Ok, I finished up the custom cutoff shield and painted it.
From 20 feet away, at eye level. Now, this was taken with all the lights off, in a basement. All shots are at exactly the same camera settings, unaltered.
THIS IS WHY YOU USE PROJECTORS AND DONT JUST DROP THAT ISH IN YOUR STOCK HOUSINGS
Notice that the light has about the same intensity as your 1156 reverse lights.
Now let's drop under the cutoff.
Wow. There's where all the light is hiding.
Beam pattern at 20 feet. I'm pretty impressed with my cutoff shield. $2 in sheet metal and an hour with a drill, a dremel, and a file gave me this. The beam is actually wider, but due to the weird shape of the basement, that was all that was visible. The rest was hitting another wall
Close-up of the color.
