H.I.D conversions
wow shaq, good luck! It takes me months to get job interviews. (Expensive usc degree does nothing in the real world lol.)
I don't like wamu's free checking. I want to switch to my employer's credit union, but I like how wamu's atm is only half a mile away.
As for the original question, I agree, the best thing to do is a retrofit. Read more about it at http://www.zukko.com/julian/lighting.html (site belongs to an old member who was active here long, long ago...ahh those were the days). My accord has the conversion kit. Yes, they look nice, and they throw out alot of light. It lights up all the street lane reflectors for the next mile....the overhead signs...the pedestrians on the right...the faces of the oncoming drivers on my left.......
And yes...my car is in some of the pictures on that site
With my Acura TSX, there's a cut-off...the light flares to the right. My light doesn't light up the overhead signs, but it doesn't light up oncoming cars either. The beam pattern looks so much better.
Actually, I just re-read the thread, and was thinking that a retrofit was putting on the headlights of another car...I'm not sure how the beam pattern is for projectors installed in the stock headlight housing. (I quit going on the forums and modding my car 5 or so years ago...I'm only starting to make a comeback since I got my TSX now...so I've been out of the scene and might not be remembering/knowing stuff correctly ;-P)
I don't like wamu's free checking. I want to switch to my employer's credit union, but I like how wamu's atm is only half a mile away.
As for the original question, I agree, the best thing to do is a retrofit. Read more about it at http://www.zukko.com/julian/lighting.html (site belongs to an old member who was active here long, long ago...ahh those were the days). My accord has the conversion kit. Yes, they look nice, and they throw out alot of light. It lights up all the street lane reflectors for the next mile....the overhead signs...the pedestrians on the right...the faces of the oncoming drivers on my left.......
And yes...my car is in some of the pictures on that site
With my Acura TSX, there's a cut-off...the light flares to the right. My light doesn't light up the overhead signs, but it doesn't light up oncoming cars either. The beam pattern looks so much better.
Actually, I just re-read the thread, and was thinking that a retrofit was putting on the headlights of another car...I'm not sure how the beam pattern is for projectors installed in the stock headlight housing. (I quit going on the forums and modding my car 5 or so years ago...I'm only starting to make a comeback since I got my TSX now...so I've been out of the scene and might not be remembering/knowing stuff correctly ;-P)
Last edited by CaliAccord; May 13, 2006 at 01:19 AM.
No affiliation to me but http://www.illusion-lighting.com/
Do not slap HID bulbs in a non HID housing. If you want plug and play get a set of TYC projectors and slap in a good HID kit, that will give you a decent cutoff, decent light, and easy to install, but NOTHING can top an OEM HID retrofit. I played all of the games with my accord. Hid in stock housings, hid in aftermarket housings, hid in aftermarket projectors, and finally retrofitted with Hella HID projectors and nothing has been the same. I have STi HID lights in my wrx and they SUCK compared to the retrofit in the accord, so much so I've been contimplating slaughtering a $750 pair of headlights just so I can have projectors again.
Hid in stock housings

same one a little closer

After retrofit


Hid in typical ebay aftermarket housing
Do not slap HID bulbs in a non HID housing. If you want plug and play get a set of TYC projectors and slap in a good HID kit, that will give you a decent cutoff, decent light, and easy to install, but NOTHING can top an OEM HID retrofit. I played all of the games with my accord. Hid in stock housings, hid in aftermarket housings, hid in aftermarket projectors, and finally retrofitted with Hella HID projectors and nothing has been the same. I have STi HID lights in my wrx and they SUCK compared to the retrofit in the accord, so much so I've been contimplating slaughtering a $750 pair of headlights just so I can have projectors again.
Hid in stock housings

same one a little closer

After retrofit


Hid in typical ebay aftermarket housing
Last edited by illusion; May 17, 2006 at 11:55 AM.
if you live anywhere near VA, let me know. i'll give you the contact info to the guy that did mine. absolute superior work and hes the best guy ive seen. hes done probably a 100 or more retrofits, so he knows his sh*t. if you live close enough, he'll even mount the ballasts, set up custom relay harnesses and aim them.
also, i havent gone to the site in a while, but check out HIDplanet.com. they have a lot of information, although i wouldnt try to buy anything there cuz of their inflated prices.
goodluck w/ your job, hope things work out well.
also, i havent gone to the site in a while, but check out HIDplanet.com. they have a lot of information, although i wouldnt try to buy anything there cuz of their inflated prices.
goodluck w/ your job, hope things work out well.


