6000K HID's Installed!

[Purebredx]

Looks great!!

 

[delta448]

Who cares if they glare and blind other people,....thats the whole point in getting HIDs

You mean 130??
Well incase you didnt notice I'm from Orrum, North Carolina, in the middle of the damn boonies, bumfreak egypt, behind bumfreak, down that long dirtroad. Your Tom Tom cant even find us.
But I do hit up town occasionally on Friday nights.
I just bought the HIDs for deer huntin, mushroom pickin, coon treeing, night fishing, and when the occasional monkey crosses the road.

So... can we expect a thread sometime in the next month entitled "DSM is gone, stupid old woman swerved, we hit head on at 130mph"?

Your lack of concern for others is only overshadowed by ignorance.

You can see great, but how about Mabel and Ethel coming around the turn on their way home from friday night bingo in the opposing lane out there behind bumfreak? We both know they'll already be in the wrong lane, so now we can assume they'll either go off the shoulder or into your grill.

BTW, sounds like we have some common interests (except for that mushroom thang). What kind o' dogs y'all use for the coon treein' and... umm ...monkeys?WTF We just have retrievers and beagels, mostly bird and rabbitt dogs here. Heck, I'll even bet you also like to go possum stompin' at night, drunk off your ass on shine, while playing Steve Earl's "Copperhead Road" at full volume in your Rhino. Yee-Haw mfer!

No, really... I've done that... seriously

 

[arturo74r]

I got a similar kit on Ebay and it was around $65 shipped. It comes with a 2 year warranty and I had little problems installing it but the product seems good quality (not a Chinese import) the instructions were clear and it's working fine. However they do have a little glare, but not as bad as others that i've seen on the road, and I also found out that one of my headlights is broken because it won't align sideways, and it's pointing way over to the right . Bottom line, they look great and the visibility was improved a lot. I hope I'm not pissing around anybody

 

[No_Skillz]

azdave;

If I'm too poor to consider retrofit, what is the best option HID bulb in OEM housings?

I don't want any ricer blue (I've seen 6000k in person, too blue for me) and I don't want to blind the shit out of Mabel and Ethel.

 

[propeine]

azdave;

If I'm too poor to consider retrofit, what is the best option HID bulb in OEM housings?

I don't want any ricer blue (I've seen 6000k in person, too blue for me) and I don't want to blind the shit out of Mabel and Ethel.

I know I'm not azdave but to provide a little insight there really is no best option unless you're doing a retrofit. Some bulbs that are "D2R" have a ceramic coating because they were designed for a reflective housing not a projector. If you could find a D2R bulb with the proper bulb base for our cars these would be more optimal than the D2S which is the standard uncoated bulb. Not sure if they make these or not. Also 4300K is the bulb temperature that OEM uses and the one I would recommend.

 

[crimsondragon]

I'd suggest Sylvania's Silverstar Ultras. I have the regular Silverstars and they are significantly brighter than regular halogens.
OSRAM SYLVANIA - SilverStar

However, for the price of 2 of them, you'll might as well get the HID refit and buy a 12 pack with the money left over.

Boostedinsofla - Is this the kit?
eBay Motors: HID XENON CONVERSION KIT ECLIPSE INTEGRA PRELUDE RSX (item 200247228368 end time Aug-23-08 16:28:04 PDT)

 

[snowborder714]

Or how about a kit from SharpHID? I've heard of numerous people on this site that have great luck with them! I think this is the only HID set I'd put in my car until I go with a full retrofit. And I'd say to go with either a 4300k or 5000k bulb. 4300k is what cars come stock with and 5000k will add just a little blue. Anything more will be less bright and more color.

 

[BoostedinSoFla]

Boostedinsofla - Is this the kit?
eBay Motors: HID XENON CONVERSION KIT ECLIPSE INTEGRA PRELUDE RSX (item 200247228368 end time Aug-23-08 16:28:04 PDT)

No, that one's $25 more than what I paid. Like snowborder714 said, I would pick up a kit from SharpHID since he has a $90 sale and offer a lifetime warranty.

