Sedan GT Street Kit Install Thread (WIP)

[47_MasoN_47]

Oh, so it's not supposed to be a straight line, it's supposed to have that drop in it?

[Kaotic Lazagna]

The only projectors that I can think of having a driver and passenger side are the LS430/460 projectors since they utilize both a projector and a small reflective housing right under the projector to get maximum width and throw.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by 47_MasoN_47

Oh, so it's not supposed to be a straight line, it's supposed to have that drop in it?

Yup. Should have a step like that. Now, if it was a downward step, then they would have accidentally shipped you a RHD projector

[47_MasoN_47]

Ok well I've finally gotten the housings cut up sufficiently where I feel like I can permanently mount the projectors in there.



I seated the lights properly in the front of the car so that they aren't pointing directly at the ground this time.



It gets a nice cutoff (most of the light above the cutoff is just from the camera), but is way too low. I looked through my car's manual and couldn't find anything on headlight adjustment, but they need to be cranked up a fair bit.



Here's the view from inside the car showing why they need to be raised.

Low beam

High beam


So does anyone know how to adjust the headlights on the Yaris sedan?

[Brian]

Originally Posted by 47_MasoN_47

So does anyone know how to adjust the headlights on the Yaris sedan?

Turn the knobs on the back of the headlights to raise and lower. You can do it by hand or with a socket or screwdriver.

[47_MasoN_47]

Thanks Brian, I'll try that. I thought that's what that thing might have been but I didn't want to jack something up.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Also, if you can, rotate the projectors slightly counter clock wise as they're a bit crooked.

If you park parallel to a wall on a flat surface, adjust the headlights so they are slightly on a decline from being completely horizontal along the wall. Adjust either side, then re-park perpendicular to the wall, 50 ft would be good, farther the better (just not too far), and then adjust the other side so that it matches the side you adjusted parallel to the wall (with either way I mentioned a few posts back; single or double "steps").

[47_MasoN_47]

Alright, Yeah I'll try to rotate them some, unfortunately they turned a bit while I was tightening them up.

Thanks for the advice. These are setup to be used in that double step fashion. After I looked at the boxes for the projectors I noticed there is a specific one for the left and right, it's just labeled on the box and not the projector. Luckily I had kept up with which one was in which box!

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Yeah, tightening them is tricky. Just trial and error I guess since I don't really have a way to suggest. lol.

Double step, eh? Okay, parallel park with the passenger side towards the wall and aim so that it's horizontal. Then park perpendicular to the wall and adjust the driver side so that it creates that first step. ;)

Very odd. I wonder why it has a driver and passenger side since the cut offs look the same to me. I can see why there would be if the passenger side had a flare at it's right most end.

[47_MasoN_47]

Got one finished.

Progress has been slow on everything in general. Lot of family stuff going on at the moment, work being busy, etc. Once this headlight junk is finished and the car is drivable again, I'll spend some more time looking for the best way to mount those side skirts.

[fnkngrv]

status???

[white_rice]

Originally Posted by cali yaris

Matching the wheels (gun metal) or body color are best.

Agreed, my first choice would be match it up to the body colour 100% to make it look OEM.

The only other option would be the dark grey, to match the wheels as stated, but personally I'd match up the factory colour.

[Scubaru Steve]

the shrouds on your projectors, are they the Gatling gun or the mini Gatling gun?
were about to do the same thing. but we are doing the mini's

[fnkngrv]

I will shoot Jason an email or a call to get an update.

[47_MasoN_47]

The shrouds are mini gatling gun. The full size gatling gun wouldn't even fit in the sedan housing at all haha.

Sorry about the lack of updates. The 2 skirts are 100% ready for install and the front piece is about 80% sanded getting ready for primer. I've had a lot going on with family stuff and then catching up on some work the truck needed. Since the Yaris is running again I've mostly just been driving it instead of doing more work haha. The interior is all torn apart where I've been installing that new head unit I got from a member here. That thing is awesome but I've got some wiring work to do to get it to work with the custom ports I'd added with the last HU.

[melon19]

Common man, post some finished pictures. Your car is one of the most interesting sedans out there.

[47_MasoN_47]

Well, about the time I was going to get balls deep in this project again my grandad's health took a turn for the worst. He passed away last weekend. That kindof derailed my work for a bit, but I should get the front piece finished this week. The rear part needs a little fitting work, so I'm not going to paint that until I figure out how I want to go about fitting that properly, but I should be able to get the front and skirts installed.

Got a lot of work to do on the interior getting the new radio wired up right and adding some ports and whatnot. Also, after talking with Kaotic I think I'm going to paint some of the panels on the interior to match the lip kit. Should look pretty good when it's done.

This is certainly taking a lot more time than I planned, but with painting weather quickly fading I've been trying to finish up a bunch of work on the truck as well. I didn't get near as much done this summer as I wanted, but I guess that's how it goes.

When I bought this light rail it was pink and had about 5 layers of paint underneath that. Sanding all that junk off and then getting it primed/painted took a good bit of work, but I wanted to finish that before the winter so I could go ahead and get the lights mounted. The lighting on this truck is horrid. Those old sealed beams aren't worth a fart in a jar and the reverse lights literally do nothing other than tell other people that you're in reverse.

[jcboy]

my condolences. yeah you need to do it soon. weather there's not like here wherein even if it's rain season you get pretty decent paint weather/sunshine on the days when rain isn't pouring.