I'm considering buying this HID set up in the for sale section but i never really understood much about the systems.
anyhow, here's a link, and i was wondering if anyoen could tell me how i could get the h4 set up to work on my 95 and if these are a decent purchase since my headlights are dull as hell and i'm just looking for a deal.
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=442002
thanks.

 

You should get some polish, pull your headlights and polish them inside and out (or just try the outside first without removing them).

Then, if you still really feel the need for more light output, you should upgrade to a 9007 harness. You will get more output without blinding everyone else on the road.

You're 16. I know that having HIDs would be awesome, but before you get them you have to understand that putting them in your stock reflector housing will put a lot of light where you don't want it (in oncoming driver's eyes). It will basically be like you constantly have your highbeams on, and you'll get flashed all the time because people will think you have them on. You will quite possibly be pulled over (multiple times) because the police will not like that you blind them either. The kit is illegal except for offroad use. You will also not be able to use your highbeams as there is the equivelent of only one filament in the bulb.

If you still want them despite knowing how many people you will **** off, the H4 bulb type is interchangeable with the 9004 bulb type, so you wouldn't have to modify the housing. you would have to do some wiring, cutting wires, possibly splicing wires, etc. 8000K will give you a very blue light, and won't give you nearly as much total light output as 6000k or 5000k (or 4300k).

Personally, if you want better looking lights, I would bum some '97-99 headlights off of someone, do a 9007 conversion (pretty straightforward, gives you better light output) and get some good 9007 bulbs. You will get significantly better output and won't get pulled over/flashed all the time. Oh, and you will still have highbeams.

Good luck.

 

what does me being 16 have to do with needing brighter headlights? I just thought it was a deal and i wanted something hassle-less that i could just pop in and spend a minimal ammount of money on. However, i have heard that it puts light in the wrong directions, but if 8000k is going to give me less out put than the other ones you mentioned, i guess its not really worth it,also to not have high beams....
i've cleaned my headlights many times and taken them apart many times, so i know thats not the issue.
i guess i could try the 9007 thing, i'm just being lazy i guess. I know i want the 97/99 headlights but i didnt know exactly what i had to do to get them to fit with my 95/96 grille. and then i was thinking, what if i cut off a piece of the new headlights and coudlnt later switch to the 97/99 grille if i wanted to. that'd suck.
i was considering getting cefiro's but i have a weird feeling about aftermarket headlights, like they are cheap quality.
anyhow thanks for the info, i'm going to start with the 9007 conversion.

 

i wanna do the 9007 conversion to but i am just like u, lazy to get started with it lol, hopfully i will get it dont this week when i get my clear bumperlights

 

man, i know. its ALMOST like a chore. i mean i love modifying but with this i am just like..indifferent almost, like it doesnt hold my attention very long.
right now i've got nothing to do so i'm gonna check out the how to right now though.

 

isnt it raining in katy right now? it was raining alot in MO. city this morning, right now its soaking wet, i was suppose to try that ludalip mod today but the rain just helped me out by giving a reason to not step out the house.

 

yeah its been raining all morning but it kinda stopped right now. i was goign to paint my calipers and i was pissed to wake up and see the rain. I can at least get supplies for the 9007 conversion though, although when i'm looking at the how to i'm completely lost.
maybe i'm imcompetent.

 

I am currently working on a project to place HID bulbs into a normal Maxima housing with a few modifications and not create as much blinding. I've got it almost perfect on my Cefiro's. Now I need to test the theory on normal Maxima headlights. I'm not sure if it will be possible on the 95/96 headlights as my method is to remove some of the reflection/light direction and the light direction (refraction i think is the word) is done on the headlight lense itself.

Anyways... more on that to come. :-D

 

What high beam? Headlights are Re-Aim-able for a reason.

 

If youre sure you want Hids and have the funds for it, knock yourself out but get 9004s if your using them on your stock headlights for less headache of installation. But upgraded harness is a good idea. Other wise, go with cefiros for the h4 housing.

 

I installed the 9007's in my 99 maxima and the improvement was tremendous for me as I live in a rural area without many streetlights. I concidered the H4's but the 9007 coversion seemed sensible.

 

ehh screw it. im buying some other things at the moment and i'm tired of "risking it" with my money and losing it.
with that 9007 i read the how to and maybe i'm retarded but i really dont understand what he did with the harnesses and stuff. i've got 12 gauge wire, so i guess thats a start lol.

 

I meant that when you're 16, getting pulled over for stupid sh*t like headlights is a bigger deal than when you're financially independent/stable. $200 at 16 is a lot more money than $200 at 25.

It's pretty simple, just switch two wires (high beam and ground) and do some minor dremeling IIRC (unless you want to run overpowered bulbs).

PROPERLY aimed headlights will not be in other people's eyes. This means they will only light up a certain portion of the road. Unless you want to stop and re-aim your headlights every time you want to see more than yea far away from you, having high beams is an overall good idea. Do you ever driven faster than 50mph in an unlit area? Probably should have used your highbeams...

