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01-13-2010, 04:40 PM
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HID Projector Fog Light Installation
Last night I went outside and took some measurements for the custom harness. The harness allows me to have full independent control over the fog lights. I mounted a switch under the steering wheel. Its triggered off the ignition so even if I was to forget to switch the lights off, once the car is off the lights do turn off. I decided to mimic the factory wiring and used black tape to cover everything up. I gave myself some extra inches on the battery, trigger, and ground wiring so I could make it exact once I got outside to do the actual installation. The harness and measurements took about 2 hours total. I found a nice rubber grommet and passed the wiring through the rear of the cap on the projector so its water tight. Today I went out an installed the harness, HID system, and projector fogs. Took me about 2 hours by myself. I mounted the relay under the center plastic piece in the engine bay. I am assuming this is the cabin filter area cover. This way its out of site. I drilled a small hole through the battery area so that it is unseen from the outside and this allows me to take power from the battery and feed it to the HID system. The trigger wire goes to the switch under the dash and it is fed through the hole in the firewall. I made all the grounds feed into one single wire and used the chassis ground located on the drivers side of the engine bay. I mount the one ballast on the frame that holds the coolant, and then on the other side on the actual frame of the car, which seemed to be the best area to put it. I got some spare h11 connectors and soldered on a set of resistors. These are plugged into the factory wiring. This way the computer will not think the fog lights are out, basically to trick the system. They do not get hot, so stuffed them away The installation went great and the final product is basically unseen since I copied the factory wiring harness and zip tied it all together. Overall I love the new fogs. They have a very sharp cutoff. I do not like the blue color but I will post up some updated pics once my bulbs come in a few days.          
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01-13-2010, 04:41 PM
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01-14-2010, 01:02 AM
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They can be turned off through car/key memory settings.
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01-14-2010, 04:16 PM
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Nice! What's the small harness with the orange anodized looking thing on it? The anti-error harness?
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01-14-2010, 04:46 PM
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Bought the same housings from the same person. Did you have a problem with the passenger fog? The 4.8is has an intake duct right behind the original fog-light housing....
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01-14-2010, 05:16 PM
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I did not have any issues with the passenger side fog, plenty of space.
Those orange things are resistors, it just tricks the computer to thinking the oem bulbs are hooked up. I believe the bulbs are 8000K, but as mentioned new 4300K's are coming in. I had the dealer disable the DRL system through programming.
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