S13 ghetto wiring for dual projectors gone wrong

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So I swapped my pop up front end to the dual projector silvia's. The headlights I bought were in poor condition, but I used them however I could. They didn't come with a harness. I bought 4 H3 bulbs and put two in the fogs and two where the high beams go. I cut my blinker lights and wired it up to my high beams, and I cut my headlight wires and wired it up to my fogs. It worked for maybe a day and things started to go down. First my fuses to my headlights would blow, another time I saw some smoke come out from the headlights but I quickly turned it off (I later used the same wire again and it worked so I'm guessing it's not a burned wire..). And yesterday I was driving home fine when suddenly my high beams turned off and so did my interior lights. My fogs stayed on for some reason. I drove to work this morning with no lights but my fogs, and upon arriving, my whole car shut down automatically. I later come to find that my ignition coil fuses both blew, the 40 and 25, and so did about 5 other fuses in my kick panel. I really don't know what's up. Since all that went down I cut all my headlight wires again and used electric tape to tape it all up so no wires were touching anything, that means right now I have no headlight wires connected to anything, not even ground (I'm not sure if that would cause these blown fuses). I tried to replace all those blown fuses after I taped my wires, and they still all blew. What could be the problem? Thanks guys.


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You overheated the wiring and melted it somewhere and now it has a dead short. Ghetto wiring does this. You're going to have a nightmare on your hands trying to figure out what all has melted and more importantly, WHERE it melted. Also, be aware that when you do something like this, and the wiring overheats, it has a nasty habit of melting the insulation off of wires that are in the same bundle of wiring that have nothing to do with the headlights.


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