Me too, I like the 2002 MY look, hence the Crystaline headlight on my truck. Now if I could only find the chrome that goes in the lower cladding, I'd be set...

 

Chrome in the lower cladding? got a pic?

 

Sunline Fan might have one. He had the cladding with chrome on the rollover he's parting out. Already sold the cladding but might have the pic still.

 

Yup, it had the chrome. They are technically sold, but I'm still waiting on a paypal payment. It's boxed up though, and I didn't get any pictures of it. Now that I think of it, I should have to show where the adhesive is...

 

Here's a (dirty) picture of mine with the chrome:

 

Here's a couple updated pictures from this afternoon, now that it's clean

 

Those guys are professional installers of projector headlamps. They use OEM parts with no cheap "ricer" crap. You simply cannot beat the lighting performance of a properly set up projector headlight.

Checkout the work they did on a Mercury Marauder headlight...looks pretty damn good IMHO:




Mark’s Mercury Marauder – FXR Projector Conversion | HID Projector Headlight Retrofit for Subaru, Honda, BMW, Scion and More | LightWerkz.net

Some more of there work...not a Super Duty but it shows how integrated the modification is. Hardly "cobbled" together.

 

The dodge lights don't look bad because they are round. The little round projectors stuck in a big square light housing just looks funny to me.

Trust me I know all about projectors and how they work. But unless factory built they normally look out of place when installed in vehicles that didn't come with them. Plus if you only have the projector lights they SUCK for high beams.

If set up correctly and shimmed right HID bulbs will light the same exact way as a halogen in a normally halogen housing.

 

May be a dumb question, but what is "shimming" a HID?

 

I don't know yet, I'll let you know when I find out.

 

Shimming is adding or subtracting like a washer, spacer, aluminum shim stock, etc...to get or fill your desired gap or space. Aluminum shim stock is thin aluminum laminated together and you peel off the top layer to get your desired thickness.

 

Yeah. pretty much like indexing a spark plug you would shim the HID so the "arc chamber" of the HID would sit at the same depth in the housing as the original tungsten curl did.

The "arc chamber" in a HID light is basically the same size as the tungsten curl in a halogen light. So if adjusted to sit in the same exact spot it should theoretically output the same exact pattern as the halogen did in the same headlight housing.

 

Yep those are them!

Anyone know the part number for these? Can't find them anywhere...

 

Called one of the salvage yards to the north of me. They have a 06 header panel in stock for $125. Have it on reserve and going to pick it up tomorrow! Gonna have to order HID's soon. Can't wait to finally get started in on this front end!

 

Wrong one!!

So I go, pay, and bring home the header panel. Set it down on the floor in my shop and start taking the yard tags off the panel. I see on one of the tags it says 03! Load it back up and go back to the yard to return the panel and explain what I want. Guys looking on the computer and says "sorry we don't show a 05-07 header panel".... I say they have a 06 on ebay that they are selling the headlights out of, what happened to the header panel. He points me in the direction of the "ebay guy". I ask the "ebay guy" what happened to the 06 they had on ebay. He says that truck is all gone! Once again I'm . But then he clicks on something and says "this truck just came in yesterday", I look and it is a silver 06 with the roof flattened down and the front end is perfect! I say I want the header panel out of THAT truck. He says no problem, we'll have it out for you by tuesday this next week and it was the same price as the 03 they sold me earlier.

So not all bad I guess, should have the right panel this next week.