H4 8000K HID kit

Phillips bulbs

I'll start with the driver side first.

Old bulb in

New bulb in

Cables connected to see if everything works

The best double side tape in the world

There is an obvious good mounting area for the ballast as seen below

Cables tied down and tucked away neatly

8000K HID on the left, Phillips bulb on the right

Passenger side ballast installation

Remove the fuse holder bracket with a socket wrench to make some space

Test fitting the ballast underneath the strut mount. It is a tight fit, but it is the best I could find

Everything installed, zip tied and put back in place

After results

I'll need to adjust the beam angle down to not blind everyone on the road at night. There really is nothing more annoying than a light brighter than the sun concentrated at you when it is pitch black everywhere else

I'll have pics once the lights have been adjusted. If it is still blinding, off they go...or projectors here I come


Modified by williamk10 at 12:24 AM 6/2/2009

http://www.nissanversa.org/rotq/william.shtml

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3135168

Thanks for taking the time to post that!

Original beam angle with tape on the wall to mark new angle

White knob behind headlamp with allen wrench in it

Before height

After adjusting driver side

After adjusting passenger side

View from in the car

I parked the car in the dark and walked halfa block back. With the angle now, it no longer shines into eye level. It is bright, but won't be a nuisance to other drivers on the road.

http://www.nissanversa.org/rotq/william.shtml

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3135168

Gotta give you credit for even thinking of it, good effort. Unfortunately, while it may be OK on level ground, with bumps in the road and hills to crest... you're still going to be blinding people. There is just no way to avoid the hot spots you get from retrofits. This is why OEM systems have self-leveling and HID specific optics with very well defined cut-offs. The blue hue is also a magnet for Jonny Law. A 4300k system would be a little more low key (allowing you better odds in getting away with the brightness) since it's closer to Halogen in color. Proper HID capsules really should not be tinted like that. That's a no-no. Not a negative dig on what you did. It is what it is. I'd consider trying different bulbs.

Oh and somewhat unrelated, someone said in a different thread that HID's run cooler and poses no threat in melting plastics. That information is entirely incorrect. HID's draw 35w of power, that doesn't mean it's cooler in terms of heat as a halogen bulb that draws 55w. There is a electrical arc in the capsule for crying out loud. That's a lot of energy! Energy produces heat. In a halogen bulb, it's just a very thin filament heated up to glow. Much less energy than an arc. If you held a lit HID capsule with your bare fingers, it's probably hot enough to burn your flesh right off the bones.

Or am I way off?

On the road when my HID's are on at night I notice that they seem to cross or the light pattern does on the ground, anyway to adjust this? (I know projectors but no)

Lastly when you adjusted your HID's roughly how far were you from the wall?

Thank You

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Thank you

Now:
Versaspeed Grille
OEM Foglamps
Tiida Xenon HID Projector Headlamps
APR Carbon Fiber Splitter

Coming:
Custom Lower Grille, 35% Tint
Suspension, Strut Bar, Brake Lines, Wheels/Tires

You say that energy produces heat. Can you explain how consuming 55 watts of energy with a halogen bulb produces less heat than consuming only 35 watts of energy with an HID bulb? The 35 watt HID produces far more light than the 55 watt halogen. If it can convert less energy into both more light AND more heat, we could solve the energy crisis!

HID's generate less heat than halogen bulbs. A halogen bulb will also burn "your flesh right off the bones". In the field of indoor gardening, for orchids, herbs, and even illegal growers for pot, there is an ongoing issue with the excess heat created by the halogen grow bulbs. As a result, more and more of these growers are turning to HID light sources, as they have a much higher luminous efficacy since a greater proportion of their radiation is in visible light as opposed to heat.

Here's something to think about. A standard halogen bulb consists of a sealed glass tube with a short tungsten filament inside the tube. The tube is usually filled with argon and/or other inert gases. When current is applied the tungsten burns yet remains a solid, and you get heat and light as the byproducts of the current being applied. HID lights on the other hand produce light by applying a higher voltage to ignite an arc of xenon gas between two tungsten tips. The tungsten tips are the source of the current igniting the gas, yet the tungsten tips themselves do not burn or glow. This is because the xenon gas burns at a lower temperature than tungsten.

I work in the motorcycle industry, and a lot of motorcycles have plastic headlamp lenses instead of glass. Converting to HID is a non issue for heat, whereas putting in a higher wattage halogen bulb will almost certainly melt plastic reflectors and housings.

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hardest part for me was to install the actual bulbs into our stock headlight housing what a pain the a$$ that was, I was swearing left and right for hours.