 

There is a standard to "Properly Aim Headlights". Mines are and for the last two years Ive had them on, Ive see more road than I ever can without them "All Portions of the Road". Before that, I ran Piaa Xtremes, IMO the brightess aftermarket bulbs out there, well worth the price. Now these I purposly aimed higher. Other than making 45mph driving fastlaners drive faster, no complaints yet. And Ive never recieved a "$200 ticket for them". And no I havnt been lucky, its up to standards and not worth their time to pull you over for stupid fix-it tickets.
With hids, you dont need high beams, but there are bi-xenon kits out there.

So I dont think you should knock them when you dont own a pair yourself. Try comparing the both sometimes.

 

i second that, it is a lil confusing but i think i will get it if a pay a lil more attention to it,
hey chillin i meant to ask u what the heck u meant u aint seeing at night, u can practically drive all over houston with your headlights off and not even know it,yeh it has happened to me a few times lol, just couple nihgts ago i went to the movies and started on my way home and i was like 3 miles gone and my bro asked me y am i driving with my lights off, i was like damnn i didnt even realize lol, he thought i was doing it on purpose cause i love to do crap like that, this time i really didnt relaize my light was off... lol

do u live deep in katy?

 

haha, i have made the mistake before too. Well, the thing is i havent been driving with my a/c on at all lately. i havent felt like i needed it and i like to know that i'm not putting the extra toll on the engine, so i just turn it off. well sometimes my windsheild fogs up and i get alot of glare from oncoming headlights in my windsheild and my headlights on the road in front of me look terribly dim.
i know it sounds stupid, but they can be pretty weak.
i wonder if theres anything that i can put on my windsheild to prevent the fogging up.

 

it doesnt sound stupid cause mine does it to, and also when it rains in the night i dont see ****, thats y i wanna do the 9007 conversion,
when your windsheild fogs up u shoult have the vent blow some slightly warm air on it

 

i know i just try to keep the a/c off, thats all. gotta figure out that 9007 soon mayn!
painted half of the calipers on my car today so i'm stayin busy .

 

i've gotta figure it out soon to cause i ordered my clear bumper light and i wanna do the conversion while i am installing my bumper lights.
i dont have rims yet so i cant pain my calipers, i wanna get some 5 gen rims or some 350Z rims

 

Haha don't even get me started on rims, I'm in love with so many, I don't know how I ever settled on the ones I bought. Just got some lightweight (forged) wheels for performance reasons, on clearance.
But yeah that how to didn't really list needed materials or anything like steps..

 

where did u buy ur rims pn clearance?

 

The $200 was for the HID kit that he might be forced to remove, not the ticket he would receive.

And I hope you know by now that cops pull over people for incredibly stupid reasons, so they will not overlook blinding light coming from your car, especially if you're a 16 year old driving a modified car.

I don't understand what you're trying to say here: "Ive see more road than I ever can without them 'All Portions of the Road'." I doubt you are making people in front of you drive faster, and that's not something to be proud of. There is a reason that dual stage headlights were engineered--people didn't want to be blinded by headlights, but also wanted to be able to illuminate more in front of them when there were no other cars or streetlights around. If you don't want to illuminate more, then fine, that's great. Seems sort of stupid to me though if you're trying to upgrade your headlights (to illuminate more) and don't care about highbeams.
Anyway, putting that much more light into oncoming car's eyes is dangerous and incredibly annoying. I didn't knock HIDs, I gave him a few reasons why he shouldn't do it and gave him a bit of information should he choose to go through with it anyway.
"Try comparing the both sometimes." I don't know what that means either.

 

I have 8500k's in my headlights and I got CRAZY glare. I know it must be annoying to some drivers, but I'd rather be noticed as an annoyance for them to get out of my way lol. I still have good visibilty, I know with a lower kelvin I'd get better visibility, but I wanted the 8500's to match my interior lighting as well as the blue look in the exterior.

As for glare and HID's, ANY HID kit is going to have glare in the stock housings, it's inevitable.

 

do they make headlights for the 4th gens that already set up as HIDS? i am not speaking about the kit that u bu yand install it to the stick headlight, i am speaking about an HID headlight like whats on the beamer but for the 4th gen max

 

No.

Closest you can get to that would be to have maxgtr2000 retrofit some projectors for you and organize the whole thing (which is a pretty good deal IMO).

 

Thanks for the bump. If you know how a relay works and how to wire one up, you can make a 9007 harness pretty easy. In my sig is a lighting faq link, when you click it, you will see a schematic. You can base the harness off that. I would cut the middle wire on the stock sockets (they are the low beams). The socket side of the cut wires to the output of the relay. The harness side from the switch is the relay turn on. Hopefully you understand. That way you can use a high wattage bulb. The lows run directly from the 12ga wire from the battery, there shouldn't be any meltdown. I would do the 9007 with like a 65watt bulb or so.

 

can you put that in english for me please, lol j/k, but it is kinda hard to understand though.