ccryder
01-22-2006, 10:28 PM
I've had this kit sitting around since a year ago August and I just couldn't tear myself away from riding (41,000+ miles in 20 months). So there it sat every once in a while whispering, use me, use me. Enough is enough, I could resist no more!
I bit the bullet and decided to tear off the tupperware and add about 6 farkels to my trusty Indigo. The main one being the HID bi-xenon headlights (bi-xenon= a hi and low beam HID assy.). So far I have stripped the poor girl and she sits naked shivering in the garage. I have installed the HID capsules (bulbs to you incandesent types). I took some before and after picts. WARNING the after picts, for right now are not in the same place as the before since I have my tupperware in the way ( when I get the tupperware back on I'll take some better "after" picts and adjust the headlight for vert. & Horz. alignment). Even in light of this, you can tell a HUGE difference in light output and IMHO a better, more defined pattern (BTW I did not use the shims on the capsules).
So here are the first picts, let me know your 1st impressions (Original headlights were 15' from the wall and perpendicular, HID lights were ~10' from wall at a ~30deg angle)
1st pict: OEM Low beam
2nd pict: HID Low beam
3rd pict: OEM Hi beam
4th pict: HID Hi-low
5th pict HID h-ware kit
6th pict: H-ware installed.
It still looks pretty crowded but it all fits. I put a switch in parallel with the blue-White/ Black-red wire in the r.h. switch group. When the switch is "On" the lights do not cut out when you hit the start button. This was recommended by the HID Mfg. to limit the low voltage and "starts" the ballasts will see. I put a switch in so I could have the choice if I needed to reduce the battery load during starting.
Next is to run power and ground and throw the tupperware back on. Later in the week I should have things buttoned up.
Neil S.
I bit the bullet and decided to tear off the tupperware and add about 6 farkels to my trusty Indigo. The main one being the HID bi-xenon headlights (bi-xenon= a hi and low beam HID assy.). So far I have stripped the poor girl and she sits naked shivering in the garage. I have installed the HID capsules (bulbs to you incandesent types). I took some before and after picts. WARNING the after picts, for right now are not in the same place as the before since I have my tupperware in the way ( when I get the tupperware back on I'll take some better "after" picts and adjust the headlight for vert. & Horz. alignment). Even in light of this, you can tell a HUGE difference in light output and IMHO a better, more defined pattern (BTW I did not use the shims on the capsules).
So here are the first picts, let me know your 1st impressions (Original headlights were 15' from the wall and perpendicular, HID lights were ~10' from wall at a ~30deg angle)
1st pict: OEM Low beam
2nd pict: HID Low beam
3rd pict: OEM Hi beam
4th pict: HID Hi-low
5th pict HID h-ware kit
6th pict: H-ware installed.
It still looks pretty crowded but it all fits. I put a switch in parallel with the blue-White/ Black-red wire in the r.h. switch group. When the switch is "On" the lights do not cut out when you hit the start button. This was recommended by the HID Mfg. to limit the low voltage and "starts" the ballasts will see. I put a switch in so I could have the choice if I needed to reduce the battery load during starting.
Next is to run power and ground and throw the tupperware back on. Later in the week I should have things buttoned up.
Neil S.