Camry Gen 5 Modded Headlights.

[Defyant]

Iv'e had these sitting around for a while now and had a spare few hours today so thought i'd do some experimenting with angel eyes.

The main light is massive.... 160mm across! that's a huge angel eye.... I had to special order them.. and they only came in

Warm White, Which means I have to de solder all the warm white LED's and Resolder Cool white LEDS.

Alotta work but hopefully worth the effort.

Anyways, did a quick mock up for a few shots. I plan on painting the inner housings Matt Black to cull a lot of the reflections.

Maybe a DRL and some custom blinker work as well as some shark gill type cuts on the sides.

[Rebz]

3/4 cut the big one :P

[Andrew357]

Hrmm... That's quite interesting. I've hated how unwieldy the Gen5 lights are.

Looks good!

[jeffy]

ooooooh !

[69.NIX]

If I got a set of Headlights for a ZRE152, would you give it a bash?

[Defyant]

3/4 cut the big one :P

LOL can't really mate, the bottem is flat. It's got follow the original shape of the light.

Hrmm... That's quite interesting. I've hated how unwieldy the Gen5 lights are.

Looks good!

Cheers Mate

Your right mate, they are a bit all over the place style wise internally.

But i really like the over all shape of these lights still one of toyota's best efforts imo.

ooooooh !

Got ya thinking ay jeffy :D

Nice work ~ can you do up a 2005 Camry headlights later ^_^

It would be my pleasure John, cheers mate

If I got a set of Headlights for a ZRE152, would you give it a bash?

Do you mean these ones Pete?

Ive always been a bit perplexed with these lights. I'm not sure what toyota was thinking... or if they were at all.

I'd need an epiphany before opening a set of these tbh .

But i'm keen to come up with something for em :D Cheers Mate.

[69.NIX]

Them's are the one's.

No rush, there are few more goodies to install before I look at Halo's

Thanks :)

[Defyant]

Bit of prelim mockup design, Just using some thin cutout plastic.

Not the final design or size but shows the idea behind the "shark gill" accents and will be "back lit"

Not sure yet if i'll have the cut outs filled with orange perspex ( blinkers) or white for parkers.(simlilr to chris's modded mars lights)

Also possible adding a full lense for the blinker area. I think this will give a more modern look to the light.

Last but not leat , adding a orange tear lense to the very corner of the housing,

Original concept comes from the Very sexy Mc claren lights.

[Defyant]

A small update,

after a qik clean up

Next hole

What plex cut and shaped

A quick look see

I'm not sure how i'll light these, they can both run as blinkers or as parker's.

Quick coat of black, not final..... still needs more rubbing and prep work before final paint.

[Rebz]

Looking awesome mate

[Andrew357]

That looks quite interesting... Would you sell?

[Defyant]

Looking awesome mate

Cheers mate :D i'm thinking of using that side parker idea on your lights to fill that cut area.

That looks quite interesting... Would you sell?

For sure mate, I should have something more final looking over the long weekend.

[FRM05A]

Nice!!!

[Andrew357]

That sounds good.

One thing... would you say... retrofit a set of projectors into it? I have a set of Gen5 ones from the US one here that I have already opened but I know that I will have to modify the mounts heavily for them to match the AU ones.

[Defyant]

Nice!!!

Cheers mate :)

That sounds good.

One thing... would you say... retrofit a set of projectors into it? I have a set of Gen5 ones from the US one here that I have already opened but I know that I will have to modify the mounts heavily for them to match the AU ones.

Sounds like a plan I have a basic set here too , i'll have a look to see how they will fit.

got a linky to your set?

[Rebz]

Yeah when i saw how you cut that piece i was thinking you can do something similar with the aurion set you have atm. sounds like a plan. keep us updating :)

[Andrew357]

Nice!!!

Cheers mate :)

>That sounds good.

One thing... would you say... retrofit a set of projectors into it? I have a set of Gen5 ones from the US one here that I have already opened but I know that I will have to modify the mounts heavily for them to match the AU ones.

Sounds like a plan I have a basic set here too , i'll have a look to see how they will fit.

got a linky to your set?

I got these ones: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/LED-Bumper-Fog-02-04-Camry-Halo-Projector-Headlights-Black-Head-Lights-Lamp-Set-/290926313410?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&fits=Model%3ACamry%7CYear%3A2002&hash=item43bc8f3fc2&_uhb=1

[Defyant]

That's a good lookin set of lights, just change the crappy halo's to leds, looks like a nice lip @ the front to run a DRL too :D

[Andrew357]

They were a serious pain in the ***** to open. The glue they used to seal it was so heat resistant, to separate the lens from the light housing I ended up warping most of the housing to get it off. I can add heat again to remould it and use Sika to seal it; but God it was not fun.

[Defyant]

Sounds just like a set of later model camry lights I have here.... heat resistant and imposs to open without some perm damage.

[Defyant]

Just a quicky update,

Swapping and changing ideas for the inner light accent. Originally I planned to run it as a second white light (parkers) but after a quick mock up today i'm thinking this has to not be included or used as a second blinker,

The initial test. was to get the all the rings blackened, there is still a slight imbalance in the white of the angel eyes, this is due to different resistors on the larger rings, this lowers the power input slightly changing the brightness. I'll correct this with a newer set of 160mm rings.

As can be seen the inner white light tends to just bleed off the angel eye with no real contrast.

more noticeable on darker pics

Changing to an arrange lense and diffuser with amber back light.

[Andrew357]

That is looking good!

[trentmeyer23]

You should do a set of Gen 3 lights. :P

[Defyant]

That is looking good!

Cheers mate, getting there slowly.

You should do a set of Gen 3 lights. :P

They are tuff, been looking around for some inspiration and not finding much.

The back is a real challenge, the front's are glass? I don't think rings would look good. But maybe something custom.

Thats rectangle to follow the natural shape.

The older cars usually prove more of a challenge than newer models. Is there much in the way of after market?

[trentmeyer23]

This is an example of a design already done, yeah, they are glass, unsure about the aftermarket ones, however, you can get ones with black backings. They are all for LHD though.

http://jdmautolights.com/toyota-camry-sxv10-9294-clear-projector-headlightscorners-p-1502.html?osCsid=4e8960a9bee692456362f5bcad742d2c