this man speaks the truth. Projectors>HIDs in crappy halogen housings

HIDs in halogen housings scatter light everywhere and blind on coming drivers

Except honestly most ricers get the highest kelvin rating possible and it makes it dangerous to drive at night and especially at night in the rain. I dont care for the look of HID's. Everyone has them now. Now with Sylvanias ZXE lights, the halogen bulb is almost as good vision wise down road and has an appeasing light color. I like the stock lights and with the 9007 conversion the output is plenty enough. I might upgrade to a 1pc headlight but ill always stick with halogens.

Projectors with HID's over halogens

HID's look great and light up the road ok and halogens look ok and light up the road great. Ill choose the latter

+1 for HID projectors:

+2 for halogens

Any halogen bulbs in any 4th gen housings will never look anything like that lol

lol it would at 3am on a street with no street lights in the middle of nowhere....

Not even on a salt filled road like pictured lol 9004's suck.

then swap the wires and go 9007?

If you want something a little better, sure, but you're still using 9004 reflectors. That's part of the problem that limits output.

The reflectors do suck but the aftermarket 1pc I want arent any better, honestly probably worse pattern. A cheapness nissan had to do in the 4th gen to keep those prices down *sigh*

The R34's are worse. Worse beam pattern and output. Don't bother with those if you're not going to do a retro.

Im just gonna get the generic 1pc. I just dont like the space in between the cornering lights and the headlights. Its never flush. Bad design

thats because the ones youre talking about are designed for the cefiro not the maxima IIRC.

be prepared to not be able to see anything due to the worlds worst output. R34 stlye headlights BLOW, ask me how I know

No. You're talking about the one piece Cefiro's which also such but we're talking about R34's for the Maximas here.

lighting newb question ----> Retro? retro fit to what?

Projectors into reflectors.

as Cruz said, projectors into halogen housings

yeah I checked all the how to's. After I posted!! :/ I am so behind with the lingo and acronyms. Going back into lurking/knowledge absorption mode...

It was a noob move for me to buy HID's
Lesson learned in life.

Its true what Chris said, I can't see anything but it doesn't really affect me since I live in the city.

those are AE style glass headlights. they were all over ebay a few years ago. doubt they have any in stock... I had them on my car, here is a pic. okay lightout put, scattered everywhere but better than R34

save your money and just get some stocks. bake them and paint them alot cheaper imo

Stock what? 96-96 or 97-99?
Either way, the lenses on both suck.
The 95-96's are flutted and the 97-99's turn yellow and cloudy.

Yup. Can't beat clear glass.

invest in Bi-Xenon and Aim your headlight back up...Here's my 86.5 D21 Hardbody with 6000k Bi-Xenon (glare sheilded bulbs) in Hella halogen housings






I would say projection lense are #1 but using a bi-xexon buld in a halogen halogen has no light scatter.....only aimed down til you hit the hi-beams then you'll burn out those retinas of any one willing to stare at the light!

Look at all of that glare.

It's not as bad as it could be but it's not great either.

+3 to projectors




Mine do need to be reaimed but you get the point

do it.

I like the stock lights. I've taken good car of them and they are still crystal clear. I will never buy a headlight that isn't glass. They just don't look right after a yr or so. Scratched up and cloudy already. I think Ill just go with these and maybe just adding some new weather stripping to my corners to close that ugly black gap. The 1pc im sure will gap on the top if not the bottom as well, they cant fit well for so cheap you know? Either way I guess headlights are a personal thing and there is no right or wrong persay....except for the pink HID's lol. 32k I believe.

Which picture are you referring to? Hopefully the bottom pic.....That's where our lights are suppose too shine too our right side away from on coming vehicles....Look at my top and middle pics it away from the on coming traffic.....UNLESS YOUR IN ENGLAND WHERE IT'S R/H DRIVE my lights aren't in your eyes!

That looks exactly the way I thought it would. Good fit and nice custom look without screaming for attention. Under stated mods are the way to go

I think you should try buying from ebay. I have made many cosmetic car purchases and they are very good quality if you do your research. Like bumper grilles, headlights and such. Good luck.

projectors all the way

goodness gracious over here

Here's a thought. Buy the Glass headlights. Remove the lenses from your stock lights and put the glass lenses on the stock headlight. Then you get glass lenses with an OEM reflector.

Although the best option: projectors retro with glass lenses + HID's. Don't get HID's with the retarded 30000k output. Stick between 5000-6000K and you get the most visible light on the road. With projectors you'll see much much more without blinding everyone. I just recently finished my retro and it's literally night/day difference over my stock housing with xenon halogen.



These were taken while it was raining. when I had the projectors+HID's I couldn't even see the road when it was wet at night time.

Still no grill I see Did you finally get around to painting your hood the right way? Catch the guys that hit you?

It has the grill back on it now. Still needs some adjusting though. Hood is still dipped (no money for real paint. ). No, I never caught them. Probably never will. What comes around goes around though.