FRS HID lights?

[mattles]

much improved. I really gotta get off my ass and bend those metal bastards down. I was lazy and only bent them a fraction of an inch, didnt make much difference. Im trying not to drive late at night until I get those little tabs/shields bent down more.

Im gonna have to remove the headlamp housings from the car though, because I wasnt precise enough to be able to bend them all the way with the headlamps still in the car.

[djliquidsteele]

How do you go about bending those down.

[tonystewart]

Insert finger in the bulb hole, feel the for the metal piece and press it down hard.

[mines13]

Originally Posted by tonystewart

Insert finger in the bulb hole, feel the for the metal piece and press it down hard.

Now for those of us that may be a bit thick... Do you bottom them out, or is it a matter of moving them a specific distance in mm?
What I am getting at is, can you over bend them or do you move them till the stop? Also, is your kit a 35watt or 55watt?

[PrimeMotoring]

Side by side comparo when we threw in a 6k kit, were doing a 4500 kit now as I type this and all the leds are swapped in the interior and trunk. PM me for pricing as they're ready to ship.

[PrimeMotoring]

This is with 4500

[mines13]

Originally Posted by Mike@Prime

This is with 4500

35W or 55W

[PrimeMotoring]

35w, 90% of all the 55w kits out there are 55w ballasts with 35w bulbs so it just kills the 35w bulb's life.

[whiteis33]

do you have any pictures of the cutoff?

[Brett]

Originally Posted by frs_gt86

FR-s projectors are horrible

a lot of glare when HID is installed

This is like saying someone else's eye glasses are horrible because you can't see when you wear them. You're using them in a manner they weren't designed to be used. Of course they suck then!

It's not because the projector is horrible, it's because it's not designed to be used with an HID bulb. Halogens and HIDS have a different shape to each of their light emitting surfaces. Therefore the lens must be matched to the bulb.

Here's a nice test with a writeup, pictures, and a video for those too lazy to read

http://www.danielsternlighting.com/t...nversions.html

Bottom line: don't put HIDs in a non-HID housing.

Brett

[tonystewart]

Originally Posted by mines13

Now for those of us that may be a bit thick... Do you bottom them out, or is it a matter of moving them a specific distance in mm?
What I am getting at is, can you over bend them or do you move them till the stop? Also, is your kit a 35watt or 55watt?

35 watt
Push down until they stop then keep pushing, it is hard to overpush as a small finger barely fits

[denkigrve]

I'm personally just going to wait for the HID option to hit in the dealers in the US and then buy and install those on my car. Or get some BRZ HIDs and install those to get the halos.

[whiteis33]

Originally Posted by denkigrve

I'm personally just going to wait for the HID option to hit in the dealers in the US and then buy and install those on my car. Or get some BRZ HIDs and install those to get the halos.

Once I get the car (or get a headlight from the dealer) I will try to retrofit a different projector into the housing along with trying to replicate the JDM headlights with the LEDs...
once i speak with the mods on here I will probably become a supporting vendor and offer this service to everyone else.

[dori.]

Just say NO to plug n plays... they only way to get a true HID is to retrofit everything from an OEM HID (such as the ever popular TSX). But this is expensive. Probably at least $800 for the conversion.

$800+ to get a proper HID system versus like $60 to put bulbs in your stock headlight designed for halogens and you can see why people choose to destroy their night vision with the wrong equipment.
Plus, have you ever driven in front of one of those assholes with PnPs? It is the most obnoxious thing ever.

There are probably aftermarket kits out there, but I'm not aware of good ones.