Anyone try H4 hid conversion kit from these guys?

[bombadillo]

http://xenonrider.com/

It seems like a smoking deal especially if two people split one kit up.  Plug and play for around a hundred bucks.  Not too shabby

[yamahonkawazuki]

im thinkin about getting one of those chinese 150cc scooters, lol i know im gonna lose man-points but that wiht a few mods, and the lights heh 

[bombadillo]

 

"riding a scooter is like doing a fat chick.  Its fun but don't let your friends catch you."

[scottpA_GS]

HID on a GS Why? Why not chome the wheels and extend the swingarm and... Ooo yea, Buy a Busa 

Thats like putting 22's on a Neon

[ohgood]

"riding a scooter is like doing a fat chick.  Its fun but don't let your friends catch you."

HID on a GS Why? Why not chome the wheels and extend the swingarm and... Ooo yea, Buy a Busa 

Thats like putting 22's on a Neon

you know, there was a turbo geo once...


ya, started ripping photos from the web and hosting them myself on picasa to prevent another embarrassment.

[scottpA_GS]

That car is AWESOME!  I would drive it... The small suzuki cars have some dedicated fans that mod the hell out of em.. I recall some talk on here before about pimpin out cheap gas saver cars.. I even saw a pic of someone w/ the doors off draggin a knee in a geo metro 

[Jughead]

Thats About as Cool as that Pimped out Dodge Intrepid with the Wing,Zebra Stripes and Indian Stickers all over it today.

[makenzie71]

DO NOT put a HID setup into the stock GS headlight housing.  It's not made for it...you'll lose half your light and blind oncoming traffic too.

HID lighting needs to be installed in a dedicated low-beam housing designed to project light in an effective and unoffensive manner.  Housings designed for a dual filament bulb, instead of having a proper contour to aim light in the needed areas, require a shield installed in the bulb, in the housing, or both, that prevents full reflection of the beam.  So you not only have a poor contour for the low beam, but a HID bulb will come with no inner reflector/shield and it will bypass one in the housing, which will render a full scatter of the light.

Morons installing aftermarket HID kits into dual-beam housings are what got the things banned from road use to begin with.

[scottpA_GS]

very informative Mak 

[bombadillo]

Thanks mak, thats why I was asking.  I'm not trying to bling out my GS or anything.  I put a silverstar bulb in a few months back and the stupid thing already burned out on me.  I figured for a hundred bucks instead of 40 bucks for silverstars, if I could get a brighter light and not that expensive I would.  I know that there are reflectors that cover the bulb and keep it from blaring straight into the eyes of oncoming traffic.  its not all that hard to install, but wondered if anyone ever tried it.

[makenzie71]

Your best bet for good light, if you don't mind spending the money, is to get somethign like Buell XB9/12S headlights and install a HID kit on the low beam.  It's a dedicated housing designed with the proper reflective surface for what you're needing.

Best thign to do to get the best light with what you got is go with standard GE bulbs.  Silverstars just have higher wattages or higher temps...neither of which equate to more light.

[beRto]

Silverstars just have higher wattages or higher temps...neither of which equate to more light.

I don't know the details of these bulbs, buy why wouldn't a higher wattage produce more light? 

[ajaxgs]

Silverstars just have higher wattages or higher temps...neither of which equate to more light.

I don't know the details of these bulbs, buy why wouldn't a higher wattage produce more light? 

silverstars are just a different spectrum of light , they filter out the blue and yellow light, burn at a different temp, they are the same watages !@

[makenzie71]

The higher wattage bulbs simply have a larger filament, which burns brighter because of size, but performance of a headlight is a combination of all the components therein.  In most applications the reflector is the limiting factor.  Dual beam housings simply do not have an efficient reflector.  Also, the higher wattage bulbs are dsigned to burn at a higher temperature (closer to 6000k).  They're more for looks...for people who want that blue-ish hue to their lights.  After you pass the 5600k range you start losing visible light.

People are fooled by the color of the light output when they slap in a silverstar or some other generic bulb but truth is that they're producing less light if for no other reason than the temperature...and they're doing it at a cost to your wallet and your stator.

GE bulbs burn at around 5500k.  Cost $7.  Last longer.

~oh yeah silverstars are the ones with the crazy blue coating on the glass, right?  Anything with colored glass is to be avoided.  Always.

[bombadillo]

The ipf fatboy is a really nice light at a good price.  Those are made for hard knocks off road and they really hold up without filtering anything out or putting a bluish haze on the bulb.  Silverstars did really make a noticable improvement from stock regardless of coloration and they didn't have a bright blue light output.  I do plan on going with a buell setup and maybe when I'm dumping money anyway, I'll go buell with an Hid low beam kit.