drove it back from work last night - a lot brighter but then i swung by my friends place who has a 95 accord and he has some weird blue bulb in his .. mine definately whooped his arse in light output - i illuminated his whole garage while his light output didn't impress me. but they were blue - and mine actually seemed yellow compared to his - do the silvania cool blue bulbs ( a few bucks less) put out as much light as the silver stars? when these burn out i might try that - and damnit i didn't even think of a dremel =( ahha the plastic smell made me whoosy for awhile but i have plenty brain cells to lose. .