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I am thinking about buying a ebay hid, kit, I currently have tyc projector beam headlights on my car, (note: gives a ---- if anyone thinks they are ricey, because I like them, they look good to me, no stock jdm for me). disclaimer out of the way. anyways I wanna get brighter lights. I forgot what bulbs are they exactly, I think halogen 1, or2. my car originally came with h4, so on the projector it has a h4 plug, if I get a hid kit what lights would be preffered, or work with the hid kit? if I can't the right kit I should be able to hard wire it in correct?

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If you get them let me know how you like them, because Im interested in them. Its dark as ---- where I live, There isnt ---- for street lights around here.

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Don't do it. You'll send glare and blind everyone else on the road. If you're lucky, one will swerve in front of you since they can't see a damn thing....

Do retrofits of factory projectors, or don't do it at all...

HID plug and play IS the new altezza....

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Agreed... they do suck when you get shined with a set, almost plowed a few people with them just because I hate em' :8

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Exactly. Although I hate ricer projectors anyway, if you're going to do it please do it right. Unless you want to drive around with everyone calling you an ------- and flashing their lights at you, get some OEM projectors and bulbs and do it THE RIGHT WAY.

Just throwing in ebay bulbs in ebay projectors will blind every vehicle, and might end up causing an accident. I know the proper way is more expensive, but when someone runs into your car because they are blinded, it'll end up costing more.

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HID kit + TYC projectors, if you're lazy.

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I have the tyc projector lights, but they simply not bright enough, I just wish I could get them to be brighter without being illegal, or blinding someone,
even the factory bmw and audi lights are blinding here. I probably just need to get some good quality bulbs instead of a conversion kit.
can the hid bulbs work with a stock system, or do it need the balast to amplify it? I really hate seeing those things in the motor bay

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Any decent one afaik has ballasts... it's just necessary to get the light output but keeping the amp draw down or else you have melted wires or a fire. Ballasts convert to higher voltage so less amps are needed.

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Yeah the ballast is needed. The lights would otherwise just draw a huge amount of current and end up destroying themselves/the wiring.

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i know a few people that have just ran them for their high beams and they say they like them a lot. ive never riden in the car but i have been infront of them when they flashed them and theyre bright as a bitch.

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If their blinding other drivers just aim that ---- right. You can blind other cars with your stock headlights if their all googly eyed and pointing everywhere but where you want them. I'm going with the ebay 6k hid kit for my volvo. They've gone dirt cheap now and you can find a full kit from 60 shipped that includes everything needed...ballast,harness, and bulbs brand new.

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ill get one kits soon..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/HID-C...spagenameZWDVW

for example..

i hope them works :-\

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That's so untrue.

The HID light is so much brighter so that you can't control it with the stock headlights. That's the reason if you don't retrofit them they suck and blind everyone on the road.

And I wonder how the quality of a $60 kit is? I'm guessing it's similar to the ricer-blue headlight bulbs that blow-out every month from getting too hot.

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I am still debating on getting them, inspection is really ---- here, and hard to pass, I am surprised I pass it with a turbo, and gutted cat with 3" exhaust.

I may get the lights soon, I am just not sure.

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First bit of cash after xmas I'm getting a kit. I may go with a kit I found on volvo forum I post on that a vendor sells for 125 shipped and had good feedback from and pics of members who got the kit.

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im probly gona get the cheapest kit on ebay when my projectors come, just to see. there like 75-80 shipped

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the hid-tyc combo is ok
I put hid's in the 'stock' projector lenses of the TYCs for a while and they were decent. no glare to blind oncoming traffic, but not very effective light output considering what HIDs are capable of. (i.e. hotspots, dull cutoff etc.)

retrofitted some bi-xenon lenses in there.
low beam is very nice and crisp and high beam you=blind :-*

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I've seen a lot of pictures of aftermarket HIDs even in OEM non-HID projectors, and they always have glare. OEM 94-01 Integra headlights have decent projectors, and they still glare like hell.

