I was just doing some searching to see what people have to say about installing HIDs in the 99-04 stangs. I see alot of people that are really happy with them. I'd really like to have some quality night lighting for once.

I see alot of the punk honda crowd running around with the obnoxious aftermarket HIDs blinding everyone. What I'm wondering is if our headlights avoid that problem due to the bulb cover. I'm figuring that since light has to reflect off of the back of the housing to escape that its all properly aimed like factory only twice as bright. I don't really want to have to get another 200-250$ worth of projector housings.

On the fox body and probably all the older hondas and such the light is able to go in any direction and refract off of those non clear style lenses. Would you guys agree with that?

I'm looking at the 4300/5000k hi/lo models. Should be really sweet

 

well they are blinding on a mustang too, the honda's just have blue and purple lights and yellow fogs lol.. go with a bright white, with maybe a little blue tint with matching fogs.

 

no, not when properly installed

 

IMHO 6k is the perfect temp. for HID's. I have the 6k in my Stratus and they have a very white light, but give off just a slight tint of blue. The 10k's & up are reallllly blue and look dumb. I put the 5k's in my dad's Dodge Ram and they're a little too "normal" for me. 4300 has a significant yellow/amber color and just scream DSM to me. In regards to brightness, 4300-5k are the bightest available as far as I know.

To answer your first question, the "reflector" housings still throw the light all over the place, the only true way to get the factory HID look is to build a projector housing and honestly that's just way too expensive. People have been known to spend $800+ on that kind of a project.

Most of the ricers and others that are blinding people are using 55w kits which are way too bright for street use, stick to the 35w.

Hope this helps.

 

I think 5-6 k would be just fine and so many AM kits are running around with 8k and people are happy.

I really don't want to be a nuisance or a danger to others though. I mean most newer cars that even come with HIDs are pretty much a nuisance projector or not. I've seen the difference with just having factory projectors with halogen lamps and the light really gets spread nicely instead of being patchy like on any mustang.

If I'm going to be blinding the crap out of people that are coming at me in a two lane road at night I'm just asking for a head on collision. I think I'm a pretty good driver and its hard for me to keep in my lane when I'm getting blinded.

 

Badfish in 3..2..1..

 

how about that 8K kit from AM? that any good? i have silverstars in my clear cobras right now but im still not fully satisfied

 

8K is terrible and puts out less light and are super super ricer blue.

 

AM has the better price compared to stangmods, but they only have the 8K where stangmods has whatever you want. I want to avoid the blueness. I'm a bit wary to try the cheap ebay quality stuff versus stangmods/AM where they stand behind their products

 

I'm running 6K HIDs in the soop, and they are perfect....not too bright, not too blue or ricey-lookin, and they give the car a modern look.

I've only had one guy flash his brights at me, but I think that's cuz he was a douche, not cuz my HIDs are too bright.

 

I have 8000k. They're not bad, but I probably would have gone with 6000k the second time around.

 

Pffft no they ain't

 

8k is to blue and puts out less actual light then 6k,5k, or 4.3k.

Here is from left to right 8k,6k,4.3k,halogen.


Highest I would go max would be 6k, with my personal choice being 5k when you can find them.

 

That's not super ricer blue, though. This is super ricer blue:

 

Yea the 8k in that pic and what I see from AM doesnt look super blue but rather has that slight blue to them like all that factory HIDs I see on the road. I kinda like the whiter looking light just so people don't even think its HID.

The halogen in that pic is the suck though!

 

8k is very blue look at these photos. 8k is way to blue for me at least that's how all the Honda boys roll not my style.

 

Yea I really dont dig the ones that look like that. They remind me of like you say the honda crowd with the old super blue halogen bulbs that were the rage a few years ago...a fad that so far has forgotten to die the horrible death it deserves.