Some PIAA 2 LED parking lights
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/dan84/IMG_0316.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/dan84/IMG_0318.jpg
With HIDs on
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/dan84/IMG_0321.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/dan84/IMG_0323.jpg
BTW - these HIDs look great - who wants to pay thousands of dollars for a retrofit HID projector lamps. They dont melt the mousing or my parking lights and they make the road bright and sparkly. Well, you don't get the super crisp cut off line but I dont think I'm ever going to compare cut off lines and such. Others might...if so, feel free to go all out.
Getting a set of Hotchkis Sway bars next week.
hotlava1096
03-09-2005, 05:49 PM
how high is the front of your tc from the groud with the teins.
dhan
03-09-2005, 05:58 PM
hm ill have to go check out it later today..ill get back to you on that
CELL
03-10-2005, 02:39 AM
nice...you need to throw up some pics of the drop job from a distance so we can see the change
TougetC
03-10-2005, 11:25 AM
dont knock zip-ties. some of the greatest WRC/Drift/Touring cars are held together by those little pieces of plastic!!
ZIP TIES RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
redley78
03-10-2005, 06:59 PM
ya, i wanna see some comparison pics...
djct_watt
03-10-2005, 07:08 PM
I'd just drill out the bolts that were snapped. . . dunno how it is beneath the bolt, but you can drill a small hole, put in a very small screw, and push it down until it falls through (to where?). I've also seen reverse thread screws(difficult to find) that you could use to pull it out.
adamstc
03-10-2005, 07:15 PM
they have bolt and screw removers if you dont have a set tell me you live close i can get mine from work tonight and help you out tommorow or you can meet me at work it will take 5 min,
adamstc
03-10-2005, 07:17 PM
they have bolt and screw removers if you dont have a set tell me you live close i can get mine from work tonight and help you out tommorow or you can meet me at work it will take 5 min,
dhan
03-10-2005, 11:16 PM
ok guys - ill post comparison pics tomorrow.
check your PM adamstc
tCtuNeR216
03-11-2005, 01:43 AM
nice, be ever better if you had more better pics :)
daewonder
03-12-2005, 04:27 AM
the new pics look good. nice drop. those lights would get my ___ locked up though lol.
Swanny
03-12-2005, 04:43 AM
Damn you guys and yout tein s techs. :P I told myslef that I wasn't going to drop my car for awhile but every time I see one dropped on the tein's it looks so hot. I'm really liking your headlight eye lids also. Keep up the good work.
TurboMe
03-12-2005, 04:46 AM
where did u get the HID kit?
Fixtion
03-12-2005, 05:32 AM
Kudos on the drop, HID kit, and headlight overlays. :bow:
Sum it all up . . . C L E A N !
KYBoy
03-12-2005, 06:32 AM
are the hids 8000K?
Somnambulated
03-12-2005, 06:52 AM
TIGHT LIKE A TIGER! That looks GREAT!
Are those Bat's overlays, or painted?
dhan
03-12-2005, 09:53 AM
The HIDs i got it from a friend - they're McCullochs 8000k HID kits - I think you can find them on ebay for around 300 bucks. The HID in the pictures look greenish/blue but in reality, theyre very clear white with a tiny bit of blue.
The overlays are Bats - they are slighty off color but I talked to Bat about it and he was nice enough to find a different match and send me a new pair - still waiting for them to arrive. Good guy he is. I think he's also working on eyelids that will match the line of your hood.
Fixtion
03-12-2005, 11:12 PM
^ If you don't trust ebay for whatever reason, you can purchase that version and others at this place. http://www.ultrabrightlights.com/
p.s. I don't work or have any association with the website nor McCullochs.
tek2k
03-16-2005, 05:44 AM
BTW - these HIDs look great - who wants to pay thousands of dollars for a retrofit HID projector lamps. They dont melt the mousing or my parking lights and they make the road bright and sparkly. Well, you don't get the super crisp cut off line but I dont think I'm ever going to compare cut off lines and such. Others might...if so, feel free to go all out.
thousands of dollars? all the hardware required will cost roughly 500, the rest is labor. it might be hard work, but the final product is much better than throwing in an HID "kit" into a halogen reflector housing.
edit: 8000k HIDs? even more of a waste. that's just my opinion of course. your car still looks good.
dhan
03-16-2005, 07:51 AM
BTW - these HIDs look great - who wants to pay thousands of dollars for a retrofit HID projector lamps. They dont melt the mousing or my parking lights and they make the road bright and sparkly. Well, you don't get the super crisp cut off line but I dont think I'm ever going to compare cut off lines and such. Others might...if so, feel free to go all out.
thousands of dollars? all the hardware required will cost roughly 500, the rest is labor. it might be hard work, but the final product is much better than throwing in an HID "kit" into a halogen reflector housing.
edit: 8000k HIDs? even more of a waste. that's just my opinion of course. your car still looks good.
I'm a pretty lazy guy so that might be it...
motozen
03-16-2005, 07:45 PM
aren't you afraid of melting your LED courtesy/parking lights?
amoraes
03-16-2005, 08:18 PM
Great job!!! Your tc looks awsome! :bow:
Like the drop and the eye lids (looks a bit like an A4)
Whocares05050
03-16-2005, 09:15 PM
looks good, keep up the good work
djct_watt
03-16-2005, 11:38 PM
aren't you afraid of melting your LED courtesy/parking lights?
HID's have more light output than halogens and actually run cooler in temperature. Melting shouldn't be an issue, or so I understand. . .
motozen
03-17-2005, 12:38 AM
aren't you afraid of melting your LED courtesy/parking lights?
