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HID Headlights

Postby franknitticutlass on Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:54 pm

I have a 82 cutlass and i want to know how is it possible to install HID light bulbs in it. Most g bodies have halogen lights with unremovable bulbs..Is there a halogen light with removable bulbs??

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Re: HID Headlights

Postby monte olrac on Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:06 pm

yes, but you need to get the housings that fit the bulb, try prostreetlighting.com, I have them in my monte if you want pics
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Re: HID Headlights

Postby franknitticutlass on Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:10 pm

post a pic of your monte

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Re: HID Headlights

Postby monte olrac on Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:39 pm

Image

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the first one is my blue halos, the other two are high beams and lowbeams
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Postby 3XBrownCutty on Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:29 am

Have a part # of what lights those are??

Did you have to change any wiring?
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Re: HID Headlights

Postby monte olrac on Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:24 am

3XBrownCutty wrote:Have a part # of what lights those are??

Did you have to change any wiring?


http://www.prostreetlighting.com/produc ... _beam.html
for the light housings, and the HID kits came from ebay (get slim ballast) i did have to modify both the light housing and the head light bucket to make them fit properly. I't no big deal i just needed to sand the little "knobby things" on the back of the housng flush and make the hole in the bucket bigger so you could fit the bulb through
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Re: HID Headlights

Postby BlacKJesuS on Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:48 pm

monte olrac wrote:Image

Image

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the first one is my blue halos, the other two are high beams and lowbeams




those look real good on your car

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Re: HID Headlights

Postby Garrow215 on Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:58 pm

Those look amazing! So I would need to go to prostreetlighting and get 2 of those kits (1 for each side?) and then get a housing off ebay? is that everything you need to do it?
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Re: HID Headlights

Postby monte olrac on Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:53 pm

the light housing are what you get from prostreetlighting.com, yes you need 2, i brought my HID bulbs and ballast from ebay and you'll need 2 kits also, im sure pro street sells them also, you could probally call em up and get everything one stop
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Re: HID Headlights

Postby franknitticutlass on Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:08 pm

man that looks sick. i ordered some a minute ago. thanks

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Re: HID Headlights

Postby johns85mcss on Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:20 pm

you can pick up the 4x6 head lights of ebay aslo. shoud see what i did. :doh: i know pics or shut the f up but not a 100 % done yet

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Re: HID Headlights

Postby firstclass305 on Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:25 am

let me try to revive this post lol now was it a simple plug and play??? any relays and such needed for this swap? i have the balllast out of my old denali and orderd the h4 bulbs just need to know for my 86 ss a quick run down would be great

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Re: HID Headlights

Postby G_Body_Enthusiast on Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:04 pm

monte olrac wrote:
3XBrownCutty wrote:Have a part # of what lights those are??

Did you have to change any wiring?


http://www.prostreetlighting.com/produc ... _beam.html
for the light housings, and the HID kits came from ebay (get slim ballast) i did have to modify both the light housing and the head light bucket to make them fit properly. I't no big deal i just needed to sand the little "knobby things" on the back of the housng flush and make the hole in the bucket bigger so you could fit the bulb through


was it just the housings and HID kit, no relay needed? i know it's been said with H4 conversions you need a relay but with the ballast do you still need a relay? i dont care either way, i just want to know ahead of time and save me some time and aggravation.
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Re: HID Headlights

Postby monte olrac on Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:29 am

G_Body_Enthusiast wrote:was it just the housings and HID kit, no relay needed? i know it's been said with H4 conversions you need a relay but with the ballast do you still need a relay? i dont care either way, i just want to know ahead of time and save me some time and aggravation.


I would use a relay on both high and low beams, the switch and wires really don't hold a high load that well, but you maybe able to get away with it. IMO i wouldn't chance it.
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