HID Lights on My Z31

[acabtp]

I was never really happy with the amount of light that the Z31 puts down on the road. I replaced the glass with brand new looking pieces from a car out in California. I changed over to Sylvania Silverstar bulbs. I still wanted more. I did some research on changing over to High Intensity lights, and found that there were two options. One was to find a set of OEM HID headlights and circuitry from a donor vehicle and adapt them to the Z. The other was to install a retrofit kit that fits into the stock 9004 bulb's socket in the stock headlamps. I went with the retrofit kit, as it is hard to beat at $200-300. I chose 6000K color temp, which provides a crisp bright white, without being blue, or trading temperature for light output as the 8000,10000, etc do.

The difference is incredible. I highly recommend it. Installation is extremely simple.
More pics and install info over at the page about it at my site.

Tom

[utjon]

I definately like that. I intend on doing it after the several thousand dollars worth of other crap I need lmao =P I really do like HIDs though, my titan has regular bulbs but compared to my Z it is bright as shit.

[G-E]

shit isn't luminous where I come from, so comparing a luminous filament to a pile of light absorbing brown.... I dunno how you could get shit that bright

[MrwassmanNA2T]

I thought we had sealed beams?

[Jason84NA2T]

I really like the look of those. HOT.

I was considering either a hella bi-xenon HID retrofit kit with 9 CM housings or simply going with enclosures that use the 9007 sytle bulbs and going for a cheap ebay kit. Right now I am leaning towards the hella's if I ever get the money for them.

[G-E]

so tom, when are you installing the microwave and foot warmers?

[acabtp]

Jason84NA2T wrote: I really like the look of those. HOT.

I was considering either a hella bi-xenon HID retrofit kit with 9 CM housings or simply going with enclosures that use the 9007 sytle bulbs and going for a cheap ebay kit. Right now I am leaning towards the hella's if I ever get the money for them.thanks. i would have preferred a bixenon solution, but i found this set for just under $200 with a year's warranty, so it was hard to pass up. i have yet to miss the highbeams though, for anything but flashing people on the road.

G-E wrote: so tom, when are you installing the microwave and foot warmers?

well, i dunno about microwave and foot warmers, but there are a couple other things in the z that i think could use a little functional massaging... automatic windows, intermittent rear wiper, anyone?

[Jason84NA2T]

acabtp wrote: well, i dunno about microwave and foot warmers, but there are a couple other things in the z that i think could use a little functional massaging... automatic windows, intermittent rear wiper, anyone?

Automatic drivers window would be one, but I have never once used the rear wiper in the 8+ years I have owned my 84. I just took it off because I was so sick of such a completely useless part on my car.