Its hard to find a good, high quality conversion kit with all of the garbage cheesy plastic ones floating around on the market place. I don't like the look of the tri-bars which eliminates a good portion of what's available. I'm looking for (preferably) housings made of glass, has a built in Halo rings and doesn't require modification to the housing dish on the core support. Anyone know of anything like this? Hella makes nice glass housings that fit without modification, but they don't have Halo rings. This kit is made of glass and has Halo rings, but says it may need modification. I have a feeling it will be hard (or impossible) to find a kit with Halo's that doesn't need modification, but I'm hopeful. Anyone have any leads? o No:
What ya' tryin' to do? (Re: Headlight Conversion Kit) Hi Michael and V-8 Buick lovers, First, thanks for all your help in getting goodies for our Buicks!! :TU: Can I ask why you want this? I'm very interested in having something similar but had given up on the idea of Halo rings because it seemed to me to make the car look too different from the original. This V-8 Buick thread shows an example: http://www.v8buick.com/showpost.php?p=1561164&postcount=19. I'm still smarting from an auto accident of November 2010 and am trying to find a clever but tasteful way to incorporate daytime running lights and brighter headlights into my 65 Special. What sort of goals do you have for your headlight upgrade? Maybe I can learn something from you!! :idea2: Cheers, Edouard :beer
I had a new engine wire harness made for my car and I had relays incorporated into the headlight harness so I could run higher output or HID bulbs. With this I need a light housing but a lot are cheap plastic units from china that don't throw the light correctly, so you get a weird or just bad light pattern. Hence I would like a glass unit because I figure its going to be of a higher quality, and it won't yellow with age. I also like the look of Halo rings or "Angel eyes", I think it looks neat on muscle cars. Its just everything that I can find that has halos is some cheap piece of plastic. I'm fine with the housings being plastic as long as they throw the light correctly.
Came across these awhile back in this thread and bookmarked it. Ive been thinking about doing it myself. http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=354731 http://www.prostreetlighting.com/
Year One sells a glass kit that fits in the stock location and had the built in Halo rings, comes with relays and wiring as well...
Pro Street look good!! (Re: HIGH QUALITY Headlight Conversion Kit) Dear Michael, William, and V-8 Buick Lovers, Just a quick search of your links are . . . . very impressive! I didn't like the appearance of the halo lights on some of those cheapy imported lights, but these indeed look nice. They don't narrow the beam so much as to alter the original appearance of the car at night. Also that demonstration image on the ProStreetLighting website is - quite a demonstration! Shucks, I'll have to consider this more seriously too!! :3gears: Cheers, Edouard :beer
Hey guys I put the APC units in my car 6 years ago they are plastic but have held up wonderfully. If I remember right I used a 9003 bulb in mine. The cool thing is that these bulbs are dual element which means you can have low and high beams from the same light. All I did was use the high beam pig tail. I have been looking at the HID conversions on ebay for my 67 for a while I have used them in other cars and they do work very well and are much brighter than even my updated style bulbs I have know. You just by the for the syle of bulb you have and hook up the wiring that comes with the kit. You can buy these in diffrent tempature ranges which vary the color blue, white,purple orange and even a pinkish color if I remeber correctly
cibbie still uses glass awsome for h4 conversions I'm still unsold on the hid conversions using h4 due to the reflectors not originally being designed for hids...and from alot of people who doen it says the light beam gets scattered...bright but scattered enough to simply blind oncomming traffic.. aas fore the reason..plastic sometimes pitting, white clouding etc..
I know old thread but just want to make sure if members do a search and found hid conversion thread that they'll be steered with the right route for the hids kits to properly work without having a scattered beam/wrong cutoff length you need the correct h4 houseing which are the E-Code housings you can get them from here! http://www.danielsternlighting.com/products/products.html hella makes them too but pretty sure its hard to find trhe e-code version(ECE) some quality looking hid kits http://www.xenongate.com/H4+Bi-Xeno...5000K+Integrated+Digital+Ballast+HID+Kit.html http://www.hidxenonlights.com/digital_hid_kits_vs_standard you'd want the h4 bi-xeon and dont bother converting the h1 hibeam only lights unless you dont mind having a delay till lights warm up...so either stick with stock hi beams or h1 conversion
