First off, I could not come up with a way to remove the projectors without removing the front of the headlights. So first, have at it with a heat gun until you end up with this.
After the lens is off, you need to unclip the adjusters so you can pull the lenses out of the housing (i just used a flathead to pop it off)
You will also need to remove the autoleveling motor, and undo the arm from the housing (it slides out the side, takes a little wiggling)
You'll end up with the housing separated so you can get at the projector itself
There are several screws holding the projector to the housing, its pretty self explanitory at this point what needs to come undone
Here is a side by side of the unfacelifted (left) and facelifted (right) projectors. If you look at the unfacelifted (left) you can see the cutoff shield behind the lens, its very easy to get to and very easy to see.
Now my facelifted cutoff shields... are the worlds most complicated situation ever...
You need to remove the actual cutoff shield from this contraption which takes a little persuasion
After a little paint
After the reversal of all of this, your left with this. Now to explain the results, the left beam is painted matte white, and you can see the cutoff is slightly cleaner with less yellowing/rainbowing at the cutoff. The right beam is stock and you can see the yellowing and discoloring at the edge of the beam.
Now I ordered TSX-R lenses... But I ordered 2.5" lenses, not realizing the obvious difference in the model years, so i'll be sending mine back to order myself the 3" lenses. So for anyone doing this, doublecheck the size needed before ordering.
Comments and questions welcome! I'll update this next week when I get the correct TSX-R lenses and install those, i'll add a few steps in the middle there.
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