Hid headlights?

[skorpioskorpio]

The lighting that will be going on the front of my Jimmy project, all NOS Marchal:

...and a mock up rendering of what it should look like:

(Sorry MixerMike, I needed a dead on donor photo with a slant nose and a roll pan)

All on, it should project a precisely focused beam a mile and a half, no HID or LED lighting will that.

[Andy4639]

Originally Posted by skorpioskorpio

The lighting that will be going on the front of my Jimmy project, all NOS Marchal:
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...and a mock up rendering of what it should look like:
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(Sorry MixerMike, I needed a dead on donor photo with a slant nose and a roll pan)

All on, it should project a precisely focused beam a mile and a half, no HID or LED lighting will that.

Why does anyone need a that to drive at night? That's just crazy. I guessing maybe out west on some of the long straights they may be needed but out here in the east coast it would be a big waste of money and time.

[skorpioskorpio]

Originally Posted by Andy4639

Why does anyone need a that to drive at night? That's just crazy. I guessing maybe out west on some of the long straights they may be needed but out here in the east coast it would be a big waste of money and time.

All depends on how you drive, at 80 mph your ability to see an obstruction, identify what it is, your reaction plus stopping distance is around 1/4 mile, at 100 it's almost double, and that is in clear air, dry roads and with good brakes. The best of modern OEM headlights will barely give you enough time to react. Do I make a habit of driving 100 mph on a daily basis? no, but 80? yea pretty often. Once you drive a vehicle with really good lighting, aimed where it's supposed to be aimed, night driving is a whole other world and if used responsibly and correctly will never bother another driver.

If you belive that there is no place on the East Coast that such lighting would be useful, then that is not how you drive. I lived all up and down the East Coast for years and can think of dozens of places that have a terrain that just seems to suck the light out of the air, a fair bit of them in the Carolinas. There is nothing, to me anyways, as exciting as driving spirtedly through a forest road on a cool crisp night where the trees meet over the top and obscure the sky with far reaching lighting that turns that road into an illuminated tunnel. That is the stuff that makes you feel alive, where the machine has created a surreal situation that shouldn't exist, but for you at that moment, it does.