Foreign Headlight Conversion
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Tapage,
This is their site and Outback Imports is one of their dealers.
And here are the 62/80 series pics.
I have seen them sell all four lights, bulbs, ballasts, etc... for around $1,000 (Give or take a few). In case with the 80 series price tag of $1,200 it also includes all the parts needed for the quad-light set-up.
If I went this route I would only need one pair of the bi-xenon projectors as I would forgo the (inner) high beams with HID. I don't know how much they would cost or if they would even do that. Plus, I would like to see the light pattern first.
Anyway, you don't happen to know the PN's for the corner markers for your truck, do you?
For a starter, I would probably just get a pair of good old halogen H4's with high-powered bulbs and be happy with it for a few months (or weeks
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This is their site and Outback Imports is one of their dealers.
And here are the 62/80 series pics.
I have seen them sell all four lights, bulbs, ballasts, etc... for around $1,000 (Give or take a few). In case with the 80 series price tag of $1,200 it also includes all the parts needed for the quad-light set-up.
If I went this route I would only need one pair of the bi-xenon projectors as I would forgo the (inner) high beams with HID. I don't know how much they would cost or if they would even do that. Plus, I would like to see the light pattern first.
Anyway, you don't happen to know the PN's for the corner markers for your truck, do you?
For a starter, I would probably just get a pair of good old halogen H4's with high-powered bulbs and be happy with it for a few months (or weeks
)..
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there not bad im tring to get mine inside the org glass i was thinking of doing the halo all in 1 light that has the projector but $ar tight at the moment just spent 500k on a house and 50k on family court to get custody of my kids so cant afford to spend money just to look good essentails only so if i can get it for free ill spend the time to make my own
I bit the bullet, placed the order w/o not knowing 100% if I was going to get the right parts.
I have just picked the pieces up and not am trying to put them all together.
I don't have the actual rectangular lights, except a used one that was in storage, so it won't look complete, yet.
I'll let post pics and let you know when (IF?) I get them to look correct!
I have just picked the pieces up and not am trying to put them all together.
I don't have the actual rectangular lights, except a used one that was in storage, so it won't look complete, yet.
I'll let post pics and let you know when (IF?) I get them to look correct!
do you know wha woud be useful? a wiring diagram, lol i wanna know how to wire them!!! 
can i just put in connectors on and leave all the wiring? i'm doing this conversion soon
Venezuelans have those square lamps too, but they drive just like in the US.. So the south american versions were build like the japan/uk/aus ones? I know they made them till 08.. Just curious about that
The dual rectangle headlamp buckets and hardware could care less about what side of the road the vehicle is on. You buy the LHD rectangular lamp assy's in the USA (Cibie, Hella etc) pop em in and set up the pattern as you would with an FJ62.
Bringing back from the dead..
I have struggled with getting enough light output from my Depos with H4 incandescent bulbs and dont feel that the LED H4 bulbs do a good enough job with accurate light and will freeze or get blocked by snow buildup in the winter. I am also not a fan of round headlights in an 80.. love them in my 40.. just not in the 80 unless they were configured as a quad array, that would be cool!
So.. I bought a set of early Quad OEM lights and instead of using H4 bulbs in the stock lights (would not work anyway as the are configured for RHD) I bought J.W Speaker Heated LED low beams and some cheap Amazon high beam lights. I will wire the low beam from the cheapo lights to come on with the J.W Speakers to run 4 low beams and when I hit the highs I will get all 4 with the addition of my Baja Designs LP9's in ether low or high mode.
The J.W. Speakers have a Razor cutoff line, these things are awesome! I also bought the Heated version as I live in snow country.
This should be a super cool mod.. kinda funny that I had to step back to early Diesel headlights to get the new LED tech!
I dont have the OEM Head light assembys yet they are being shipped, I do have the LED lights and will post pics!
I have struggled with getting enough light output from my Depos with H4 incandescent bulbs and dont feel that the LED H4 bulbs do a good enough job with accurate light and will freeze or get blocked by snow buildup in the winter. I am also not a fan of round headlights in an 80.. love them in my 40.. just not in the 80 unless they were configured as a quad array, that would be cool!
So.. I bought a set of early Quad OEM lights and instead of using H4 bulbs in the stock lights (would not work anyway as the are configured for RHD) I bought J.W Speaker Heated LED low beams and some cheap Amazon high beam lights. I will wire the low beam from the cheapo lights to come on with the J.W Speakers to run 4 low beams and when I hit the highs I will get all 4 with the addition of my Baja Designs LP9's in ether low or high mode.
The J.W. Speakers have a Razor cutoff line, these things are awesome! I also bought the Heated version as I live in snow country.
This should be a super cool mod.. kinda funny that I had to step back to early Diesel headlights to get the new LED tech!
I dont have the OEM Head light assembys yet they are being shipped, I do have the LED lights and will post pics!
Am I correct in understanding that if my car already has quad square lights and I want an easy upgrade I can get some of these JW speaker units and the drop right it with no modification to mounting or wiring?
Went to their site and there are a lot of options there.
I don’t care about cost I just need easy install as my rig is at my 2nd home and I’m not set up for major wrenching there.
Went to their site and there are a lot of options there.
I don’t care about cost I just need easy install as my rig is at my 2nd home and I’m not set up for major wrenching there.
Yes, they will install just like regular sealed beam headlights, 4x6 is the size. Pay attention to heated or non-heated and the outboard light is low beam and inboard is high.
So I wanted to circle back into this thread to give some information that I have learned. My truck is an HDJ80 originally sold in Costa Rica with original quad headlights. I brought down to Costa Rica with me a pair of JW Speaker low beams and a pair of JW speaker high beams to retrofit into my truck.
The situation IS NOT plug and play. The truck has H4 and H3 sockets which physically plug into the JW speaker harnesses but the problem is that the JW speaker low beam is not a dual element light like a H4 is. It is low beam only. JW speaker wisely engineering the light for H4 retrofit with two positive leads so that when the vehicle energizes H4 low the light comes on and when vehicle energizes H4 high the light comes on just the same. Sounds great and easy....but....
The truck does not switch between two different positive leads. The headlight circuits are switched on the negative side so for the low beam (outer) fixture the truck sends negative to one pin on low and the other pin on high. WIth LED you have to honor polarity so you can't keep the low beam fixture on when you go ot high beam as the negative connection disappears. You may think to just join the two switched negatives together but when happens there is that the high beam inner lights come on when in low beam mode.
In order to make this work I'm going to have to get a cube relay for each side and wire the Normally Closed pin to take ground to the LED light when in low beam mode then use the switched high beam ground on the coil of the relay to trigger it change to have the switched high beam ground via Normally Open pin brought to the LED fixture.
My problem is trying to find relays here in Uvita, Costa Rica especially with the N.C. option.
for the time being I have to choose to either connect them so that I lose the low beam light entirely when going to high beam (not much of an issue as I have Baja Designs LP6 also wired with relay to come on with high beams).
Or I can connect the low and high negatives together and get 4 lights on all the time and aim the high beams very low and let my LP6s be the real high beams.
There isn't much concern about being "legal" hear as people run all kinds of crazy lights including flashing colors and virtually any kind of light bars and etc. There is the question of passing annual inspection where you typically have to unplug aftermarket lights to pass. But I'm not sure if they will not like the high beams staying on all the time.
Hi mate! Have you installed the lights? How does it look?