversion to my old car I got plug n play harnesses.  That would force me to rewire the wiring going into the 2 lights from the 1 to convert 1 to high and other to low.

jacob92icu

That is what you would have to do if you wanted to use the helo angel eyes, but I forgot to mention the Dominator headlights. Dominator headlights are both lit for high and low beam. They just use two h4 bulbs. As for the wiring, I do not know, I'm assuming you would need to somehow branch off another headlight connector from the original headlight connector to the other dominator bulb so that you have two headlight connectors. One thing to keep in mind that everyone seems to leave out and get frustrated in the end when going for a different style headlight is where all your wires are going to go after you have no space for them.
I am into buying bikes that people have given up on and fixing them up!

RIP Patrick Lajko, I miss you man.

CCmatters

yeah I will def look into this more and do more research.  Converting into a stock F headlight seems simple but I looked on ebay real quick and they are pretty freaking expensive. haha.

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