lights upgrade
Racer
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 473
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From: Houston Texas
Got mine all hooked up and rewired.
My friend said these are the brightest lights he's ever seen!
It is like daylight in front of the car, and very wide pattern, with a distinct upper horizontal cutoff pattern.
It really lights up reflectors and signs on the side and far ahead that I probably wouldn't notice or not as well. I seldom use my brights, and can't see using these unless on some empty very dark road with no other traffic. I am only using the 85/80 bulbs, but they are high efficacy bulbs(2400/1750 lumens), and put out as much or more than 100/90's but with a better lighting pattern.
No one flashed their brights either!
My friend said these are the brightest lights he's ever seen!
It is like daylight in front of the car, and very wide pattern, with a distinct upper horizontal cutoff pattern.
It really lights up reflectors and signs on the side and far ahead that I probably wouldn't notice or not as well. I seldom use my brights, and can't see using these unless on some empty very dark road with no other traffic. I am only using the 85/80 bulbs, but they are high efficacy bulbs(2400/1750 lumens), and put out as much or more than 100/90's but with a better lighting pattern.
No one flashed their brights either!
Glad you finally got it all wired up.
Did you end up fishing the larger wires through the headlight housing hinge? If so what gauge wire did you end up using?
Did you have to re-aim the headlights after you installed everything or was the aim OK?
Do you plan on taking it somewhere that has the headlight aiming machine to do it?
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jul 2000
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From: Greenville SC
12awg, yes fished through hole of original wire.
We adjusted them a little, may need to adjust right/left some, they are kind of odd having the right side of each lighting pattern go up at a 45 deg angle.
I doubt I would take it anywhere, they are so bright they don't need to be to precise to see well, as long as they don't blind others.
We adjusted them a little, may need to adjust right/left some, they are kind of odd having the right side of each lighting pattern go up at a 45 deg angle.
I doubt I would take it anywhere, they are so bright they don't need to be to precise to see well, as long as they don't blind others.
Racer
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 473
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From: Houston Texas
Sounds good.
My Hella E-spec housings came in the other day but I've not changed out my (blue tint/diamond cut-eBay) other ones yet. I'm looking forward to it.
I wonder what's up with your high beams....strange.
Team Owner
Joined: Jun 2001
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From: Orlando FL
St. Jude Donor '08-'09
I had my stock sealed light swapped with used Euro housing. The old light still both worked, they were Sylvania XTra Brights (the brightest you could get at the time, Pre-Silverstar)
The Euro set had H4's with it, there was one working 100W blue looking bulb in there and the other light was broken.
I went out and bought the Silverstars so I would have a matching set.
I put one silverstar in and left the brighter one on the other side. There was quite a difference in lighting I noticed.
BOTH were lightyears better than the standard stock sealed bulbs.
The blue/100W bulb was "brighter" it seemed, but since it was that weird blue tone, it didn't seem to have the same "light wash" effect on the dark street as the regular Silverstar did.
The Silverstars seemed to make the road "show up" better since I guess it just blasted the full color spectrum on the road, where as the blueish one did not? I ended up swapping the blue one out too for the other silverstar. So far, they seem to be WAAAYYY better than the regular sealed lights. But.. knowing there is a twice as bright light out there I can use, I would MUCH rather have those.
I don't know much about these types of lights, so sorry for the basic non technical use of wording
Also on a side note, a friend just upgraded his SS Camaro to full HID's. he bought a kit off ebay that was like $70. Came with 2 bulbs, the ballast, wiring kit, all brackets and parts needed. Those things are SWEEET looking. With HID lighting dropping quickly in price these days, I almost thing that would be a better buy than even the cheaper 100W bulbs?.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 7,638
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From: Greenville SC
high beams? Nothing wrong, except they also come on with the driving light switch! lol
