Sc300 HID'ers!!
 

...i just purchased a set of Mcullough HID's kit...I took apart my headlights, but i found no room to fit in my Ballasts...Can anyone help out, maybe pics would help of where to mount the Ballasts...It's a real tight fit in their!

I'm not sure what you're asking you took apart your headlights to put the ballasts in there? :uh:

why would you put your ballast in your headlight? There's no room!!

Install it in your car, plug the bulb in, connect the ballast, and just move it to a flat surface and velcro it to that area. Done!

Since you got the headlamp open.. might as well retro some projectors.

Sorry...let me rephrase that, I removed my headlights.

I DO NOT want to put the ballast In the headlights. I'm just trying to find a place behind the headlights to mount the ballast.

Where did everyone else mount them?

on any flat surface in the engine bay with some 3M double stick adhesive.

i don't have an SC but I have hid headlights and fogs - i used zip ties to secure the ballasts to something else that was stable. no tape to clean up if i ever remove them.

OK, I understand exactly your problem. I have a SC and I had to mount my ballasts behind the bumper. There is a thick piece of plastic that you can mount them to.

if you got the xenondepot kit, they included brackets for you to mount it to a flat surface. me i mounted it on the flat portion near the headlight (battery relocated to trunk and open air filter so i can put them there). if i didn't have the batter relocated or open air filter, i would have probably put them on the side of them on the inner fender. here's a pic of the bracket xenondepot includes with their ballasts, also note that the slim ballasts help a lot too.

http://www.xenondepot.com/images/pro...D145_xlrg1.gif

the brackets here are near the relay shown in the pic.
http://www.xenondepot.com/images/pro...k-9006_lrg.gif

if you have the big ballast, i suggest maybe just doubleside tape to the passenger side of the airbox and driver side of the battery, be a tight fit but i think those are best spots.

unfortunately i didnt purchase the Xenon kit. I ended up buying the McCullough kit. Did the install. Thanks for the info everyone!

BEFORE:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...b/PB020037.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...b/PB020038.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...b/PB020033.jpg

AFTER:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...b/PB030052.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...b/PB030047.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...b/PB030044.jpg

I love it!

that beam pattern is all over the place!!!


at least you like it, I guess.

kind of a noob question here, but the SC's come stock with projector's right so there is no need to retrofit one's if you dont need to because a friend of mine with an LS insists that I would have to in order to go to HID headlights

i don't think there is a point to retro - just pop an HID kit in there and the lens will take care of the beam pattern.

hey guys, i suggest you do a search on retrofits on this forum
for people who have retrofits. im one of them

basically cheap way to get HID, just throw them on,
the correct way: do a retrofit.
why? because you could blind people with oem halogen and hid bulbs, they do not channel the light correctly.
also, check out hidplanet.com
i know that the few oem halogen projectors that are decent for HID bulbs are the ones that come on the MDX by Acura

I kinda of agree, yet kind of disagree.

Many projectors, even though equipt with Haligens from the factory, will product a great cutoff.

The projectors in my Jaguar are the SAME projectors they use in the Xenon equipment car (Valeo). I did the conversion my cutoff is identical to the Xenon equipt car.

My SC has the 97+ headlights and the cutoff is VERY clear and sharp.