BorepYano wrote:and nice work sparhawk, just curious, what did you use to stick the lights in? bog or super glue... or something else?
btw how long did it take u to do the whole thing? (i never timed how long it took me)
Actually, I used Clear Silastic. The way I figured, its clear, and you cant really see it from the front, and being a bit rubbery, would absorb any shock, and thus protect the CCFL's a little more.
As for how long it took, I suppose it would depend on a few factors. How well you know how to get your lights out of your car for starters. I know where all the bolts i need to undo are, and if you just slide the front bar forward enough to get your lights out, instead of taking it off completely, you save time later trying to line it up when you put things back together.
Baking and getting the lights apart, probably half to one hour for both lights. Inserting the CCFL's was probably another hour for all four, and then drying time. Silastic dries slowly, so that was a fair while, but I entertained myself with other things while I waited, like running wires and installing the inverters in the car. Wasnt too hard, again easier if you know your way around the wiring diagrams and looms, and depending on how you want to wire them up. I have a switch on my dash so I can disable them quickly and easily, so I needed to run wire around the engine bay and thru the firewall, and up under the dash. Also I have it so just the blue comes on with parkers, and the whites only come on with low or high beam. That took about 2 hours in my case. (Hard to get to, and I'm a perfectionist when it comes to wiring)
Put the lights back together and reinstall in the car was about another hour.
So all up, was about 5 hours I guess. I wasnt rushing, and I installed a fog light relay at the same time I did the other dash wiring, so that would just be a ball park educated guess.
Edit: Also when I installed the CCFL's, and ran the wiring inside the light assembly, I didnt drill a big hole to fit the plugs thru as you suggested in your DIY. Instead, I drilled a small hole thru the lower surface of the light assembly, took the plugs off the CCFL's (that took me half an hour on its own the tricky little bastards) poked the wires thru, and re-attached the plugs. So I have the wires to the inverters coming straight out of the bottom, and I have mounted the inverters on the little matal bracket that sit below the lights in the car. Works out quite well actually.
