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Nice job! But I would have left the high beam reflector chrome on the inside.
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Are you getting hotspotting confused with cutoff, where it creates bright patches in the beam of light because of an incorrect focal point, which can cause glare directly on the road an increase eye-strain? |
I don't mean bottom cut-off literally. Basically all I'm saying is that to claim "I don't blind oncoming traffic" requires a lot more than just looking at the top cut-off line.
That said - just compare the light pattern above to OEM BRZ HIDs. The latter looks like it has both cut-off shields, since the light pattern has pretty much two parallel cut-offs. |
I literally just got back from properly aiming my lights, which ended with walking about a half-block away and sighting the car as if I was oncoming traffic. There is ZERO glare until I layed down on the ground and only then did it look bright. I'm good to go on low-beams. It looks just like the HIDs in my old S2000 now, which were the best headlights that I ever had!
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looks great! what hid brand are you using? what wattage are they?
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You substituted a light source with one even bright area to the one with two super-bright hot-spots and expect optics designed for the former to work? You top cut-off might be visually acceptable (even though it probably still fails DOT specs), your bottom light distribution most definitely sucks, with likely 10x more light in the foregroud which: a) will blind oncoming traffic when the road is wet (through reflection off the ground) b) will compromise your own longer-distance vision through too-much lighting near, not letting the eye work out what's 100ft ahead. So, to sum-up, you compromised your own safety and the safety of others. But go on, continue to delude yourself. I'm sure you'll 100 more 'thanks' from a bunch more members who don't know better. |
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Most cars that I see with HID conversions have horrible light distribution and actually make night visibility worse than stock. Adding HIDs to the FR-S was an experiment and I am pleasantly surprised that the light pattern is great and the intensity spread is even. I would be happy to take some more photos or video of my lights to better illuminate this topic. Of course, if I just posted a bunch of photos and video you would probably still pick it apart, so since you appear to be the expert I would happily take any photos or video that you request so that we can actually get to the bottom of this... even if I am wrong. :) I am thinking that we do some comparisons with a BRZ and an S2000 (which has great stock lighting) to determine if the HID-converted FR-S has a similar light spread, brightness and cutoff -- but you are the expert, so lay out the best way to settle this and I will get right on it. |
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If you want to claim that you're not blinding oncoming traffic - you need to ditch this set-up and go for proper LHD GT86 HIDs. I have no problem with people saying "screw the oncoming traffic, I'm doing the retrofit of HIDs". It's their car and they'll get the ticket when the cops start cracking down on it (there are hundreds of complaints about these transplants at NTHSA and they will tighten and start enforcing the rules on these sooner or later). I only responded since you claim not to be blinding the other drivers. I'm fairly certain that you are, in the rain. |
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I'm not really interested in an instrumented test of my lights with expensive equipment that I don't have, so in this case it seems that a comparison with the BRZ and S2000 would be a sufficient replacement test. I expected you to ignore my challenge and I am amazed that you are still arguing even though I asked you to help me plan out a way to fairly compare the three set of lights. That only further proves to me that you just want to argue for the sake of argument. Quote:
Damn, did I fall for this again!?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29 What kind of car did you say you drove? Hmmm... you ignored that, too. |
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I'm gonna get some photos of the BRZ, S2000 and my car together... hopefully tonight. We can argue about it all we want, but until there is concrete evidence what is the point?
I do believe that my lights will be CLOSE to the other two stock setups, but if I am wrong then I will post that as well. I think that in a projector the HID conversion can replicate a factory setup, while in most other applications it cannot. |
I'm curious, what "evidence" are you looking for? Here is your cutoff:
http://i.imgur.com/CcOlC.jpg Here is the cutoff from the first gen clear lens S2000 projector: http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...e/STA78654.jpg Your cutoff is garbage compared to a true HID projector. There's no arguing that. The evidence is right there. The bowl of a halogen projector has different dimensions and focuses light differently than a true HID projector. The cutoff shield of a halogen projector has a special flap built into it (some refer to this as the "squirrel finder shield") to produce some glare to help illuminate roads signs. HID projectors do not have this extra piece in their cutoff. All these factors contribute to piss poor light output (uneven cutoff, excessive amounts of glare above cutoff, hotspotting and unevenness in the beam pattern below the cutoff) which you have shared and confirmed. |
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