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Old Nov 17, 2004 | 04:00 AM
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Originally Posted by English
hawkeye should change his handle to "Naysayer"
Yep.
Old Nov 17, 2004 | 04:11 AM
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Yeah, an HID kit might look good when you're standing outside your car but when you're driving the spread of light is ____ty. My friend has an HID kit on his '95 prelude and it makes everything look bluish at night and it's just blinding when you look at it from a distance and he isn't using his highbeams. He likes it though.
Old Nov 17, 2004 | 04:14 AM
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Originally Posted by hawkeye
If you want less light and blue color, wrap your lights in colored saran wrap, save yourself 399 dollars.
Old Nov 17, 2004 | 04:20 AM
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Originally Posted by BSP_5c10n
My friend has an HID kit on his '95 prelude and it makes everything look bluish at night and it's just blinding when you look at it from a distance and he isn't using his highbeams.
You figure your friend probably has bluish headlights then? The higher you move into the spectrum of say blue and purple, the less you can see. It's also blinding because it takes longer for our eyes to adjust after seeing your friends blue or purple lights. That's why you should stick to 4100k (or 4300k I forget) to 6000k, and absolutely nothing higher unless it's for show. After that point, you might as hold a flashlight out the window.
Old Nov 17, 2004 | 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Ranthese
You figure your friend probably has bluish headlights then? The higher you move into the spectrum of say blue and purple, the less you can see. It's also blinding because it takes longer for our eyes to adjust after seeing your friends blue or purple lights. That's why you should stick to 4100k (or 4300k I forget) to 6000k, and absolutely nothing higher unless it's for show. After that point, you might as hold a flashlight out the window.
Every OEM system uses 4100k bulbs. See, the reason you should stick to 4100k is so it looks real. I honestly think if someone puts a 6000k system in their car, it looks no different than the US-Made blue glass bulbs that have japanese writing all over the packaging, which is total and complete rice.
Old Nov 17, 2004 | 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by English
hawkeye should change his handle to "Naysayer"
Right, because that's what you call people who give out correct information.
Old Nov 17, 2004 | 05:43 PM
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Hey guys, the mazda3 has xenons...can't we use that setup and retrofit it in the TC...the xenons on the mazda3 aren't bad they look pretty sweet,
Old Nov 17, 2004 | 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by VeronP17
Hey guys, the mazda3 has xenons...can't we use that setup and retrofit it in the TC...the xenons on the mazda3 aren't bad they look pretty sweet,
The 3 projectors are far from the best out there. They are also not a whole lot of those projectors floating around.

THE best that I have seen are S2000 (at least some of them). They have a really nice wide even distribution of light and a super sharp cutoff. They are not the most colorful out there, but probably the best. Problem is that they are expensive.

There are tons of great projectors out there.
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