On a side note, I got my Ebay projectors in last weekend and I started my retrofit. I'm using Acura TSX projectors btw. The Ebay projectors are easier to use since they already have projectors built in to the housings (crappy ones I might add). It's coming along great so far, I just gotta get some hardware from Home Depot (HDR). I'll try my best to document the progress and take pics so that I can do a write-up for all the guys that wants to do a retrofit in the future.

 

[snowborder714]

Ricky, do you have a link to the eBay auction? I know there are various styles of eBay projectors and am curious if some work better than others for a true retrofit. I know you haven't done it yet, but just trying to decide which ones I like vs. which ones make retrofitting easy or for a clean install.

 

[crimsonGST]

What I'm wanting to know is... since the HID kits are usually made as a plug-n-play set up, how does this work for us guys already with aftermarket projectors? The reason I ask is because I had to cut my factory wiring harness in order to hard wire my headlights. It looks from the pictures that these PNP kits allow the user to just plug the factory headlight harness into the ballast and then run the lines to the HID bulb.

Will I be forced to find another set of headlight wiring harness plugs and re-wire them up in order to install one of these ebay HID kits?

I'm asking the same thing seeing as no one answered. The ebay projector low beams are H1 bulbs, and the previous owner chopped off the harness...idiot...If I am to buy an HID kit, do I get an H1 or buy a factory harness and go back to 9006's?

 

[Tatanko]

azdave;

If I'm too poor to consider retrofit, what is the best option HID bulb in OEM housings?

Check out my post on page 1 of this thread.

 

[Nayr747]

Who cares if they glare and blind other people,....thats the whole point in getting HIDs

You mean 130??
I just bought the HIDs for deer huntin, mushroom pickin, coon treeing, night fishing, and when the occasional monkey crosses the road.

Racism, narcissism, and a complete serial-killer-like disregard for anyone but themself...You get the award for the biggest loser I've ever seen on a DSM forum. Which to you I'm sure is a complement. We can only hope you will be banned.

 

[TSIMonsteR]

It pains me to see that the two people being douches in this thread are both from NC... ouch

Anyway, to the OP. Those look great and it seems like an easy install. They look bright enough, but not too bright (to hurt other drivers)

Currently I have those ultra-white halogen bulbs and they are fine around here, but I may consider a 6000K kit in the future.

EDIT**- Post #1000, woot!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[crimsonGST]

still no answer....

 

[No_Skillz]

still no answer....

I don't see a point in switching to H1, esp for an ebay product. I imagine you'll just run into wiring configuration and power supply issues (just some things I can think of that might be a problem. Keep in mind I don't know a thing about electronics). I'm sure it could be made to work, so in the end its just up to you. Do you want to buy H1 bulbs or 9006 from now on?

 

[BoostedinSoFla]

Ricky, do you have a link to the eBay auction? I know there are various styles of eBay projectors and am curious if some work better than others for a true retrofit. I know you haven't done it yet, but just trying to decide which ones I like vs. which ones make retrofitting easy or for a clean install.

eBay Motors: 97 98 99 ECLIPSE BLACK HALO PROJECTOR HEADLIGHTS LAMPS (item 190244984705 end time Aug-21-08 22:26:03 PDT)

I took the crappy low beam projector out along with all the halo crap.

 

[95CarbonEclipse]

I don't see a point in switching to H1, esp for an ebay product. I imagine you'll just run into wiring configuration and power supply issues (just some things I can think of that might be a problem. Keep in mind I don't know a thing about electronics). I'm sure it could be made to work, so in the end its just up to you. Do you want to buy H1 bulbs or 9006 from now on?

That doesn't even come close to answering the question. The bulbs have nothing to do with what we're talking about here (on this particular question, that is). The question is in regards to the wiring harness... you know, the thingy that plugs into the other thingy, so that you headlights know when to come on, switch to high beams, or flash that idiot in the oncoming lane because he forgot to turn his headlights on after he pulled out of the bowling alley. (Sorry... it's been a while since I've been on here)

Maybe a better way to phrase this question is to ask if there's any way to hard wire these plug n' play kits or do you HAVE to have an OEM wiring harness (AKA "thingy")??


