What headlight will produce the best beam pattern?
1)Generic Crystal Ion Clear
2)Generic Chrome Clear
3)Stock
4)JDM Type-R(questionable considering they don't have bulb covers)

 

I'd like to know also... so bump

 

ask MTKommander he knows all about HID's damn 909 people =P

 

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civic headlights are terrible period.. you will never get a good beam out of them.. halogen or HID.. all HID does it put 2 bright spots on the ground and blind everyone else.. trust me its not worth it.. however..if you're handy, and got time..you can do what this person did.. its pretty difficult..but 185% worth it..

basically, he/she found 2 lexus HID housings on ebay..1 side from an LS400, one side from an IS300.. with ballasts, and bulbs.. for $120 total.. cut the civic reflectors out, and installed the lexus ones.. so now for $120 he/she has OEM Lexus HID on his/her civic..
http://home.earthlink.net/~pliepl/_wsn/page2.html

enjoy.. another cool thing you could use, is the new Infinity Q45 HID lights..if you can find them..they will fit in your civic housing, and the light output is AMAZING..

so not only do these OEM retrofits work 6 times better, they're usually cheaper than buying some ugly 6000K kit as well.. good luck.

 

I've owned "sharkeye" projectors for a long time.

I recently refitted them with an H3 HID conversion, and I've been quite pleased. Have you had any experience with that approach?

However, if I had it to do over again, I might try this approach, but I wouldn't want to do it to my primary headlight.

Shawn

 

my friend was going to put an H3 HID kit on his denji projectors on his 92-95 hatch..but i talked him into going with an OEM HID projector swap.. its cheaper and WAY BETTER as far as light quality goes.. but i would like for you to post pics of the ground so i can see what kinda beam pattern you get with those projectors and an H3 HID kit.. everyone on this board seems to be only concerned with the way the light looks..so every headlight post is always from the front of the car.. they never seem to care about light pattern or anything useful..only "look how purple my 8000k HID is!"

but yeah.. if you could, please post some in the car pics and also, outside the car pics showing the beam pattern...

 

hey i put h1's with a little modding into my denji black housing projector's and works pretty good! like mtk kommander said the bubble has to be the same place of where the halugen use to be..thanks for the tip! i'll take pics later tonight for the beam pattern...where can i get Oem audi projectors? i wanna go one step further for beam pattern

 

i would like more info on stock headlights, because i was going to buy hella HIDs for my civic, i was trying to figure out if i should use the stock headlights, projectors, or CTR.

 

ebay sells a LOT of OEM HID projectors.. just make sure they come with the bulbs, or buy some OEM D2S bulbs seperately.

 

Ok, I'm a shitty photogropher at night. One picture with the flash on:



One mis-exposed picture with flash blocked:



As you can see, the cutoff point is quite good. The beam spread is also quite good. At the front of the car (below the visual lines from inside the car), the illumination starts as two projected beams, but these are not visible from inside the car (failed to get that).

Overall, I'm still very pleased. Although I don't think the quality is as good as OEM HID (not retrofits, but in the original housings), its 100X better than the shitty H3 projector, and certainly better than the OEM headlights, but I can't say 100X better (I can't remember back that far).

Shawn