GREAT upgrade for those crappy headlights!! (photos w/ in)
#16
Originally posted by My94RedZ28A4
How hot do the hellas get? I once spay painted plexiglas gloss black, and mounted a round Tachometer into a square A/C guage. It actually looked very nice, and if you flip the plexiglas backwards, it's scratch proof since the paint is on the back side.
Just a thought...
How hot do the hellas get? I once spay painted plexiglas gloss black, and mounted a round Tachometer into a square A/C guage. It actually looked very nice, and if you flip the plexiglas backwards, it's scratch proof since the paint is on the back side.
Just a thought...
Oh, BTW, I have put some more pics up on that link I posted earlier. They show a little more on how I mounted them.
Sam
Last edited by Sam95ZNoTop; 12-27-2002 at 03:03 PM.
#17
Originally posted by Sam95ZNoTop
I was thinking that after I fit the lights, I could always make some covers to hide things a bit. It will probably replace the flat horizontal part with something to fit the lights. Then you could put some clear covers over to finish the look.
Sam
I was thinking that after I fit the lights, I could always make some covers to hide things a bit. It will probably replace the flat horizontal part with something to fit the lights. Then you could put some clear covers over to finish the look.
Sam
#18
For those interested what the actual illumination looks like, I took 2 pics in my driveway, not a real road, but I think it gives a good impression of how well they light up the road, especially side-to-side evenness. (look at insidecar.jpg and outsidecar.jpg) The H9 bulbs are only 65W by the way, look what some god optics can do!
Beam Pictures
Sam
Beam Pictures
Sam
Last edited by Sam95ZNoTop; 12-30-2002 at 09:49 PM.
#19
That really does look good. I don't need the coolness factor of HID lighting, I just want something to see the road with and these look like they might work for me. You need a couple on the road pictures of the lights.
#20
This is a great lighting mod. It seems like the beam would be more of a penic shape rather than an V type shape. So I cant get em at autozone, but can I get them from that site that is on the first page. And 125 aint that bad at all if I can figure out how to freaking put them in. And what do you know about our lighting harnesses. Will it be able to handle the power??
#22
Originally posted by superal
That really does look good. I don't need the coolness factor of HID lighting, I just want something to see the road with and these look like they might work for me. You need a couple on the road pictures of the lights.
That really does look good. I don't need the coolness factor of HID lighting, I just want something to see the road with and these look like they might work for me. You need a couple on the road pictures of the lights.
I can write up some more detailed descriptions of what I did to fit them in if people are interested. Paul 94 Z M6 mounted them with a custom bracket. I wanted to be able to go back to the stock lighting if I wanted to, so I mounted them to the stock bracket without messing with the mounting points of the stock lights.
Sam
#23
Originally posted by Team Untouchable
This is a great lighting mod. It seems like the beam would be more of a penic shape rather than an V type shape. So I cant get em at autozone, but can I get them from that site that is on the first page. And 125 aint that bad at all if I can figure out how to freaking put them in. And what do you know about our lighting harnesses. Will it be able to handle the power??
EDIT - Is it easy to aim these babies? Shoule it be kinda the same aim at the stock headlights. No one has these around SD so I would the the only one.
This is a great lighting mod. It seems like the beam would be more of a penic shape rather than an V type shape. So I cant get em at autozone, but can I get them from that site that is on the first page. And 125 aint that bad at all if I can figure out how to freaking put them in. And what do you know about our lighting harnesses. Will it be able to handle the power??
EDIT - Is it easy to aim these babies? Shoule it be kinda the same aim at the stock headlights. No one has these around SD so I would the the only one.
The beam pattern is really a sharp flat horizontal cutoff line with a small offset in the middle (the right hand side is a little higher than the left side and there is a sloped part in the middle)
About mounting: I could write something up with some pics if you are interested.
The bulbs are only 65W, the same as your stock high beams, so that should not be a problem at all!
Aiming is VERY easy. If you look at the pics that I posted, you'll see that they are mounted with three screws that also enable you to do the adjustment. Almost easier than stock, because you can get your screwdriver on there!
Sam
Last edited by Sam95ZNoTop; 12-31-2002 at 08:53 AM.
#24
Sam, go ahead and make a writeup
Like I said on the other thread, its either Hella, or Piaa. (Since Piaa is only a couple more dollah's on ebay) But no one (Brent Franker) has posted his beam pics, just has install pics. I dunno which I would rather go with.
Thanks.
Like I said on the other thread, its either Hella, or Piaa. (Since Piaa is only a couple more dollah's on ebay) But no one (Brent Franker) has posted his beam pics, just has install pics. I dunno which I would rather go with.
Thanks.
#25
Here is a eclipse Hella 90mm conversion with alot of photos:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~nloke1/FA...ehidretro.html
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~nloke1/FA...ehidretro.html
#26
Originally posted by pu12en12g
Here is a eclipse Hella 90mm conversion with alot of photos:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~nloke1/FA...ehidretro.html
Here is a eclipse Hella 90mm conversion with alot of photos:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~nloke1/FA...ehidretro.html
Check this page for more info than you will ever want on headlamps, retrofitting HID in there etc. etc...
Hella 90mm and more
Sam
#27
Yeah, bulbs for the H7 version would be ALOT less.
Here are the part numbers so that you can run H7 bulbs (vs. H9)
"Note that they use a 5 digit P/N here in North America, where in Europe they use a 12 digit one. Which means that if you look for the exact same H7 low beam projector, you should be asking for P/N 1BL-008-193-007. And I think Puma phone (800) 333-7862 is the only one "gray" importing H7 Hella 90mm to USA."
(SEE BELOW)
68136 90mm High Beam DE Module, H9 bulb
(SAE compliant)
68137 90mm Low Beam DE Module, H9 bulb
(SAE compliant)
68139 90mm Xenon Low Beam Module, D2S bulb
(SAE compliant)
68142 90mm Fog Lamp Module, H9 bulb
(SAE compliant)
68143 90mm Low Beam Module w/position light, H7 bulb
(ECE - available only in Canada)
EDIT: By the way ECE means EuroCode, which is very interesting in and of itself. A completely different cutoff/beam pattern design...
Here are the part numbers so that you can run H7 bulbs (vs. H9)
"Note that they use a 5 digit P/N here in North America, where in Europe they use a 12 digit one. Which means that if you look for the exact same H7 low beam projector, you should be asking for P/N 1BL-008-193-007. And I think Puma phone (800) 333-7862 is the only one "gray" importing H7 Hella 90mm to USA."
(SEE BELOW)
68136 90mm High Beam DE Module, H9 bulb
(SAE compliant)
68137 90mm Low Beam DE Module, H9 bulb
(SAE compliant)
68139 90mm Xenon Low Beam Module, D2S bulb
(SAE compliant)
68142 90mm Fog Lamp Module, H9 bulb
(SAE compliant)
68143 90mm Low Beam Module w/position light, H7 bulb
(ECE - available only in Canada)
EDIT: By the way ECE means EuroCode, which is very interesting in and of itself. A completely different cutoff/beam pattern design...
#30
Originally posted by pu12en12g
Yeah, bulbs for the H7 version would be ALOT less.
Here are the part numbers so that you can run H7 bulbs (vs. H9)
EDIT: By the way ECE means EuroCode, which is very interesting in and of itself. A completely different cutoff/beam pattern design...
Yeah, bulbs for the H7 version would be ALOT less.
Here are the part numbers so that you can run H7 bulbs (vs. H9)
EDIT: By the way ECE means EuroCode, which is very interesting in and of itself. A completely different cutoff/beam pattern design...
Sam