This is a q45 xenon projector, and these are some of the most iconic projector retrofits. Anyone has ever done in this video we're going to talk about what they have in common and we'll even show you what they look like in comparison to each other, all right. Well, let's just start off with this big cannon like if you can tell, i don't, have little hands and this thing is a monster. This is from a q45 and i've seen these retrofits i've actually done a couple in old lexus.

I've done one in a honda fit. This thing requires a giant round open housing and people used to always get this thing just because it looks weird. So this is in contrast to the july, led projectors. I'm going to show you right now and i'm going to tell you what i think that they have in common all right now.

These bad boys are what we've been making the videos on the last series, all about the custom jewel eyes, the retrofits that people maybe don't realize they probably don't want to go down this road. They look super awesome but again, they're huge. This thing is 16 inches end to end, and it's going to fit in almost no housings out there kind of similar to those q45s all right. This is the last projector that i want to show you.

This is actually from an s2000. This is an ap2 s2000 projector, which is one of the best xenon projectors that ever hit the market straight out of the box, like it came on the car amazing, but look at this giant bracket, that's on there. This also has something in common with the other. Two that i mentioned, and it just goes back to how things used to be back in the day when retrofits were difficult, when you actually had to have somebody who was an expert that knew how to mount things, how to modify everything and do a ton of Manual labor, so that you could get the look that you wanted now i did show you two xenon projectors and one led projector, but in comparison to what's on the market.

Nowadays, it's so different. They have bi-led projectors with a threaded shaft on the back, and you basically can just put them right into any sort of a reflector housing tighten a little nut on the back for the most part, you're done. You can adjust those headlights up and down left and right, and it doesn't really change too much inside of the housing and it fits all right enough talk about how these things look when they're off and what they fit in. Let's turn them on we're going to compare just the little cutoff lines and i'll get some street shots of these things later, but we're going to start with the king right here, this s2000 projector this thing again very difficult to work with, but i'm going to turn It on, and the first thing you're going to notice - is that the ballast is going to be screaming as soon as i give it power and there it is so check this thing out.

This is a this is a monster. That thing is ridiculously sharp and this is just how they came right from the factory all right now. Let's look in contrast to this s2000 awesome performance projectors to this q45, and i think you're going to be surprised at what you see. If you look, i'm actually using a gtr ballast and the igniter, and i had it on the s2000 now i'm going to put it on this infiniti q45 projector and all of those little lenses are going to be trying to focus the same light that that one S2000 projector was there we go screaming, and here we go.

You see all of those different little paths, those different little lines right there, and that is all these individual lenses on this q45 projector trying to focus that light and trying to layer them on top of each other. You know in a in a focused way, i'm actually going to take the bulb out of this and try to show you what the inside looks like, so that you can see the cut off lines inside of this projector by the way for this test. We are not skimping out. We have some super expensive, osram bulbs.

These are the original xenarc. They have a really cool color to them. These are yeah. I think these bulbs are like 100 bucks a pop.

So let me carefully take this guy out and then i want to show you that's what the bulb actually looks like now. Let's look at the inside of this projector, so i could show you so, as you could tell like there's little cutoff lines in front of each of those lenses and they are trying hard to focus everything. This is weird. This is not like a smart move.

If you want performance, it just looks crazy. It looks like a fly eyeball or something like all the little or spider face. I don't know it's pretty strange. It doesn't perform particularly well, but because it looks so different, it was really really popular, but it doesn't mean that it's a good thing that you should put on your car.

The same could be said about these, which are the last lights that i'm going to show. You right now and because of the fact that these have an led driver. I can't just plug these things into the same ballast. So let me put these back in their housing, i'm going to plug them in, while the driver is inside of that housing and then we're going to point those around and talk about what we're seeing with these all right.

Here we go july on, and this is what all the fuss is a boot. This is what everybody's trying to get. This is just a low beam. Now, apparently, the tlx projectors look exactly the same as these, except they also have projector lenses on the high beam.

These ones do not, so you can see very clearly that there are little glass covers over the low beams here, but not in the high beam section and either way they both turn on the same way. Just the three of the five are your low beams and take a look at the cut off line on this and notice. It kind of has some similarities to that q45. You've got multiple different layers that are trying to lay down nice and flat layer up.

They are nice and bright in comparison to uh. What i could show you next i'll turn on an led bulb in a regular halogen, projector and we'll take a look at what that looks like nothing fancy, just a run-of-the-mill crappy led, bulb and we'll compare that up on the ceiling as well. Okay, i'm trying not to move right now, because this is a halogen projector. It's got a cheap, led bulb in there.

It can't adjust to properly get the best output. You could see the the cut-off line um, but it is not made to be the brightest option out there and it's very different than like, let's say the jewel eye, with the multiple layers or even the q45, with the multiple layers. Let's see what happens if i move, if this thing is going to keep going, it just died. I don't know why.

But anyway, this is an old led, bulb inside of a projector and a lot of people. This is what they're running right and what they want to be running is something that looks amazing, like this q45 or like the july, but in reality, if they wanted to get the best performance ever, they would want to be rocking the s2000 projector. These are monsters all of them all three. Actually, the jewel eyes are just super long and difficult to have space for them.

The q45s are these giant monsters that just don't have very many housings that they would fit in the first place, and then you have the s2000 that requires tons and tons of custom modification just so that you can start putting it into a new housing and because You've chopped all the different brackets off now you have nothing to really mount it to so you really have to know what you're doing to mess with that s2000 and most of the projector retrofit parts on the market now are for people who are just getting started. You don't have to be as good so that you can work with the new projectors, whereas these old ones, you actually had to be pretty awesome at what you were doing, but that's all to be said about old school stuff. These days, you can get a full replacement, led projector. That is just way more practical of an option.

So let me know out of these four things that i just showed you: what were the cutoffs that you thought were the best and then what do you think was the coolest looking out of them best performance and best. Looking, let me know your vote in the comments below.