Well,I finally did it! After seeing so many great installs of lights behind the grille, I finally decided it was my turn. I decided to go with 100 Watt lights because the ones by my front plate are 55's. I chose Pilot lights from AutoZone, and they were $49.99. They did not, however, come with a relay. I didn't want to run 100's without a relay, so I threw out their wiring diagram and used a relay I had. I used a 4 ft ($15) bar of 1.25" welding steel for the mount. Cut it with a hacksaw, drilled it with a 1/2" bit on a regular drill. Here are a few pics of the install...

The Distance between the headlight bolts is right at 40 inches. You might want to cut your metal just a hair shorter to avoid fitment issues.



Takin' Care of Business!



Checking for size; Later had to rotate bar to allow lights to mount sturdily.



Here's how I had to turn the bar; Also shows bolting on with stock headlight bolt



Measured and drilled two 1/2" holes for the light mounting bolts.



Had to do some "modifying" for the lights to fit without touching the plastic. Also had to modify because turning the bar with the flat on top raised everything up about an inch.



Roughly wired up; before wires/connections were taped and hidden



Hood Closed



Taken about 5:30 in the evening



I will add some more pictures next time I have an excuse to go out at night; but there's a basic outline of what I did this past weekend! So far I'm loving having these lights because they light up a good ways down the road and I can see the deer before they see me! Expect more pics soon!!

 

Great job, looks good! Where did you put the switch?

 

Thanks!
A few months ago when I wanted to add the square lights by the front plate, I installed two switches between the parking sensor button and the cig lighter. I installed two in anticipation of doing this mod or something similar, so until now it;s just been a dummy switch, but now it is functional. The switches are Mini LED switches (I think they're like $3.49 at AutoZone), and they are blue. I think they come in red and green too, but I liked blue. Anyway, here are some pics of the switches. The one on the right is for the lights behind the grille, and the left one is for the rectangles by the plate.

 

last picture looks like the new light on the driverside is just a little bit too far outside compared to the square light below it

 

Clean install inside and out. I will have to do the same it think.

 

Darn it you noticed haha! I took this pic before they were properly "adjusted". The mounting mechanism was causing the light to "lean" if that makes any sense. I'll look at it tomorrow when it's light to be sure; Now that you pointed it out my OCD kicks in...

 

Took a few more pictures today.

First are some pics of what the switches and dash look like. First one in daylight, second one in the evening.





From the front with everything on


Just Grille Lights


Grille Lights and Lower Bumper Lights


Heads, Lowers, and Grilles


If anyone would like more pics, feel free to ask!!

 

It looks good, how easy was it to install those two buttons and make it functional? Thinking about getting a set of rear lights in the back when in reverse mode and for other reasons.

 

It was actually really easy to install the switches. The hardest part for me was pulling the dash off; I didnt want to break or bend the plastic. Once you get the main dash piece off, you can remove the smaller piece in order to drill the holes and measure. You'll want to have some sort of grinder or dremel to grind off some of the plastic on the back of the plastic plate in order to make room the the back half of the switch. As far as running wires, there's tons of room behind the dash around the radio, so you can maneuver pretty easily behind there.

 

i did something pretty similar using pilot 7" slim off road lights. i converted mine to 55w 5k hid though which made a world of difference.

 

When a four-light silverstar system like this one on an '05 Nissan Titan looks like this on high beam:

and a FX-R 50w 5500K HID retro from theretrofitsource.com on my F-150 looks like this on high beam:

(same shutter speed, aperture, film speed), it may be worth considering a retro instead of adding more lights. Note that the Titan's four-light system is much better than the two-light (highs-on = lows-off) stock lights that came on my '09 F150 before I did the retro.

 

Looks good!

 

Nice!

That's awesome! Looks really good!

Thanks!

 

Pretty cool.

I did the same thing cpl yrs ago only a little different. I mounted the L bracket the opposite way you did, makes the lights sit lower, more level with the headlights. I also used Hella 500's, didn't have to cut anything to make them fit and the switch I mounted left of the headlight switch.

 

Looks good!