Previous owner had some extremely blue 8/10k HIDs and when one of the ballast failed decided to pick up some new ones until i save up for the retrofit.

35w 6000k

all 3 pictures are low beam only.

 

New to bike HIDs but not HID itself, and for the lack of a desire in trying to search for "hid", do these bikes need cutting of the reflector or has someone found a way to fit projectors without cutting?

HIDs are in my near future but not sure if I want to go through with cooking the headlamp unit, cutting, and all of that just for projectors.
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Maybe you don't have to bake these housings to get them apart, what do I know I 'm a newb

 

you have to either bake or use a heat gun in order to liquify the glue... no other way around it.

As far as cutting to add projectors.. no you dont need to, you just have to mount the projectors somehow.. some make there own mount, others buy a kit with a rear lock on it.

Check out hunters build and a few others.. they have pics and everything.. honestly man a 30 second search would answer your question lol.

 

hunters post doesn't show HOW he got the projectors mounted.

 

It all depends on what retrofit you choose.
The FXR projectors you completely remove the reflector where the motomini type fit in over top of the projector. I believe both kinds you don't need to cut the projector.