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juiced_94gt

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I know it's a 94 but im about to buy the same kit for my 02 GT also, here are some pics, WELL worth the 224.00 investment.





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wow, only $224? any more info. the lights on my Mk8 are terrible and factory HID's can run you close to a grand
 

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juiced_94gt said:
I know it's a 94 but im about to buy the same kit for my 02 GT also, here are some pics, WELL worth the 224.00 investment.
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thats a clean a$$ ride man, one of the nicest i've seen
 

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i am still really glad i went with 6000k HIDs and not 8000

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I prefer the 8000K myself, but there's plenty of choices for everyone's taste.
 

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Whats the brightest without being illegal? I'm in the Houston area..
 

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91LX302 said:
wow, only $224? any more info. the lights on my Mk8 are terrible and factory HID's can run you close to a grand
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Lucenthid is his seller ID on eBAY
 

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looks good man

i just installed the 8000k kit myself, but the light is kind of scattered in random beams. still bright as hell, but im not as impressed by the kit as i thought i'd be
 

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speedfreak98r said:
Whats the brightest without being illegal? I'm in the Houston area..
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the lower the number, the brigther they are, the higher the number the more color in the light but not as bright, example: 6000k is light blue, 8000k is more blue and 12000k is purple but those are for just color, BMW lights are usually like 4300k but they look bluish purple due to the projector in the headlights, look at the ground next to a BMW the ground lights up white not the color that the projector puts out, to answer your question i think anywhere from like 4000k-8000k is legal.
 

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speedfreak98r said:
Whats the brightest without being illegal? I'm in the Houston area..
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Technically they aren't legal at any temperature because there is no high beam...

You will have a hard time passing inspection without a highbeam function.
 

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TrueBlue03 said:
looks good man

i just installed the 8000k kit myself, but the light is kind of scattered in random beams. still bright as hell, but im not as impressed by the kit as i thought i'd be
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maybe you should have gotten a functional bulb temp. 8000k is about worse than the stock unit in terms of lighting.





 

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If I were to install a HID retrofit projector install 4300K would the temp I would run.

Do a search there are a few guys that have made sharp looking HID projector retrofits using BMW/Audi/MB stuff, and the cutoff lines are sharp as a razor.

No doubt HID is far better than Silverstars, they look killer either way, especially from the driver seat.
 

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those look really good... I will have to look into that in the future...
 

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If you were to do a retrofit, the kits we bought from stangmods.com will NOT work. You will need to splice on a new end to the ballast, or buy a new OEM ballast to fit a d2s bulb. I wish I knew that before I bought this kit .
 

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Henceforward said:
Technically they aren't legal at any temperature because there is no high beam...

You will have a hard time passing inspection without a highbeam function.
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There are Hi/Lo HID kits available. http://www.buyhid.com/index.php?cPath=25
They're $370+ though.
 

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How often to HID need bulb replacements?
 

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How often to HID need bulb replacements?
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I think it's something like 1500 hours or something like that but bulbs are only 99.00 bucks and the ones on my tahoe have been in service for 3 years of daily driving.
 
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Hotspots....eww

I say spend little bit more and do it right. These are audi ballasts and projectors with 4100k lightbulbs(HIDplanet) retrofitted into gutted knockoff projector headlights. The bulbs are rated at 3000 hours.


Notice the nice spread? thats how the projectors should work, when you can see beams of scattered light, you could be blinding on coming traffic and also your not getting the best out of the stuff you just bought.




 

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Stang|ess said:
maybe you should have gotten a functional bulb temp. 8000k is about worse than the stock unit in terms of lighting.
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not really. they're super bright, just not as bright as people brag them up to be. im just pointing out that my headlight housings scatter the light everywhere. they're the mustangtuning clearcorners.

plus i love how the blue matches my car perfectly, with my white turn signals and the newly ordered clear fogs on the way it should be incredible.

 

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speedfreak98r said:
Whats the brightest without being illegal? I'm in the Houston area..
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They are all illegal. HID on a Mustang are illegal period since they never came with them OEM.


The only LEGAL HID retrofit is if a car had an option for them and you used OEM parts. For example, the 93-96 Mark 8 came with halogen headlights, but the 95 and 96 LSC's came with HID's. The only legal retrofit for a '93 Mark 8 would be to use OEM equipment from the 95 and 96 LSC's. Anything else is illegal.

They look cool as hell, but there is no such thing as a legal HID retrofit to a Mustang
 
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