I have just done the 9005 upgrade & it really is better. I took a few pics tonight to show my results. You can see a definitive difference. This mod was SOOO easy & took under an hour total to grind away the needed spots & install. I believe this to be WELL worth the effort for only $25 total.





Modified by mjb240z at 5:44 AM 1/25/2004





Modified by mjb240z at 2:04 AM 9/2/2004

 

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You have to post your photo from a publicly-accessible website. If you don't have your own, you can upload it to a service such as Sony's Imagestation (click here for more info). It appears that you have already done that.

Once it's there, right-mouse-click on the photo (when you're looking at it on the Imagestation website) to find out its properties including its website address (URL). Note that you should be right mouse clicking on the smaller photo as it's displayed in the album, NOT on the original large-size photo. So the website address of the photo should end in .jpg but NOT .jpg.orig.jpg (They're otherwise the same address.) Here's the reason for this. If you try to show the original photo (.jpg.orig.jpg) then only people who are logged on to Imagestation can see it, and no one else can see it. If you show the album-sized version (.jpg) then everyone can see it.

Once you have the URL, then you can include it in your post as follows (without any of the spaces that I am showing between the first set of brackets):

[ IMG ]http://website-address.com/filename.jpg[/IMG]

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Below are instructions for Imagestation users to upload photos to their Imagestation account
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Once you have an Imagestation account, here's how to get the pictures into your account:

1. If you don't already have your pictures on your hard drive, then you'll need to download them to your hard drive from wherever they are.

2. Log in to Imagestation.

3. Click on "Upload Images".

4. Where it says "Select Image Files", enter the filename on your hard drive for each of the photos, and click on "Upload Images".

5. Go back to the Imagestation home page and click on "My Imagestation".

6. Go to the album where you want the new photos, or click on "Create a New Album".

7. Click on "Add Images/Video".

8. It should show you the photos that were uploaded in step 3 above. Select the photos that you want to add to that album, and proceed with adding them to the album.

 

Thanks for the posting assistance, you made that REALLY easy. Thanks !!!

 

man i wish someone would have showed me how to use imagestation...i had to learn by trial and error... nice job with the diy.. much improvement.
i would have done the same but i found a pair of 4300K HIDs for 275, so i decided to get those.

 

Yea definately one of the easiest and most productive mods, i just did it the other day and i noticed a vast improvement. Mine cost me 50 bucks since i use the Silverstars, they give that nice blue hue to the light.

 

yea i did the same thing only because ive been to lazy to goto the dealer and get my low beams fixed

 

where si patrick?? sporryy im really high right now!!

 

any write ups on this?

 

Patrick has a link on his sig on how to do this. I was going to do this, but a lot of people were having problems with the bulbs only lasting a few months. (assuming you used Silverstars)

 

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Do a search, I've read it on this board somewhere.

 

check under the articles on team-integra.net

 

Anybody did this with the JDM headlights?
Will it be ok for the headlights them selves being heated up
this much more?

 

nothing wrong with heating up the headlights but don't melt them by overheating them.

never heard of anyone doing this to the JDM lights... not yet anyway....

 

1) Remove old 9006 bulbs
2) Look at new 9005 bulbs where the prong connectors are. You will see 2 plastic tabs. Remove those via anyway you desire. (I used a short long razor blade)
3) Use the old 9006 washer on the new 9005 bulbs
4) Try to put the 9005 bulb back in. You will notice one of the tabs are a bit longer. Trim it but do not remove the whole tab
5) Install the 9005 bulb
6) Done in 30 mins

Note: You are now using a higher wattage bulb, any implications that implies.... I have no idea. But don't expect it this mod to last very long. I recomend silverstarts for the HID look. Philips Hi-Visibilty if you actually want to see better.

Have a nice day

 

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i got some ebay or groupbuycenter.com ones....i forgot and have had them for about 8 months now and still working great

 

wiat so in doing this DIY, will the housing melt over time??

 

no, you're only going from 51W to 60W, no biggie, but you get a 70% increase in lumen output, from 1000 to 1700.

And yeah check the sig.

 

I didn't exactly what the article said... Piece of cake if you have a dremel!

 

my friend did this on his teg too and im about to do. he gave me this link right here

even tho its for a bmw its the same thing..

http://www.bmwe34.net/e34main/...t.htm

 

both links are the same....patricks and the one above my post...

 

o sorry about that..

 

i did it on the JDM light for 2 days.......so i dont know if it'll do any harm yet =\

i used silverstar 9005

 

ok i did this to my car using Sylvania Cool Blue, im wondering if i need to fix the beam to point to the ground more, I would hate to blind oncoming traffic or get pulled over for this ****....they do put out alot more usable lights though, i wonder if other people on the road are annoyed by this? lol

 

It won't hurt the housing at all?

 

did mine yesterday, looks great, for now until I find OEM HID housings