After stashing it away under my bed for the past few months, I finally installed my H4 Bi-Xenon HID kit and am VERY pleased with the results. The beam pattern and cutoff looks good. This is due to the wrap-around design of the casper glare shield. In the daytime, when standing in front of the car while looking at the headlights, I can see a distinct horizontal shade line on the housings.

I'm running the 6000k bi-xenon bulbs, so it is both HID low beam and HID high beam. It shoots out an intense pure white beam. I've tried Piaas, Sylvania Silverstars, and the old skool Catz Zeta kit back in the day in order to try to get that clean white light that HID's emit. They were ok, but halogens can only be pushed so far.

I have always been hesitant in the past to upgrade to real HID's due to all the horror stories I've read of people's nasty glare problems, so I decided to wait a few years until technology further advanced on the plug-n-play HID kits. It seems back then, some guys just threw together individual components from different HID lighting manufacturers, cut out some cheap looking aluminum film to make casper shields to mount on the bulbs, glued on some H4 ring bases, and sold them as a kit. So I waited until manufacturers started producing them professionally instead, with better designed casper shields, bi-xenon feature, etc. The waterproof ballasts in this kit are fully constructed of steel, and the mounting brackets are steel also.

I went out last night to shoot light in front of a wall to access my projected beam, but wasn't sure how far behind the wall I should park to best test out the cutoff. Things look good from what I can see, but about how many yards behind the wall should I place my car? I wanted to snap some pix of the cutoff.





Modified by Draggin99Si at 7:38 PM 1/12/2007

 

should be in appearance/cosmetic but anywho.. cool deal

 

If it looks awesome shouldn't it appear in the appearance forum?

 

do you have any other pics? what car is it going on?

 

It is installed in my 99 Si inside OEM headlight housings. I forgot to bring my camera with me at night, but will try to snap some pics soon.

 

snap some pics. i want hids but heard too many stories about the glare and how it blinds the oncoming traffic. Also, where and how much did you get it for?

 

retrofit ftw

 

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FTW. I'm not really fond of the plug and play kits.

Post up those beam pattern shots. Try 10 yards and go on from there. Just use your judgment.

 

Integras have pretty good results with plug and play kits
Here's a pic of mine

 

Where did you purchase them from? pics of the results, too

 

I wanna see pics...

 

can we see some pics????

 

I'll be heading out later tonite when it gets dark to snap some pics of the wall and of the headlights to show the emitted color of 6000K bulbs inside EK headlights.

 

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Here's a pic of mine </TD></TR></TABLE>
Would I assume this because of the projector headlights?

 

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Would I assume this because of the projector headlights?</TD></TR></TABLE>

most likely because my catz 4300k isn't anything like that

 

whered you purchase these from? im interested in buying them too.

 

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Here's a pic of mine
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That's a damn nice cutoff on your Integra right there.

It's true that H4's have the MOST DIFFICULT time of all sizes in getting a correct beam pattern in reflector housings.

Well........... I just got back, drove around and around having a tough time trying to find a nice wall to shoot some light at. Pics came out great. I need to sort them out and will upload them in a bit.

All I can say is that I'm extremely happy because it shows that my beam pattern is absolutely perfect.

 

post the pics already

 

Here I snapped the pics head on.............





This was snapped at an angle...........



Here is a shot of my headlights. It's difficult to get an accurate representation of the true color when taking pics of HID's. It came out a little bluish for some odd reason, but in actuality, it is pure white............





Factory HID equipped cars come with 4300K bulbs, but I read that when you put HID's in cars that did not originally come with them, then you should get 6000K to get that similar white color. Putting in 4300K bulbs would have resulted in a creamy yellowish color, so I went ahead and got the 6000K.

 

WOW! That's very impressive for a pnp kit. What brand and where from?

 

25 feet is what's recommended when aiming lights against a wall.

That pic above looks pretty good, and yes it seems 3rd gens get decent results w/ pnp kits, and yes because of the projector.

 

Sweet. I didnt know about the 4300 being creamy white, I pretty sure the 6k has a slight blue tint to it though, I feel that would get annoying after a while. Any insight, anyone with 4300k?

 

Where did you buy that kit at ?

 

I wish i had money
enjoy them...

 

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Here is a shot of my headlights. It's difficult to get an accurate representation of the true color when taking pics of HID's. It came out a little bluish for some odd reason, but in actuality, it is pure white.
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Factory HID equipped cars come with 4300K bulbs, but I read that when you put HID's in cars that did not originally come with them, then you should get 6000K to get that similar white color. Putting in 4300K bulbs would have resulted in a creamy yellowish color, so I went ahead and got the 6000K. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Odd, no light on the ground. How close are you parked to the wall? You should be atleast 20-25 ft from it. BTW, your logic is wrong about putting 6000k to get the results of OEM 4300K. Not sure where you read that from. The reason why you think 4300K might have creamy yellow color is because the bulbs might be new and didnt color shift yet. Once your 6000K color shift, it will be crazy blue.

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Yes 6000K is blue, it will just get worst once it color shift. 4300K is the best you can get and that's what I've been running for years on my s2k retrofit.

4300K E55 projector:

4300K TSX retrofit into integra: