Great pics and description! Love following this.
I am toying with adding a third light- a high beam module placed in the lower center part of the housing. I would cut the entire section that currently houses the city lights [...]
The only downside is that it would draw 65 additional watts.
That is not the only drawback. I think you would also be exceeding the maximum allowed amount of light and might never pass an inspection again. Not sure how that would work there, here it would be an issue.
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I can also buy projector covers to cover the front of the projector housing and have it blend in with the plastic housing cover better. Again, everything will be flat black but at least the shields will prevent the mounting brackets to be seen.
Personally, I wouldn't paint it at all and I think it looks nice with the reflectors. Although you didn't include a photo of it straight-on that way.
One other thing to consider for safety- the Infiniti projectors are SO good (I know, I have one) that there is almost no scatter to the sides at all. This is very different from the stock lighting, which intentionally has side scatter to help with letting the bike stand out more from more angles. If I were doing that project, I would ABSOLUTELY add additional bright white or yellow (but probably white) LED's around in the corners at various angles for safety.
Really neat project Brian, I am very jealous and haven't even seen photos of them "on" yet
That is not the only drawback. I think you would also be exceeding the maximum allowed amount of light and might never pass an inspection again. Not sure how that would work there, here it would be an issue.
Agreed. The plan is to put a line of LEDs around the periphery of the headlight (as Audi does) and then put several focused LEDs in the center / bottom of the headlight housing where the original city lights were. The focused LEDs will be CREE XM-L's and should approach 1,000 lumens each. Not sure how many I can neatly and reasonably fit in the area available until I pick the reflector though. And the outer ring of LEDs can be modulated to draw more attention.Something like this, Brian? This set is tied to the turn signals.
Brian
I don't understand this phenomenon unless its a crazy socialist state that inspects your bike?
And do they really put a meter up and measure light output? In lumens perhaps?
Not sure i understand but thats nothing new =)
Most states require motor vehicle inspections. And the list of requirements is usually very long. Far longer than what actually *is* inspected.
Probably not. But they don't have to. ANY modification to the stock lighting- color, lumens, technology, etc, immediately puts it out of DOT certification and it is illegal and is not supposed to pass inspection. In reality, if it doesn't *look* all that unusual or unreasonable, most shops will not give a damn and pass it. Part of most inspections requires checking the headlight alignments, obviously that is almost never done either. To perform ALL the inspections as required in the books would take an incredibly long time, usually about 1000% more time than shops actually take.
I had to google that because I thought only 1,2 or 5 do.
I found we were both wrong.
Something like this, Brian? This set is tied to the turn signals.
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... I guess I am going to find out how much stuff has to come off a C-14 to get the headlight bucket out....
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Many states require motor vehicle inspections. And the list of requirements is usually very long. Far longer than what actually *is* inspected.
Probably not. But they don't have to. ANY modification to the stock lighting- color, lumens, technology, etc, immediately puts it out of DOT certification and it is illegal and is not supposed to pass inspection. In reality, if it doesn't *look* all that unusual or unreasonable, most shops will not give a damn and pass it. Part of most inspections requires checking the headlight alignments, obviously that is almost never done either. To perform ALL the inspections as required in the books would take an incredibly long time, usually about 1000% more time than shops actually take.
Most of the plastic, actually. Found out when I painted mine. The cowl around the headlight is the last piece of plastic to come off the bike (other than the raw gray pieces at the bottom).
Of course, now that I say that, it occurs to me you have a Gen 1, so my experience may not be applicable. But, still a fun exercise! The unit is coming along nicely.