Bulb Conversion

[focusedrage]

is there a way to run a h3 or h4 in a 9005 or 9006 receptical? are there adapters cause the PIAA ion cystals and HELLA yellow stars come only in H3 and H4... help.

 

[Spidey]

Here's a 9006/9005 to H4/H1 conversion harness for ya, thinking of doing this myself soon, have more options with H4 and H1 bulbs

 

[focusedrage]

dude thanks... but 40 dollars? is that for 4 of them? and will they fit in to the eclipse headlights? what aobut projectors?

Also where do i buy hella yellow star bulbs?

Thanks agine though that is awsome

 

[Airpoppoff]

whats so good about the conversion??????

 

[JJay]

It will give him "cooler" looking more unique style lights. A tricky kind of tedious mod, but worth it in my opinion. Just do it.

 

[focusedrage]

hmm is it wise to run 80watt lows and 100w highs? im sure i could... would i have to get individual fuses and rewire it?

 

[PhiSig]

By Doing this bulb conversion, it seems like one could damage some things. At home I wouldn't put a 100 watt bulb in a 60 watt socket, I wouldn't want to short anything out or start a fire and I certianly wouldn't want to do that to my Eclipse. Has anyone had any really bad or really good experiences with this conversion before I do it over the holidays?

 

[Defiant]

So much for the bulb sockets, but what do you do about mounting the bulbs in the housings? The filaments have to be _right_ where the reflector's expecting them, or you get zip-all for light output.

I'm running 85W 9005s in my low beams, and 100W 9005s in my highs. No trouble, stock wiring.

http://leb.net/~weston/teg/9005conv/

http://www.bmwe34.net/E34main/Upgrade/More_light.htm

 

[FiReBReTHa]

defiant


im confused, why are you putting 100W 9005s into there instead of using 9006?

im getting a little confused in here


i thought you would take 100w 9006 and put them in the low beams spot after modification

 

[510eclipse]

im considering just snipping the wires and swapping my low's into my high's and my high's into my low's. the sockets would lock right in, then id just have to solder up the wires and swap the high beam fuse's with the low beam fuse's. being that i use my low's alot more than my high's, id rather have the high watt's in the low beam spot. considering the bulb in the high beam lamp is uncovered, it will still be brighter than the low beams when turned on even with less wattage.

this is my plan be cause A. its simple B. its free if you have a soldering iron and C. no worries with running too much power.

"like whoa"

 

[focusedrage]

the covers make it low beam, it shealids the top of the bulb so that the light bounces down off the reflector up to the top and points down, people with big time degrees desgined our headlihgts thats why the stock ones are so much more expensive then "projectors" the best thing some one can do to the lights is to put in an hid kit

 

[FiReBReTHa]

by our headlamps you mean us, 95-96

so the 95-96 is the HID ready set?

 

[focusedrage]

95-99 i know, but what bulbs do the 1g headlights use, almost any bulb has an hid replacement for it.

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by FiReBReTHa

i thought you would take 100w 9006 and put them in the low beams spot after modification

I don't know of a 100W 9006. There are a lot of Taiwanese pieces of crap that _say_ 100W, and are a lovely shade of light-subduing blue, but they ain't no 100W.

 

[FiReBReTHa]

ok..... so the low beam, which is 9005, has the higher wattage bulbs?


so the goal that we are talking about is high wattage low beam bulbs, in the high beam socket.

 

[focusedrage]

Why? See I suppose I started this thread, I originally wanted to put amber bulbs in my headlights but I learned better...

You see originally I could only find amber bulbs, that appealed to me because of some race cars, in h3 or h1 forms, which are usually used for fog lights, but I wanted them as my headlights. However I believe this is illegal, which in my opinion is silly because amber colored light is better for poor weather visibility and glare reduction. The fact is they do sell amber colored bulbs in 9005, 6 forms, I believe but they are hard to track down as they are Japanese, and are pretty expensive and illegal as your main headlamps… So as I said before if you are actually concerned with performance, and not bling bling, projector headlights, which I have had experience with, and are crap in comparison to the stockers, just keep the stockers, with some silver stars or an hid kit in the lows and you will be more than happy. It is sad that projector or poly ellipsoidal lamps have taken off but were never perused by aftermarket lamp makers, I haven’t tried the apc ones, and some have said they are better then the stockers. However the ones in the single projector lamps are horrible and are at best footlight projectors

 

[DCsGST]

I've got a set of projectors in my car and they use H3's for lows, and I think H4 for the highs. I'm running 100W bulbs in the lows right now and they are nice and bright. There is a little piece I have to cut off to make them fit as the 55W and 100W H3s are a little different. I've never had any problems with wires melting or fuses going out.

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by FiReBReTHa
ok..... so the low beam, which is 9005, has the higher wattage bulbs?

Start over. Lows are 9006. I run 9005s in both high _and_ low sockets.

so the goal that we are talking about is high wattage low beam bulbs, in the high beam socket.

No.

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by focusedrage
Why? See I suppose I started this thread, I originally wanted to put amber bulbs in my headlights but I learned better...

When I first started looking into aftermarket lamps, there was a big discussion about whether to use white or yellow for fogs. Until I ran across one sentence: "How much of your time do you spend looking at things under yellow light?"

_If_ there is any actual "pentration" advantage to yellow light, it's negligible, and probably cancelled out by the simple question above.

And a simple fact is that "fog" lights don't do shit for fog. Once it closes in, you're blind. I learned this on runs between Novato and Napa, where it gets so dense you can just about walk on it..... and it makes the Central Valley's dreaded "tule fog" a joke.

 

[FiReBReTHa]

Sweet,


now im back to understanding wtf is going on


one simple thing like that confused the hella oughta me.

 

[98RedGs]

Originally posted by Defiant
Until I ran across one sentence: "How much of your time do you spend looking at things under yellow light?"

Smartest Thing I've Heard All Day Defiant!

 

[focusedrage]

meby ill be the jerk... but isnt sunlight for the most part yellow, flourecent is whiter by far, and there is a huge difference

 

[FiReBReTHa]

but then there also is the reception of the eye,


three color spectrum, RYB or something

the eye sees mostly like yellow or something at night, thats why yellow driving glasses at night, i cant remember,

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by focusedrage
meby ill be the jerk... but isnt sunlight for the most part yellow,

Only in the LA Basin.

flourecent is whiter by far, and there is a huge difference

I've not seen this lighting by grinding wheat. Is that the bleached, double-sifted?

 

[focusedrage]

haha