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Great pics glasswars! Here are some pics I took with my crappy cell phone. I have 6000K HID in the projectors. The halos are wired to the parking lights and the LEDs are wired to the signal lights. My lights were professionally installed and properly aimed

^ very nice, so it is possible, how long have you had the HIDs?

hmm i can't seem to get the last pic of just the halos & leds & im pretty sure it's hooked up the same way as ^^
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Lil bumpage... hmmmm.... Hids in them huh... Did you buy a set just for the low beams or both and wire them up to use the same ballast?? Or I duno what I'm saying... lol

z3roneo wrote:Lil bumpage... hmmmm.... Hids in them huh... Did you buy a set just for the low beams or both and wire them up to use the same ballast?? Or I duno what I'm saying... lol

Just the low beams. The high beams use reflective housing and it already throws a lot of light with halogens so I don't think HID's are necessary. However HID's in projectors vs halogens made a world of difference!

But how??? I thought the low/high beam are on the same harness...

z3roneo wrote:But how??? I thought the low/high beam are on the same harness...

Same harness but different wires. You just need to detach the low beam wire and splice the ground.

well you only use high beams when theres no oncoming traffic. So I ordered a set of the projectors and an H1 HID kit. My original plan was to leave the low beams halogen and put the HIDs in the high beams even though its a reflector housing. Would it be better to put the HIDs in the projector low beam and keep the high beams halogen? from the pictures i'm seeing the halogen low beams are pretty bright as is.

You do NOT want HID's in the high beam area. First of all, it's a reflector, thats for tards, secondly, HID bulbs/ballasts aren't meant to be flashed on and off repeatedly, for instance, flash to pass, or when you just want to get someones attention that left thier highs on, or to flash your buddy to get his attention. Plus, HID's need about 20seconds to warm up, so it would do you no good to try and flash someone as it would take about 5-10 seconds for them to see the headlights, and, by that time thier car has passed you.

Put them in the lows, and reap the benefits of almighty HID lighting.

Also, I can't stress this enough!!! GET 4300K's.....I promise that people will think your car is a BMW or something anyway because 4300K's is what they use as well.

So if I put HIDs in the low beams will it basically be the same only without the glare? Will I even need high beams? Also what controls the color temperature, is it the bulb or the ballast, or both? lol I'm trying to learn the most and the best way to do this. thanks!

Go here http://www.srtforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203074

You will learn ALOT.

thanks for the link, i learned a lot. I realize now that sure my 10000k kit may be a lot brighter then my halogens were, but i'm not getting anywhere near the most out of it. I also learned that my ballasts will be fine, and I could just change the bulbs out if I can find em. Thanks again man you are the HID KING! I'll let you guys know how my projectors with HIDs work out.

Yours are different than mine, mine have the turn signal LED's on the top, not the sides.

Also, dies your inner turnsignal area have one or two bulbs? Mine has two, one for the parking light, and one for the OEM turn signal/parking light combo.

Arro wrote:Yours are different than mine, mine have the turn signal LED's on the top, not the sides.

Also, dies your inner turnsignal area have one or two bulbs? Mine has two, one for the parking light, and one for the OEM turn signal/parking light combo.

also yours has a differnt type of halo, more like the led stlye on the BMW's, theres is just a neon tube ring. IMO, yours are better

DJ KoZoTo wrote:

Arro wrote:Yours are different than mine, mine have the turn signal LED's on the top, not the sides.

Also, dies your inner turnsignal area have one or two bulbs? Mine has two, one for the parking light, and one for the OEM turn signal/parking light combo.

also yours has a differnt type of halo, more like the led stlye on the BMW's, theres is just a neon tube ring. IMO, yours are better

We have the same halo, I just don't have the night shots to show it yet.

The only thing different about his is the housing mold locates the LED turnsignals on the side. Otherwise the projector assemblies and the highbeams reflector assemblies are the same.

Oh and apparently I have a larger reflective inner surface on my OEM-located turnsignal/parking lights, not to mention an additional bulb on the inside:




This is his (in black):



They fill inthe area where my turnsig LED's are with some "style lines", and they do the same thing for the OEM turnsignal reflector. Just a matter of taste here, I decided on the style I went with, but if the other version was all that was out there, I would be just as happy... and his chrome looks good with his silver car

So on these there are 2 knobs to adjust..Now is 1 for right to left and the other up and down? I got mine and i installed all of the leds and the halos right to the wires coming for the headlights..I think later i will run the halo rings to the blinker..

bump to the top, for a question...

