Anyone interested in HID kits for TY/SY ? PRICES INCLUDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ty's 93-TYPHOON
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Re: Anyone interested in HID kits for TY/SY ? PRICES INCLUDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
very interested........pm me
very interested........pm me
James Thomas
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Re: Anyone interested in HID kits for TY/SY ? PRICES INCLUDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes I am interest in lights and fogs but as he states above, the pattern is very important. Do you have the specs. (not asking fer yer "trade seceret's" :tup: ) just the beam pattern and electrical specs. like Hella, Bosch etc. and the others publish.
You say no hacking etc.? Do these use a ballast (they must right?) what about the extra amperage? Maybe a little more install detail, and for some reason I can't see the pic's you posted, just red x's??
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James
SY2932 said:
Yes I am interest in lights and fogs but as he states above, the pattern is very important. Do you have the specs. (not asking fer yer "trade seceret's" :tup: ) just the beam pattern and electrical specs. like Hella, Bosch etc. and the others publish.
You say no hacking etc.? Do these use a ballast (they must right?) what about the extra amperage? Maybe a little more install detail, and for some reason I can't see the pic's you posted, just red x's??
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James
4rs fed
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Re: Anyone interested in HID kits for TY/SY ? PRICES INCLUDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
as far as red X's i have no idea maybe your firewall or something they are hosted on two different domains of mine.
No hacking, no cutting, and hids draw less power than normal incadescent bulbs. The max these draw is 5 amps and typically is 3.5 amps far less than the 10-15 on a normal incadescent bulb
As far as a beam pattern, the best i can do is take pictures of mysetup for you guys.
AS i have said the pattern will be great and non blinding assuming your headlights are properly aimed.
To the people who say to PM you, please PM me, i have so many pms from different people i cant keep track of who is who
Thanks
Rob
James Thomas said:
as far as red X's i have no idea maybe your firewall or something they are hosted on two different domains of mine.
No hacking, no cutting, and hids draw less power than normal incadescent bulbs. The max these draw is 5 amps and typically is 3.5 amps far less than the 10-15 on a normal incadescent bulb
As far as a beam pattern, the best i can do is take pictures of mysetup for you guys.
AS i have said the pattern will be great and non blinding assuming your headlights are properly aimed.
To the people who say to PM you, please PM me, i have so many pms from different people i cant keep track of who is who
Thanks
Rob
H-TOWN-TYPHOON
You're killin' me, Smalls
Re: Anyone interested in HID kits for TY/SY ? PRICES INCLUDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you could get a shot of your lights on a wall @ 10, 20, and 50 ft then everyone could get a really good idea of the pattern/cutoff for this bulb and housing combo.
If you could get a shot of your lights on a wall @ 10, 20, and 50 ft then everyone could get a really good idea of the pattern/cutoff for this bulb and housing combo.
Re: Anyone interested in HID kits for TY/SY ? PRICES INCLUDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Being some one who has messed around with HID's a ton, I'll post my input.
Non projector HID setups do not hold a candle to a proper projector HID retrofit.
My experience has been with tons of cheap plug & play kits, the now out of production Sylvania h0654 kit, and retrofitting my Lexus with OEM projectors. My wife also has an 01 audi a6 for me to compare my retrofits to a OEM HID setup.
With the cheap plug & play kits that use a stock style halogen housing, you're going to blind on coming traffic no matter what.
With a kit designed to use a hid bulb in a refelector style housing, and using a glare shield, you can get acceptable light output and cut off. I don't know weather this kit has a HID bulb shoved into a non HID housing, or not, but the sylvania kit had the shield, and was designed for HID bulbs and it still wasn't perfect. There were a couple hot spots making lighting not optimal, and the cut off wasn't perfect. These would work, but I wouldn't pay 500$ for them again.
Using an acura TSX projector, and genuine OEM phillips ballasts, HID's are amazing. Good cut off, good light dispersion, no blinding on coming traffic, these make drving in the back woods roads to my house at night not a chore. They were as good or better than my wifes A6 hid's from the factory, with the fact that she has auto leveling built into my car, and I have to adjust mine when ever I put a big load in the back. I also spent tons of hours (30 give or take) retrofitting the projector, cleaning up my headlights, ect and 6-700$ in used parts (Projectors, ballasts, and bulbs were 500$ off ebay).
I also would not bother running anything but the trigger from the stock wiring. Most HID's can pull too much current on start up for the stock wiring to handle. I put 30amp fuses, and 40/50 amp relays, 12 awg wiring on each ballast on the retrofit I did. Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
My justification for doing good HID's the right way, was that silverstar bulbs cost a ton these days, 20-30$. I was burning them out every 4-6 months. That adds up after a while , and the average HID bulb from a good OEM setup (Phillips, Sylvania) will last 8-10 years of average night driving.
for more info visit http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/
Being some one who has messed around with HID's a ton, I'll post my input.
Non projector HID setups do not hold a candle to a proper projector HID retrofit.
My experience has been with tons of cheap plug & play kits, the now out of production Sylvania h0654 kit, and retrofitting my Lexus with OEM projectors. My wife also has an 01 audi a6 for me to compare my retrofits to a OEM HID setup.
With the cheap plug & play kits that use a stock style halogen housing, you're going to blind on coming traffic no matter what.
With a kit designed to use a hid bulb in a refelector style housing, and using a glare shield, you can get acceptable light output and cut off. I don't know weather this kit has a HID bulb shoved into a non HID housing, or not, but the sylvania kit had the shield, and was designed for HID bulbs and it still wasn't perfect. There were a couple hot spots making lighting not optimal, and the cut off wasn't perfect. These would work, but I wouldn't pay 500$ for them again.
Using an acura TSX projector, and genuine OEM phillips ballasts, HID's are amazing. Good cut off, good light dispersion, no blinding on coming traffic, these make drving in the back woods roads to my house at night not a chore. They were as good or better than my wifes A6 hid's from the factory, with the fact that she has auto leveling built into my car, and I have to adjust mine when ever I put a big load in the back. I also spent tons of hours (30 give or take) retrofitting the projector, cleaning up my headlights, ect and 6-700$ in used parts (Projectors, ballasts, and bulbs were 500$ off ebay).
I also would not bother running anything but the trigger from the stock wiring. Most HID's can pull too much current on start up for the stock wiring to handle. I put 30amp fuses, and 40/50 amp relays, 12 awg wiring on each ballast on the retrofit I did. Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
My justification for doing good HID's the right way, was that silverstar bulbs cost a ton these days, 20-30$. I was burning them out every 4-6 months. That adds up after a while , and the average HID bulb from a good OEM setup (Phillips, Sylvania) will last 8-10 years of average night driving.
for more info visit http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/
Ground Rat
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Re: Anyone interested in HID kits for TY/SY ? PRICES INCLUDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good post. Another cool thing about a HID projector retrofit is that you could paint the stock halogen reflector black wich would look cool on our trucks.
The only thing stopping me from running HIDs is that I like to be able to turn my lights on and off quickly. Do you have any experience with halogen projectors?
Spinall4 said:
Good post. Another cool thing about a HID projector retrofit is that you could paint the stock halogen reflector black wich would look cool on our trucks.
The only thing stopping me from running HIDs is that I like to be able to turn my lights on and off quickly. Do you have any experience with halogen projectors?