E63 M6 Angel Eyes - Page 2

watchme · 8th June 2009, 22:57

I also have toyed with the idea of building an angel eye upgrade myself for the E39. It's hard to spend 300 bucks on AiB's when you know what the components are worth. What are you using to mount the luxeon star into the headlight housing?

whatheheck · 8th June 2009, 23:09

I am using the Predator Ice as LED housing.

I am almost done.

I will post photos and DIY guide soon.

watchme · 9th June 2009, 23:09

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Originally Posted by whatheheck

I am using the Predator Ice as LED housing.

I am almost done.

I will post photos and DIY guide soon.

Thank you for that. I'm excited too copy you!

whatheheck · 10th June 2009, 01:29

I've done this already to my E39 M5.

I have already experimented with different LED color bulbs and different LED drivers

See my post here, post number 245.

The process is the same.

I am just now experimenting with even brighter LED bulbs that recently came out.

watchme · 12th June 2009, 22:54

Now I just need to find an old set of predator ice's.

BTW...love the blue but I pass way too many cops everyday here.

whatheheck · 13th June 2009, 00:35

Thanks.

And that's the reason I removed the blue LED AE even though that is the coolest color and my favorite color - I was pulled over twice by cops already and got 2 warnings already.

Got tired of being hassled by cops.

I keep telling them "why dont you go after the real bad guys, drug dealers and child molesters. All I am doing is playing around with different LED colors".

Somehow they dont like that comment.

Quote:

Originally Posted by watchme

Now I just need to find an old set of predator ice's.

BTW...love the blue but I pass way too many cops everyday here.

whatheheck · 24th June 2009, 06:30

Since no one here was kind enough to take 30 seconds of his precious time to tell me where the M6 angel eye bulbs are located on my new M6 and how to access them - I just went ahead and figured it out myself.

And since I am a sharing kind of guy - here you go, for sharing.

First, note and disclaimers:
I am not posting here asking for your comments or whether you like my mods or not. Remember that to each is his own and as long as we are happy with our own cars, that is the only thing that matters.

So I am very happy with this upgrade.

If this is too hard to do for you or if the light is too dim or too bright for you - then this mod is not for you.

Again, I am posting for sharing info and not asking for your approval.

Now that we got that out of the way, here you go.

The first two photo shows location of Angel Eye bulbs on an M6.

3rd photo is stock angel eye bulbs.

4th photo is the Predator Ice housing that I used.

5th photo is the LED driver and LED bulbs that I used. These LED bulbs are super bright. 285 lumens.

However, the LED lens is 25 degree beam so the light output is not focused directly to the AE fiber optic cable, hence the light output is not as bright as Angel iBrights Ver 3. But I am good with the light output.

5th photo shows the LED soldered to the P ice housing.

6th photo shows how bright this new LED tri star bulb is.

7th photo is the new Predator Ice with 700ma LED Driver called Powerpuck with a Tri-Star 285 lumens white LED insalled. All done and installed.

Note: I want a plug and play connection so I used the stock AE bulb housing, cut it in half and used the bottom connector part.

8th photo is the same, just zoomed out a little bit.

9th photo shows what you get when you try and access the angel eye bulbs from the headlight housing. You get hand bumps as there is not enough room to stick your hand in between the metal parts as shown on blue circled spot photos 1 and two.

Summary: Not as bright as Angel iBrights (because angel eye brights uses a more focused LED lens beam) but I am happy with the results.

If someone wants to do this mod, on post 1 is where I ordered all of my parts, here is your DIY procedures - have fun with your mod, let me know if I can help.

Total cost of this mod is about $180.00.

Next mod for me is speaker replacement.

You all take are.

Happy modding.