So i've seen alot of 04+ F150 HID projector upgrades and then the "bulb-tastic" blinder kits.. I'm not one for doing things 1/2 way, so after about a year of debating, i finally decided That it was time to upgrade the headlights in the truck as i can't see ***** around here at night, and if its Oh and not to mention since TRS had their FX-R kit on sale, it was an even better time.

I've got a new set of FoMoCo Lightning headlights that I will be doing the swap into. Since i haven't found a single thread doing this on any of the older trucks, i'll take pictures along the way of the entire process..

Link to the kit i purchased:
http://store.theretrofitsource.com/p...eed27988a34979

I'll get photo's of the Lightning headlights w/ sylvania silver-stars tomorrow and post them up for before shots.

WORK HAS BEGUN starting at post 18: https://www.f150online.com/forums/4311534-post18.html

 

cant wait to see this. 6k or 8k and 35w or 55w?

 

IMO anything higher than 4300K just looks horrible. So.. I went with a 4300k 35w system. Mostly so i dont' completely blind all of the on-coming traffic.

 

Cool. All about what YOU want.

 

sweet. 4300k is perfect. anything more looks like rice.

 

agreed. I'll leave the purple lights to the honda boys

 

Thank you in advance. I too was torn for many months before I decided to do a retrofit of FX projectors on my previous ranger. It took months and hours but the payoff of a sharp cutoff line, bright white (4300K) and lots of looks and comments from others really made it worth it. A big plus is that I was leaving for school in the morning when it was dark and stayed so late that it was dark again when I drove home out into the dark country. I will empathize with you now on the amount of work needing to be done because I was the only guy on the ranger forums to have done it and that was a great feeling.

Good luck and please keep us updated with pictures and the story as time goes on.

 

Well.. 5 days after getting the "shipped" notification and tracking number they FINALLY put the package in the mail.. so it should arrive tomorrow. I'm going to try and get a good bit of work done on the conversion before i have to leave for a work trip on the 19th for 16 days.

 

Subscribing. I look forward to this. I want to do this but not sure if I am up to the challenge. Good luck on this.

 

Well, if all goes well i'll hopefully be able to get the conversion done with about 3 days of work.

I'm still not sure if i'm going to keep the chrome reflector look (my truck is white) or do a black-out w/ real carbon fiber laminated over the chrome reflector w/ some angel-eyes... soo many choices.

 

I cant wait to see this. exactly what I want to do.

 

I got my HID kit last week, i also have Lighting heads. I can't figure out how the new bulb mounts to the head lamp. The retaing clip for mine don't fit with the new bulb.. frustration abounds..

 

did you get a reflector Retrofit kit, or one of the drop in hid bulb kits that just uses the stock housing?

 

I got a kit that uses the stock housing... got mine from DDM tuning...

 

could they have possibly sent the wrong bulbs?