Headlight setup?

[85montess]

85_SS, where did you get the harness and the housings? I love the way your h4 setup looks. I really like the lenses.

 

[monte olrac]

I got the housing with the halo from prostreetlighting.com, the HID were from ebay, prostreethas hid also but there exspensive

 

[monte olrac]

I doubt you will ever go back to the halogen or plasma after using the HID lights....you might want to take a look at Hella lenses instead of those clear lenses where the chrome starts to deteriorate after a few months and the Hella light has a nice patterned beam unlike the clear lenses.[/quote]

The beam pattern isn't bad at all, that was just the glare i got from using a camera phone, I'll keep those since i like the blue halos...what do you call a square halo?

 

[85_SS]

85_SS, where did you get the harness and the housings? I love the way your h4 setup looks. I really like the lenses.

The housings I bought at a local parts store. Basically the same as the ones on ebay, but without the little blue "city light", which I didn't want. I got the harness off ebay, but here's an identical one at summit:
http://store.summitracing.com/partdetai ... toview=sku

I replaced the cheap chinese relays with Bosch units.

 

[pontiacgp]

The beam pattern isn't bad at all, that was just the glare i got from using a camera phone, I'll keep those since i like the blue halos...what do you call a square halo?

I used the clear lenses for a quite a while and got tired of changing them dues to the chrome reflective surface deteriorating. The Hella lenses are $73 a piece so it took me a while to talk myself into buying a set. The price was worth every penny. I can point the light much further down the road without bothering oncoming traffic or the car in front of me.

 

[Cutlass3800]

Sorry for the dumb question, but..... Is the term housing and lense being used interchangably in this thread?

:?

 

[85montess]

From my understanding the housing is the actual headlight itself; the metal back and all that. The lens is the glass piece in front the the light actually projects out of. So, I guess not lol.

And there are no dumb questions

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

And there are no dumb questions

Whew! I guess I will ask then... Why do they call it cottage cheese if it is not made in a cottage?

 

[85_SS]

When I was saying housing, I was referring to the complete assembly (housing and lens) as it is all one piece. I believe pontiacgp was referring to the same thing when he said lens as it is all one piece.

 

[pontiacgp]

And there are no dumb questions

Whew! I guess I will ask then... Why do they call it cottage cheese if it is not made in a cottage?

but it was...

From Wikipedia
"The term "cottage cheese" is believed to have originated because the simple cheese was usually made in cottages from any milk leftover after making butter. The term was first used in 1848."