Pics of my s2k retrofit!! *UPDATED* pix pg4 (56k stick with halogen)
 

just got the s2k retrofit a few days ago and i love them. the best part is i got them off ebay for 405 shipped! its the whole s2000 setup.. projector, ballasts, bulbs.

pix!
http://www.fgt1.com/car%20pix/hid/projectors.jpg
http://www.fgt1.com/car%20pix/hid/ballast.jpg
http://www.fgt1.com/car%20pix/hid/off.jpg
http://www.fgt1.com/car%20pix/hid/front.jpg

i seeee youu
http://www.fgt1.com/car%20pix/hid/road.jpg
http://www.fgt1.com/car%20pix/hid/field.jpg
http://www.fgt1.com/car%20pix/hid/cutoff.jpg

^^ my fav.. i love the cutoff :rockon:

damn, nice mod. ur car looks like it's eyes are being hypnotized. hahah :hgrin:

who did the retrofit? n any pics of the process?

like i said before, looks great.

nice. now just dont get pulled over for it. lol

if you do, sell it my way :sweet:

Light output looks great, but the projectors look weird in the OEM housing.

haha.. i bought it from a guy that did them on ebay

thanks again =)

i'll try lol

yeah.. but i already had tyc's and im going back to the stock look so i like them :-p

Retrofits almost always look weird and out of place, but that light output surely makes up for it.

thats really nice. how much did that run you?

good job viet! looks great

thats sick

nice. so they are s2ks? Glad to hear everything worked out.

wow that looks nice. So much light on the road.

holy crap, thats damn sexy

I think if you put the amber piece back in it will looke even more OEM

Ssssiiiiiccccckkkkk !!!!!

dang bro that looks sick, nice job

Your car looks like it has eyeballs now. AWESOME!

http://www.fgt1.com/car%20pix/hid/projectors.jpg


http://www.fast-rewind.com/shortcircuit1.jpg



Reminds me of Johnny 5!!!! :sweet:

By the way, as was asked.

These are not actual S2000 headlights. The closest thing might be the bulbs, depending on the 4300k 6000k etc. The ballasts of the S2000 are silver, do NOT have the philips name on them, and are unique in the sense of the way the are integral to the headlight housing by the way they are mounted.

What you more than likely got was an RSX housing, with a retro fit HID and projector kit. They aren't the actual S2000 parts. ;)

what... how are they not s2k projectors? the cutoff is the exact s2k cutoff except modified to be a lil more colorful. what do u mean by rsx housing? rsx's dont even have projectors/hid's.. and the ballasts probably say phillips on them because he bought them new... not just took them out of an existing s2000.

shit

thats tight :tup:

looks sweet but might look good with blacked out housing and amber corners as well

looks hella tight man :D

I'M BLIND!!! :yell:

That looks pimp I love it...

I LOVE YOU!!! lol jk nice headlights dude.
your car looks like a crackhead with diolated pupils in the head on shot. too funny lol

BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! omg so true.
number johnny 5

NICE! very nice light output too.

viet take a shot of ur whole car perspective view with the front lights, i wanna see if it still looks weird...awesome light output, but damn...ur car scares me in a strange way...LOL

hahaha you guys are crazy... i never noticed how it looked like that, i think its the picture. i'll take a better one tomorrow

They are not the same as the S2000's. That's all I'm saying. The projector housing MIGHT be from an S2000, but it's doubtful, as the housing looks more like the same retro fit used for the RSX. It's just a molded piece made to fit the headlights. The actual S2000 projector housing would probably not work as I already mentioned, the ballast is integrated into the housing.

and that is NOT an S2000 balast/inverter. Number one, to my knowledge, the S2000 balast is not made by philips. Number two, the S2000 balast is rectangular shaped, silver, and is integrated into the bottom of the projector housing.

look in this pdf. page 5, figure 5. see the silver thing hanging out the bottom of the headlight housing? that's the actual ballast/inverter for the S2000.
http://www.ricks2k.com/info/instructions/diffuser.pdf

And to be certain I asked on s2ki.com and everyone has stated the same thing.

I'm not trying to take away from how good the mod is on your car or how cool it looks and how much brighter the lights are. (because it does look hot!) I'm simply trying to help you understand on your statement of it being something it's not.