PS - For the record, the reason you have to run an H1 bulb in the ebay housing's that CrimsonGST and I are referring to, is because they're projector headlamps... which don't accept 9006 bulbs.

 

[BoostedinSoFla]

Derek,

I think you guys are blowing this way out of proportion. It's very simple indeed, but I'll try my best to answer the question at hand. You and the other guy both have H1 bulbs which typically come in the Ebay projectors. The projectors already have their own harness installed in each headlight housing just like the stock headlight housings (the projectors I purchased last week had it's own harness inside the housing). When you replaced your stock headlights, after unbolting the headlights the only thing left to do was to unplug that plug right underneath the headlight right? And inturn, when installing the projectors you simply installed it and plugged that plug back into the socket that's right below the projector headlights, much like the stock ones.

Now for I real answer I guess.... Your projector housings accept the H1's for low beams and like the HID kit that I purchased you would just choose a H1 bulb when you order the kit. Installing it will be a breeze. You simply remove your H1 bulb from each housing one at a time. Once your bulbs are removed then disconnect the plug from the back of each bulb. The HID kit comes with a socket at the end so you connect the plug REMOVED from the back of the bulb to that socket. Then after that all you have to do is drill about a 1" hole through the bulb covers so that it can accept the rubber grommet. The next step is putting the bulb through the hole in the cover, installing it into position in your projector housings, putting the rubber grommet in position so that the cover is doesn't have a way for condensation to get in it and then screwing back the cover on.

Here's a couple pics:

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Notice that there aren't anymore wires but simply what runs from the headlight to the ballast.

 

[crimsonGST]

For the record, the reason you have to run an H1 bulb in the ebay housing's that CrimsonGST and I are referring to, is because they're projector headlamps... which don't accept 9006 bulbs.

That was exactly what I was referring to. The fact that the Ebay projectors bulbs are H1's and I figured only H1 bulbs would fit into the projector.

Boostedinsofla, I understand exactly what your saying, all I was asking was since my projectors accept the H1 bulbs (because of the metal plate on the end of them) should I just get H1 HID's. The bulb covers on MY lights are just rubber gromets themselves so I wont even have to worry about that.

Thanks Carbon for answering me though

 

[95CarbonEclipse]

Derek,

I think you guys are blowing this way out of proportion. It's very simple indeed, but I'll try my best to answer the question at hand. You and the other guy both have H1 bulbs which typically come in the Ebay projectors. The projectors already have their own harness installed in each headlight housing just like the stock headlight housings (the projectors I purchased last week had it's own harness inside the housing). When you replaced your stock headlights, after unbolting the headlights the only thing left to do was to unplug that plug right underneath the headlight right? And inturn, when installing the projectors you simply installed it and plugged that plug back into the socket that's right below the projector headlights, much like the stock ones.

Thanks for taking the time to answer this question, but if my ebay projectors had the plug that plugs into the OEM housing, I wouldn't even be asking this question. I know that most styles of ebay projectors come with the plug.... but mine didn't. There's 2 wires that come from each lamp (hi and low beam). For whatever reason, (most likely because I was an idiot 4 years ago when I first installed these headlights) I cut the OEM plug and now have my headlights hardwired, instead of using my brain and just wiring my old OEM plug from the stock headlamps onto the new projectors (damn I was stupid back then).

From the overall response, it sounds like my best bet would be to just find the wire harness plugs and "fix" my dumbass install that I did 4 years ago. That way, when I convert to HID, it'll be a simple plug n' play. I was hoping though, that there was a way that one could hardwire the HID's in, if they had too.

 

[BoostedinSoFla]

You can hardwire them in since you cut the plug underneath headlight. I actually had to do this a few years ago when I first installed Ebay projectors and HID's on my 420A. Obviously instead of using the socket that comes in the HID (the actual plug and play part) you'll most likely have to cut that off and wire it to the harness coming from the car going to underneath the headlight.

 

[95CarbonEclipse]

Nice!

I don't feel AS stupid now.

 

[crimsonGST]

Same goes for me! Thankyou! That was the answer I was hoping for.