Removing HIDS! Help.

[sp00ln]

A friend of mine totalled his evo the other week, and he's parting out his car. I wanted the HIDS for my talon. I was wondering how we could remove the hids from the EVO and install them into my eclipse? I am under the impretion that there is the HID bulb and a ''power box'' of some-sort. Im not real familiar with un-installing/installing HID bulbs, so if anyone could help us with this that would be great!

Thanks.

Sp00ln

 

[DSMJim]

The insurance company will know they are missing to start off, they check for stuff like that. However, if not, grab the bult and balast and everything associated with the HID light system right back to a power and ground wire. It may be just one balast with the ignitor built in or two pieces that are seperate who knows. If you keep removing stuff thats attached eventually you'll get back to a brown and yellow wire (probablly..)

After that it's upto you to figure out how to get the bults into your headlight sockets. Fortunately our light bulbs are held in by a metal clamp that you can easily bend and shape around the different bulb tyle to hold it in. On my own car I was able to make a few quick adjustments to the headlight and the HID bulb would hold in ok. Obviously it's not going to twist and click in like a regular bulb so you have to make sure you get it in there securly as there is lots of vibration when driving. I bought rubber cement (like what you used in school) and put it around the outside of the bult to make sure it had a good water tight seal around the bult and headlight so condensation was not forming inside the headlight. Any craft or hobby store will have it. It's very easy to remove and safe to use on the headlight with no problems. This is pretty important as you wanna make sure you have a good seal.

You will next neex to make sure you secure the balast and ignitor. I just ziptied mine to the back of the headlight howwever under the wiring harness or whatever is ok. Anywhere out of sight so it's not too ugly looking.

You will then have to wire it up. You can not just simply hook it upto your power and ground wires that your headlight runs too. HIDs take 30amps to ignite but only 1amp to run. During warm up they pull a lot of power which could seriously cause some problems on the stock wiring system. Use a relay the say way we do a fuel pump re-wire so that the headlights are pulling power from the battery and using the stock wiring only as a signal input wire to the relay.

 

[WombatTSi]

I run My HIDs off the stock wiring just fine. the 30A draw is less than a 1/4 second, and besides, for a 1g the power wire is shared (its a switched ground, so your wiring wouldn't work, YMMV for a 2g though), and since the stock headlights with highbeams draw more than 30A, its fine.

Anyways, as fas as what to grab, Id get the whole headlight. Almost all factory HID systems are integrated into the headlight itself (balast, and ignitor) and cannot be removed with out dissassembling the headlights. Plus you'll need the projectors to do it right anyways.

 

[sp00ln]

Thank you for your replies. Ill let you guys know if I get the HIDS or not.

 

[EVOb00stn]

Yeah hey guys thanks for the help...its a shame i wrecked my evo!! im not for sure if im goin to buy it back or not, dont know if ill have the money or if they will let me buy it back! but ive had many offers for parts.

but if i dont buy it back and they take it, before they do im sure there has to be a way i can grab the bulbs and everything and maybe put the cases back in? Ryan really wants my HIDs and i dont want to let him down!

 

[sp00ln]

Word brother... word

 

[EDT007]

I did an HID conversion on my 91 GSX...if you own a 90 or 91 you can buy a H4 conversion kit and go to www.casperselectronics.com and get their H4 conversion plate..it takes a D2S HID bulb and allows it to be used in a H4 application. Also, when doing the wiring you should use a seperate relay to power the HID's and just splice into the OEM headlight lead as your remote so your stock switch will work...otherwise you run the risk of burning out your entire electrical system....hope i was of some help..