Just an FYI. MSRP on the projector housing, ballasts, bulbs, etc for an S2000 run about $1800 a PAIR! Dealer cost on them is in the $1200 area.

looks sick bro....nice work

can i get a CLOSE UP SHOT

s2000man01, you're wrong. so very, very wrong (about the projectors). the projectors (not the housing, as the housing is actually a civic OEM headlight housing) is a s2000 projector. if you would care to go to hidplanet.com/forums and look through the for sale section and/or the pictures forum, you would see that s2000 projectors can be taken out of the s2000 housings, and retrofitted into another set of headlights.

the ballasts, yes, you're correct in saying that his ballasts are not genuine s2000 ballasts, but really, who the hell cares? a ballast is a ballast is a ballast. i'm using matsushita ballasts with my HID retrofit, but AFAIK the audi a4 (the car that my projectors came out of) uses hella gen 3 ballasts.

your price quote: $1200 seems like a honda price, but look on your very own s2ki.com forums in the for sale section and you will find people selling a PAIR of USDM s2k headlights for upwards of $500 (usually priced around $350 shipped). they sell the headlights cause they bought the UKDM chrome headlights. the projectors themselves are worth $250.

all in all, yes, his projectors are, in fact, s2000 projectors. his hosuings are oem civic housings, and his ballasts are philips lvq212 (same as hella gen 3).

same crap just diffferent ballasts as mentioned...

get closer pics of the projector lense :argue:

looks funny :giggle:

wow, i think that looks like crap in the OEM housing... just IMO.

what did you use to search ebay because i've yet to find those man share the wealth here

they were posted in another thread from a 7thgen member who was selling them, thats how he found them. just do a full retro.

no...? i thought that member was searchinig throuhg ebay and just happened to come across that auction. :shrug:

WHO CARES... they are sweet... and no one else really has them.... dam...

ahhh...it won't stop staring at me!!!

http://www.fgt1.com/car%20pix/hid/off.jpg

lol...j/k...looks good, nice work!

yes, as I stated I didnt think they were the projectors, but i wasn't sure so I wasn't going to say positively. where as i know the ballasts, were not.

however, your pricing on the headlights is still off. there are two different things here. headlight/projector housings. and then the ballasts/bulbs/igniter.

the OEM cost for JUST the headlights and housing is about $1000 from honda for the 04+. The dealer cost on these is around $600. The cost of the ballasts and bulbs for the dealer is also around $600.

You may find some headlight assembly's on sale on s2ki, however, the chances of you finding someone selling their headlights AND the ballasts/bulbs/igniter for $350 is way off. What you are seeing is just the price of the headlights assemly alone. And the $350 range is going to be USED headlights assembly off of an 00-03 model.

On Ebay the PRE 04 headlights are about $400. that is WITHOUT ballasts and bulbs. The ballasts and bulbs alone are another $400-$500 it looks like.

Now, you might find a USED pair from like an 01 or 02 that's headlights, ballasts, and bulbs for about $600+. But that's a very used pair and not in high demand. To my knowledge the equipment he got was new or fairly newer.

again, not that this detracts from his mod. but he had said he has S2000 headlights. yes and no. he has the projectors, but not the bulbs/igniters/ballasts. part of what makes the S2k headlights look so unique is the ballasts and bulbs.

but none the less, as I said, it's a very cool mod and IMO looks awesome on his vic.

looks good how much did you pay????

Good job Viet, can't wait to see them at the next meet.

i agree with most of your points, and i was proven wrong with the prices for the headlights. however, the 00-03 projectors are what are in demand. the 04 and up projectors have a much softer cutoff as opposed to the 00-03's razor sharp cutoff. i'm sure you know what i mean by razor sharp (because you have a 00-03 MY s2k). honda screwed up with the 04-05 s2k in every aspect except styling, imo.

the ballasts and bulbs are nothing more than a stanley ballast and a philips 85122 (4100-4300k) d2s bulb. i have the same exact bulbs that come on a s2k, sc430, RL, TL, TSX, etc. there's nothing special about them.

let's make a "project" retrofit, just for the sake of argument. pricing on the bulbs from the dealer may be up in the $200 PER BULB range, but online (hidplanet.com, ebay.com, other sites) you can get a PAIR of bulbs for $75 shipped. the ballasts (anything with a name, basically), $150 shipped. the projectors are what cost the most (in this "project" retrofit), coming in at a hefty $250. that totals $475 for "s2000 projector retrofit."

but yeah, the headlights are super cool. the information is not very clear, but it's still s2000 projectors.

cool. :)

yeah i guess to ME the 00-03 are not in demand because all of us 00-03 owners want the 04+ housings. :rofl:

yep. the 04+ housings are sexy as hell, but the projectors aren't all that. :shrug: :) :_beer:

yay!! all the drama is resolved! hahahaha i'll take better pix today after i wash her, so hopefully yall will stop making fun of me/her :(