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Old Sep 14, 2004 | 10:03 PM
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hid headlights

what is the best aftermarket hid light kit for our cars? I have silverstars now there nice and white but i want hids, any sugestions?
Old Sep 14, 2004 | 10:16 PM
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xenon is a good kit. www.hidforums.com all the information you need to know
Old Sep 14, 2004 | 10:27 PM
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Look into retrofitting projectors in the headlight housing , the stock 9004 housing scatters the HID light and blinds oncoming traffic, it attracts unwanted attention from cops too.
Old Sep 14, 2004 | 11:25 PM
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retrofiting projectors into our housing is the best was to go... I like my phillips 4200k hid kit, nice and bright, i see everything on the road.
Old Sep 15, 2004 | 08:18 AM
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Is there a thread how to on how to put these projectors into our headlights?
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Old Sep 15, 2004 | 09:58 AM
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Its all custom , BLUEC is the newest member of the Projector HID project . See if you can hook up with him.
Old Sep 15, 2004 | 12:40 PM
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Every retrofit project is different, so a how-to isn't necessarily going to help you. Go to hidforums.com like suggested before, and see if they got there server back up (was hacked and the system was corrupted). You can find projectors on ebay for a relatively good price as compared to a Phillips HID kit (a good 9004 Phillips kit runs 450 and up). With projectors, you'll get the nice beam pattern, and also the props for doing it yourself. Look for a 4100K-5000K kit for best light output. All a higher kelvin kit will do is make the light turn blue-purple and there will be less light output (lumens). Look for a set of projectors on ebay from, say a e55 Benz. make sure it comes with the ballasts and everything.
Old Sep 16, 2004 | 07:46 AM
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i just posted this earlier, but try this, get some BI-XENON (keep hi-beams)projectors of an Audi A6 (1990) and then get some ballasts and bulbs from hella, then, if you want, get some lighted optic rings to go around em. This is a very nice set up for HIDS, geo has them.
Old Sep 16, 2004 | 10:13 AM
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If you are in the market for any kind of HID set up get projectors with them PLEASEEEE. I had a pair of 6000k McCulloughs and they were horrible on the light output. I felt sorry for the drivers that I blinded everytime I would go down the road with these things. Since then I have took them out and now running good ol' bulbs that came with the car.
Old Sep 16, 2004 | 12:40 PM
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Actually you can get the phillips 4200k hid kit for less than 300, i got mine shipped from ebay for 270
Old Sep 16, 2004 | 12:44 PM
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HID KIT:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

Projectors:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33710
Old Sep 16, 2004 | 01:11 PM
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I got the philips also and paid 150 shipped a while back. I do blind everyone on the road and it sucks. Get projectors for them, you wont be sorry.
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