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| | | Re: I want blue headlights | Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,847 Likes: 42 veteran | veteran Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,847 Likes: 42 | Be very cautious about any Ebay headlamp offerings, especially those with colored DRLs inside them. These E bay offerings have extremely poor light patterns, and have plastic lenses which can break easily, as well as getting all cloudy in UV light in a short period of time.
The GE Nighthawks sealed beam 6054's being fed 14+ volts have a very respectable output. I used to have nearly 3 volts drop on my original headlamp circuit, but made a 12 awg harness with relays triggered by the original wiring harness, now have less than 0.3 volts drop on the circuit, and my headlamps are brighter and put more light were desired than 85% of the vehicles that pull up next to me at a redlight at night.
The Cibies are simply the best, Bosches are no longer available, but were very good, the Hella 6054 offerings have too much spread between high and low beam, adjust the low beam properly and the high beams shoot up into the trees, adjust the high beams correctly and the low beams hit the ground too close to the Van. There are some AutoPal, made in india, 6054s that are affordable, but all reports is that they have a very poor beam pattern, and the light bulbs they might come with are blue tinted junk, but these are better than the cheapo E bay offerings.
The JW Speaker LED offerings are awesome, but expensive. TruckLite sells some drop in LED headlamps which are more economical but do not perform as well as the JW speaker, but likely still better than halogen offerings. There is some lower priced Trucklite clones coming into the market, that might or might not be very good, I do not know.
Just the relay harness alone should increase output by a good 30 to 50% on whatever bulbs you have in there now. If you can reach the h4 plugs on the sealed beams, take voltage readings on high and low beams and compare to battery voltage. The original headlamp circuit is way too long, way too thin, and has too many voltage dropping connections to properly feed headlamps the voltage they desire.
Upgrading this headlamp wiring harness kind of sounds complicated, but it is not, and the results are impressive.
| | | Re: I want blue headlights | Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,475 old hand | old hand Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,475 | Whats up man! I didn't know you were on here! I got a link for you, hang on... 7x6 Blue LED Halo headlights I plan on using the same ones on my Safari!
Matt K. Flyin' Dutchmen Vans, Lancaster PA 1989 GMC Safari Cargo | | | Re: I want blue headlights | Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 420 addict | OP addict Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 420 | im good how bout you? i checked the lights out but seem there smaller than what i need so ill have to search around a bit and see what i can find, going to keystone? am trying to get that thursday n friday off, well see what happens | | | Re: I want blue headlights | Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 420 addict | OP addict Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 420 | i just measured my headlights n there 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 | | | Re: I want blue headlights | Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,847 Likes: 42 veteran | veteran Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,847 Likes: 42 | | | | Re: I want blue headlights | Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 420 addict | OP addict Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 420 | thank you wrcsixeight, ill look into headlights, and the wiring,though i think that would be a weekend project for me cause am not very smart when it comes to automotive wiring,though am curious, if theres a wiring harness that is 10awg? so rather than cut and splice just replace it with stronger harness? | | | Re: I want blue headlights | Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 3,772 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 3,772 | I'll talk to you @ the wireing this weekend Erik.
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| | | Re: I want blue headlights | Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,847 Likes: 42 veteran | veteran Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,847 Likes: 42 | Heck it was a weekend project for me and I'm fairly good with wiring but I'm also anal retentive. No need to cut out any old wiring, hardest part is to find the wires that goto the original high and low beams near the firewall and use these to trigger the relays. I still have the original h4 plugs and they are still functional. 10awg is overkill, unless you are putting illegal 100watt bulbs into Cibie housings. I'd really recommend avoiding the ebay housings. If you want some Blue bling up front, put some blue LEDs up front you can turn off with a manual switch. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JM41TVE?psc=1Those draw so little you can keep them on all night without worry about the battery. Forward lighting is a safety device and should not be made dangerous with halfass housings that do not meet any lighting standards as to beam pattern. I saw a civic 'tuner' vehicle with fart can exhaust pulled over last night that had the obnoxious blue HID kit in halogen housings. Tuner driver will now have to return to stock and be out a considerable sum. I had been blinded by this fool more than once and gave him the Nelson "ha Hawwww" as I drove by. | | | Re: I want blue headlights | Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,475 old hand | old hand Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,475 | Good tip on those Ebay lights wrcsixeight. I figured, for 50 bucks they were worth trying but I think I'll save that $ and put it towards some LED strips or something. A few guys in my club run the halogen "halo" kits with no problems, but their vans are not daily drivers and are mostly driven in daylight.
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