S13 Silvia Hid H1 Headlight Conversion With Pics, the HOW TO guide for a tricky job - not plug & play! Options

[WTF]

OK, so the GF wanted to upgrade the headlights in her silvia to HIDs, no probs I thought. I get wholesale price on HIDs so I grabbed a set for both my supra and her Silvia.

Supra took around 6 minutes to install them, since they are the digital ballasts they are tiny and no complicated brackets/mounting was needed. With this in mind, I assigned half and hour to do Em's HID conversion...

Bad idea.

As some of you may know, S13s run some weird ass connector/plug for the H1 adapter into the housing.


To do a work-around this issue, it is quite involved and generally requires the removal of the headlight to secure the HID bulbs. Expect to take around 1 to 2 hours to complete this. No particular skill is required, so don't be too scared. If you follow this guide you will be fine This information is provided simply as a help guide to people with S13s, I make no claim that this is the best or only way to do this - it is simply how I chose to solve the problem.

Here is a picture of the H1 bulb sitting in its Silvia holder/connector:




I spent a couple of days trying to work out how it gets done, but there was jack all info on the net.. So after a bit of playing we came up with this solution, and to save time for the next poor folk who might otherwise throw in the towel and resell the HIDs to another unsuspecting chap, I made a complete how-to guide with images.

In short, to do it properly you need to remove the headlights completely, pull them apart, cut stuff, drill stuff, zip tie, etc..






... and eventually you will get to this:




I have done a full write up with a heap of pics here:


http://www.streetfx.com.au/product_images/hids/s13/




Feel free to ask any questions or make comments.. By no means am i a professional, so perhaps there is a better way to do this, but believe me, i lookked EVERYWHERE for info on how to do this as we were about to throw it in the too hard basket cos im lazy

This post has been edited by WTF: Sep 27 2009, 11:30 PM

[ExodusDesign]

Nice Mark.
i wasnt sure what u meant when u were talking about the screw bit.


My ones were easy... just had to make sure all the wiring was solid and out of the way when the lights pop up and down.....

[S13_RB26]

thats sweet man! i got a set of HID's in my Silvia, mine just sat in there pretty sweet, only thing is they need to be adjusted, i never knew you could adjust them on the silvia, i will check it out tomorrow

[WTF]

thats sweet man! i got a set of HID's in my Silvia, mine just sat in there pretty sweet, only thing is they need to be adjusted, i never knew you could adjust them on the silvia, i will check it out tomorrow

adjustment for up/down is just above the globe hole, the left/right adjustment is down the bottom just under it and to the side.

[S13_RB26]

adjustment for up/down is just above the globe hole, the left/right adjustment is down the bottom just under it and to the side.

awesome thanks for that man!