What are some of the best HID Kits out there. I was either thinking of going w/ the Phillips kit or the Xieon kit. Which one looks better in your guy's opinion?

 

I have the Phillips and I LOVE THEM! I really never heard anything about the X's.

 

I have a phillips kit as well. I got mine before all thos xxxxK color talk. Just buy an affordable phillips kit and you will be pleased I suspect. It is one of my favorite mods.

 

I have the philips 4300K kit (from Trevor @ visualdynamics.ca) got them before everyone started talking about the different temperatures and all of that. I LOVE them. Worth every single penny ($423.09 shipped from Canada on a GB)

good luck with your choice, but I wouldn't settle for any less light output than the 4300K's.. any higher, and you get a more blue color, but less light output.. IMO the 4300K Philips kit is PURE WHITE with hints of blue at different angles. I love it.

..Alex

 

Philip's bulbs and ballasts. :thumbup:

 

i got my phillips ultinon 6000k kit (phillips bulbs and balasts) from Aki @www.xenonhid.com for $450shipped.

 

just to get one thing very clear, after just having to listen to a lecture on spectral dynamics, and linear optical dynamics for three hours in class, HIDs, run on a realtively narrow color scale.

Those of you who got suckered into spending more money because the box had a higher kelvin number, are exatly that, suckers.....

HIDs run in the color spectrum between about 5200k and 6400k, not higher of lower, the 6400k will look a little more toward a violet hue, and the 5200 will just be a bright white, with almost a greenish yellow tinge to it. Anything lower, and you just backed into normal headlight temperatures, and anything higher then about 6700k, falls in to the category of ultra violet radiation, and is not visible as light with the human eye.

If you're wondering about the 6400-6700k gap I didnt' mention, it's because, if someone were to produce an HID with a kelvin temp that high, it wouldn't produce enough visible light to do anything other then look pretty damn kool.

Another fact, the higher the kelvin temp, the lower the visibility at night, so for all you guys who payed a couple extra hundred bucks to have purple Xenons, yours are about 20% less bright then the guys with the whiter bulbs.

Any one out there with the white looking bulbs with a very slight blue tint, actually have the brightest one out there, and as they get progressively more purple, they get that much dimmer. If I'm not mistaken, the philips/hella kit is about as bright as you can get, and about as easy to install as possible, the only acception to that being the Piaa kit, which is stupid money any way.

Good luck, later.....
Aj

 

First off go with the Philipps kit hands down. But second of all Aj, so what about the 9006 and 9005 kit? waste of money? I'm not sure I quite understand.

 

The 9005 and 9006 kits are almost completely identical, the only difference being the seats on the fixture of the bulb, otherwise, one isn't brighter then the other, they just have slightly different fitments.

But, yes, they are worth doing, what I'm saying is that pretty much all the HID kits are about the same in respect to luminosity, just not the same with regards to quality of build. Don't look for a kelvin number as a judge on how good they are, look at brand. Anything utilizing a Hella balast is probably pretty good, those include, philips, hella, catz, and a couple others. Just make sure you don't get anything that looks like garbage, and you'll be ok.

Later.....

 

Oh, ok thanks Aj. Gotcha. BTW have you seen the philipps 9006 and 9005 kit for less than 500. I know they were talking about doing a group buy on Honda-tech for them, and they can get them for like 430.00, good price?