The correct kit arrived:
I started to work on this last night. First, I went to get some "before" pics to have a point of reference. Pre-LED, regular headlights in a dark field, not a lot of light pollution except for what's in the distance.
Here's what they look like augmented by my Hella MicroDEs I converted to HID (side note: I converted these a few years ago to use on another car project). I noticed that while they're bright, they don't have the sharp beam cutoff normally associated w/HIDs b/c the normal MicroDEs have a lens to disperse the light. Hella is now making HID MicroDEs with smooth lenses, so at some point, I may take these apart and get the backside of the lenses ground smooth and polished):
Then I went home to start the work. It was a pain in the.....to try and get the headlight bulbs out, so after 45 mins, I wrote it off until this morning. I got up before work and went ahead and removed the bumper so I could remove the headlights. This worked out a whole lot better.
The fans screw into the base, so I Loc-tited them in place, and then put together the connections. Pretty easy as they're keyed w/a notch and a tab so it slots together correctly.
They screw together for a watertight connection junction.
The three prongs, not so much. It would probably be wise to wrap 'em in electrical tape. While I was at it, picked up a few sets of these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/181291048009 Most likely going to convert the 3 prong male/female connections to make them waterproof, as well.
I'll take "after" pictures this evening and post 'em so we can see the difference.
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