HIDs for my car, help me out

[-RJ-]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...07763

i was thinking of getting this, anyone have any good or bad luck with this guy?

[wmdavis007]

Not sure, but they are inexpensive. You may want to do this as well:http://www.nicoclub.com/articles.php?id=197634

Keep us updated. I'd love to convert mine to HIDs but with the pop-up headlights I'd lose my highbeams...which you need here in NC for state inspection .

[1SickSilvia]

I dont know about the seller, but I also bought one of those cheaper HID kits. Its a 6000k I had mine for about 2 months , and still works fine. Except I put it in my DD Golf and retrofited them with TSX projectors

[-RJ-]

Not sure, but they are inexpensive. You may want to do this as well:http://www.nicoclub.com/articles.php?id=197634

Keep us updated. I'd love to convert mine to HIDs but with the pop-up headlights I'd lose my highbeams...which you need here in NC for state inspection .

that seems like alot of work and money, ill just blind everyone down the street and feel jdm tight

[S13hatch91]

my friend has an ebay hid kit on his s2k and they work and look great i was thinkin bout it to

[onosqv]

that seems like alot of work and money, ill just blind everyone down the street and feel jdm tight

RJ, it's not really that much work. If the car isn't your daily driver (or you can do a weekend w/o it), you'll have plenty of time to get it working right. You can do it in one day, but I like to have plenty of time "just in case."

I did it on my car in about 3 hours or so. If I spent an extra hour or two making everything perfect, I would have been set. I need to redo mine one more time because it's not perfectly level (but still pretty decent and non-killing opposing traffic).

Cost-wise it's not much more either - you pay another $100-150 for a REALLY nice cut off & imho better light output as well - I ran the plug in HID kits for a while & while they are bright, they don't put all the light to the ground correctly.

Another thing I've noticed is that the cheaper HID kits don't seem to last as long as the McCulloch HID kits - a few of my friends have gone through another pair of bulbs already w/ the eBay kits (an extra 40-50 dollars); I never blew out a McCulloch bulb or the current Philips D2S bulbs yet (knock on wood).

What a few other guys figured out is that you don't need to spend too much time making special brackets to run tsx projectors in silvia lights. There's a write up doing it this way on Zilvia.

- cut up old projectors (i.e. use the old projector brackets as your new brackets)- line up old projector bracket w/ tsx projector bracket- drill a couple holes to bolt & nut the bracket together- install projector

This way saves you the extra hour or two of creating a custom bracket for each projector - also saves time on alignment significantly.

If you really care about light output, retro-fit is really the only way to go long term.

[-RJ-]

it is my only car so if something went wrong somehow id be screwed. someday i guess

[onosqv]

You can always do what I did and buy a spare set of headlights & work on those.

Once everything works right, you can sell the unmodified headlights (or even the one you modified for a higher value).

That being said, I still recommend buying a McCulloch set over "no name" eBay kits. Or buy an extra pair of bulbs with the eBay kit. I hate having to worry about replacing hid bulbs every few months.

[1SickSilvia]

You are totally wright about the McCulloch hid kits, and using OEM ballasts and bulbs, they will definately last longer, but I never had any problems with the cheap ebay kits, my old pair was on my RSX for a year and a half before I sold the car with it still working perfectly. Maybe I`m lucky, but even if something blows, it is usually still cheaper to buy 2 cheap ebay kits than to buy the expensive kits. Just my $0.02.