I got the black housing projectors from ebay and an HID kit from someone else, but when I ordered the HID kit it asked me for the bulb type and I just did the 9007 since that is what the stock car wants...? Is this wrong? Do I need the H1 bulbs or H3, or what? Should I buy some new bulbs, or will the kit ONLY accept a 9007 bulb? I am hoping I can just buy a new H1 bulb and be done with it... lemme know!?

Boy I told you it is the H1 bulbs. 9007s will come no where close to fitting in the projectors. The ONLY bulbs that will work in both the high beams and the low beams is H1. And there is a little modification you have to do to the bases of the bulbs in order to get them to seat just right. Once you get some H1s let me know and I will explain what you need to do. It isn't hard but you have to be careful not to break the bulb. That 9007 kit is useless to you bro.

i got balbs too haha hell yeah ill post pics as soon as i take some wich will probly be tomorrow

kornholio788 wrote:Boy I told you it is the H1 bulbs. 9007s will come no where close to fitting in the projectors. The ONLY bulbs that will work in both the high beams and the low beams is H1. And there is a little modification you have to do to the bases of the bulbs in order to get them to seat just right. Once you get some H1s let me know and I will explain what you need to do. It isn't hard but you have to be careful not to break the bulb. That 9007 kit is useless to you bro.

So H1 bulbs will not fit on the 9007 kit? Dammit...
I must have missed your post telling me H1..?

no the 9007 hid kit wont fit in the projector because the bulb is H1

kc2002acr wrote:

kornholio788 wrote:Boy I told you it is the H1 bulbs. 9007s will come no where close to fitting in the projectors. The ONLY bulbs that will work in both the high beams and the low beams is H1. And there is a little modification you have to do to the bases of the bulbs in order to get them to seat just right. Once you get some H1s let me know and I will explain what you need to do. It isn't hard but you have to be careful not to break the bulb. That 9007 kit is useless to you bro.

So H1 bulbs will not fit on the 9007 kit? Dammit...
I must have missed your post telling me H1..?

Wait wtf. You are going to have to do some custom wiring with the hids. Because they don't make a kit that uses the 9007 stock connectors that we have but still uses the H1 bulbs. I wired it up so I can still use my stock connectors I have to take my headlights out soon soo I can put my new leds in the sides. I will take pics of what I did then pm it to you and explain how I did everything. Everything has quick disconnects on it so I can easily remove the headlight when needed.

Ok, so here is what I have now... tell me what itis I need to do to get it to fit

H1 bulbs:


H1 Bulb and 9007 Bulb:


H1 plug next to 9007 Plug:

The projectors come with H1 style bulbs, but are also wired up to a pigtail that adapts them to your factory 9007 connector. Since your converting to HID's your going to have to splice the projector wiring for the one H1 that your planning on upgrading to the HID kit. Also note, DO NOT wire the HID kit directly to your factory harness since the HID kit will overload the stock wiring. You are going to need to install a set of relay's and use the stock wiring to kick the relay to send high voltage from a 12volt source to the HID ballasts. The HID kit is not plug and play.....

There ya go.

looks like I can use the 4 poster terminal relay's, yes?

I got them installed, but the HID's will wait until Wednesday.




More in my project log.

Anyone got anymore pics of where they installed the ballasts? Kornholio788, got anymore pics of your wiring?

Hrm. Well I will probably take some pics for you toamrro when I install my new leds for the sides. Then I will remember to bring my camera while the headlights are out.

spencersummerfield wrote:

There ya go.

This does not make much sense -
I have it started but quit because I do not want to start cutting and splicing until I KNOW for sure what I am doing.

edit-

OK... looking at this setup, this is the problems that I see with it, which I need answered...

It says to tap one relay from 86 post to the factory plug on the low beams...
Then it says to tap on that same relay to the positive side of the ballast from post 87... but if I do that nothing will be going to the lightbulb...? Am I looking at it wrong? Because where that red line goes is into the ballast, but that is the output for the lightbulb!

Also, the ground is just touching the ballast... which plug does it go into?!

Anyway, that is where I am at

Well, after much thinking, I firgured it out myself. So they are in, they work, drobe with em all night and it was fine I love it!!! Will get pics sometime

Bump for a question, NOT about HID's, but about the housings... has anyone had their plastic outer lenses flake and heat crack or in some way lose their clearness?

The first summer I had mine, they flaked off a thin layer, and were cloudy... it's not even right where the light is, so it's not from the heat of the bulb.

???

like small flake lines , mine has