HIDs in

[SilverRS96]

Well i got my HIDs in over the weekend and well they r awesome! I went drivin that night and it was a total 180 from b4...I could actually c things when i drove by them...I ended up goin with 5000k from 813motoring.com...i dealt with Matt so if any of u guys want them for ur LT1 style camaro do it through him...Didn't take long at all....hardest part was finding where to put the ballest after the install...ill get pics later tonight since ive had the cover over it because of the snow...

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

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Looking forward to the pics :tup:

[SilverRS96]

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I just took some to show where i put the ballest and what they look like in the day

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

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That's similar to where I mounted my ballasts..

[Vulcan2422]

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Matt is a good guy. I have to hang out with him some more.

[SilverRS96]

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some better ones at night

[Niko97RS]

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niceee

i might have to do that

how much/how hard/how long? (sounds like a prostitute lol)

[SilverRS96]

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175 from the website i said above....took about a hr if thats all ur doin...i was playin xbox so i let the rtv seal real good b4 i got back to em...hard its not hard at all...as hard as doin a sealed beam conversion

[Sean_99_3.8]

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cool looks like a big improvement.
what do you have to do to convert a 99 to HID's?

[Vulcan2422]

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I forgot you had to pay shipping. That sucks.

For a 99 its real easy. No modification needed at all.

[ArticRider]

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For 98-02 it's easy to do if you don't retrofit projectors. If you don't have projectors, it's illegal and will cause glare to oncoming drivers.

Here's a better idea for the people who want to stay legal. Get HIR bulbs.

Check out more info here:
http://www.saturnspot.com/products/2...iba-bulbs.html
and here:
http://hirheadlights.com/

In summary, those bulbs are pretty much really efficient halogens. They put out about ~1875 lumens... so almost twice as much as stock(1000 lumens). The color temp is a little bit higher too, so itThey have the same length dimension as regular 9006 bulbs, so the focal point for the reflector assembly has not changed.

My philosophy has always been to do it right if you're retrofit HID's in. So they're really your best option right before HID. The only problem is price. Since nobody has really heard of them and only Toshiba makes them, they're $25 for one bulb from that one website. John Deere used to have them for about $10 each, but they're raised the price since once they found out everybody was ordering them for their cars. But I figure, they should be worth it as they cost as much as a pair of silverstars, but have the lifespan of a normal halogen bulb... should last around 3-4 years. Plus they're much brighter than silverstars. Actually, if I remember correctly, silverstars don't actually put out more than 1000 lumens... the color temp of the light is just whiter.

[Vulcan2422]

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Illegal? Every cop i have drove past by has done nothing at all. Ive actually had a few spring hill cops compliment me on the car and lights. I only get about 2 to 3 people flash me when we go out at night. Sometimes none.

Guess it depends where you live really

[ArticRider]

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It's up to the cops if they actually enforce it, but putting HID's in a reflector-type headlight assemly IS illegal.

If you have people flashing you, then I think it's obvious your headlights are causing some sort of glare.

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

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Technically any aftermarket installed HID system illegal unless the projector housing has been DOT approved for use with HID, which excludes most projectors.

as for those "high output halogens" a 9005 bulb puts out about 1800 lumens, costs the same as a 9005, and only requires minor modification to work.

The H9 bulbs (halogen) that came with my projectors had a light output of 2100lumens and was virtually the same size as a 9006.

[ArticRider]

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^ What's their lifespan? Usually high beams are about ~300 hours whereas low beams are about ~1000 hours.