Thread: HOW TO: B14: Installation of JDM Headlights and Corners

I've been meaning to get around to posting this up, just didn't have time. I know there is another thread about installing the headlights, but there are no pics in there.

First things first, buy the Headlights and Corners.

You can get them from the forum member "Liuspeed" or his website.

You will need an 9003/H4 harness, which can be found in Autzone

1. Unhook your battery

2. Take the screw off that holds the corners to the headlight. Do this for both sides.


3. You will need to pull out the corner, it takes a little bit of work to get it out. Sometimes it might feel like your breaking it, do your best to carefully take it out. Unhook the wire that goes into the corner light bulb.



4. Take out the light bulb out of the corner



Now you will notice that USDM light bulb plastic holder has 4 flaps, while the JDM ones only have 3

USDM:


JDM:


5. You will have to use your USDM light bulb and plastic holder, because JDM ones have a different plug. USDM ones are designed to both stay on with the as turning lights. JDM ones are only meant for either staying on or as a turning light.

To be able to fit in your USDM light bulb/plastic you will need to cut off 3 flaps, leaving the biggest flap alone.




6. Try to fit in the USDM light bulb and plastic into the JDM corner. It was a perfect fit for me, but it might be different for other people.




Now if you compare the USDM and JDM corners, you will see why it is very difficult to use JDM headlights with USDM corners, and vise versa

USDM:


JDM:


JDM Headlight:


7. OPTIONAL Now its time to take off your stock headlights. I had the most issues with this, because my bolts were rusted etc. So I didn't bother with taking pictures on how to take them off because I had to go with this method:



8. Now since your headlights are off it's time to work with your new headlights.

A. JDM headlights come with an extra hole for city driving lights, now since our cars don't have an extra wire to even hook them up, we will just cover up the hole. You can do what ever your mind feels like, but here is what I did.



I got some metallic tape:



Cut it in pieces:



And finally taped it on:




Started working on patching the back side:



B. The grill holders, these are not needed unless you are planning on taking off the stock grill holder.

NOTE - You do NOT have to cut off the grill holders on the headlights. You can just take off the stock grill mounts and then use the headlight's grill mounts for your grill :biggthump



I cut them off:


(Thats my dad's butt, he was grinding away the rusted bolts)

10. Time to cut the 9004/9007 harness and replace it with the 9003/H4 One.

Here is a picture of what you should solder the harness wires to. Sometimes the harnesses will have just all black wires. For that reason, you will need to wire depending on where the light bulb plugs into the harness.

Connect the harness, then test them. Do not solder on the harnesses until you have checked that they are working perfectly fine.



NOTE: You must have the ground wired up to the terminal that says "Connect to Black (Ground)". If you do not wire that one to the ground your headlights will be too dim, and the high beam light on your dash will always turn on!

If your high/low beam lights are reversed, then swap the wires position. Swap the wires of 1-2 or 4-5 only!

Once you get them to turn on properly, you can now solder the harness to the wires on your car.

Headlight Test:


Special thanks to SR20 91 SE-R for finding the problem with the wiring and informing me about it!

11. Use electrical tape to tape the wires separatley, then together, this is done to both keep them neat and preventing a short circuit.



12. Now you can put the headlights in place.

Align the side of the headlight with the fender holes:


I used these screws, M6-1.0 x 25.


You can get the bolts from Autozone, I bought a whole set of Japanese car screws, bolts, etc.


Screw them in..



You also have two bolts that need to be tightened in the back, you can use the stock nuts, but I decided to use the ones that came from that pack of screws



13. Get the 9003/H4 lights in (you can do this before you install the headlights, or after.




Picture of the headlight in place and harness connected to the lamp



Headlights are in place and tightened:



14. Installing the corners. Connect the corner harness wire into the corner light.

15. Then gently work the corner in place, whatch the little flap on top. Align that flap with the hole in the headlights, then put a screw in. I had no problems with fitment, I don't know if you will, just try to be careful not to break anything.




Headlights and Corners in place, note I took my grill off because I replaced it, you do not need to take your grill off.


Thats it, just clean up, hook up your battery and try them out.

Some pictures of what I have:

Question for Vadim, I cut the grill supports off of the car a looong time ago when I had halos (I didnt know any better or did I have knowledge of the forum) so now I realized the honeycomb grill and the headlight grill supports do not line up, there is a bigger separation between the headlight grill holders and the chassis grill holder, so my honeycomb grill is only supported by the two top holders any suggestions??

Thats weird, the two two would hold it kinda well, but your best bet now is zip ties

Vadim, I'm doing this and I come across these wires, they are held down with tape as you can see, could I use these for the little hole lights? and if so, what kind of bulb do I need.

Do you have fog lights on your car? That looks like the fog light wires.

Nope, never had fogs when I purchased it. I am the 2nd owner, 1st owner had this car in Hawaii. Talked to Liu, he said for me to use 194 wedge bulb and sockets, or something about B13 side marker harness or B14 reverse harness.

No no thats why you have those wires .

See what Nissan usually does is, wire everything up, then if the car has fogs, it just adds couple more things, but the wires are there even if you don't have a specific option.

If you do use them, you would need to wire up a new turning signal switch on the steering wheel, which has the fog lights on/off.

What colors are on those wires going to the connection?

Vadim,
Dont tape off the driving lights.. Put some Amber LED in there and wire them up to the constant-on corner lights. Then you can have driving lights like mine!!

Go to the junkyard and get 2 bulb holders from any Infiniti/Nissan sidelights. They will fit perfect! Wire the bulb holders as follows:
1. Connect the new bulb holder ground wire to the Corner lamp black ground and tape up.
2. Connect the new bulb Positive wire to the Corner lamp Constant-On wire (not the blinking wire) and tape up.
3. Insert a 194 Wedge LED bulb with your color of choice (Red or Blue are illegal in most states). These are cheap from Hong Kong but works great, bright, and will last much longer than normal filament bulbs.
4. Insert the new bulb holders into your driving lamp holes.

Done... 1/2 hour job for both headlights!!

Scotty

Asian, Liu is talking about this:





find a b13 with sidemarkers, take those 2 screws out, and you'll recognize it immediately. just make sure u get enough pos/neg wire length. unlike me

EDIT DC that's a damn good idea about the driving lights.