bastard

 

I wanna see night pics!!!

 

looks good, a bit too much glare but still good. Also $700 is a bit much. For $800 you can stop over at http://www.illusion-lighting.com (no affiliation) and he'll install a set of DOT projectors in your housing with DOT hid with a light output that no reflector can match.

then you get this as a beam pattern
click on a pic for the big picture

this is a 98 accord with projector retrofit(for $700)




another 98



Notice the cutoff on the wall(a reflector will never get this performance)


and for those who want the best(and can shell out $1400) these are ECE proectors




or you can always do what I'm in the middle of doing which will run you about $350 if you're ver, and I mean very very, comfortable with hacking up a set of headlight housings , pick up some hella 90mm h9 low beam projectors from http://www.rallylights.com for $100 then get an OEM HID setup off of ebay for $250 with ballast and d2s bulbs and whack away at your housings for this look(I'm using the lvq-212 ballast that came with my old retrofit, putting on the P32-d connectors and using philips 4300k d2s that I got off of ebay, so this adventure is only costing me $180)

no thumbnails so I'll just put a link
http://members.rogers.com/hid/pix/update/10Hidfin.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/hid/pix/update/03Hidfin.jpg

Sorry I'm a convert, I spent quite a while with HID in the reflector housing and am just sick of the hotspots in the beam and the glare, and the more I looked at friends with the similar crappy upgrade, the more I knew there had to be something better, and not necessarily expensive. and I found it here http://faq.auto.light.tripod.com/ Also, see_fu is the owner of http://www.illusion-lighting.com/, and he's a very respected lighting guru, he does some fantastic work if you don't know how or don't feel like doing the conversion yourself. Personally unless you "really" know what you're doing See_Fu won't let you down. His work and craftsmanship is impecible. You might be able to get a relatively clean job doing it yourself if you're a hacking guru, but He's done so many of them it's no longer an art, but a skill.

 

EliteAccord's Audi Ecode has this beam pattern.:thumbup:

 

those are the hella 90mm h9 projectors with a slightly modified shield for a little more blue at the cutoff, you can bend the shield in to give you more and more blue, or if you're just a whacko you can bend it outwords and get more yellow(dunno if anyone would want that). I had audi projectors I got from ebay, but was getitng ready to sell my car so I sold them, but now I decided to keep my car so I found the 90mm projectors with a little help look like the audis(you have to play with the shield a bit to get the exact effect)

I can't wait, I'll be posting a how to when I do it, should be starting this weekend. I'm just waiting on my connectors for the d2s bulbs

 

isn't HID's illegal??? let me know......................

 

hehehe. nice (not for whoever's in front though)

man, now i really want some HIDs. damn you all! hehe

actually, i first have to get new headlight connectors. the ones i have currently rusted ...now one headlight has like a 50% chance of working everytime i flip the switch. sometimes i need to open the hood and plug it in and then it works until the next time i turn it on.

damn 9005 conversion + aftermarket high-watt bulbs! :madfawk:

 

hey does anybody know if the stock lexus HIDs are 9006's retrofitable? i know their GS400 was 9006 before they turned into stock HIDs so i was wondering if they just plug right in or not.

 

Lexus HID lamps and halogen lamp housings look similar, but are very different.

it's not the same housing with a swap of the bulb. the pattern is completely different. halogen (as you noted) used 9006. HID, naturally, used D2R's.

 

:thumbup: looks damn good to me