Converting to 50w HID lowbeam
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Originally Posted by stena,Dec 20 2006, 11:21 AM
S2000 Hid Is close to Perfect...Not Perfect but Close.
i hold the S2000 hid for Top Ranking for now....Other Car HID that I was amazed with and possably Better than ours was the C6 Corvette that A friend has.I have never been Suprised From other Hids in other cars when compared to our CAR but when i had a Drive in His SC C6 i didnt Belive how Good the HIDs were,i would say better than ours...Probably the same hid is On the C6 Z06 ,btw he has the Z06 too. Great Car Not Expensive Supersport Car.
i hold the S2000 hid for Top Ranking for now....Other Car HID that I was amazed with and possably Better than ours was the C6 Corvette that A friend has.I have never been Suprised From other Hids in other cars when compared to our CAR but when i had a Drive in His SC C6 i didnt Belive how Good the HIDs were,i would say better than ours...Probably the same hid is On the C6 Z06 ,btw he has the Z06 too. Great Car Not Expensive Supersport Car.
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Originally Posted by hecash,Dec 20 2006, 07:30 PM
I just want to comment that when folks pass the age of 40 their sensitivity to light at night frequently increases. My wife is already at the point where standard headlights bother her a lot.
As is, the S2000 will blind folks on the down-hill-side of the projection.
It's just making it more dangerous in my view for the sake of a gain that's meaningless except to your ego.
As is, the S2000 will blind folks on the down-hill-side of the projection.
It's just making it more dangerous in my view for the sake of a gain that's meaningless except to your ego.
I think it's completely pointless to convert to a 50w HID system for regular city/neighborhood driving. Maybe if you were going off-road or hitting the Baja, ok. But otherwise it's just idiotic and makes no sense. The standard OEM 35w system is more than enough.
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From: Skopje
I Just Remembered one Funny thing...
When I was on vacation Down in Egypt at Sharm El Sheik I think that's the name did you know that they have The perfect new Roads and Tarmac but nobody At night drives with Headlights???
Its so funny and dangerous...
Everybody drives with position lights on and nobody Uses Low beam And that's so funny.I mean you Drive on the Highway and Cars Pass you and you cant see them In the Mirrors Cos they don't have running Lights.....
And when you ask them why do they drive like that they say that the Lights Are Drawing Power from the Battery and that's a NO-no.
And After that they Say why do you need lights where there is Light everywhere on the road....?::""::
SO funny so funny...
That mentality...And when you see the Policeman on a BMW Motorcycle with only position On you know What's the Time....
Cheers.... Cant stop
Imagine the situation that when they somebody wih lights they Go say Crazy-man or they think of him Nuts... and they cant Explain it to themselfs...
When I was on vacation Down in Egypt at Sharm El Sheik I think that's the name did you know that they have The perfect new Roads and Tarmac but nobody At night drives with Headlights???
Its so funny and dangerous...
Everybody drives with position lights on and nobody Uses Low beam And that's so funny.I mean you Drive on the Highway and Cars Pass you and you cant see them In the Mirrors Cos they don't have running Lights.....
And when you ask them why do they drive like that they say that the Lights Are Drawing Power from the Battery and that's a NO-no.
And After that they Say why do you need lights where there is Light everywhere on the road....?::""::
SO funny so funny...
That mentality...And when you see the Policeman on a BMW Motorcycle with only position On you know What's the Time....
Cheers....
Cant stop Imagine the situation that when they somebody wih lights they Go say Crazy-man or they think of him Nuts...
and they cant Explain it to themselfs...
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From: S2KAtlanta
Anyway, I think we can actually turn this thread around and make it more useful for the original purpose, which we can extract by reading between the lines:
"What can I do to my headlights to make them look more unique?"
Some ideas:
1. Different color temp bulbs (negatively affects visiblity)
2. "City lights" - colored bulbs inside housing to add color or glow when lights are off
3. "halos" or "angel eyes" - cold cathode or LED rings that can go around the projector for much the same reason as "city lights"
4. White LED sidemarker, turn signal, and parking lights (some versions of LED lights have a very narrow light cone but can be pretty brilliant inside that cone)
5. Adjusting the position of the low-beam cutoff with a washer (this puts it a bit out of focus and causes the dividing line between dark and light to have more color. Has the advantage of being interesting without significantly reducing visibility or blinding oncoming drivers)
"What can I do to my headlights to make them look more unique?"
Some ideas:
1. Different color temp bulbs (negatively affects visiblity)
2. "City lights" - colored bulbs inside housing to add color or glow when lights are off
3. "halos" or "angel eyes" - cold cathode or LED rings that can go around the projector for much the same reason as "city lights"
4. White LED sidemarker, turn signal, and parking lights (some versions of LED lights have a very narrow light cone but can be pretty brilliant inside that cone)
5. Adjusting the position of the low-beam cutoff with a washer (this puts it a bit out of focus and causes the dividing line between dark and light to have more color. Has the advantage of being interesting without significantly reducing visibility or blinding oncoming drivers)
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From: TN
i'm on the mazda 3 forums for my gf's car a bunch.
There's a bunch of info on the 55w kits there and a few vendors that have info on it.
check it out.
www.mazda3forums.com
There's a bunch of info on the 55w kits there and a few vendors that have info on it.
check it out.
www.mazda3forums.com
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Originally Posted by GranPrix' date='Sep 28 2006, 06:09 AM
Silent, you do know you will be blinding the hell out of everyone on the road. The projector housing our cars have are not ment for an HID capsule over 35 watts. Consider yourself a rolling stadium lighting apparatus on the street. I'd hate to live in your neighborhood. 
My '03 already had the headlight housings replaced once due to bubbling from the heat of the stock HIDs. Now after a year, the second set is starting to bubble too.
Adding a bunch of heat isn't going to help a lot, especially when the housings start to melt. They are approx $370 each to replace (on line parts) or $600 each at the dealer.
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Originally Posted by rworne' date='Mar 25 2007, 10:43 PM
Let's put it this way:
My '03 already had the headlight housings replaced once due to bubbling from the heat of the stock HIDs. Now after a year, the second set is starting to bubble too.
Adding a bunch of heat isn't going to help a lot, especially when the housings start to melt. They are approx $370 each to replace (on line parts) or $600 each at the dealer.
My '03 already had the headlight housings replaced once due to bubbling from the heat of the stock HIDs. Now after a year, the second set is starting to bubble too.
Adding a bunch of heat isn't going to help a lot, especially when the housings start to melt. They are approx $370 each to replace (on line parts) or $600 each at the dealer.
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Originally Posted by GranPrix' date='Mar 26 2007, 08:30 AM
Sorry to burst your bubble, but who ever told you the bubbling was due to the HID's heat, are wrong. HID's produce way less heat than an incandecent bulb.
The next time you have the HIDs on, look at the black area under the lens.
You will see a crescent-shaped light spot there from the projector lenses. The bubbles that occured in my housings were the shape of this crescent. Same spots, both housings. Now the new ones are starting to do it. Also in the exact same spot.