Mintaka (Honda Prelude) CustomLightz HID Headlight Retrofit

Mintaka is Holly's1994 Honda Prelude VTEC. Holly bought Mintaka roughly two years ago. Mintaka had almost exactly 72,000 miles on her when Holly bought her, which is REALLY LOW for a Honda Prelude, especially a 1994. The previous owner had done a few modifications including Enkei wheels, an AEM cold air intake, and an aftermarket exhaust that we're not sure about the manufacture on. Also, the Mintaka has the clear JDM parking corner lights. Otherwise, it's stock.

The headlight output has always left something to be desired. The glass on the headlights was in great shape. The issue had to be the bulbs. Holly and I have recently been spoiled by driving Cagalli Yula (Subaru BRZ Limited) which comes with OEM HID headlights. The difference is pretty staggering between HID and halogen headlights. Also, the added visibility and thereby the additional safety of the HID headlights is wonderful, something I first noticed around 5 or 6 years ago when driving a friend's Nissan Murano. Driving the Murano and talking to my friend James got me interested in the headlight retrofits.

Ceras Victoria (Honda Prelude), Headlight Swap

As seen in the other photos Ceras Victoria had suffered damaged.
To make her street legal I needed a working headlight.
This is the install.

Nausicaa (Honda Prelude), JDM Headlight Swap

As stated in the previous post I needed to put a pair of headlights on Ceras Victoria. The JDM ones would not fit, so, I put the JDM ones on Nausicaa and removed Nausicaa's for later use on Ceras Victoria. In the end I wound up with a spare headlight housing. Yay!

JDM Headlights

As the pictures show... Ceras Victoria had busted up headlights.
Nausicaa had a good pair.

A friend of mine had a pair of black housing JDM headlights for sale for a reasonable price, so I bought them from him, figuring those are what I wanted in the end on a finished car anyways (probably HID retrofitted, but I'll get to that one day, I hope).

So... here's the picture of the headlights I got before being installed, and the harness I bought so that the USDM harness in the car worked with JDM headlights, which us different bulbs.