HID's have more light output than halogens and actually run cooler in temperature. Melting shouldn't be an issue, or so I understand. . .
:eyebrow:
djct_watt
03-17-2005, 04:29 AM
I dunno. . . that was my understanding. . . am I wrong? Something more than a face is helpful. I'm not a lighting expert, but I remember reading OEM brochures about HID, and how they operate more efficiently, as there is less heat created. The light is created by an arc of electricity through gasses, rather than running current through a filament until its temperature creates incandescence, thus emitting light. I thought the k in HID refers to the temperature color of the light, even though the actual amount of heat created is far less than bulbs utilizing filaments. If I misunderstand it, I actually would want to know how it actually works. . . I love learning and reading this kind of stuff.
amoraes
03-17-2005, 06:02 PM
djct_watt wrote:
HID's have more light output than halogens and actually run cooler in temperature. Melting shouldn't be an issue, or so I understand. . .
Soory... :no: but you have it the opposite. Color Temperature is measured in Degrees Kelvin. So the higher the "K" the hotter the light bulb. Most halogen light bulbs range about 3200K. HID light bulbs range from 4200K to 14000K or 16000K.
English
03-17-2005, 06:24 PM
djct_watt wrote:
HID's have more light output than halogens and actually run cooler in temperature. Melting shouldn't be an issue, or so I understand. . .
Soory... :no: but you have it the opposite. Color Temperature is measured in Degrees Kelvin. So the higher the "K" the hotter the light bulb. Most halogen light bulbs range about 3200K. HID light bulbs range from 4200K to 14000K or 16000K. :blah: :blah: :blah: :blah: :no: :no: :no: :no:
Before you sound so sure of your self, he was referring to physical temperature in *C or *F, not color temperature in Kelvin..... :no: :no: :no:
djct_watt
03-17-2005, 07:05 PM
That's what I thought. . . and Kelvin is actually a temperature used in physics. It's something like K=C-270 , as to account for absolute zero. But in light output, K stands for nothing more than the color of the light, not the actual heat emission.
Take this example, an incandescent bulb (like a regular light bulb) that runs at 80 watts. Now find one of those spiral fluorescent bulbs that run at 16 watts, but produce the equivalent light output of an 80 watt bulb. You'll notice that the the fluorescent bulb will have the same color light output (same k, if not higher). Now touch the fluorescent bulb. . . you'll notice that it's only warm. Now touch the incandescent bulb. . . I hope you've learned your lesson about light color and heat emission.
Just because a light is brighter, doesn't necessarily mean that it runs hotter, and this is in reference to the original quote about HID's melting a light housing.
MCSowner
03-17-2005, 07:16 PM
That's what I thought. . . and Kelvin is actually a temperature used in physics. It's something like K=C-270 , as to account for absolute zero. But in light output, K stands for nothing more than the color of the light, not the actual heat emission.
Take this example, an incandescent bulb (like a regular light bulb) that runs at 80 watts. Now find one of those spiral fluorescent bulbs that run at 16 watts, but produce the equivalent light output of an 80 watt bulb. You'll notice that the the fluorescent bulb will have the same color light output (same k, if not higher). Now touch the fluorescent bulb. . . you'll notice that it's only warm. Now touch the incandescent bulb. . . I hope you've learned your lesson about light color and heat emission.
Just because a light is brighter, doesn't necessarily mean that it runs hotter, and this is in reference to the original quote about HID's melting a light housing.
Agreed! I'm now currently own MCS, has HID (xenon headlights), Foglights (reg H7 halogen). After I turned both lights on for 2 hours so I thouched them both, I couldn't even notice from HID lights but OEM foglights are fre.k.ng HOT...ouch!!! burning my fingers.
djct_watt
03-17-2005, 07:24 PM
Oh wait, I think I know what Motozen was raising the eyebrow about! Were you talking about the hyper whites in the parking light, and not the HID's in the headlights, melting the housing? That might be possible actually, as they are incandescents, but I think most hyperwhite 194's are low wattage anyway, if not the same as OEM. The highest wattage I've seen are 15 watts, which really isn't that hot. But if you were talkin about the HID headlights melting anthing. . . it is highly unlikely, if not impossible.
djct_watt
03-17-2005, 07:27 PM
yeah. . . I just double checked, those are LED bulbs, which run cooler than incandescents as well. Definitely no melting issues with those.
dhan
03-17-2005, 07:43 PM
I dont think the HID's emit enough heat to have the LED's melt off or else your entire headlight housing would be in very big trouble.
Well, I've had these one for about a month now with plenty of use and there are no problems.
jlaznlover
03-17-2005, 08:11 PM
looks good :clap:
djct_watt
03-18-2005, 12:26 AM
I dont think the HID's emit enough heat to have the LED's melt off or else your entire headlight housing would be in very big trouble.
Well, I've had these one for about a month now with plenty of use and there are no problems.
That's the whole point! Both HID's and LED's emit less heat. . . therefore if the stock bulbs don't melt the housing (which I sure hope they don't!) then it would be impossible for true HID's or LED's to cause any damage whatsoever (unless you botched the install somehow).
dhan
03-18-2005, 08:23 PM
hahahah imagine your headlight housing in a gooey mess...that would be pretty funny...
djct_watt
03-18-2005, 08:30 PM
yup, only aftermarket high wattage bulbs can do that. . . but the real deal which you bought are the shizzle, and will not cause you any problems.
retrodrive
03-19-2005, 11:23 AM
nice drop!
The car looks like a pockemon with those eyelids though :D