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I feel hids kits on them damn Rsx's with no retro are the worst for glare! nasty! Other than the glare.. i bought a set of HIDs of Ebay 1.5 years ago
same ballasts same bulbs still kickin!! ;D

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I just ordered a hid kit for my projectors,
can't be any worst that these new audis and bmw here their lights are so blinding
hope I can install the kit has to where they look stock by hiding the balasts out of the engine bay.

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i was actually gonna do the same thing. i bought a car that had some gay projectors on it so i panted them and am gonna put a P&P kit in there soon. don't worry about the glare everybody is talking about because that is only in the stock reflective housing. your projectors should give a decent result, but still nothing liek a retro. hmm, wonder if you could just swap out the lense down the road?

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Poor aim in all headlights suck no matter HID or halogen, or whatever. Show us a pic when you get them done. HID and Halogen are like night and day. I love the 4300K bulb in my car, as I think anything over 6k is gettin ricey.

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so your saying that painting the reflective housing inside the headlight reduces glare from the HID bulbs? How is the visibility?

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Free Ebay projectors + Free used junk yard high beams + Free High beam clips + Putting high beams in the low beam spot on some apc projectors=awesome :y

I can see more ---- on the road then my friends with there HID kits and my ---- was free.
Another good thing is my light doesn't look that homo purple color.

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Maybe I'm lost here, but exactly what motor are these HID's being installed on to make a hybrid? :6 :6

"Hybrid/Tech
B16/B18/ZC/D16/H22/Mini-Me Ask your Honda Engine Questions here. "

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Shut up, Noob

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This noob has been here longer than you, I just have remained mostly silent choosing to learn, rather than up my post count.

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what does motor type have to do with headlights?
this question makes you look noobier than the newest noob

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my intentions was not to create a ricey looking setup. my headlights are freaking useless, its even worst when the road is wet I can't see ----.
when I started this thread I had no idea what the meaning of color temperature, I wanted bright white bluish lights. so when I ordered I ask for the 8000k ones, if I knew that it was rice blue I would have gotten something between that and stock.

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no, that's not what i said. i painted them because they were chrome and just to try and take away from the mexi-fect i painted them black. using a stock reflector housing ment for halogen bulbs creates glare. i am just going to use the halogen projector for the HID bulbs.

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I asked because this section has to do with:

"Hybrid/Tech
B16/B18/ZC/D16/H22/Mini-Me Ask your Honda Engine Questions here. "

It seems the section this question would have really belonged in is the general section based on the section descriptions. This has nothing even remotely to do with engines.

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hey dumb dumb!
hybrid does not only have be with motors and motor swaps. its also have with making things work on things that it dont normally came with the car.
troubleshooting, engine building, electronics etc.

shut the ---- up noob, this is not honda-tech

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Ebay HID's belong on Honda Tech...... ::) ::)

"Hybrid/Tech
B16/B18/ZC/D16/H22/Mini-Me Ask your Honda Engine Questions here . "

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i would think it is more of a tech question then turbo, engine managment, fab or porn question so i think it is in the right spot

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I hear you, here is what I have learned: The higher you go in color temperature the less actual light output and hense the more blue/purple the light. 4300-6000k is what most oem lights are. The reason why some projectors look blue/purple from a distance is because of the difference in color spectrum that you see due to the different vantage point.(the bumps in the road and angle you see them cause the lights to appear to flicker or change from purple to white.)

I think 5000k would give a good white light. I can post a pic of the lights on the is300-they are 4300k. Hope that helps.

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http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.hid

I love this site!
Jago showed it to me. :y

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I just installed and tested them, and they looked great, no annoying glare as most people said it would create, even though I got the 8000k bulbs they are not rice, blue they are super white, looked like the bmw/audi lights.
I like the look, except the whining comming from the balasts.

how safe is it to install the balasts outside of the engine bay?
I installed mines under the corner lights inside the bumper, so the modification look natural, hopefully they are water resistant.

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did you just install them in the stock lights or aftermarket ones? i'm pretty sure you should be good with the ballasts there.

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Good job, now post pics >:(

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they are installed in tyc projector beam headlights, they look nice.
will take pics when I get the car running again my dizzy died.