HID conversion look

[drillingmachine]

These are true HID headlights(like mercedes or beemer bright white lights) on my truck not the silly H4 bulbs they sell at the ricer shops. Diamond clear H4 conversion headlamps + HID bulbs, ballast, etc. They are very bright and way better than factory lamps. They look blue when you turn them on and they start to warm up. Pictures do not do it justice!!

[Crank]

Okay, okay, so enlighten us. Where did you get them, they look awesome and about how much $ did you spend on them?
Brandon

[ghetto_superman]

all that sweet headlight modification and you missed a park light! lol seriously tho where did you have to get ballasts and hid bulbs and what not.. was it expensive? or better question.. worth it? it looks like it would be worth it to me!

[C&C Chevy]

details??

[drillingmachine]

Well the diamond eye headlamps where $25 each x 4. And the HID kit was the cheapest I have ever seen it at $140, someone was selling them locally. I had to do some mods to the sheet metal that cups the headlamp, but that was easy. And yes, it was well worth it!!! Mind you that the headlamps where purchased a while back, so I didn't spend $240 all at once. Yes, I noticed the park light out, that dumbass thing has a mind of it's own!!!

[drillingmachine]

The headlamps I got from summitracing.com. The HID kit form someone local here in Houston with a one year, no hassle warranty.

[ocbaud]

looks good

but good job blinding everyone in front of you


putting HID bulbs in halogen housings is really crappy. yeah, it will increase the light output, but it also will spread it out like no other.

HID's are supposed to be used in a focused beam, thats why you see cars that come with them stock, they have a very very pronounced, from very far away.

unless you have someway to focus the bulbs(as in projectors that are meant for HID's) then you are going to continue to blind everyone on the road.

[dragnlow]

you are right and vary illegal in mi any way's
it is like having your brights on
if done right you will have a cut off line about 3' off the ground 20' out

for any one asking were to get them i have done 4 kit's off of this site
i will dig up some pic's of kit's i have done

http://www.hidtech.com./



this site has a lot of good info
i never bought any thing off of them
http://hidplanet.com/main.html

[cajundragger]

Originally Posted by ocbaud

looks good

but good job blinding everyone in front of you


putting HID bulbs in halogen housings is really crappy. yeah, it will increase the light output, but it also will spread it out like no other.

HID's are supposed to be used in a focused beam, thats why you see cars that come with them stock, they have a very very pronounced, from very far away.

unless you have someway to focus the bulbs(as in projectors that are meant for HID's) then you are going to continue to blind everyone on the road.

at least someone said it.

In my '52 Im going to do a retro into stockish headlights using nissan 350Z projectors, and mercedes bulbs, with mercedes ballasts/ignitors...should be awesome

[ocbaud]

i'll be getting a set for my mustang as soon as someone makes a projector housing that doesnt look like crap.

[drillingmachine]

I can probably find some used projector lens and modify them to fit in the headlamp. I still think they look awesome!

[ocbaud]

Originally Posted by drillingmachine

I can probably find some used projector lens and modify them to fit in the headlamp. I still think they look awesome!

if you can modify the housings to use the projector's, and it be non-ghetto fab, then please do it, as a service to yourself and everyone else on the road.

when hid's are installed correctly, they look WONDERFUL.

[Russell]

I put a set of HIDs into my 96, using a set of Bosch ECE H4 lenses, and took em out the next day. I've never been highbeamed so often in my life...

As mentioned, the HIDs need a set of proper HID specific projector lenses, using them in a non HID specific lense, and apparantly esspecially so in an ECE lense instead of an SAE lense, you'd midaswell be on highbeams all the time.

Cost of the ballasts, and 9008 4300K drivers was just under 700 bucks. My father's company originally bought the set for a Ford they had there, but later found out the ford uses a different H4 driver than they bought, but since the guy who was gonna use them modified the wiring harness, they couldn't be returned.

HIDs are truely incredibly bright, but with the HID projector lenses costing close to 1000 bucks for a 200 mm set with an ECE light pattern, I doubt I'll be putting them back in anytime soon... Until then they can sit on the shelf, lol

I wound up installing a set of 140 / 85 watt PIAA drivers, and they are more than adequate, and I never get highbeamed with the ECE light pattern. Cost there was about 200 bucks for the drivers, then another 20 bucks invested in a pair of 40 amp Bosch cube relays, and some heavy gauge wiring to replace the light gauge factory wiring.