Sorry about the delay... I was travelling (was in Westchester, NY and Blacksburg, VA) I finally buttoned up the headlights. Sorry, no night shots yet, I will provide some when I get the chance.
I installed the "coolsaber57" ghetto shrouds. It's a piece of sheet aluminum, bent into a "C" shape, with an elongated hole to fit the lens opening. It's painted with the same Krylon metallic dark grey that I painted everything with, and is attached on either side of the projector with - you guessed it - aluminum tape. (which had been also painted, so it's not silver and purple)
I pushed the projector brackets back as far as I could to try to aim them higher up. They're still a little too low, but hopefully I'll be able to finish my adjustments with the housing screws. The rotation is fine, and A32 housings can do left/right and up/down.
All in all, I probably spent over $200 in misc parts (wire, fuses, relays, connectors, brakcets, screws, nuts, bolts, etc. - it adds up fast), and 40+ hours building these things. Both of those numbers are higher than I expected.
What would I do differently? Use the "R34 Style" housings. They are about $150 shipped on ebay, and they look a hundred times easier to work with. The A32 housings are hard to orient, because there are no straight lines. I found that the height of the reflector, which looks consistent, is not - it gets a little bit narrower at the back. I would fab up a bracket, stick it in, it would slide easily in a little bit, then get stuck. A lot of trial and error with these things.
I was happy with how my tweaked MDX projectors performed, and I would highly recommend them to someone on a budget.
It's a releif to be done with these. The downside is that I am now checking Superflux LED prices and looking at PWM designs....
Final pics:
