Since I got the gift tonight of a night off work, I figured I would do an in-depth review of my retrofit "upgrade" to my 2010 Sport. When I bought the car over a year ago, I had to do the retrofit immediately, which I did with Morimoto Mini H1 6.0's which I had lying around since I bought them in 2013. I never really liked these because they just didn't make the light very white looking, like the 5.0's actually did. But they served me well for a year and I still enjoy them dearly. But since the TRS Black Friday sale rolled around, I got it into my head that I needed to upgrade my projectors to LEDs. Since I would be getting a 20% discount on the projectors and I already had the wiring harness I needed, I pulled the trigger and bought them with a set of the XB fog lights, which ended up not fitting my car, because they're really for the '12-13 models.
I did the install with some Apollo 3.0 Black shrouds which fill up the headlight nicely and do a good job covering the exposed connectors on the right side of the projectors. They also snap right onto the lens holders which means, no JB weld to keep these in place. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pics of them snapped into place.
There was a bit of a learning curve to the install of these projectors, since the threaded mounting shaft is so much wider than with the Minis and I wasn't able to use the H4 adapter because the shaft is so wide that I was afraid of damaging the threads on the shaft pushing it down, so I ended up just using the silicone doughnut between the reflector and the projector to quell the vibration, although I still haven't tightened the projectors enough, as they vibrate when going over a bumpy road. But of course, the reason for this review is to discuss the output, and here is the reason for placing the term upgrade in parentheses.
With HID's and good projectors, you get great width of beam, and even with the Mini H1s, we're talking 4 lanes of highway illumination and an even distribution of light. No real hotspot to speak of, just great overall coverage, if not the greatest range, brightness, or that wonderful true HID color, which was always a minus with the 6.0 version of these projectors. And there lies the elephant in the room with these projectors.
The color according to Morimoto is 5500K, which under the right conditions is right between white and slight purple color, which is more prevalent with your 6000K color temperature. I like it and how it matches your new OEM projector LED setups. They come on instantly compared to my slightly tired HID setup, which was taking about 20-23 seconds to fully ignite and reach operating temp and color. The reach on these projectors is also really nice, with a still sharp cutoff line being visible well over 50 feet away and the dropoff is as it should, so to not blind anyone while driving at night..... well, no more than your typical OEM LED setup does, which occurs more often than one might assume. The high beam is actuated by a little motor that moves a gear which pulls back the cutoff shield to achieve the high beam. It's fine, it's bright, it has good reach, and it does it's job.
The elephant in the room is the width, which is in a nutshell, disappointing. I had read that LEDs lack in overall width when compared to HIDs, but I wasn't really ready for the difference when I first fired them up at night all installed in the car. While on your typical town streets and two-lane roads, you get a nice pattern and that lovely color, but when you look slightly off to the right(especially to the right!) you see what I can only describe as a slight blind spot. I believe that the reason for this is simply you have this powerful hotspot and then off in either direction, but especially to the right, the output drops off rather significantly past the outer lane where before I would still see pretty well with my HIDs. Now most of ya'll who have seen this in person probably wouldn't notice, but I'm a huge nitpicker and this is something I told myself I'd have to get used to, which I mostly have, but I wish Morimoto hadn't focused so much on Lux readings and that overwhelming hotspot and made these projectors more like their projectors for HIDs. I know this is a lot to ask for and I am complaining, but a company that's been at this for so long can do better and I look forward to their next effort. But at $370 a pair, most won't know what I'm on about and my next upgrade will probably end up being D2S projectors and 35W ballasts the way God himself intended. What follows are some assorted pictures and I plan on updating with different shots as well.

While this is a definite improvement if you're making the move from halogen to LED, because while the new Two Stroke 3.0 bulbs from Morimoto seem like the ideal solution for anyone wanting LEDs in their stock reflector headlights, their cost ($170 a pair) and the fact that the GE3 headlights kinda suck, make that decision a little iffy. I like these projectors, but I don't love them. Maybe if they were $250 my disappointment wouldn't have been as extreme, but this is why I'm happy to review this product for you guys, and use it everyday. If Morimoto sort out these issues in the 3.0, then they can have my money again, but they have to live up to the still reigning king of the easy-install retrofit, which is the D2S 5.0.

Here's what you get in the box along with the Apollo 3.0 shrouds.

Here's what you get in the box, projectors, their drivers and the Apollo 3.0 shrouds I chose for this retrofit.

On the left is one of my Mini H1 projectors it's Gatling Gun shroud that I painted black myself and the MLED 2.0 with it's Apollo 3.0 shroud. Both parts larger than the Minis.

Homemade retrofit oven just the right size for my headlight. Heat courtesy of a Ryobi heat gun to get up to a 250F temp to soften the sealant of the lens.

This is the lock nut for the threaded mounting shaft, which was too wide for the opening which meant I had to take a Dremel to the opening so I could tighten it down while still retaining the mounting points for the original H4 headlight, in case I go back to halogen.

Projector in the housing and sealed with lock nut in place, even though I have to go back and re-tighten with the lock nut tool I bought after doing the initial retrofit. Only one wire coming from the projector, even though I have to go back and fix it since it should go right through the middle of the threaded shaft.

Too much glare on the lens of the headlight and I didn't have a chance to paint the chrome bezel since I couldn't find the paint I bought for that very purpose. Even with the much larger shroud, still loads of space inside the headlight and no clearance issues.

This is an output shot of the MLEDs before sunrise against a wall of what used to be a Blockbuster Video. Notice the intense hotspot where the cutoff lines intersect and how the light decreases off to the right. Not so much off to the left.

This is a cutoff shot on the same wall with the Mini H1s, but unfortunately I wasn't standing in the same spot and you can't see the actual width, but both of these shots were taken from the same distance of about 30-32 feet. Compared with the previous pic, notice how the light stays more uniform over the width of the output. Forgive the sloppy cutoff line because the H4 adapter on the left headlight never aligned the projector correctly and it was always aimed upwards off to the left which makes the right side look terrible.

This is my indictment of these projectors in a nutshell. While it's not fair to take a shot of them while there was still daylight, note how the left projector's cutoff doesn't reach the right projector. While this is less noticeable the further you get away from a wall, this is how it looks at 25 feet away.

This is an absolutely terrible shot while moving on a two lane highway. While it might not look bad to many, it in fact is quite enjoyable seeing it live, although the color is off from seeing it in person. You can see how prominent the hotspot is compared to the rest of the output. In this setting it's fine, but I was really disappointed that these projectors couldn't have a wider output.

I'll update as soon as I make my repairs to the headlights and get them tightened down correctly, painted, polished again, and some new output shots as well. I just wish I could have gotten the fog lights to fit in their housing...

Enjoy and feel free to ask questions!

 

Glad I found this thread... little older but I was tempted to do the mled 2.0 setup and now I'm going with what I originally planned via a rx350 bi-xenon projector.

Seems like a better fit for me.

-Nigel

 

Definitely! I'm running the Morimoto D2S 5.0 projectors now and while they're good, better than the MLEDs, I wish I'd have bought the G5-R projectors since that lens coating warms the color way too much. You're making a great choice though with the RX-350s! Glad I could help someone out!