kouki check in (s14)

[zo0d]

If you drive a kouki your first order of buisness should be HID's!!!

[S14Kouki10]

i have missed this thread.

[motoman399]

If you drive a kouki your first order of buisness should be HID's!!!

speaking of HID's i just bought a set off ebay for 30.50 shipped. they were 34.95 buy it now with the option to offer less. so i offered that and they accepted it. they are direct fit 6000k h1's. pretty excited lol dont even have a car to put them on yet. but dang they are cheap now. i remember when i first bought my car you couldnt find them for under 100

[LeZoSo]

If you drive a kouki your first order of buisness should be HID's!!!

speaking of HID's i just bought a set off ebay for 30.50 shipped. they were 34.95 buy it now with the option to offer less. so i offered that and they accepted it. they are direct fit 6000k h1's. pretty excited lol dont even have a car to put them on yet. but dang they are cheap now. i remember when i first bought my car you couldnt find them for under 100

What the heck? Back then my brother bought a pair for like $500.00 :

Anyways, I just bought my '98 two days ago. And I'm adoring it. I've wanted this car for 4 years. And I've finally gotten it. Though it's an automatic, I paid super cheap for it (in my opinion.) I'll swap it to a manual once the engine dies out.

[S14Kouki10]

how much? if you dont mind.

[LeZoSo]

$3,100.00

I could not sleep the night I bought it...It has minor problems, some small scratches, and a bit of peeling. But nothing a little repainting can't fix.

Oh, and it's got some weird exhaust on it...Not sure what it is, but I'll find a more casual one soon. (Maybe a stock one.)

[spooled240]

If you drive a kouki your first order of buisness should be HID's!!!

speaking of HID's i just bought a set off ebay for 30.50 shipped. they were 34.95 buy it now with the option to offer less. so i offered that and they accepted it. they are direct fit 6000k h1's. pretty excited lol dont even have a car to put them on yet. but dang they are cheap now. i remember when i first bought my car you couldnt find them for under 100

i had those and they lasted a month and a half..plus they would shut off on me sometimes whenever i flashed or turned on my hi beams..i hated it so I just got some silverstars

[fiznowler]

I bought my HIDS off the sponser on here that started a thread. They work well but they do the same ocasional shut off when switching on and off highbeams crap. I was messing with the ballast to see if i could figure it out and shocked the piss outta myself. My roommate was laughing pretty damn hard. I should have known better but I was pretty intoxicated.

[spooled240]

the problem is the voltage drop the ballasts experience when the hi-beams are turned on. I wired in a 600 uf capacitor to keep the voltage stable and it helped a lot but it still wasn't perfect...once in a while one of them would turn off it was annoying.

One time they didn't even turn on at all and driving home with only fog lights suck lemme tell you.

I would recommend against getting cheap HID's for your cars (sorry motoman lol) your lights are just something you don't wanna f*** around with

[motoman399]

i agree that you dont wanna f*** with headlights, but i put these same cheapo ebay hid's in my girlfriends zenki and they work flawlessly! they were a single filament fixture (meaning that they were for low beam only) and i wired in a relay to come on when the highs were on so that when switching back and fourth there is only a split second to none they have lost power. this is the third set i have bought. and i have friends that own them also with no porblems. so you should just send me your old ones

fiznowler (what a weird name lol)
the ballast converts 12V DC power to 85V 35Wac you might as well hold on to a butter knife while sticking it in a light socket in your house lol

[spooled240]

yeah fiznowler sounds like a german artillery in WWII lmao "man the fiznowler!!"

what do you mean you wired in a relay? did you supply power directly from the battery?

[motoman399]

did you supply power directly from the battery?

yes sir i did. then used the high beam wire as a switch.

so you going to send me your old ones? or did i just give you an idea lol f*** me

[spooled240]

i see, so you just isolated the low beam power supply from the high beams? How exactly did you do that? I isolated my fog light power supply to switched 12V instead of the headlights (only when they are on) so i can turn them on by themselves when i'm driving (uber sexy at dusk lol)

[keinplanKA-T]

I guess I gotta show my KA-T.....
LMK what you guys think. I hopefully have a OEM lip coming next week, should look a lot nicer.... then some better pics also...

[S14Kouki10]

looks good

[Turbo24sxt]

kein ~ i love your car man ... its so simple but so nice ... keep it up .. lets get some more vids of that monster

[motoman399]

then some better pics also...

better be some of the engine bay also! lol welcome to nico thats a very nice looking kouki you have.

spooled ill draw you up a diagram in paint if i dont do anything tonight.

[motoman399]

well turns out im a looser lol i did a quick google search and came up with this pic. should be the same except where they have the switch input you just use the high beam wire. you only tap into the high beam wire, meaning it still has to turn on your high beam.

http://www.classictruckshop.com/clubs/e ... oglite.jpg

[Dazzla]

I guess I gotta show my KA-T.....
LMK what you guys think. I hopefully have a OEM lip coming next week, should look a lot nicer.... then some better pics also...

18x9.5 grids?? Looks great. Where's your exhuast?

[fiznowler]

fiznowler (what a weird name lol)
the ballast converts 12V DC power to 85V 35Wac you might as well hold on to a butter knife while sticking it in a light socket in your house lol

Yeah thanks for the heads up lol little late.

my last name is fowler, Most people call me by that cause there are allways a ton of matts around. One of my best friends started calling me fiznowler years ago just kinda stuck with that group of friends. Think that one is strange my other playstation gamer tag is kratchkricketz.

[motoman399]

lol ya thats a weird one for sure.. doenst sound pleasant... you know the info that i said is printed on every ballast i have seen haha. sorry to burst your bub.

[fiznowler]

LOL i am sure i read it while i was putting them in. That doesn't cure the lack of judgement a bottle of vodka gives ya lol. I was in the garage working on some other stuff and decided I would "fix" my lights and i thought it was maybe a loose wire. Whatever the f*** it was they started working better and zapped the piss out of me.

[keinplanKA-T]

I guess I gotta show my KA-T.....
LMK what you guys think. I hopefully have a OEM lip coming next week, should look a lot nicer.... then some better pics also...

18x9.5 grids?? Looks great. Where's your exhuast?

Yup you got it....I got an exhaust, I guess you can't really see it though, it's some no name I got for free! Straight pipe got annoying after a year! Too much back firing right under my a**!

[keinplanKA-T]

then some better pics also...

better be some of the engine bay also! lol welcome to nico thats a very nice looking kouki you have.

spooled ill draw you up a diagram in paint if i dont do anything tonight.

Thanks and thanks and yes I will get some engine bay pics soon...

[Hellion240sx]

took me about a week to go through this thread, but glad i did! don't have pics of mine yet. all i have is an s14 silver moss with 73k miles

if anyone can help me out i'm looking for a silver moss s14 kouki with white rims. looking to do this color combo.

[xavier240]

i need wheels and so much more

[LeZoSo]

Nice car xavier, what're the tail lights you've got on them?

I don't know of anything other than USDM stock and I've seen those around.




Anyone know of any pics of a painted kouki lip? I'm not sure if I should paint it or leave it.

[xavier240]

thnx lezoso they're ebay led's/dmax and whoever else makes after market tails they all the same.painted usdm lips never look good to me 4 some reason.

btw my lip is home depot lip.

[LeZoSo]

A home depot lip? Like..the appliance store home depot? xD

Or is that a auto-part brand?

Sorry I'm pretty much a noob :P

And isn't there like a factory made lip for the s14 kouki?

[I_LOVE_JDM]

Finally got my valve cover powder coated