Kouki Projectors Question Options

[smkr3w]

SMKRW's kit is incomplete, what actually goes to that ballast is another harness from the hid kit, your stock harness needs the adapter that goes straight into the Hid bulbs spades. nowhere does the stock wiring touch the ballast. like richees pics there is another harness the black one that goes to the ballast on the upper left. so basically the stock harness goes straight into the bulb.

incomplete how? im not trying to argue, im just oh so confused now..
my kit doesnt have the same bulb/plug combo as the ddm one, but is set up like my pic above

[mkernz22]

My DDM kit uses those same plugs. However, at no point does my car's wiring touch the ballast. Both the 9006 and H1 HID bulbs plug into the car's wiring and then lead to the ballast. It's just how each manufacturer chooses to make their kit. That's why I'd love to get a list of which kits require the plug and play harness and which don't. So far we can confirm that the DDM kit requires the harness and the Xentec kit can be used as an adapter.

Quick edit: not my picture but you can see where the 9006 plug goes with the bulb, not the ballast. So with an H1 bulb from DDM, there is a need to convert the Celica's wiring to H1.

Actually, if you follow the wiring, correctly, you will see that it does not go into the bulb first. I just installed a set of HID's into both of my friend's cars. There is a extension harness between the stock plug (on the car) that leads to the ballast so that you can hide the ballast for a cleaner look. From the ballast, it goes right to the HID's. Every set of HID's I've seen uses the same connection between the ballast and the HID bulb. In fact, the place my buddy got his 8k HID's for his fog and headlights, gave him a 6k bulb for the headlights since they didn't have any 8k's and is going to just swap the bulb out when they get the 8k bulbs in.

[mechedjun]

This is the wrong forum (exterior).

Check the Interior/Electrical forum

There you can find the stickies:
Electrical Sticky

In the sticky you can read up on your info:
Lights/Bulbs

Anyway..
Low beam headlamp:
USDM- 9006
JDM projectors- HB4/H1

High beam headlamp
USDM- 9005
JDM- HB3)

If I were you I'd skip cutting/soldering the lighting harness and just buy an HID kit with the bulbs that fit accordingly.
HID Write-up

Hope that helps

*EDIT* Lol.. nvm richee beat me to it

If he is switching to projectors you cannot just buy the bulbs that fit correctly. This changes the bulb to H1 and thus leaves your stock harness at 9006. Theres no such thing as an H1 bulb with a 9006 end, thus the adapter needs to be made. Unless you just mean don't switch to projectors and just get the right bulbs for it.

Upon further research I see the real predicament now. The problem is, yes you are correct, no such thing as H1 to 9006 adaptor. To be clear, I have no intention of using a HID kit. The question is, H1 harness has a single power wire coming out from the bulb clip. The base of the clip/bulb assembly is, I think, the negative ground itself. However 9006 has both power and ground wire. Its easy enough to solder the power wires but what the heck do I do with the negative wire from the 9006?

-Dave

[mkernz22]

Can you get us some pictures of your lights?

[richee3]

My H1's have both power and ground.

[mechedjun]

Can you get us some pictures of your lights?

I will as soon as I can.

-Dave

My H1's have both power and ground.

Really? where did you get your H1 harness?

-Dave

[richee3]

They came with the projectors.

[trdproven]

but seriously the stock harness meets up with the bulb. thats why theres the adapter. and thats why older write-ups have it splicing.

This post has been edited by trdproven: Feb 14, 2012 - 12:05 AM