Volkswagen Multivan Camper
Hallo,
een heel deel van wat hieronder te lezen was heeft op een Amerikaans
forum gestaan waar ik het een en ander gepost had, dus vandaar dat dit
artikel in het (eenvoudig) Engels is.
Plaatjes zelf verklaren ook een hoop. Let op: dit artikel beschrijft 2 verschillende
projecten!
Even een extra aanvulling: de scherpte en een beetje de kleur kan beïnvloed
worden door de shutter in het midden wat meer richting de lichtbron the buigen(0,5-1
mm),
de lichtbundel wordt dan scherper en de kleur gaat ietsje richting blauw.
Helemaal onderaan staan wat reacties van forumgebruikers die ik heb gekregen
voor het werk wat ik er in had gestoken, ook leuk om te lezen ;-)
Geniet van
dit nieuwe artikel, en wellicht wilt u een berichtje achterlaten in ons gastenboek?
Hello,
as a newbie I try to make an interesting topic.
I live in the Netherlands and drive a Volkswagen van.
That van we converted to a multivan 2 interior and provided it with a westfalia
popup roof..
From stock the headlights are like:
It's
an eighties design which came on the market early nineties.
So xenon or even bixenon weren't very common those days..
I drove around with rallye bulps 100/90 watts but wasn't very satisfied with
that.
As soon as the angeleyes for my type of model came out, I had them and the light output was much better with the clear
glasses..
For some pictures of our car:
The angel eyes looked damn good.. in our car
Very soon more pics from the project I started to retrofit the angelyes with
bixenon units from BMW and Volkswagen Passat with adaptive cornering lights
;-)
First
I bought myself a set of BMW Xenon..
I use the ballasts and the D1s bulps from that set.
Is cost me only 68 Euro on eBay..
Then bought some VW Passat bixenon headlights with adaptive cornerings lights
too, for 25 euro's each..
I will use the lenses and the shrouds of the passat set, and will put the
burners and bulps from the BMW set.
The Passat lenses (Valeo) with the OEM shrouds
The
angeleyes victims ;-)
First I dismounted the current aftermarket HID set, and the T5 leds in the
angeleyes rings.
Headlamp
unit out of the oven and separating the glass.
The
insides which will be retrofitted.
First
i made some threading in the holes of the angel eyes bulps.
Then I took some M10 bolts, deheaded them and made M5 threading in them.
I used some overlenght to make the further steps more easy. And the bolts were
secured using some Loctite.
Eventually I used normal bolts instead of Allen screws:
You
You won't see much of it though ;-)
A friend of me waterplasma cutted stainlais steel rings in 1.5 mm thickness.
some fitting and adaptation...
Cutting the reflector with a dremel..
the result of two cuttings ;-) with a lot of sweatdrops...
Almost finished for the nuts and bolts to fix the lenses.
Just
put 10 Volts on them for a quick test.
A
bit fitting to seek for the ideal depth.
About this should do the job
A quick glance from behind.. just looking after the depth.
On the inside the DRL's and on the outside the Bixenon units.
Just
to be sure that it's placed level for adjusting and rotating the beam on the
wall..
A
quick comparison between the Fresnel type Passat lenses and the more clear
lenses from the BMW.
Another photo from the comparison. The BMW-lenses are much more flatter shaped..
I tried them in the Passat lens holders but the beam was gone at projecting
on the wall !!
Some adjusting on the wall, my test power supply for laboratory purposes didn't
handle the amount of current needed
Made a slideshow of the retrofit ;-)
http://www.eldiape.com/downloadmap/koplampen.htm
So the lenses on both units were fitted and secured:
A nice view from the technique behind the lenses
to this:
Have the glass covers been sandblasted, to get the appropriate codes
How to make that DRL and D1S signs?
It's
done by tiny particle sandblasting ;-)
It might be risky, but with that details it stands out of the obvious. Its
on the outside, and my brother did it at his work
Glasscovers been mounted on the housings.
This has to be covered
So I took an old bottle of Isostar en cut it to the right dimensions.
Looks nice, isn’t it? So afterwards i decided to spraypaint it matt black.
Part 2
And here is another project with a different approach. The carmodel is the same and so are the stock headlights. My friend wanted a more modern look .
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Reactions from forum members:
"wow amazing job so far!! "
"very nice! i cant wait to see the rest "
"This is a very quality work, detail and clean. If I need someone to do my retro, I would have you do it. Good job. "
"Damn that looks incredible. NICE! You should enter Novembers retrofit of the month "
"Thanks for updating! Aside from the fact that they are aftermarket halo lights, they do look very good (OEM). I don't like the inner LED bulbs though, but who cares lol. "
"omg ! Absolutely perfect ! Result is better than OEM i think ! "
"wow, i missed this update..."
"very nice work. Liked how you made the shroud, that back for your light out of that plastic bottle, and overall craftsmanship."
"Couple months old but great job! "
"Very nice.
I thought of a similar mounting method for the minis in FK headlights. And
now I found your thread. I really like how you threaded the holes of the angel
eyes bulbs. I might copy that. "
"That looks fantastic! Great job! That method for mounting the projector is very creative. "
"That looks amazing. "
"Better than oem
Do you have any wall shoots? "
"I meant to comment on this a while ago looks like a top job. Really like the mounting method you used for the projectors. "
"Beautiful job. How to make that DRL and D1S signs? "