Turbo Optra - Now on tuned Haltech @ 225whp

exist3nce · Post by **exist3nce** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:56 am

These are from 25' away, on a white garage door.

exist3nce · Post by **exist3nce** » Mon May 05, 2008 7:54 am

Just bought these on ebay to use in the retrofit:

More pics:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... 03885&rd=1

logikal · Post by **logikal** » Tue May 06, 2008 2:55 am

I def. need to do this mod. Great idea.

exist3nce · Post by **exist3nce** » Fri May 09, 2008 5:38 am

Shrouds arrived today!!!

exist3nce · Post by **exist3nce** » Fri May 16, 2008 5:41 am

Passenger side headlight is almost done and we needed to do some test fitting/aiming. Better pictures will follow when everything is complete!

exist3nce · Post by **exist3nce** » Sat May 24, 2008 8:48 am

Past few days have really gone downhill. Blowing oil smoke at idle intermittently, consuming up to 1L of coolant a day without any obvious leaks, and 1 really fouled plug LOL. I can't really complain though it held up well for an abused stock motor...... 45,000km boosted and daily driven (hard lol).

Look at cly number 3!!!

Should be swapping in my spare on Monday and if everything goes well be boosting again by Tuesday.

Also the Retrofit is complete, I just got the lights back today. I should have some pictures soon.

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Sat May 24, 2008 3:20 pm

yeah thats one hell of a fouled plug. are you doing any thing to the new engine or is it just gonna be stock boosted? you cant complaine about that engine, 2+ years of boost and hard driveing totaly stock internals, yeah it did good!

mikedudley17 · Post by **mikedudley17** » Sat May 24, 2008 4:52 pm

hearing about ur motor holdin for 2 years enstills some faith that maybe my motor will hold nicely when under boost.

exist3nce · Post by **exist3nce** » Sat May 24, 2008 5:59 pm

daewoomofo wrote:yeah thats one hell of a fouled plug. are you doing any thing to the new engine or is it just gonna be stock boosted? you cant complaine about that engine, 2+ years of boost and hard driveing totaly stock internals, yeah it did good!

mikedudley17 wrote:hearing about ur motor holdin for 2 years enstills some faith that maybe my motor will hold nicely when under boost.

Just throwing my stock spare motor in for now (no time or money ATM to build it). When I pull the dead one out I'll probably take it apart to see where the problem is..... i'm expecting at least a broken head gasket.

It wasn't quite 2 years........... almost exactly 1.5 yrs.

mikedudley17 · Post by **mikedudley17** » Sat May 24, 2008 6:04 pm

still gives me faith that my motor will hold longer than a few months. altho, when u ask the techs at the dealerships, they all seem to tell me that the 1.6 is a pretty tough motor to break.

exist3nce · Post by **exist3nce** » Sat May 24, 2008 6:10 pm

Finally its complete....... I guess I'll have to wait a few days to see how it looks on the road.

exist3nce · Post by **exist3nce** » Sun May 25, 2008 7:18 am

Well I couldn't resist so I drove it anyways to a grocery store 2 mins from my house.

Heres how the beam looks.....

Not bad, except I think the driver's side needs to be rotated counter-clockwise a bit.

It does provide ALOT more usable light on the road than any HID kit in a halogen reflector which is great!

kinkyllama · Post by **kinkyllama** » Sun May 25, 2008 9:06 am

exist3nce wrote:Well I couldn't resist so I drove it anyways to a grocery store 2 mins from my house.

Heres how the beam looks.....

Not bad, except I think the driver's side needs to be rotated counter-clockwise a bit.

It does provide ALOT more usable light on the road than any HID kit in a halogen reflector which is great!

Nice. How's the cut off? Pictures are hard to tell the difference between decent and great.

How many watts are your HIDs?

exist3nce · Post by **exist3nce** » Sun May 25, 2008 3:36 pm

kinkyllama wrote:Nice. How's the cut off? Pictures are hard to tell the difference between decent and great.

How many watts are your HIDs?

Can you see the picture of the cutoff against the wall? Its a really sharp cutoff. The HIDs are standard 35W OEM bulb and ballast.

kinkyllama · Post by **kinkyllama** » Sun May 25, 2008 7:24 pm

exist3nce wrote:
kinkyllama wrote:Nice. How's the cut off? Pictures are hard to tell the difference between decent and great.

How many watts are your HIDs?
Can you see the picture of the cutoff against the wall? Its a really sharp cutoff. The HIDs are standard 35W OEM bulb and ballast.

Yeah but pictures can lie...so is it comparable to OEM or identical to the factory FX35s whole factory setup?

My HID supplier sells HID projectors which include everything needed including a 55watt HID kit for $500 retail. That’s why I asked what watts HIDs you were using since I've noticed allot of people upgrade to the 55 watts when doing these conversions. I plan to do it to my lanos one day hopefully soon because halogens suck! Depending how easy it is and my dealer pricing I may do it to the fogs of the lacetti and lanos because the glare on my lacetti fog lights is just ridiculous.

How much were the FX35 projectors?

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Turbo Optra - Now on tuned Haltech @ 225whp

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Shrouds

Update - One headlight almost done

The stock motor is on its way out.

FX35 Retrofit Complete!!